Covid: Masks and social distancing ‘could last years’on March 21, 2021 at 3:21 pm

Measures may remain until jabs roll out across the world, Public Health England’s Dr Mary Ramsay says.

Prof Chris Whitty, the UK government’s chief medical adviser, told MPs earlier this month that it was hoped “simple interventions like washing hands, face masks where appropriate, test-and-trace, and above all vaccines” would keep the virus controlled beyond the summer.