Keep following the rules after you get Covid jab, England's CMO tells public

Deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam (Leon Neal/PA)

The millions of people who have received the coronavirus jab must keep following social-distancing rules if they are not to risk prolonging lockdown restrictions, the deputy chief medical officer for England has warned.

Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said that if those who have been vaccinated begin easing off because they are protected, they are potentially putting at risk those further down the priority list who still need inoculation.