Covid is evolving rapidly and the UK needs to keep measures in place in case restrictions are needed against according to the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance. Sir Patrick was speaking to the Science and Technology Committee this morning following a steep rise in Covid cases.
He said: “This virus has not gone away. It’s not going to go away. It’s going to be a circulating human virus for as long as we can see forward. And it hasn’t stopped evolving. It’s been quite an unstable period, so the virus is changing very rapidly, and it’s got quite a lot of space to evolve into.
“It’s not a foregone conclusion that evolution to increase growth and transmission — which is what the virus does, wants to do — necessarily is associated with reduced severity.”
