What are the risks of letting Christmas happen? Even the limited lifting of restrictions is running against advice from some of the country's leading scientists, but others say the psychological and economic harm of not letting it go ahead is worse.

Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health at Edinburgh University tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing about the risks of bringing people together around the Christmas dinner table.

Plus Ellen Townsend, professor of psychology at Nottingham University and Anthony Costello, professor of global health and sustainable development at University College London debate the arguments for and against restrictions to curb the virus.

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