UK COVID cases are on the rise and a “third wave” may have already started ahead of the next stage of unlocking. Scientists fear the new variant from India is to blame and it’s predicted to b…
UK Covid cases are on the rise, data suggests, ahead of the next stage of unlocking. Pictured, two friends in Finsbury Park, north London, 10 MayProfessor Paul Hunter, from the Norwich School of Medicine at the University of East Anglia, said: “Today [May 11] 2,427 new cases of Covid have been reported in the UK.
“That hospitalisations have yet to increase would be consistent with the view that vaccine is still effective at reducing the risk of severe disease and gives hope that this new wave, if it indeed continues, will be less damaging to the NHS.”The app, which tracks the outbreak, shows R has risen in two weeks from 1.0 to 1.2, according to Prof Nick Cowern,
COG-UK, the group of scientists who track the spread of variants, say 1,393 cases have been detected as of May 7.5Prof Hunter said: “Looking at public data from the COG-UK website, which suggests an increasing proportion of the cases they sequence are the Indian variant B.1.617.2, this may suggest the increase in infections may be due to the spread of this variant.”
Tom Wenseleers, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Leuven, Belgium, said he and colleagues had analysed UK data from the Sanger Institute.: “A growth advantage of 10 per cent per day over the UK variant would amount to about 60 per cent more contagious. See if this is confirmed by further research.”But there are early indications itTom Wenseleers, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Leuven, Belgium, said the Indian variant B.1.617.
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