Professor John Edmunds, a member of the Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said some measures would remain "probably forever". But he told ITV's Peston: "I think we will be more or less free of this by the end of this year... say Christmas." "I think we do have to keep our borders pretty tight at the moment - nobody likes this," he said. "If we opened up schools I think that the reproduction number would get close to one and possibly exceed one. Nicola Sturgeon confirmed on Wednesday that more than one million people in Scotland have now received a dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

Source: Daily Mirror February 11, 2021 01:18 UTC