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UK Councillor faces calls for resignation for downplaying pandemic

A Twitter mob descended.

Conservative Councillor David Illingworth in the UK has unleashed the fury of the internet after claiming in a tweet that the COVID-19 pandemic ended at the end of June, and that quarantine measures are unnecessary and should be removed.

David Illingworth, a Perthshire councilor, wrote on his personal Twitter account on the morning of September 13 his opinion about the COVID-19 pandemic that he says is supported by statistics as deaths in the UK are now minimal.

According to the councilor, the epidemic ended in June, having its highest contagion and death rates during April. Illingworth suggested that it was time for the population to return to a life free of quarantine.

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