- July 26, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
LONDON, July 26 (Reuters) – It is a long road back to business as usual from the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of Britain’s coronavirus genome sequencing effort told Reuters, adding she was on alert for new mutations to the Delta variant that is sweeping the world.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ended England’s coronavirus lockdown, saying Britain must cautiously learn to live with the virus, and that a quick vaccine rollout has allowed for a summer reopening.
Sharon Peacock, chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium, said that the process of returning to normal would be slow, due to uneven vaccine rollouts globally.
“It’s quite a long path to get back to business as usual,” she told Reuters, adding that clear global surveillance for new variants and co-ordination on the best vaccine against what is coming up, as there is with flu, would be needed.
“I see that as quite a long journey. So it’s not going to be one day that we wake up and say…
