New Covid variant Juno surges as expert warns school return will fuel more cases
A new and particularly immune-evasive coronavirus variant is reponsible for the majority of new cases in England, data suggests, as experts warned the return to school will fuel more infections.
The JN.1 variant – named “Juno” – was responsible for 62 per cent of the Covid samples sequenced in the final week of 2023, a new report by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) revealed on Thursday.
At least three have been in a bid to tackle growing winter pressures following the – as new figures showed the average number of patients in hospital with Covid grew last week from an average of 3,751 to 4,046 patients a day.
