LONDON - A record 88,376 daily Covid cases were reported in Britain yesterday as England’s chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, said the pandemic could go on for 18 months more.
“Each six months will be better than the last six months,” he said, but it would be another year and a half before a wide range of vaccines covered all variants of the coronavirus.
Scientists and business leaders have accused the government of being “asleep at the wheel” over the launch of new drugs to combat Covid-19. So far, the UK has ordered 250,000 courses of the new Pfizer pill, compared to the 500,000 ordered by Australia, one million by Canada and ten million by the US.
“The government needs to be ordering millions of courses, not 250,000. That’s not nearly enough,” Lord Bilimoria, president of the Confederation of British Industry, told The Telegraph.
