LONDON, may 6. /TASS/. According to the newspaper the Daily Telegraph, last week the Nile to Ferguson twice visited a mistress from another part of London.
Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson was forced to leave the expert Council under the government of great Britain after he breached the country’s quarantine regime. The scandal around the specialist on modeling epidemics reported Tuesday night on its website, the newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
It was Ferguson with their colleagues from Imperial College London have created a model of the spread of coronavirus infection in developed countries, in the manner of the government of the United Kingdom and the United States, taking decisions on the introduction of the quarantine.
As explained previously in the British government, people who are in a relationship, but not living under the same roof, should not visit each other. Get out of the house the inhabitants of the Kingdom allowed only for trips to work, trips for groceries or to the pharmacy, visits to the doctor or helping people who need it. Permitted sports in the fresh air once a day.
“I admit I made a mistake and did the wrong thing. So I ceased to participate in the work of the Scientific Advisory groups in emergency situations [the British government]“, sir Alex said the paper’s staff, adding that he deeply regrets due what a bad example to other British people.
Previously, Ferguson urged the citizens to comply with the requirements of the authorities and not leave the house without having to prevent the spread of the virus. In mid-March, from the expert who developed symptoms of infection with coronavirus new type of analysis gave a positive result, and the scientist spent two weeks in isolation. According to the Professor, then he broke the rules, hoping that the acquired immunity as moved disease caused by a novel coronavirus. Thus, as writes “daily Telegraph”, mistress Ferguson went to him, despite the fact that her husband had symptoms of infection (according to the publication, the couple are so-called open marriage).
Ferguson Professor of mathematical biology, specializing in the creation of models of epidemic processes. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his work on the model for the spread of FMD in the UK during the outbreak of 2001. He was one of the key advisers to the British Cabinet, whose recommendations were taken into account when determining the government’s strategy against the new virus.
According to the British Ministry of health, on 5 may, the number of deaths in the UK has reached 29,4 thousand., the number of confirmed cases of infection ��left 195 thousand, the Country ranks second in the world after USA in the number of deaths associated with the novel coronavirus. According to the newspaper “the times”, based on data from the National statistical service of the United Kingdom, to the present moment in the country due coronavirus died 55,7 thousand people, almost twice the official figures.
As stated last week Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the peak of the epidemic in the country has already passed and there is still the second phase of the fight against the spread of coronavirus when the part entered on March 23, restrictions will be removed.
