Covid cases fall for seventh consecutive day as hopes grow third wave is in retreat
"It drops into the background, but it does not change anything terribly – maybe you have to take a test once in a while."
There were just 23,511 cases reported yesterday — half the nearly 47,000 reported a week ago — despite Tuesdays often seeing spikes in numbers because of the weekend lag in reporting. Deaths jumped to 131, the highest daily total since March, but the figure is nowhere near the levels seen in previous wavesNeil Ferguson — who just days ago predicted there could soon be 200,000 cases a day — declared the crisis would be over by the autumnThe government adviser and virus expert at Imperial College London said he was positive the worst of the pandemic would be over within months.
He said: “The effect of vaccines has been huge in reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death and I’m positive that, by late September-October time, we will be looking back at most of the pandemic. “We’ll still have Covid with us, we’ll still have people dying from Covid, but we’ll put the bulk of the pandemic behind us.”.He added: “I think we’ll see a clear plateau emerge later this week. The real issue is will that turn into a long-term decline . . . or will we see a resurgence of hospitalisations and deaths as we go later into summer and autumn?”
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