Coronavirus will no longer be circulating in the United Kingdom by August, said the departing vaccine taskforce chief Clive Dix to the Daily Telegraph.

Dix told the daily that sometime in August, there will be no circulating virus in the UK. He further stated that he believed the vaccine booster program could be pushed to early 2022. The government is evaluating which COVID-19 vaccines would serve as the best booster jab for vulnerable individuals later this year. He also expected everyone in the country to have been vaccinated at least once by the end of July. 

More than 51 million vaccines have been administered in the UK thus far and the country has been the second quickest in the world to have given a first dose to at least half ofthe adult population… (NDTV – Reuters, May 8, 2021)