Health
Banning Christmas will ‘simply lead to breaches’ of lockdown rules, expert warns – Yahoo News Australia
Professor Calum Semple said the current lockdown meant areas with high infection rates were seeing the “tide turning”.
A pedestrian wearing a face mask takes a photograph of Christmas trees in Covent Garden in central London. (Getty)
Banning Christmas celebrations will simply lead to breaches of social distancing measures, one of the governments scientific advisors has warned.
Calum Semple, a professor of child health and outbreak medicine at Liverpool University, predicted that people would ignore the governments restrictions if they are not relaxed over Christmas.
Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group…
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