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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rachel Hall

What do we know about the Covid-19 virus five years on?

Widespread mask use may be in the past, but reports of a summer Covid wave in the US has raised questions of how prevalent the virus is in the UK.
Widespread mask use may be in the past, but reports of a summer Covid wave in the US has raised questions of how prevalent the virus is in the UK. Photograph: andresr/Getty Images

It’s been five years since the start of the Covid pandemic. Although most of the government mandates, from social distancing to face masks, have been consigned to the past, the virus is still prevalent – and capable of causing real harm.

Although it was initially forecast to become a seasonal illness, the virus is on the rise in the US – making it far from the common-cold-style winter illness that was expected.

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