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Britons must continue to follow social distancing guidelines to ensure the coronavirus pandemic does not develop into a second wave, World Health Organisation (WHO) adviser David Nabarro
insisted. Dr Nabarro praised the UK for their sacrifice throughout the crisis but insisted sacrifices remain the only way the virus can be kept under control until a vaccine is developed.
Warned that "people are tired" of waiting to be reunited with their friends and families, Dr Nabarro told the Today programme: "It's a massive ask. "But there is no
alternartive. "I hear about people in Berlin protesting at the weekend, about being fed up with restrictions. I hear about people in many parts of other European countries saying,
'we've had enough of this.' And I so understand it. "I think all of us are just thinking, 'when is this going to end?' and I have to be this person who comes
out with the really dull stuff. "This virus is not going away, this virus is really dangerous, this virus doesn't get bored. It really relishes things like we getting bored because
it can cause more trouble." JUST IN: BARNIER TELLS EU TO PREPARE FOR CHAOS ON JANUARY 1 AS HE ISSUES 39-PAGE BREXIT DOSSIER Dr Nabarro continued: "This virus only has one purpose
and that is to multiply, multiply and multiply, and is doing so all over the world. "We have absolutely no choice but to take it seriously. And we must not compete with each other, we
have to have everybody working together on this agenda because we're all experiencing the same problem." Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been weighing options on how to best
contain the virus after some areas of the UK began to experience a resurgence of cases. Stricter social distancing measures were reimposed last week across Greater Manchester, east
Lancashire and west Yorkshire. Leicester only saw easing relaxed on Monday after the Government reimposed restrictions last month because of a growing incidence of infections. READ MORE:
It's too late! UK weeks away from second wave expert warns "So that 0.07 percent, you could find in the space of a week or two that number could double one day, double the next
day. "It's about stalling that momentum because of that exponential nature of how the virus spreads those numbers can go from tiny to still small but considerably higher very
quickly." The forecast comes as former Prime Minister Tony Blair renewed calls to expand the UK's testing programme to include asymptomatic patients. Mr Blair told Times Radio:
"On some estimates 70% of people with the disease are asymptomatic, so if you are only testing people with symptoms you are losing the majority of people from your testing strategy.
"From the very beginning, mass testing has been the only thing that gets you through this, avoids the severity of the very blunt instrument of lockdown and gets you to a place where you
can more or less get your economy moving whilst containing the disease."