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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Covid expert says new wave of infections is about to hit New York City

NYC Health

A top epidemiologist is warning that a sixth Covid wave fuelled by the super-contagious BA.5 omicron subvariant is about to crash over New York City.

Dr Jay Varma, Bill de Blasio’s Covid tsar during the height of the pandemic, said the stubbornly high number of reported positive cases indicated that another spike was likely.

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