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In February, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the public would have to get used to “living with COVID”, and announced the phasing out of all COVID-related restrictions over the following months. For many people, life since then has begun to return to something resembling normal.

‘We expect cases to rise further in the coming days and weeks,’ the UKHSA says

Tropical disease originating in Africa has spread across the world since May

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that can be passed onto humans when they are bitten by an infected tick

With the UK at the start of what scientists are calling the 'pandemic era', there are warnings that the next viral threat could be much worse than anything we have experienced so far

There are now more than 900 cases across the UK

The latest wave is being driven by the newer variants BA.4 and BA.5, which now make up more than half of all new Covid-19 cases in England, new data shows

Just 50.4% of year 9s took the vaccination

Patient levels are still some way below the peak reached during the previous wave.