A specialist in infectious diseases has said the new lockdown in England may not be enough to tackle the new coronavirus variant.
Andrew Hayward, professor of infectious diseases epidemiology at University College London, said the threat from the virus is "at least as bad as we were back in March".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Prof Hayward said: "I think the virus is different and it may be that the lockdown measures we had are not enough, so we need to learn from the new insights and new technologies, we need to learn from the last lockdown and particularly some of the things we saw." He said that this new lockdown needs to "bear down on the virus in a way that can protect key workers - for example, we could be using the