By JONATHAN POWELL in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-07-09 09:36 Share CLOSE Demonstrators gather at Piccadilly Circus calling for nightclubs to reopen during a Save Our Scene protest, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in London, Britain June 27, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
Experts warn long COVID could become concern as lockdown ends
Scientists have labeled the British government plans to fully lift COVID-19 social restrictions on July 19 as a dangerous and unethical experiment .
As more people are vaccinated, Prime Minster Boris Johnson is committed to fully re-opening the economy in two weeks time, and effectively forcing the nation to live with the virus.
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July 7, 2021, 11:34 pm
A range of coronavirus restrictions are due to be eased in England from July 19 (Tim Goode/PA)
More than 100 scientists and doctors have signed a letter accusing the UK Government of conducting a “dangerous and unethical experiment” and urging it to reconsider its plans to abandon all coronavirus restrictions.
Any strategy that “tolerates high levels of infection is both unethical and illogical”, according to the 122 signatories who include Sir David King, the former chief scientific adviser and chair of Independent Sage, and Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the Council for the British Medical Association.
The letter published in The Lancet comes after the Government announced that a range of coronavirus restrictions are due to be eased in England from July 19.
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