Covid is back. Why?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Covid cases are surging in the UK, and more people over 70 are testing positive than at any time in the pandemic. What’s going on? We speak to one of the key members of SAGE, the government’s expert advisory committee.
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Guest: John Edmunds, professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and member of the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
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| 0:40.0 | For the first time since 2019, spring has sprung, |
| 0:45.0 | and there are no COVID restrictions to accompany it. |
| 0:48.0 | No limits on how many people we meet or where we choose to meet them. |
| 0:53.0 | Last month, the requirement to isolate ended. |
| 0:57.0 | Masks were pulled off, and in England, some people claimed the pandemic was all but over. |
| 1:05.0 | After two of the darkest, grimaced years in our peacetime history, |
| 1:08.0 | this is a moment of pride for our nation. |
| 1:12.0 | Free testing will stop from next month. |
| 1:15.0 | Sage, the Committee of Scientists who've guided the government through the pandemic, |
| 1:20.0 | won't be meeting regularly anymore. |
| 1:23.0 | We're told that as a country, we're now learning to live with COVID. |
| 1:28.0 | But COVID suddenly seems to be everywhere. |
| 1:33.0 | Cases are on the rise again. |
| 1:35.0 | Cases and hospitalizations ticking higher in Europe and the UK. |
| 1:39.0 | More than three and a quarter million people in the UK had COVID in the weekend in March the 12th. |
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