Coronavirus: It could be six months or more before UK returns to normal - government doctor

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'This is a moving target.' Deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries explains that measures will eventually be 'lifted gradually' and will be spaced. Get the latest COVID19 news:

Q: How well do you think the UK government are handling the issue of coronavirus?This has increased from 59% well and 31% badly on 19-20 March, before the lockdown.Dr Rosena Allin-Khan: Senior politicians with COVID-19 should self-isolate for 14 days, not sevenSky News correspondent Rob Powell said there is a lot of anger on the NHS frontline about the lack of testing for them.

She said if we remain indoors, wash our hands and practice social distancing this gives the NHS the chance to save lives.She said she is working hard to get PPE to nurses.She said nurses are also going into homes so they need that protection.Chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, Dame Donna Kinnair said nurses need to be tested for the virus so they know if they can continue to work.She said testing needs to have happened sooner because they work within one metre of patients.

She said the guidance to go to work if you cannot work from hom is not good, with construction workers etc going to work this week and putting their health at risk. Sir Mark said the best advice is coming from the modelling community, including those from Imperial College advising the government. Sir Mark Walport said those who have had coronavirus will be protected for at least months but most likely years.Sir Mark Walport, former chief scientific adviser, says the world is working together and agreed with Tony Blair about technology being critical.He said this will take a year to 18 months.Talking about Ebola, he said that was managed to be contained in a part of Africa but COVID-19 is different, it spreads quickly.

 

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And if it hasn't - what further measures will be introduced? Banning exercise? Banning walking dogs? Food rationing? Martial law to enforce it all as more and more people rebel? This isn't a plan. It's suicide.

There's no quick way to end the quarantines until there's a human ready vaccine, no one wants to admit it, but we're 12-18 months away from human ready vaccine, and probably at least a year after that before enough people are vaccinated for herd immunity to kick in and normalcy

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