Sir Patrick Vallance's diaries were used in evidence before the inquiry( Image: GETTY) The Covid

Vallance said the current hurdles to securing entry into Britain are too difficult and said there is now

Vallance has warned. Speaking at a virtual Royal Society conference, the Government’s chief

During Monday's briefing, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser wrongly said 60 percent of people currently in hospital fighting coronavirus have received two doses of a vaccine.... However he later issued a correction saying the 60 percent of hospitalisations are" currently from unvaccinated people".... Sir Patrick tweeted: “ Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July.“ About 60 percent of hospitalisations from Covid are not from double vaccinated people, rather

The Government's chief scientific adviser said on Monday that sixty percent of hospitalisations from coronavirus were fully vaccinated patients. However, he later took to Twitter to correct his statement, pointing out that 60 percent of Covid hospitalisations were unvaccinated people.He wrote:" Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July." About 60% of hospitalisations from Covid are not from double-vaccinated people, rather 60% of hospitalisations from Covid are current

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Please try again later{{/ verifyErrors}} Boris Johnson was “ bamboozled ” by the science during the pandemic and had to have details explained to him “ repeatedly ”, the Covid inquiry has heard.... But the diary extracts have already proved humiliating for Mr Johnson, with the inquiry hearing how Mr Johnson sometimes struggled to retain scientific information, was “ clutching at straws ” and at one point queried whether Covid was spreading “ because of the great libertarian nation we are ”....

It worked when people stuck to them.... We did not know much about exactly how it spread.“ We did not know there were going to be vaccines and treatments.... We hoped there would be, and we were trying to work on them, but we just did not know....

He said he has already changed some of his own habits.“ I’m eating less meat, I cycle to work and I fly less than I used to," he said.... " I haven’t said I stopped flying or I don’t eat meat-I do.... “ It's all very good to talk about buying an electric car, but it's totally impossible for the vast majority of people.”....

Sir Patrick-the Government’s chief scientific adviser-had been due to brief MPs on the risks posed by the spiralling number of cases of the Covid Omicron variant.... But that was scrapped at the last minute after Downing Street convened an emergency cabinet meeting at 2pm. Sir Patrick then briefed Mr Johnson and his top team on the current threat posed to the UK. They later discussed reintroducing strict rules originally imposed in April-as the country juggled the initial vaccine rollout and co