Zero coronavirus cases for a month in most of England and second national lockdown ‘not necessary’
He added: "So-called ‘spikes’ are occurring here, there, and everywhere up and down the country because new testing regimes are causing them either with false positives, picking up residual infections or suddenly increased testing in specific areas.
Professor Clancy, who is also the former leader of Birmingham City Council, warned current testing numbers are "low and unreliable". "This has not broadly led to increases in Covid-19 related deaths and hospital admissions in other so-called hotspots."by Health Secretary Matt Hancock after a rise in cases.
He also pointed out the apparent 40 per cent jump in the number of cases per 100,000 over the past two weeks is actually just an increase of six people.
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