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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

By Clare Wilson

8 July 2022

Commuters

Commuters in London, UK, in June, a month that saw rising covid-19 infection rates

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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 . 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 infections across the UK…

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