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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nicola Davis and Pamela Duncan

Should rising Covid infections in England, Scotland and Wales cause concern?

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Analysts have suggested hospital-acquired Covid infections are also on the up, while hospitals have been hit by staff absences related to Covid. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

Covid infections are rising in England and have reached unprecedented levels in Scotland and Wales. It is a picture that, in months gone by, would have caused alarm.

Yet with restrictions eased and the advice to stay at home if infected with coronavirus due to be lifted on 1 April, it would be easy to think the threat posed by Covid has been neutralised. Infections may rise, in other words, but our concern need not.

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