Covid-19 has been almost eradicated in most areas as older vaccinated people are told to “get out there and socialise”. One of Britain’s leading scientists monitoring coronavirus says the elderly are being “terrified by Government messages and may never go back to normal”.
Ministers say the national lifting of all restrictions is in sight after official case rates dropped below 50 cases per 100,000 people in more than 95% of areas of the UK.
Separate data from King’s College London ZOE COVID Symptom Study app suggests new UK symptomatic infections may have dropped to just 1,000 a day.
It puts the current risk at one in 45,000 in the unvaccinated and just one in 150,000 in those who have received both doses. What is your view?