In a week or so, thereis going to be a discussion about what restrictions will remain in place. Could this potentially have any effect on how numbers increase or decrease over the next week's a months? If behaviour does go back to much more mixing, then of course, you do have the potential for further spread. So that's omicron. But could we get another variant coming after omicron? Even worse? We are going through the greek alphabet, and so what could we potentially expect from new variants?
The coronavirus variant has spread across the UK at incredible speed – but there are signs that the wave may have reached its peak. Madeleine Finlay talks to the Guardian science correspondent Nicola Davis about what we can expect in the weeks and months to come, and whether a second ‘exit wave’ could be here in the summer. Help support our independent journalism at
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