UK downgrades Covid-19 alert level as number of cases fall

UK downgrades Covid-19 alert level amid falling cases Chief medical officers said the wave of Omicron variants was ‘subsiding’, although ‘further surges are likely’ PA Media the Guardian

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The chief medical officers of the UK nations and the national medical director of the NHS in England have jointly recommended that the Covid alert level be moved down from level 3 amid falling cases. They said the Covid-19 wave of the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 was “subsiding”.

Rates of Covid have decreased as have the number of severe cases needing hospital care, they added. However, they said further Covid surges were “likely” as they urged people to take up the offer of vaccination. The autumn booster campaign is due to start within days.

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