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It is true cases are rising: the 23,000 new infections reported on Monday make up the highest figure in four months. Nearly all new cases are the same highly transmissible Delta variant causing panic in Australia.
British authorities here are certainly wary of the trend. But they are not alarmed for two reasons: cases were always going to increase as the UK moved out of a strict four-month lockdown, and the contest between vaccine and virus is much more nuanced than Morrison and others make out.
Here are some facts.
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The last time the UK recorded close to 23,000 cases amid a new wave was on December 16. That day, 613 deaths were announced.