This is the Guardian.

Today, despite the vaccines and the hot weather,

COVID cases are surging, how the virus is reinventing itself and how to fight it.

Many people wonder if COVID-19 will ever go away entirely or is it here to stay?

Well, some new research shows coronavirus could evolve with this season, just like flu season.

Would this possibly become a seasonal cyclic thing?

And I've always indicated to you that I think it very well might.

This is the summer. It all came back. Festival, cinemas, holidays overseas.

When COVID was meant to disappear into the rearview mirror.

A normal life has come back.

But a year since Freedom Day, the dropping of all restrictions in the UK,

COVID is still here. It's everywhere.

COVID, it seems, doesn't care whether it's hot or cold.

We may be in the midst of a heat wave, but we're also in the middle of a new COVID wave.

COVID cases in the UK are continuing to surge with latest figures showing an increase of nearly 800,000 in the last week.

One in 16 people in Scotland were estimated to be...

I know about a dozen people who have the virus right now.

I'm wondering if I might have had it last week.

And Hannah Devlin, the Guardian Science correspondent, has just recovered from it.

You know, for me, I'm healthy, I've had all my jobs, and I'm pretty sure I've had COVID before.

Her vaccines and spending less time indoors with a hot weather didn't stop her getting infected.

I think that's one of the things that feels really strange. We're not really used to being ill with flu-like symptoms in July.

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