Health
Covid: We could soon live with virus like we do flu, Matt Hancock suggests – The Independent
Government expected to lay out roadmap for lifting lockdown later this month but scientists urge caution
Britain could be living with coronavirus in the same way it lives with the flu by the end of this year, Matt Hancock has suggested.
The health secretary made the hopeful prediction amid reports that Boris Johnson will unveil a three-stage roadmap for the lifting of restrictions later this month.
“I hope that Covid-19 will become a treatable disease by the end of the year,” Mr Hancock told the Telegraph newspaper.
He added that new treatments “over the months to come” would help turn Covid “from…
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