No 10 says scientific advisers will return to Covid-19 briefings

Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance have been regulars at Downing Street daily updates

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Downing Street has insisted that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, and the chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, will reappear at Downing Street briefings in the next few days", amid the continuing furore over Dominic Cummings' lockdown excursions.

Whitty and Vallance, who have become the most prominent of the government's scientific advisers during the pandemic, were seen going into No 10 on Monday, with journalists told shortly before 5.30pm that the pair would appear at that day's briefing.