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Back to life? What Covid has in store this autumn

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🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

As people return to work and school, and Covid numbers continue to rise, just how normal might this autumn be?

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-Jill Treanor, City Editor, The Sunday Times.

-Tom Calver, senior data journalist, The Times and The Sunday Times.

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0:00.0

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0:28.0

Capital at risk, the value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as

0:31.5

rise and are not guaranteed.

0:33.6

Investors may not get back the amount originally invested.

0:35.9

Diversification and asset allocation may not fully protect you from market risk.

0:47.1

Autumn, season of mist, smell of fruitfulness, and the government hopes, packed rush-out trains,

0:54.8

jammed commuter routes and rammed offices.

0:58.8

But is it going to happen?

1:00.5

This first week will give us a clear indication of what people are going to do and whether

1:05.0

it's sustained and whether or not it even grows, you know, whether the push to the office,

1:10.0

in fact, becomes a lure that you can't resist.

1:13.3

The broad mass of us, a double jab, the masks are mainly off, the kids are in school.

1:19.9

But the virus numbers are on the rise again.

1:23.0

The crystal ball is cloudy.

1:25.2

A lot of what we see over the next few months could be down to people's behaviour and whether

1:29.8

we do end up shifting those habits that we formed over the past year and a half.

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