The UK appears to have just seen off its fifth wave of Covid-19 infections, although experts continue to fear that another could arrive this autumn once the weather turns unless proper precautions are taken. The Independent reports the country saw a 43% spike in coronavirus cases at the beginning of June, seemingly caused by people coming together to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron, the strain that spread so rapidly across the UK in December 2021 and January 2022 before gradually falling away, cases continued to rise to a peak of around 4.6m cases in mid-July before gradually beginning to decline. While August finds Britain in a much better place in terms of infections, the recent spike was a timely reminder that Covid has not gone away.
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