Prof Susan Hopkins has issued a warning over the transmissibility of the Delta variant
Delta variant’sProf Susan Hopkins, from Public Health England, told the science and technology committee: ‘We’re seeing much greater transmissibility than Alpha, which had greater transmissibility than the viruses that had gone before unmitigated.
The UK has the highest rate of new Covid infections in Europe, with 9,055 cases reported yesterday, along with nine Covid-related deaths. But she said due to vaccines ‘what we won’t see — or what I hope we won’t see — is the hospitalisation rate’.Five areas with the biggest week-on-week rise in cases:On Monday, there were half the amount of jabs administered in comparison to any given day in March
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