UK Covid: 4,182 new cases in a day in highest rise since 1 April; Glasgow remains in level 3 – as it happened
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The Cambridge professor whose argument against a herd immunity strategy helped trigger England's first lockdown has voiced concerns about the risks of easing restrictions next month.
Prof Sir Tim Gowers sent Dominic Cummings a five-page document warning of the need to move urgently to extreme containment measures" in March last year. Boris Johnson's former chief aide told MPs this week it had influenced a critical change in the government's early thinking, with lockdown announced two days later.
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