While Covid levels in the UK are at their lowest in over two years, scientists warn of the potential for a new wave due to falling vaccination rates and emerging subvariants. The next wave is predicted to arrive in the spring, but its severity remains uncertain. Scientists express concern over the low uptake of the latest autumn booster campaign, particularly among younger and clinically vulnerable individuals.
Covid levels in the UK are low but with falling vaccination levels and potentially dangerous new subvariants - the threat of the virus remainsScientists believe it is only a matter of time before a new wave of Covid will cause cases to rise.in the general population are at their lowest level for more than two years – hovering around the same point for the last month.
Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia, explained: “At some point I would expect infections to start rising again but whether that will be this month, next month or later is not clear to me. I would be surprised not to see cases rising before Easter – but I have often been surprised by Covid.”
Over the same period, the proportion of people with symptoms testing positive for Covid in the national laboratory reporting system rose slightly from 1.8 per cent to 2.1 per cent in England.Because people are being tested in hospital with symptoms, these positivity rates are much higher than for the general population.
And only 23.5 per cent of those under 65 years old and with weakened immune systems have had a vaccine. “The key thing is to reduce close contact with others when symptoms hit. We are generally most contagious in the few days after symptoms surface,” Dr Simon Williams, a behavioural scientist and public health expert at Swansea University, said.Scientists have spotted several Covid subvariants that have the potential to spark a new wave.
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