UK vaccine taskforce head feels summer travel possible, but warns virus will linger

Coronavirus vaccine taskforce chairwoman Kate Bingham has said she expects people would be able to go on holiday next summer.

"My gut feel is that we will all be going on summer holidays. It is likely that those people most at risk will be vaccinated through to April, and then the JCVI and the Department for Health will then consider how to broaden out the vaccinations to other adults," she told BBC Radio 4's Today program.

"I think by the summer we should be in a much better place to get on planes.

"I don't think we're going to get away from this virus ever – so we're going to have to maintain sensible hygiene and washing hands, and so on.

"I would like this vaccine to be as routine as an annual flu jab and that we manage it rather than get bowed down by it."