Here we go again, third time lucky. After months of being cooped up inside over a cold, hard winter, we’re finally being granted some small freedoms as lockdown restrictions start to lift and our social lives creak back into action.
Since March 29, we’ve been able to meet with more than one other person outside. The ‘stay at home’ rule has also been lifted, meaning people are no longer explicitly being told to stick to their local area.
Although we’re being asked to minimise travel and overnight stays are still not allowed, with the Easter four-day weekend upon us and children breaking for the school holidays, more of us will inevitably be out and about again.
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‘Covid mortality to be substantial, but worst is over’
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March 6, 2021
LONDON: Society will need to learn to live with a “substantial” degree of Covid-19 mortality, but the worst seems to be over, a Government scientific adviser has said.
Professor Andrew Hayward, from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the number of deaths will continue to drop as vaccination kicks in, and death rates could begin to look more like those for flu.
Other experts including Professor Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia, have said the UK can expect a wave of deaths next winter, mostly among the unvaccinated and those for whom vaccines do not provide total protection. Prof Hayward told Times Radio: “I think given the societal trade-offs, we are going to have to live with a degree of mortality that will be substantial. I think it will get less over time as more people get vaccinated, and as more people get immune, and I do believe that we’ve bee