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The proportion of people getting infected with the new BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 variants of the COVID-19 virus is rising, according to latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
On COVID-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30% over the past two weeks. Four out of six of the WHO sub-regions saw cases increase in the last week, WHO Director-General said at a press briefing.
Being admitted to hospital with covid is expected to rise again. the latest uk figures show that infectionsjumped by more than 0.5 million in a week. our health editor hugh pym is here with the latest. huw, today we ve had a warning from a senior official that we are in a new covid wave and the numbers will continue rising from here. let s look back at the trend for community infections charted by the weekly office for national statistics survey. this suggests that 2.3 million people had the virus in the week tojune 24th, compared with nearly five million at the end of march, when there was a surge driven by a variant of omicron ba.2. but the level is rising fast thanks to new variants, and today, we learned what health officials think might happen in the weeks ahead. it doesn t look as though that wave has finished yet so we would anticipate that hospital cases will rise and it s possible, quite likely, that they will actually peak over the previous ba.2 wave.