Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Professor Chris Whitty says he doesn't believe the country will return to normal in terms of coronavirus until next spring at the earliest. "It's going to take quite a long time to get back to a normality and I certainly would be surprised if we got back to what most of us would see as a status quo before the pandemic before the next spring," he told a conference today.
England's chief medical officer urged the nation to 'push hell for leather' to reduce infection rates and roll out the vaccines to prevent a significant increase in long Covid. READ MORE: Mayor urging people using public transport to wear masks after July 19 And he warned at the conference
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