Covid has not gone away warn health bosses
, from earlier in August, indicated there were between 931 and 1,628 new cases per million people, each day in the south-west of England, with a 30% rise overall in daily cases since the start of July.
Prof David Strain, from the University of Exeter's Medical School, said poor weather in July had prompted people to gather in "enclosed spaces, without the natural ventilation needed to keep ourselves more safe".He said for many people the effects of a new variant were like a "bad summer cold". "It is causing people who've got other diseases for their conditions to get worse, and that's really the reason that we're starting to see a small increase in the number of patients coming to hospital," he said.
Booster jabs were "offering protection against severe illness from this particular variant", he said.
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