The UK’s Professor Neil Ferguson has quit as a government adviser on coronavirus after admitting an “error of judgement”.
It follows a story by the Daily Telegraph that a woman, said to be his “married lover”, visited his home in lockdown.
“I accept I made an error of judgement and took the wrong course of action,” he said in a statement.
It was Prof Ferguson’s advice to the prime minister that led to the UK lockdown, after his modelling of the virus suggested 250,000 people could die if no drastic action was taken.
