Face masks should be worn again to avoid another Covid lockdown, an expert immunologist has warned. It comes after Covid-19 cases have spiked by 29% in just one week, as figures published by the Office for National Statistics on Friday (July 15) show.
An estimated 3.4 million people in private homes have had the virus in the week up to July 6 and 7 - up from 2.7 the previous week. The jump is likely caused by increases in infections compatible with Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, experts said.
It comes as everyone aged over 50 will be offered a Covid booster and flu jab this autumn as health bosses brace themselves for another difficult winter, reports MirrorOnline. Professor Denis Kinane, a world-leading immunologist and founding Scientist of Cignpost Diagnostics, told the Mirror that face masks must return and urged people to exercise social responsibility.
