New variant? No masks? Here's what experts say is driving the U.K.'s latest Covid surge.
restrictions. Covid-related hospitalizations and deaths were relatively low, even if cases continued to rise, and the country's vaccination rollout was largely lauded as a success internationally.
Experts said there are a range of factors driving Britain's current surge. As the pandemic nears the two-year mark, they are closely monitoring the country's response to rising cases and whether the U.K. is a warning sign for the rest of the world. "I think we paid a very high price for our reticence and delay in vaccinating secondary school children and lost probably a few months on that," he said.showed that 1 in 14 secondary school-age children had tested positive for Covid in the week ending Oct. 2.
Yet, even with the spread of the delta variant, he said the rollout of booster jabs in the U.K. has been slow, which could also be lending to high case rates in the U.K., despite nearly 80 percent of the population over the age of 12 having been fully vaccinated, according toDr. Deepti Gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist at Queen Mary University of London, said she also believed the rollout of the U.K.
"There is no other way to explain the differences in the pandemic globally," she said."And there's nothing special about the U.K. population making this happen. ... It's very, very clearly the consequence of policies here compared to the rest of the world."Toby Melville / Reuters
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