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home to get back into town centres. The more you relax lockdown, the tougher you have to be on public transport to make sure we don’t end up going back to square one with local outbreaks that get out of control.”

A list of 20 hot spot areas has been drawn up by the Government amid fears they will be forced back into lockdown like Leicester. Two – Ashford and Folkestone – are in Kent, but the rest are in

possibility – partly because the number of infections in the UK have fallen so much, which… means making, testing a vaccine and seeing if it works is so much harder.”

He went on: “We anticipate if everything goes really well that we’ll get an answer as to whether it works by early next year.” the North and the Midlands. Kirklees and Bradford in West Yorkshire have been targeted for “enhanced support”. Blackburn, Rochdale, Oldham, Rotherham and Barnsley are also of “concern”. Meanwhile, Home Secretary Priti Patel fears authorities may have avoided tackling illegal sweatshops in Britain’s fast-fashion industry over worries they would be accused of racism.

There are suspicions virus cases in Leicester were fuelled by exploited staff in the city’s textile factories working when ill.

Some 15 volunteers have been vaccinated for the trial, with another 200 to 300 participants added in the “coming weeks”, he said.

An inoculation would need to be introduced “very cautiously”, Prof Shattock added, as full trials will not take place over the usual two-year period.

PRAGMATIC Prof Shattock