The Queen's Platinum Jubilee bank holiday weekend earlier this month may have contributed to the rising cases of coronavirus infections being recorded across the country at the moment, an expert has said.
Dr Simon Clarke, Associate Professor in Cellular Microbiology at the University of Reading, said the current spike in cases will likely continue until the autumn, which could have been boosted by the Jubilee celebrations as many people were off work and attended densely populated events, the Mirror reports.
It comes as coronavirus infections in the UK have risen for the first time in two months, many of those are compatible with the Omicron variant BA.1 and newer variants BA.4 and BA.5 - which appear more highly transmissible than the current dominant BA.2 strain.
