'Like we saw with Alpha and Omicron during the winters of 2020 and 21, we will very likely be talking about a new variant and wave come autumn time,' said cggbamford
It comes as new statistics show more than 5% of people in Northern Ireland tested positive for the virus in early July.
"Severe disease and deaths are relatively low compared to what we saw in 2020/21 thanks to the vaccines," Dr Bamford told Belfast Live. "A major feature of the Covid pandemic is the rapid emergence of new variants driving wave-after-wave of infection and deaths. We saw this with Alpha, Delta, Omicron, and now the various sub-variants of Omicron, like BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5.
"What is a bit of good news is that while you can get re-infected, it is likely that upon reinfection the disease will not be as severe." As children tend to be less infectious than adults, this period is reduced to three days for children under 18 years of age. "Recent studies on Omicron infections have shown that you can remain infectious past day five up to day 10. This new advice is likely another public health balancing act between direct Covid impacts on people’s health and indirect impacts through say staff absences in the health care sector.
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