The UK is fighting a fifth wave of Covid as infections soar and large summer events could see cases rise even higher, experts have warned.
Coronavirus cases have increased sharply in recent weeks, with the latest figures showing 1.7 million people testing positive across the UK, a 23 per cent increase on the week before. The increase is being driven by the recent BA.4 and BA.5 variants, subvariants of Omicron.
