COVID-19: All over-18s in England able to book vaccine from Friday as Whitty warns of 'surprises' ahead

England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has warned COVID-19 'has not thrown its last surprise at us and there will be several more over the next period'. Speaking at the NHS Confed Conference, he said he is anticipating case rates will continue to go up in the next few weeks due to Delta being 'significantly more transmissible' than Alpha. He said: 'In terms of the medium term, my expectation is that we will get a further winter surge, late autumn/winter surge.