LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will see a surge in coronavirus cases at some point and can not reduce COVID-19 deaths to zero, even with a successful vaccination of the vaccine, Chris Whitty said. , the English chief, said on Tuesday.
Whitty said caution in reopening the economy would affect the size and timing of a revival, but that vaccines could not prevent all deaths due to COVID.
“All the modeling indicates that there is going to be a further upsurge and the people will find who are either not vaccinated or where the vaccine did not work, and some of them will end up in the hospital, and unfortunately some of them will is going to die, ”Whitty told lawmakers.
“The ratio between cases and deaths will decrease due to vaccination, but unfortunately not to zero.”
(Reporting by Alistair Smout; Edited by William James)