
Covid: We could soon live with virus like we do flu, Matt Hancock suggests
The IndependentSign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He added that new treatments "over the months to come" would help turn Covid "from a pandemic that affects all of our lives into another illness that we have to live with, like we do flu". But a top scientist advising the Government has urged caution and said another wave as big as the one currently engulfing the UK could hit if all restrictions are lifted too soon. We are certainly going to be in the situation where we can allow more infection in the community but there is a limit," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday morning "In the short term if we were to allow a very large wave of infection, that wave will find all the people who couldn't have the vaccine for very good reason those people who had the vaccine but unfortunately it didn't give them the protection they need. NHS patients could receive new cutting-edge Covid-19 treatments in months rather than years after the government stepped up funding for phase 1 trials.
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