The prevalence of COVID-19 in the UK has reached record levels, with around 1 in 13 people estimated to have been infected with the virus last week, according to the latest figures from Britain’s official statistics office. FAUCHI SAYS HE DOES NOT EXPECT GREAT COVID-19 EXPLOSION IN US An estimated 4.9 million people were estimated to have the coronavirus in the week ended March 26, up from 4.3 million recorded last week, the National Statistics Office said on Friday. The latest wave is due to the most contagious variant BA.2 omicron, which is the dominant variant in the whole of the United Kingdom ARCHIVE – Family members write a message to two sisters who died of COVID at the Covid National Monument in London, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. The latest data from the British Statistics Service show that the prevalence of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom has reached at record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to have been infected with the virus last week. An estimated 4.9 million people were infected with the virus in the week ended March 26, up from 4.3 million recorded last week, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo / Alastair Grant, Archive ) Hospital admissions and death rates are rising again, although the number of people dying from COVID-19 is still relatively low compared to earlier this year. However, the latest estimates show that the sharp rise in new infections since the end of February, when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifted all remaining coronavirus restrictions in England, continued into March. The data came the same day the government ended free COVID-19 rapid tests for most people in England as part of Johnson’s “living with COVID-19” plan. People who do not have health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the virus now have to pay for tests to find out if they are infected. COVID VACCINE IN CHILDREN LESS EFFECTIVE AGAINST OMICRON VS DELTA, BUT PREVENTS SERIOUS DISEASE FROM BOTH: STUDY “The government’s strategy of ‘living with COVID’ to remove mitigation, isolation, free trials and a significant portion of our monitoring is tantamount to ignoring this virus in the future,” said Stephen Griffin, an associate professor of medicine. at the University of Leeds. school. “Such uncontrolled prevalence jeopardizes the protection provided by our vaccines,” he said. “Our vaccines are excellent, but they are not silver bullets and we must not let them carry the weight of COVID in isolation.” ARCHIVE – Family members of those who died from COVID pass by the Covid National Monument in London, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo / Alastair Grant, Archive) More than 67% of people aged 12 and over in the UK have been vaccinated and received a booster or third dose of coronavirus vaccine. From Saturday, parents can also book a low-dose vaccine for children between 5 and 12 years old in England. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION James Naismith, a professor of biology at Oxford University, said he believed that in addition to those who are fully protected or not susceptible to the virus, most people in the country are likely to be infected with the BA.2 variant by the summer. “This is literally living with the virus, being infected with it,” he said.
