📈 Covid cases have shot up nearly 50 per cent in 10 days as the new, highly contagious, Kraken subvariant sweeps the country
have shot up nearly 50 per cent in 10 days as the new, highly contagious, Kraken subvariant sweeps the country.
At that point, nine days ago, daily symptomatic cases had fallen below 100,000 for the first time in more than a year to stand at just over 85,000. “I’m concerned that with XBB.1.5 we have another increment in transmissibility and immune evasiveness and our complacent reliance on established immunity may be misplaced,” he said. “We continue to be in uncharted territory.”
“There is also the impact of waning immunity, particularly as only 64.5 per cent of those aged 50 and over have received the autumn booster.” Professor Friston’s modelling forecasts the next peak will be in late March. At that point, about 3.5 per cent of the UK population would have Covid. Professor Paul Hunter, of the University of East Anglia, added: “Blaming it on a single variant is too simplistic. The waxing and waning of infections numbers will always be driven a complex interaction of several different factors: viral evolution, waning immunity as well as behavioural and environmental factors”.
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