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A SAGE adviser has said Europe's Covid-19 lockdown riots are a 'warning to the UK' and urged Brits to get their booster jabs.
Professor John Edmund said today that opposition to restrictions on the continent have demonstrated the importance of vaccinations, especially as 'it is pretty clear immunity does wane'.
Austria has made vaccinations mandatory and yesterday announced it would return to lockdown on Monday, with Germany seemingly poised to follow suit after health officials warned they cannot rule out a full shutdown.
It is the latest reintroduction of restrictions across Europe that have faced a fierce backlash and come as governments seek to increase vaccination rates ahead of the winter amid soaring numbers of infections.
Riots and protests have broken out in cities including Rotterdam where police were forced to fire warning shots at protestors marching against the reintroduction of restrictions.
'What you see now in central Europe with these rapid increase in cases, you see the importance of vaccination,' Mr Edmund told Sky.
Pictured: A scooter set on fire during a protest against the 2G policy in Rotterdam, Netherlands
But Mr Edmund said the UK was unlikely to be hit by the Christmas chaos because the UK 'is in a slightly different position.'
He added: 'Frankly here in the UK, we've had high rates of infection for many months now so we're in a slightly different position to Austria and Germany and so on.
'I don't think things will quite happen in the same way here as they have done there. But it is a warning to us. I
