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Covid in Scotland LIVE as Scots expert slams Boris Johnson’s decision to scrap isolation rules
11.02.2022 - 12:37 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Boris Johnson ending Covid isolation rules is a "distraction" from the PM's lockdown party scandal, according to a Scots health expert.
Professor Devi Sridhar, who is a member of the Scottish Government Covid-19 Advisory Group and the Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, said scrapping Covid isolation rules comes down to politics.
In an appearance on Sky News yesterday, the professor said it was too early to end self-isolation and such a move is "not based on science".
The professor later added that changing the conversation to the end of the pandemic - while 200 people are still dying from Covid a day - was a "diversion".
Meanwhile former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned vaccine inequality is getting worse as people become complacent about Covid.
He repeated his call for governments to share the burden of funding vaccines, treatments, testing and PPE equipment around the world.
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"This will bite back even those countries that have a big vaccination programme," he said, criticising the fact that vaccination rates in rich countries currently stand at 75% against 11% across Africa.
"We need a vaccine patent waiver and technology transfer. What's happened in Africa is as bad as what happened under colonial rule.
"Africa has been deprived of vaccines but also of the ability to manufacture its own vaccines because it does not have the patents to do so."
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