Coronavirus: UK’s latest omicron wave being driven by BA.4 and BA.5 covid variants
The latest coronavirus figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics show that around 2.7 million people had covid-19 in the week ending 29 June, as the highly transmissible omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 drive infections
Health
8 July 2022
Commuters in London, UK, in June, a month that saw rising covid-19 infection rates Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg via Getty Images
One in 25 people in England, or nearly 4 per cent of the country’s population, were infected by the coronavirus in the week ending 29 June, according to latest figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS). The equivalent figures for the rest of the UK were 1 in 17 people in Scotland, 1 in 20 people in Wales and 1 in 19 people in Northern Ireland, with a total of around 2.7 million …