Advertisement Professor Lockdown Neil Ferguson has revealed that London could already have herd immunity against the coronavirus which will help life get back to normal by autumn.
Ferguson, whose grim predictions of 500,000 deaths in the UK convinced the government to implement the first lockdown, told The Sunday Times he believes there will soon be a slowdown in infection rates and perhaps a decline.
He said: That may be slightly aided by the fact there is quite a lot of herd immunity in places like London. Maybe 25 per cent or 30 per cent of the population has now been infected in the first wave and second wave.
Ferguson grim predictions of 500,000 deaths in the UK convinced government to implement first lockdown
Now, he says he is optimistic there will soon be a slowdown in infection rates - and perhaps even a decline
Like many scientists, Ferguson believes herd immunity against Covid-19 should be gained through vaccines
But due to the UK now being one of the worst-hit countries in the world in terms of number of cases, as well as now having three vaccines approved for use, herd immunity is edging closer, the professor believes
Saturday saw a further 59,937 cases reported, taking the UK s total number of cases reported to over 3 million