Covid-19 vaccine becomes available in early Spring it doesn't mean 'life will return to normal'. Should a vaccine be approved, priority groups including the elderly, frontline health and care home workers and those with serious diseases are first in line to receive a jab.
Professor Nilay Shah, head of the department of chemical engineering at Imperial College London, said even if a vaccine becomes available in early spring, it does not mean life will be "returning to normal in March".
He said although the clinical trials for many of the Covid-19 vaccine candidates are currently being fast-tracked, they will still have to demonstrate a protective effect against Covid-19 and go through all the regulatory checks before being rolled out to the.