Despite the fact that the U.K. is currently in another lockdown, crowds pour into London's Hampstead Heath every weekend. There are currently more than 30,000 people in U.K. hospitals with COVID-19, up from around 18,000 over Christmas. Vaccine rollout will 'save many lives'Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt, a former British health minister and foreign secretary who now chairs the parliamentary select committee on health and social care, said the vaccine offers Johnson a reprieve. Hunt admits the government made some mistakes in the early days of the pandemic, but he said the U.K. was not alone in that. CBC News spoke to Sandhu during the first wave of the pandemic in the U.K., after Johnson himself spent time in an NHS intensive care unit recovering from COVID-19.

Source: CBC News February 07, 2021 09:00 UTC