A Top British Scientist’s Predictions Helped Spur the Country’s Coronavirus Lockdown. He Resigned After His Girlfriend Flouted Social Distancing Rules
were “for everyone,” after one of the government’s key scientific advisers quit for receiving secret visits from his girlfriend amid the coronavirus pandemic.
. His advice was key in triggering Britain’s lockdown in March. Under the rules, people are barred from visiting friends and family that they don’t live with.newspaper reported that a woman he is in a relationship with had crossed London to visit him at his home. Ferguson said in a statement that he had “made an error of judgment and took the wrong course of action.”Coronavirus Could Hit the U.K. Harder Than Any Other European Country.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Ferguson was “a very eminent and impressive scientist,” but “took the right decision to resign.”that the social distancing rules “are there for everyone, they are incredibly important and they are deadly serious. They are the means by which we have managed to get control of this virus.”
Ferguson is the second scientific adviser in the U.K. to quit after failing to follow their own advice. Catherine Calderwood resigned as Scotland’s chief medical officer last month for twice traveling from Edinburgh to her second home.
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