People may be able to hug their loved ones again from June 21 with up to seven in 10 of adults having been found to have coronavirus antibodies, an expert said.
An Office for National Statistics (ONS) testing survey has today revealed 68.3 percent of people in England have virus-fighting proteins, as of the week ending April 11.
This figure was reiterated by Health Secretary Matt Hancock at this evening's Downing Street briefing. And Dr Mike Tildesley, from the University of Warwick and a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M) group, said he is hopeful two vaccinated people will be able to embrace from midsummer.