Face-coverings may be necessary in certain situations next winter, even after all the UK’s adults have been vaccinated, Boris Johnson’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance has warned.
And chief medical officer Chris Whitty said that infections and deaths from Covid-19 can be expected to continue for years into the future.
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