The UK is drawing near the “light at the end of tunnel” of the pandemic, the WHO special envoy for Covid-19 has said, but cautioned that elsewhere in the world “things are not as promising.”
David Nabarro told Sky News: “Even though it’s possible to start imagining that the end of the pandemic is not far away, just everybody be ready for the possibility that there will be more variations and mutations coming along, or that there will be further challenges, other surges of even Omicron coming.
Nabarro added that people must remain “respectful of this virus” as “elsewhere in the world, things are nothing like as promising.”
It comes as the government announced new guidelines for people self-isolating with Covid-19 in England set to come into force, starting Monday.
Under the revised guidelines, people will have the option to reduce their isolation period after 5 full days if they test negative on both day 5 and day 6 and do not have a temperature.
