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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Daniel Morrow & Katie Williams

New Covid infection wave 'likely' in Scotland due to BA.4 and BA.5 virus variants

A new wave of coronavirus is looking likely in Scotland and the rest of the UK, a Scottish immunologist has warned.

The number of people estimated to have been infected with Covid has risen in the last week according to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) infection study.

It has been estimated that 124,000 were infected with the virus in Scotland in the week ending June 2 - which equates to one in 40 people, or 2.36 per cent of the population.

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