FREEDUMB DAY

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- NIGEL NELSON

BORIS Johnson is being hammered from all sides about lifting all coronavirus restrictions tomorrow.

As Health Minister Sajid Javid revealed he has tested positive for Covid, scientists, doctors, politicians, and ordinary people warned that the Prime Minister was opening up too fast.

Neurologist Dr. David Nicholl called for Freedom Day to be renamed “Freedumb day”. And one senior medic even said bluntly: “We’re screwed.”

Boris Johnson is being urged to do an 11th hour Freedom Day U-turn as a nervous nation tells him: “You’re going too fast, too soon.”

Scientists, doctors, politicians and voters united to warn the Prime Minister that opening up tomorrow risks another lockdown as cases are predicted to hit 100,000 a day.

One exasperated senior medic in the NHS put it bluntly, saying: “I think we’re screwed.”

And in an ill omen of what is to come double jabbed Health Secretary Sajid Javid, 51, tested positive for Covid yesterday and isolated with “very mild” symptoms. That raised the prospect of the PM and his Cabinet having to isolate too.

Yesterday recorded 54,674 new cases – the highest since January – with 41 deaths.