A drop in testing, coupled with inadequate surveillance of new immune-evasive subvariants, could lead to a "devastating" spike in cases as winter approaches, experts have warned. They fear a "perfect storm" is brewing this autumn as a new Covid wave could sweep across the UK. They have also slammed the government’s guidelines as ‘wrong’ and revealed the main symptom for the latest version of the virus can be mistaken for a cold and not be tested.
Professor Tim Spector, co-founder of the Covid ZOE app, says the UK is already at the start of the next wave of coronavirus.
According to the latest data, the percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus rose in England for the week ending September 17, meaning around one in 65 people had the virus, The Mirror reports.
