Boris Johnson’s warnings of a third wave are designed “to keep the population fearful”, a leading epidemiologist has said, as he suggested that people may be able to take foreign holidays this summer.
Professor Tim Spector of King’s College London told Times Radio that there was unlikely to be a surge in infections until Christmas and that it was likely to be a “ripple” rather than a wave.
Spector, lead scientist on the Zoe app, which tracks the spread of coronavirus, said that the “logical conclusion” was that people might be able to go on holiday to parts of Europe. “There will be further cases of Covid, and I believe they’re more likely to happen towards the end of the year, when these kind of
