LONDON (Reuters) – England will not have to endure another COVID-19 lockdown but testing and vaccine programmes will be a feature of life into 2022, British health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday.
“There’s absolutely no doubt that vaccines and testing will still be a feature next year,” Hancock told a parliamentary committee, adding it was uncertain how long immunity from vaccines would last but that there might need to be re-vaccination programmes every six to 12 months.
Asked if he foresaw the lockdown which began this week as the last one, Hancock said: “I do, yes.”
(Reporting by Alistair Smout, editing by Elizabeth Piper)
