Speaking to Lancashire Post, Professor Satyan Rajbhandari, insisted that this is not the right time to relax Covid-19 restrictions. Insisting that the rate of transmission (the R number) needs to be well below 1.0; Professor Rajbhandari stressed the need to continue with wearing masks in crowded places, washing hands and maintaining two meter distance.

Professor Rajbhandari is an active member of the National Forum for Health and Wellbeing and one of its trustees. He is also a consultant physician at the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, one of our partner organisations.

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