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Prof Sarah Gilbert says this will not be last time virus threatens lives and livelihoods

Scientific adviser Prof Mark Woolhouse says variant is ‘spreading pretty rapidly’ across UK

Scale of risks Prof Ferguson stressed that models sent to the Government examined what the “pluses and minuses” are of reopening, what additional data will be available at what point, and “what the scale of the potential risk is”. He added: “I mean, fundamentally, it’s for policymakers to take that on board. “Clearly you have to be more cautious if you want measures to be irreversibly changed and relaxed, but the Government will decide in the next few days.â�...