End of England Covid lockdown on 21 June increasingly in doubt
by Damien Gayle and agencies from on (#5JFDT)
Date for lifting remaining curbs may be moved amid warnings of third wave driven by India variant
The 21 June target for scrapping England's remaining coronavirus restrictions appears increasingly under threat, as a senior government adviser said the country was in the early stages of a third wave.
Prof Ravi Gupta, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there had been exponential growth" in new cases, with the variant first detected in India accounting for three-quarters.
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