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13th January 2022
09:21am GMT

In late 2020 - while describing the early stages of the pandemic - he said "it's clear the away team gave us an absolute battering".
A year later, in November 2021, he warned "the final whistle hasn't blown" in the pandemic, but did predict we were in "half time of extra time".
Prof Van-Tam had been on secondment to the Department of Health from the University of Nottingham for a number of years, the BBC reports.
At the start of this year, Prof Van-Tam was honoured with a knighthood alongside Prof Whitty.Explore more on these topics: