We Brits have been told that Covid is so bad again that we really need to go back to being masked and distanced.
Boris’s boffins and medics fear Covid hospital cases are about to hit an 18-month high.
So, Dame Dr Jenny Harries, one of the UK’s most senior health officials, has warned a current wave of the virus has not yet peaked and told us to mask up.
She said it is “quite likely” hospitalisations will rise higher than the last wave early in Spring.
In that wave of the Omicron BA.2 variant, the number of Covid patients in UK hospitals peaked at just over 20,000 at the start of April.
At the time, that was the highest number of Covid patients in UK hospitals since February 2021 – with admissions peaking at over 2,500 a day.
Hospital numbers fell between April and June but are now creeping up again, as Dame Jenny warned the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants are “pushing and driving” a new wave.
The UK Health Security Agency chief executive told the BBC ’s Sunday Morning show: “It doesn’t look as though that wave has finished yet.
Despite not changing the advice – which says face masks are voluntary but “can help reduce the chance of you spreading infection to others, especially in crowded and enclosed spaces”…
She said: “So I haven’t been routinely wearing one but I do routinely carry one in my handbag wherever I go.
“Actually I have worn it in the last week for the very reason that I’m doing exactly what I’ve said, I’m adapting to the changing prevalence of infection.
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