Lifting remaining restrictions will come at a price, but could it help us finally get on top of Covid?
One expert likens what is being done to taking the "control rods out of a nuclear reactor".
And, according to Prof Whitty, were we to wait any longer, there is a risk the peak of infections this summer wave could be pushed to the autumn, which could make things worse with flu and other viruses circulating. The results estimated the gradual approach could halve the summer peak and avoid what is called an overshoot - whereby the surge in cases means greater numbers become infected than need be, before this summer wave peaks.
"We would get through it as we have before," says Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. "But it would be at the expense of elective care and other treatments."
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