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We have to crush the virus. There can be no return to normal without it
Without a zero-Covid approach, the outlook is for a rising death toll, further economic damage and terrible knock-on effects on public health and education, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the Mologic Laboratory in the Bedford technology Park in Bedfordshire

THE whirlwind of devastating news is blowing away all illusions that the virus is under control and that we will soon be able to return to normal.  

The government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said that “we don’t have this under control at the moment.”

A series of partial restrictions and the absence of a fully effective trace, track and isolate system is not going to bring that about.  

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