Ministers have seen proposals to get rid of NHS Test and Trace and payments for low income families
The government is reportedly weighing up plans to scrap self-isolation, free Covid swabs and the NHS Test and Trace system.
The document warns the virus will remain at endemic levels for several years and that the emergence of a more deadly or transmissible strain remains a threat. The Test and Trace system was handed a £37bn budget over two years but the Treasury will hope to see that scaled back as vaccination coverage increases.
He added we ‘cannot rule anything out’ but predicted the booster programme and other pharmaceutical interventions will prevent the need for stricter measures. University College London professor and Independent Sage committee member Christina Pagel called the suggesting a wave can be imported ‘arrant nonsense’.
One sceptical source told the Mail the pandemic is ‘totally over in the mind of ministers’ and warned: ‘But what happens if a new variant arrives and they have just shut down the whole national infrastructure?
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