Coronavirus: Social restrictions ‘to remain for rest of year’

Countries will have to live with some disruptive social measures for at least the rest of the year, the UK government’s chief medical adviser has said.

Prof Chris Whitty said it was “wholly unrealistic” to expect life would suddenly return to normal soon.

“This disease is not going to be eradicated, it is not going to disappear,” he said, at the government’s daily coronavirus briefing.

He said “in the long run” the ideal way out would be via a “highly effective vaccine” or drugs to treat the disease.

But he warned that the chance of having those within the next calendar year was “incredibly small”.

“So we have to accept that we are working with a disease that we are going to be with globally… for the foreseeable future.”

(BBC)

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