Covid symptoms start just two days after exposure
It comes as an Office for National Statistics report revealed that people who get infected for a second time end up with more virus in their body than the first time.
Despite a higher viral load, people are no more likely to get symptoms and death rates for Omicron are still much lower. Reinfections now make up around 10 per cent of all cases, with an average of 8,600 per day in England.Before, the daily figures included only people who had tested positive for the virus for the first time.
The UK Health and Security Agency said: “As the pandemic continues and more variants emerge, it is more likely that people will be reinfected with Covid-19.” Of the 14.8 million infection episodes in England since the start of the pandemic, some 588,114 are likely reinfections.There were 534 deaths – although this included a large backlog of numbers – and hospital patient numbers fell again.Topics
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