The coronavirus will no longer be circulating in Britain by midsummer, according to the government's departing vaccine taskforce chief, Clive Dix, Sky News reports.
Mr Dix, who was appointed as interim leader of the taskforce in December and stepped down last week, said it was his belief there would be no circulating virus "sometime in August".
He also told the Daily Telegraph that he expects everyone in the UK to have been vaccinated at least once by the end of July, by which time "we'll have probably protected the population from all the variants that are known".
"We'll be safe over the coming winter," he added.
