Coronavirus will 'settle into human population and become normal', expert says

COVID-19 is 'so successful' that it will never be eradicated, a virus expert has claimed, as fears of a second spike continue to grow. Professor David Robertson, head of viral genomics and bioinformatics at the University of Glasgow, believes the highly infectious respiratory infection is 'almost uncontrollable'. 'It is so transmissible, it's so successful, we're so susceptible, that actually it's a little bit of a red herring to worry about it getting worse, because it couldn't be much worse at the moment in terms of the numbers of cases,' he told the House of Lords Science and Technology committee on Tuesday.