Euro 2024 could be behind summer Covid wave, leading scientist says

Euro 2024 could be behind the summer Covid wave, a leading scientist has suggested. Experts have previously warned a summer wave is “building” as hospital admissions increased by a quarter within a week. Cases are anecdotally high amid a surge in a “Flirt” variant known as KP.3, although a lack of testing has made it hard to confirm. Prof Mark Woolhouse, an infectious disease epidemiology expert at the University of Edinburgh and former adviser to the Government on Covid-19, said …