Most people with cold-like symptoms actually have the Omicron variant of coronavirus, a leading expert has claimed. Professor Tim Spector, epidemiologist and scientist on the Zoe Covid Study app, said he was concerned about the recent rise in infection rates across the UK driven by the BA.2 lineage.
According to Zoe incidence figures, there are currently 258,155 new daily symptomatic cases of Covid in the UK on average. That is a massive increase of 47% from 175,189 reported the previous week.
In terms of prevalence, on average one in 24 people in the UK currently has symptomatic Covid. Scotland reportedly has the most symptomatic infections at one in 21, England is second with one in 25 and Wales is third with one in 33. The app does not have enough data on Northern Ireland for accurate analysis.
