8 Feb 2021
A leading health expert in Britain has warned that government restrictions on large public gatherings will have to be in place for the “next few years” because of the Chinese coronavirus.
Professor Tim Spector of King’s College London said that he cannot foresee Britons being free to attend music festivals or large weddings in the coming years.
“I think we need to get used to that and that will allow us to do the things we really want to do more easily and more readily,” Prof Spector told Times Radio, adding that he “can’t see us suddenly having another Cheltenham Festival with no regulations again”.
Covid expert warns huge events and big weddings unlikely for a few years
Despite the mass vaccination programme, people in the UK should expect some changes to large gatherings for some time, an expert has warned
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Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King s College London, said he believes Britons should definitely be encouraged to meet in small groups next month.
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Experts fear as many as one in five cases of coronavirus are being missed due to Covid tongue. That means up to 20 percent of cases could be going unaccounted for while people continue to spread the infectious virus. Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist at King’s College London (KCL) and who runs the ZOE Covid Symptom Study App, warned he is seeing a rise in the number of people with Covid tongue, and has previously called for the NHS to expand its list to ensure as many cases are spotted in their early stages as possible.