📈 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, XBB.1.5 subvariant sweeps the country.
This had raised hopes that the UK could be in for a spell of lower infection levels for at least the next few weeks and that XBB.1.5 may not be spreading as fast as had initially been feared. This is both fundamentally more contagious than previous variants and is better at evading immunity built up from vaccines and previous infections because of differences in its makeup.
Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick University, adds: “We can expect fluctuations in covid infections from the circulation of more infectious variants such as XBB.1.5. “These fluctuations, with a peak every few months, are what we can expect for the next year or so,” he said.
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