{"id":143908,"date":"2020-05-06T03:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T03:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/uk-corona-expert-resigns-as-government-adviser-over-lockdown-breach\/"},"modified":"2020-05-06T03:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T03:20:15","slug":"uk-corona-expert-resigns-as-government-adviser-over-lockdown-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/uk-corona-expert-resigns-as-government-adviser-over-lockdown-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"UK corona expert resigns as government adviser over lockdown breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 A leading British expert on coronavirus who pushed for the country to go into lockdown has resigned as a government adviser after breaching the quarantine rules.<\/p>\n<p>A government spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Neil Ferguson had resigned from the governments Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), after the Telegraph reported he had received at least two visits from his married lover and therefore broken social distancing rules.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the crisis, Ferguson, a professor from Imperial College London, had predicted that more than 500,000 Brits would die without a lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to POLITICO, Ferguson said: \u201cI accept I made an error of judgment and took the wrong course of action. I have therefore stepped back from my involvement in Sage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained he acted in the belief he was immune to coronavirus, after having tested positive and self-isolated for almost t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-corona-expert-resigns-as-government-adviser-over-lockdown-breach\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snap.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/politico-logo.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">politico<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 A leading British expert on corona..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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