One of the country's top infectious disease doctors has warned that Covid-19 has not gone away and urged the public to keep wearing masks and show "respect and kindness" to vulnerable members of society.
Speaking about the second anniversary of the first national lockdown, Royal Victoria Infirmary medic Matthias Schmid told ChronicleLive he was concerned about changing attitudes to Covid - and said "Living With Covid" would mean getting used to consistent levels of the virus affecting our communities.
Dr Schmid, a consultant who treated the first Covid-19 patients in the UK in January 2020 and who heads up the infectious diseases department at the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "We are clearly in a situation where we are wanting to live with Covid.
