Sub-variants of Covid-19, named BA.4 and BA.4, are the latest threat to Brits’ health. The Omicron wave has seen numerous people infected with the virus for a second, or perhaps more, time.
Data from the Office for National Statistics suggests the arrival of Omicron prompted a 15-fold increase in the rate of reinfections.
For the week ending June 11, around 1.4 million people in the UK had the coronavirus, an increase of approximately half a million from the week before.