Britain will be ‘Covid free by August’, claims vaccines boss
Mr Dix was initially deputy chairman of the taskforce under Kate Bingham before taking over in December, but is now stepping now.“Sometime in August, we will have no circulating virus in the UK," he"All the variants that are known - I think we'll be safe against over the coming winter."
"We may decide that we need to boost the immune response, and we've got the vaccine to do that,” he said.“Whether we'll need to or not, I would think probably not, but we might still do it in case. I really don't think it should be autumn.
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