June 3, 2021

expert reaction to the latest national influenza and COVID-19 surveillance report from PHE: 3 June 2021

Public Health England (PHE) has published its latest weekly national influenza and COVID-19 surveillance report. 

Dr Simon Clarke, Associate Professor in Cellular Microbiology at the University of Reading, said:

“The latest statistics show that while rates of infection are once again rising in the young, the link to infection rates in more vulnerable older people seems to be broken. This would seem to add to existing evidence that vaccines are working at stopping the spread of Covid-19. However, there are still millions of younger adults and children who are unvaccinated. The fact that around half of all outbreaks in England were linked to schools or other education settings shows just how quickly the virus can spread in unvaccinated populations, despite the continued presence of measures to restrict transmission within schools.”

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports

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