Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance attends a news conference addressing the government's response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, at 10 Downing Street in London on March 12, 2020. - Britain on Thursday said up to 10,000 people in the UK could be infected with the novel coronavirus COVID-19, as it announced new measures to slow the spread of the pandemic. (Photo by SIMON DAWSON / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SIMON DAWSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The novel coronavirus will likely return several times in the coming years, triggering new waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, the British government’s chief scientific adviser said on Thursday.
“I think it’s quite probable that we will see this virus coming back in different waves, over a number of years,” Patrick Vallance told lawmakers.
