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Christmas in danger as Covid-19 cases 'will surge if England returns to 3-tier system'

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Lockdown measures currently in place in England are likely to take the coronavirus R number below one. But Government scientists say returning to the previous tiered system after December 2 will cause infections to rise back to levels seen early in November.

In a set of new documents released by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) on Friday, the experts said that if the four-week lockdown measures are well adhered to, the number of hospital admissions and deaths can be expected to fall until at least the second week of December.

But they added a longer-term outlook will depend on both the nature of non-pharmaceutical interventions implemented after December 2, when the lockdown measures are expected to be lifted, and

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