‘The Covid-19 virus is stabilising – it doesn’t need to be aggressive because it’s now fit enough to survive. So its chances of finding a susceptible person are becoming smaller and smaller’

Covid-19 will become – well, it has already become – endemic, which means there will be focal outbreaks. The virus will try to find those who continue to be vulnerable, such as the people who received a vaccine but never had the natural infection. It will continue to be in circulation for quite some time and it is unlikely that it will disappear from the world. It is just that there will be cases that will not be picked up because the…