Is the coronavirus pandemic over at last?

Everything changed as we endured wave after wave of Covid infection - school, work, healthcare, holidays, even hugs - but as Scotland loosens most of its remaining restrictions, is that the coronavirus pandemic over at last? "Nearly", says Francois Balloux, director of the Genetics Institute at University College, London. While he predicts "a few flares and outbreaks" in Europe this winter, Prof Balloux says he's "pretty confident" that in countries with high rates of vaccination, including the united kingdom , the pandemic phase of the virus are going to be over by the spring. "We are seeing the lights at the top of the tunnel," he reckons. Those lights first glimmered within the depths of winter when the united kingdom became the primary Western country to authorise a mass vaccination campaign. It was too late to prevent a winter wave of infections, which peaked in Scotland in January with a mean of 65 people dying with Covid-19 every day . Everything changed as we endured wave after wave of Covid infection - school, work, healthcare, holidays, even hugs - but as Scotland loosens most of its remaining restrictions, is that the coronavirus pandemic over at last? "Nearly", says Francois Balloux, director of the Genetics Institute at University College, London. While he predicts "a few flares and outbreaks" in Europe this winter, Prof Balloux says he's "pretty confident" that in countries with high rates of vaccination, including the united kingdom , the pandemic phase of the virus are going to be over by the spring. "We are seeing the lights at the top of the tunnel," he reckons. Those lights first glimmered within the depths of winter when the united kingdom became the primary Western country to authorise a mass vaccination campaign. It was too late to prevent a winter wave of infections, which peaked in Scotland in January with a mean of 65 people dying with Covid-19 every day . But since then, nine in 10 adults in Scotland have received round of a coronavirus vaccine and quite seven in 10 have had both doses, an identical story as for the uk as an entire . According to Our World in Data, an internet site tracking the pandemic, this makes the united kingdom one among the best-protected major nations on earth, along side Canada and Spain. The effects are dramatic. This summer saw a good bigger wave of recorded cases than the winter, peaking on 30 June. this point though deaths didn't come anywhere near 65 per day. actually they never rose above a daily average of eight.