Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University and the government’s life sciences adviser, has been speaking about Boris Johnson’s “living with Covid” plans on Radio 4’s The World at One.
He said:
"I think we’re in a position now where mandatory legally enforced quarantine for people who are positive is probably not necessary, given the disease we currently have is relatively benign.
The only people are really suffering badly from this disease are the unvaccinated ... I suspect we could keep going [with restrictions] if we wanted to, but it’s not at all clear to me that we’re going to have a serious problem in short/medium term.
At some point we have to decide we have to step back from this and just get on with life."
He also talked about the end of free testing and said:
" I think sliding back to a purely commercial model of testing is going to be problematic ... nevertheless we are doing a lot more testing than we need to do."
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