The UK Health and Security Agency has warned that the autumn Covid wave has begun, and says this year's flu season will be serious - and start early. Flu season is reported to have been 'rampant;' across the southern hemisphere while countries including Australia were in winter - and there are fears that will now be reported in the UK.
The BBC says flu season was worse for southern nations this year 'largely because people mixed more once Covid restrictions had eased, but had little immunity to the influenza virus'.
UKHSA chief medical adviser Dr Susan Hopkins told BBC News: "We do believe we are starting to see our autumn wave of Covid."
