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Professor Chris Whitty claims UK will need to remain in some form of lockdown until at least March 2021

9 December, 2020
Oliver Down

Professor Chris Whitty has said that Britain will have to remain in some form of lockdown until at least March this is despite the coronavirus vaccine being rolled out. The chief medical officer has said that the reason for this is that not enough Brits will have been inoculated against Covid-19 over the next three months to keep the most vulnerable out of hospitals.

Whilst speaking to the Professor Commons Health and Science Committee today, Professor Whitty said: ‘For the next three months, I want to be very clear, we will not have sufficient protection. We’re going through the most difficult time of year for respiratory infections and the most difficult time of year for the NHS. So, the idea we can suddenly stop now because the vaccine is here, that would be really premature. It would be like someone giving up a marathon race at mile 16 – it would be absolutely the wrong thing to do’. 

However, the CMO have said the UK should have ‘three or four’ vaccines against Covid-19 by mid-2021, which has raised hopes of returning to pre-pandemic normality before summer. Professor Whitty also said that around 20 million people are in the first phase of the NHS vaccination programme which includes all those over the age of 50, plus healthcare workers, care home staff and elderly people.

He predicted a ‘portfolio’ of vaccines by the middle of 2021. He also said: ‘The aim would be to roll out this vaccine and any others that get a licence and are effective and safe. We expect, probably by the middle of the year, to have a portfolio of three or four vaccines which we can actually use’.

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