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Living with covid: How can the pandemic end and what will it be like?

For some, the phrase “living with covid” means removing all restrictions - and this could soon happen in England. But the actions countries take now will determine how many more people die of covid and whether we’re doomed to keep chasing new variants

By Michael Marshall

18 January 2022 Last updated 10 February 2022

Mask wearing at a theatre in Antwerp, Belgium, last month

Mask wearing at a theatre in Antwerp, Belgium, last month

JONAS ROOSENS/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images

After two years of mass deaths, long covid, social distancing, cancelled weddings and isolated funerals, increasing numbers of political leaders are saying it is time to “live with covid”. In England, legal requirements for self-isolation and contact tracing but could now end sooner, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson set to present during the last week of February. But just how close to the end of the pandemic are we? And…

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