From vaccine roll out in January to abolishing tiers by Easter – how 2021 is the year we’ll defeat Covid

A COVID vaccine has changed everything – finally giving a silver lining to the end of this pandemic. The roll-out of both the Pfizer and Oxford jab spells the end of the restrictions that have crippled the economy and people’s mental health. But change won’t happen quickly, officials warn, and there is still room for more lockdowns. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, said we couldn’t yet have a “massive party, throw our masks and hand sanitiser away and say it’s behind us like the end of the war”. Dashing hopes of a speedy rollout for the whole nation, the top professor also said it will take “months not weeks” and warned that low uptake of the jab will “almost certainly make restrictions last longer”. Behaviour over the Christmas break will also have a “big impact” on how long it takes for life to return to normal, the lead researcher behind the Oxford jab has warned.Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, said life could be “more or less” back to normal by next summer – but that depends on the severity of the outbreak in the new year. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson says… Read full this story

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