Timelapse maps show how 'most contagious Covid yet' has become dominant in Britain

Timelapse maps show how 'most contagious Covid yet' has become dominant in Britain Covid's most contagious variant yet is now dominant in England, sequencing data shows as experts warn it could cause send infections to pandemic highs.

Data from the Sanger Institute, one of the UK's largest Covid surveillance centres, shows six in 10 positive swabs it examined in the week to June 25 were the BA.5 version of Omicron.

It has now officially displaced BA.2, which caused infections to breach 4million in April and prompted NHS bosses to call for the return of masks just days after No10 abandoned all restrictions. The Daily Mail

See also:

• COVID–19 Genomic Surveillance Sanger Institute
• Long Covid: Midwife's anger over new no-pay rule in NHS BBC News
• Covid: Norfolk man says he is 'fighting every day for life' BBC News
• Over-50s could be offered FOURTH Covid booster jab as ministers plan latest fightback against virus The Daily Mail
• Covid is back — but how worried should we be? Evening Standard
• Who’s clapping now? UK healthcare workers with long Covid have been abandoned | Kelly Fearnley & Shaun Peter Qureshi The Guardian
• All over-50s to be offered Covid booster this autumn after jump in infections The Independent
• Government set to throw away 40 million expired Covid tests as rates surge The Independent