Euro 2020, Gb expert: “60 thousand fans at Wembley is a disaster announced”

The prospect of allowing access to 60,000 fans in London’s Wembley stadium for the finals of the European Football Championships is the “recipe for disaster”. Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, is convinced of this. If the “troubling and confusing” plans were to be confirmed, the expert says, the prospect of canceling the remaining anti-Covid restrictive measures on July 19, as currently planned by the government led by Boris Johnson, would be jeopardized. Read also “Sixty thousand fans crowded into Wembley Stadium, with the crowding of transports, entrances and exits from the plant, and the inevitable opportunities for the virus to spread in enclosed spaces such as bathrooms is the recipe for a disaster, in particular given the presence of the delta variant, more transmissible “, said Professor Young interviewed by the Telegraph. “We are so close to defeating the virus with the successful vaccination campaign, why jeopardize the end of the July 19 lockdown?” Asks the expert.