Mr Javid told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he would expect cases numbers by 19 July to be “at least double” what they were now “so around 50,000 new cases a day”.
“As we ease and go into the summer we expect them to rise significantly and they could go as high as 100,000 case numbers,” he added.
However, he said vaccines and treatments “are far better than what we had when this pandemic began” resulting in a much lower fatality rate.