The health secretary believes the country must look to 'live alongside' coronavirus in 2022.
But Mr Javid acknowledged the pandemic was "far from over".
Friday's coronavirus figures showed daily hospital admissions were up to 1,915, as of 27 December, compared with 1,506 the previous day.A leading statistician who advises the government said the UK's daily Covid-19 cases could be closer to 500,000 due to the testing system being overstretched and reinfections not being counted in the government data.
But he added that deaths were "not yet going up" and that the country could be "fairly optimistic" about avoiding the kind of pressures seen during the last winter wave.recognised in the New Year HonoursEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and his deputy Jonathan Van-Tam, who became household names during the Covid-19 pandemic, have been knighted.
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