Coronavirus live news: India passes US for record daily deaths; 60% of all vaccines given in just three countries
China, United States and India have administered three-fifths of all vaccine doses given so far; India reports over 4,500 deaths for first time
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Dr Mike Tildesley, from the University of Warwick, said more information on the variant first identified in India would become clear in the next week or two – which will then feed into the UK government’s considerations about the proposed 21 June lifting of restrictions.
The member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), which advises the government, told BBC Breakfast: “We get more evidence all the time, I think as cases spread we can analyse that, there’s always a little bit of a lag between if cases go up before we see any kind of signal in the hospital admissions.
UK government minister minister Gillian Keegan has urged people to be “sensible” and not travel to “amber list” countries for holidays.
The Education minister said travel to amber list destinations was supposed to be for “special circumstances” such as business or funerals. “What we are saying is the amber list is not to go on holiday, not for pleasure travel at the moment,” she told Sky News.
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