Lockdowns are ‘awful’ and Britain must learn to live with Covid without restrictions, one of the country’s most senior scientists has warned. Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the measures had had ‘very profound consequences’ on the nation’s mental health, education and jobs. Sir Jeremy also said: ‘If hospitalisations have remained low and deaths have remained low, I would accept a degree of transmission and I would open up. Sir Jeremy said: ‘There’s 1.4billion people in India and hundreds of millions in Indonesia, Brazil and Nigeria. n Children over 12 could be vaccinated against Covid by the end of the year, Sir Jeremy predicted.

Source: Daily Mail June 03, 2021 21:03 UTC