(Reuters) – The brand new coronavirus will now not be circulating in Britain by August, the federal government’s departing vaccine taskforce chief Clive Dix informed the Day by day Telegraph on Friday.
“Someday in August, we could have no circulating virus within the UK”, Dix stated, including that he believed the vaccine booster programme could possibly be pushed again to early 2022.
The federal government is taking a look at which COVID-19 vaccines would supply one of the best booster shot for weak folks later this 12 months.
Dix informed the Telegraph https://bit.ly/2RAIAhM that he expects everyone within the UK to have been vaccinated not less than as soon as by the top of July, by which period “we’ll have most likely protected the inhabitants from all of the variants which might be recognized.”
The UK has administered over 51 million vaccines and has been the second quickest nation to present a primary dose to not less than half its grownup inhabitants.
British officers stated folks beneath 40 must be supplied an alternative choice to Oxford/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine the place doable as a consequence of a small danger of blood clots.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)stated the recommendation mirrored low ranges of coronavirus an infection in Britain and the provision of different vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna.
Dix, who was appointed as interim chief of the duty pressure in December, stepped down from his function final week.
(Reporting by Radhika Anilkumar in Bengaluru; enhancing by Grant McCool)