I think this is a question that's facing many countries now because countries have fought hard, including the United Kingdom and populations have sacrificed a lot to drive
transmission down. It's taken time, it's taken its toll on people personally, it's taken its toll on communities, it's taken its toll on the economy.
The rewards for that are low levels of transmission across society but as we've seen, the risk of that jumping back up in particular circumstances, in crowded situations, super-spreading events. So we must be able to reap the harvest as such of such a sacrifice to shut down and lock down and drive transmission down to a low level.
That transmission needs to be kept at that low level and driven even further down. That is going to require extreme vigilance. It's going to require communities staying on board, individuals understanding their responsibility, their contribution to their own protection, to the protection of others.
That communities are involved in this process and taking ownership and feeling empowered and supported by the authorities and that the authorities are able to react quickly to
each and every case, confirm the presence of the disease or not as quickly as possible, turn around testing very quickly and isolate cases when confirmed and identify all their contacts and quarantine those contacts.
I'm sorry for continuing to repeat this but there are no silver bullets, there are no easy answers and each government, including the UK, needs to examine itself at every level and say, are we capable of doing that, is every part of the system able to keep its promise.
I as an individual promise to keep myself safe and I promise to do everything to keep other people safe.
Communities promise themselves that they will keep each other safe;
governments promise citizens that they will keep their citizens safe.
Everyone has got to now live up to the promises they make, the commitments they make and people, everyone at every level, need to follow through.
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