evidence: "I think the chance of another lockdown is somewhere between ‘extremely unlikely’ and ‘vanishingly unlikely’." [...] Professor Paul Hunter, of University of East Anglia, told iNews: "Lockdowns are a blunt tool for controlling pandemic spread. They were pretty effective in the early months of the pandemic but there was evidence that even by the second wave (alpha variant) they were not as effective as in the first wave." Professor Christina Pagel, of University College London, added: "I think the chance of another lockdown is somewhere between 'extremely unlikely' and 'vanishingly unlikely'."