The UK is set to lift coronavirus restrictions by the summer of 2021. This was announced by the country’s Minister of Health Matt Hancock, reports Financial Times .
“We think that things will start to bounce back from spring. I have high hopes for the summer of 2021,” the publication quoted him as saying. He added that the restrictions still need to be respected for now.
This assessment of the timing was repeated by Keith Bingham, head of the service responsible for vaccination of the population. She stated that she internally feels that “we will all go on vacation next summer.”
The speeches of the officials were timed to coincide with the start of the mass vaccination program. December 2 it became known that the British authorities approved the vaccine jointly produced for mass use by the American company Pfizer and the German company BioNTech.
In total, the government has ordered 357 million doses of vaccines from seven different companies, including 40 million from Pfizer and BioNTech. During the epidemic in the UK, more than 65 thousand patients have died from the causes associated with COVID-19.