UK's COVID-19 restrictions could be in place until all adults vaccinated: Public Health England

[webfact]

UK's COVID-19 restrictions could be in place until all adults vaccinated: Public Health England

 

FILE PHOTO: A woman arrives to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at Crystal Palace Football Club Vaccination Centre, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in London, Britain, February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain may have to keep “some measures” in place to restrict the spread of COVID-19 until its entire adult population is vaccinated, Susan Hopkins, the managing director of Public Health England, said on Thursday.

 

She said some measures may have to stay in place beyond that.

 

“I think we are going to have to have some measures in place until the whole population is vaccinated, at least all of the adult population,” she told Sky News.

 

"And even then I think we'll need to know more about transmission before we can release everything and get back to life as it was."

 

So far, Britain has given a first vaccine shot to about 13.5 million people and is also bringing in new strict border controls, which make it illegal to go on holiday, to prevent new strains of the virus entering the country.

 

Ministers have faced criticism, including from members of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party, about giving out mixed messages on the easing of restrictions.

 

(Reporting by James Davey; Editing by Marguerita Choy)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2021-02-12

 

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[Dagfinnur Traustason]

Wow! The guy on the picture, clearly have his eyes locked on target.

[HashBrownHarry]

The new rules for entering UK ( particularly Scotland ) are crazy this late in the day, country is run by retards!

[nausea]

I get the feeling this, given the constant new mutations, is never gonna end; seems more and more like a flu situation to me. I'm guessing, at some stage, we all go back to normal and just accept covid as an inevitable fact of life, maybe with new vaccines periodically for the most vulnerable, as with the flu. This is just my layman's view, I defer to any experts with fact based knowledge that say different.

[Kwasaki]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

“I think we are going to have to have some measures in place until the whole population is vaccinated, at least all of the adult population,”

Way to go.

The sooner they get the working class vaccinated the better.

[RayC]

Vaccinations against Crystal Palace: Long overdue.

[Mike Rodik]

wet dream finally came for big pharma

[PETERTHEEATER]

8 hours ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

Wow! The guy on the picture, clearly have his eyes locked on target.

He's  keeping his eye on the ball. It's a football club.....

[generealty]

Well how is that going to work when the vaccine is not mandatory and some will decide against having it. I am due today but I know several in my small network that decided against it. So, does that mean the UK will never vaccinate the entire adult population, and never drop restrictions ? Will truely further divide the already divided country.

[Scott]

A post with incorrect information has been removed.  Covid is not the flu and comparisons are acceptable, but calling it the flu is false.