World faces ‘bumpy, difficult’ Covid transition, says senior scientist

I just don't think you wake up on Tuesday and it's finished,' says former Sage adviser Sir Jeremy Farrar

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Tensions in societies around the world over the current Covid situation are going to be very difficult to handle, one of Britain's most senior scientific figures has warned.

Sir Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, who stepped down as a government scientific adviser in November last year, warned the idea of simply exiting" a pandemic is not realistic.