
Optimistic scientists expect that a combination of the booster vaccine rollout and rising natural immunity in children will lead to a 'substantial and rapid' fall in cases, hospitalisations and deaths, without the need for compulsory face masks, working from home and vaccine passports.

Covid cases will plummet next month without the Government's winter 'Plan B' because the virus will run out of people to infect, independent experts said today as they waded into a row about how the epidemic will unfold in the coming months.
