Are face mask rules changing in Wales and Scotland?
"I think it's quite confusing actually for people to know what the right thing to do is," he said. "I think all that we can do is take a sort of appropriate approach where we look at the situation and sort of weigh up the risk ourselves and I hope that enough people do that going forward that we don't see a big surge." Professor Peter Openshaw, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said it is vital to keep some protective measures in place, such as wearing face coverings. He said: I really don't see why people are reluctant to wear face coverings - it is quite clear that they do greatly reduce transmission.