COVID-19: UK faces 'rocky time' as people head off to Europe on holiday due to lower jab rates, expert warns

The UK is 'in for a rocky time' as people head off on holiday to a Europe where vaccination levels are not as high as at home, an expert has told Sky News. Gabriel Scally, a member of Independent SAGE, a group of scientists which provide alternative advice to the government's own scientific group, said he was really worried by the risk from the Indian coronavirus variant in Europe. Mr Scally told Sky News: 'There are great concerns about this particular variant because of its much more transmissible characteristics and it hasn't really taken off in Europe yet.'