Even with vaccines, restrictions are likely until Covid is crushed in the community

UCC senior lecturer in biochemistry and cell biology Dr Anne Moore. Picture: Tomas Tyner, UCC

Even when Covid vaccines are rolled out, public health restrictions are likely to remain in place until the virus is no longer spreading in the community or a vaccine preventing spread becomes available, a UCC scientist has warned.

Dr Anne Moore, a senior lecturer in Biochemistry at UCC, said the rollout of vaccines will not see the way we live change overnight or enable the country to open up immediately.