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Prof Gupta warned the Indian variant - now renamed as the Delta variant by the World Health Organisation - offered a"real risk now of generalised transmission in young people who are not vaccinated and, of course, school-age children as well as those who are vulnerable and haven't responded to the vaccine".
And British Medical Association council chair Dr Chaand Nagpaul has said the country is at a"pivotal moment" in the fight against coronavirus."A premature ending of all legal restrictions which then resulted in a surge of infections would undermine our health service's efforts to tackle the biggest level of backlog of care it has ever faced," he said.
Small business minister Paul Scully said that ramping up the vaccination programme could yet see the restrictions lifted later this month.
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