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…



