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Whitty says a lot of people think this is all over.
But they should look at what is happening in continental Europe, where a lot of countries are seeing Covid rates going up.
People should just remember that things can turn bad very fast if you don’t keep a very close eye on what’s going on.
Whitty says it is important to stress that deaths will not go away. That is not “realistic”, and it would be “completely wrong” to let the public think that, he says.
But he says there will be many fewer deaths than before, because of the impact of the vaccines.
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