Professor Andrew Hayward said the number of deaths will continue to drop as vaccination kicks in and more people become immune.
It comes weeks after the head of Interpol warned that criminal networks would try to cash in on the global vaccination rollout.
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Health workers have said "it's a marathon, not a sprint" as new coronavirus patients "come every two minutes".
The government's target is to offer the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine to 15 million vulnerable people by 15 February.
A fitness "influencer" who thought COVID-19 did not exist has died from the virus at the age of 33.
Dmitriy Stuzhuk told his followers that coronavirus didn't exist - but then he died from the disease.