Britain “will be more or less back to normal for the summer”, a top scientist predicted today as the vaccine rollout continued.
SAGE’s Andrew Hayward said the inoculation programme offered a key to easing the lockdown. Figures tonight showed 10,490,487 people have received first doses.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “Today we passed the threshold of one in five of the population who have been jabbed already.” The UK remains on track to complete jabs of the top four priority groups by February 15, he added.
Coronavirus cases continued to fall, with 20,634 recorded – down 26% on a rolling seven-day average. And 2,375 Covid-19 patients were admitted to hospital, down 23%.
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