Contracting the Omicron variant will not stop people from being able to be infected with the same strain of coronavirus again. That's according to the findings of a major academic study by scientists at the Imperial College London.
Previous research has found that people have been afforded some level of immunity against contracting coronavirus again if they had been infected with the original Covid virus or one of its earliest variants. However, that doesn't seem to be the the case with the Omicron variant according to this latest study.
According to the Mirror, the findings could explain why people who have had Omicron have then caught the variant again quickly afterwards. But the good news is that Covid deaths registered in England and Wales have continued to fall, though the size of the drop has been affected by the Jubilee bank holidays.
