After nearly eight months since the first lockdown, coronavirus still spreads around the globe.
But with a vaccine found to be 90 per cent effective at preventing the infection there is finally some positive news about the pandemic, which has killed hundreds of people in Leicestershire and more than 1.2 million people around the world.
We want to know how the vaccine news makes you feel about the future and whether your would be willing to get the vaccine if it was offered.
Simply fill in and submit the short questionnaire below with your thoughts on the development, which represents a light at the end of the tunnel after what has been a particularly tough time for people in the worst-hit areas, such as Leicester, Oadby and Wigston and Chaarnwood.
The Government announced this week that the UK will get 40 million doses of the new coronavirus vaccine, which is being developed by pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and BioNTech, but has not yet been approved for use by the NHS.
In Parliament, Leicester South MP Jon Ashworth, who is Labour’s shadow health secretary, said it was a “moment of great hope in a bleak, dismal year that has shattered so many families” and he expressed cautious optimism.
He spoke about getting enough people vaccinated to establish herd immunity and stop the virus spreading.
He said: “As we vaccinate the most vulnerable, there will be less people at risk and deaths and infections will come down.”
