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More than three point five million people in the u.k. Had corona virus last week. In england, that meant one in 15 people were infected. We now know that omicron is milder than previous variante. So how many of us are getting re infected? And if even with boosters, we can still cove in 19 what does that mean for isolation and our other public health measures? i would say we have a good chance of getting through the omicron wave without the need for for further restrictions. From the guardian.

On Wednesday, 194,747 daily confirmed Covid cases were reported for the whole of the UK. But this doesn’t include all the people who have caught the virus for the second, or even third time. In fact, official figures for England, Scotland and Northern Ireland don’t include those who have had Covid before, despite warnings from scientists that up to 15% of Omicron cases could be reinfections. Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s science editor Ian Sample about why reinfections are so high for Omicron, what these cases could tell us, and how it could affect public health measures in the future. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod