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In a one-minute teaser clip, Prince Harry says: “It’s really hard to look back on it now and go ‘what on earth happened?’ There’s a hierarchy of the family, you know, there’s leaking, but there’s also planting of stories. It’s a dirty game.”The return to normal social mixing, after two years of lower rates of these kinds of infections, is likely to be a factor in this latest spike, according to Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser of the UK Health Security Agency .
According to the UKHSA, this year there have been 2.3 cases per 100,000 children aged one to four in England. In 2017 to 2019, there was an average of 0.5. For children aged five to nine, the rate is 1.1 cases per 100,000 children, compared with the pre-pandemic average of 0.3. And we should also expect more cases, Prof Jim McManus, of the Association of Directors of Public Health,pointing out that in 2017-18, there were four deaths. “It is a function of numbers.
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