British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied the government had deviated from scientific advice in deciding to lift all COVID-19 restrictions in England. Johnson announced his plan for “living with COVID” on Monday, scrapping the last legal restriction which requires those who test positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus to self-isolate. But at a Downing Street press conference following the announcement, England’s chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty said people should still isolate if they have the virus. Whitty said the Omicron wave is “still high” and the “public health advice” remains that “people should still, if they have COVID, try to prevent other people getting it and that means self-isolating.” The government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said COVID-19 will continue to evolve over the next couple of years and there is no guarantee that future variants would be less severe. Also talking at the …