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Next Covid strain could kill many more, warn scientists ahead of England restrictions ending

Next Covid strain could kill many more, warn scientists ahead of England restrictions ending


Next Covid strain could kill many more, warn scientists ahead of England restrictions ending
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A future variant of Covid-19 could be much more dangerous and cause far higher numbers of deaths and cases of serious illness than Omicron, leading UK scientists have warned.

As a result, many of them say that caution needs to be taken in lifting the last Covid restrictions in England, as Boris Johnson plans to do next week.

The dangers posed by accepting the widespread assumption that Covid-19 variants would continue to get milder in their impact was highlighted by epidemiologist Prof Mark Woolhouse, of Edinburgh University.

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