During a summer packed with events and festivals, new Covid variants have hit the UK. There are concerns about an uptick in coronavirus cases, following a recent rise in people being admitted to hospital with Covid.
It comes as three new variants have been reported in the UK. Officials say they they were responsible for 40 per cent of all Covid cases in April, while infections have been on the rise since.
The variants are known as KP.1.1, KP.2 and KP.3. Together, they are part of the FLiRT group of variants. These variants are considered to be more aggressive, and have already been sweeping across the United States. READ MORE: Convicted child killer Lucy Letby GUILTY of attempting to murder baby girl Dr Steven Furr, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, told NBC News: "Every week, we test someone for Covid who I didn’t think had it who tests positive.
Then we have others who I’m pretty sure have Covid who test negative... it’s really hard to separate Covid from any other respiratory illness right now." In the UK, Covid cases are also on the rise.