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Fears about another Covid crisis are overblown, leading experts insisted today amid doomsday warnings that the NHS might be crippled by the impending wave.
Virus cases and hospitalisations are already on the rise, causing health chiefs to raise the alarm that Covid is ‘still a danger’ and that the winter will be be ‘extremely busy’ for an already overstretched health service.
However, experts today explained the new wave was inevitable and is unlikely to spook ministers into pandemic-era curbs because
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Face mask rules are creeping back into schools amid Britain’s Covid resurgence, despite claims that the current flare-up causing havoc across the country may already be close to peaking.
Headteachers in facilities battling outbreaks have decided to get children to once again wear face coverings in corridors as virus absences wreak havoc on classrooms.
It means schools are following the lead of NHS trusts who have defied national guidance to bring back mask mandates inside hospitals in response to the
Rising Covid cases will hit ‘all sectors’ in the UK with staff absences to cause even more disruption to Britons this summer, experts warned today on the eve of the biggest rail strike in decades.
Latest surveillance data shows cases rose by 40 per cent last week with one in 50 people infected in England — the largest weekly rise seen since Christmas. It is already piling pressure on busy hospitals.
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Britain’s Covid resurgence was inevitable, according to leading experts attempting to quell panic about the ‘new wave’.
Cases have crept up over the past fortnight while hospitals have seen an increase in the number of virus-infected patients, sparking fears that the worst may not be over. Experts fear it could put even more pressure on an already overwhelmed health service.
Left-leaning scientists, who were critical of No10’s decision to ease restrictions, have already called for a return of mask-wearing and
