It's Long Haul For Lockdown

Restrictions may be in place for year until vaccine is found

- Nigel Nelson

Our lives may not be back to normal until a cure or vaccine for Covid-19 is found, Britain’s top medic indicated yesterday.

And home working and seven day isolation with symptoms may still be in place next year.

When asked by the Sunday Mirror whether some restrictions might still be needed up to 18 months on, NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis told a No 10 news conference: “This was never going to be a sprint of a few weeks. It is going to be a marathon.”