Health 長，指導者s 問題／発行する 警報 over new Covid variant 'FLiRT' 広範囲にわたる the UK

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A new Covid variant 広範囲にわたる both the UK and the US has 誘発するd an 警報 from health 長，指導者s.

UK Health 安全 機関 (UKHSA) bosses 収容する／認める they don't know if the 突然変異するd 緊張する is more 感染性の or deadlier.

Yet 最高の，を越す scientists remain 確信して that the darkest days of the pandemic-時代 are consigned to history.?

The new variant, 愛称d FLiRT, is now 存在 監視するd. It makes up around 30 per cent of new 事例／患者s 現在／一般に.?

FLiRT also accounts for 概略で a ４半期/4分の1 of new 事例／患者s in the US, 監視 data 示唆するs.?

UK Health 安全 機関 (UKHSA) bosses 収容する／認める they don't know if the 突然変異するd 緊張する is more 感染性の or deadlier.?The new variant, 愛称d FLiRT, is now 存在 監視するd. It makes up around 30 per ce nt of new 事例／患者s 現在／一般に

It comes as Covid 事例／患者s continue to slowly 増加する across the UK, after 感染 率s dwindled over the spring. Virologists are using the 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 FLiRT to 述べる a family of different variants ― KP.2, KP.3, JN.1.7, JN.1.1, and KP.1.1?

ONS data on Covid 感染s today shows more than 80 per cent of Brits 苦しむ a runny nose when 感染させるd. A loss of taste or smell ― one of the 初めの tell-tale 調印するs of the ウイルス ― accounts for just under a fifth of all symptoms logged

It comes as Covid 事例／患者s continue to slowly 増加する across the UK, after 感染 率s dwindled over the spring.?

Virologists are using the 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 FLiRT to 述べる a family of different variants ― KP.2, KP.3, JN.1.7, JN.1.1, and KP.1.1.

They are all 子孫s of the JN.1 variant that has been 支配的な in the UK for the past few months. That itself was dubbed Juno.??

All appear to have 独立して 選ぶd up the same 始める，決める of 突然変異s on the spike protein, which the ウイルス uses to attach to humans and take 持つ／拘留する.?

Some 突然変異s make it easier for the ウイルス to 感染させる the nose and throat compared to other 広まる variants.

The UKHSA said: 'When a new variant appears on our レーダ, at the 初期の 行う／開催する／段階s it is often やめる difficult to know whether the 突然変異s 供給する any advantages to the ウイルス.?

'Genetic 突然変異s happen all the time, and in some 事例／患者s have been known to make a ウイルス いっそう少なく transmissible or 原因（となる） a milder reaction in people.'

大臣s have 繰り返して said that they won't 訴える手段／行楽地 to 課すing lockdowns unless a doomsday variant.

A 塀で囲む of 免疫 の中で the 全住民 ― built up by repeated waves of 感染 and ワクチン rollouts ― has given 公式の／役人s 信用／信任 to consign pandemic-時代 対策 to history.?

Spikes in Covid 事例／患者s can still 原因（となる） 集まり illness across the country, 誘発するing 大混乱 in schools, the health service and public 輸送（する）.

最新の?UK Health 安全 機関 (UKHSA) data shows there were 1,985 Covid 事例／患者s logged in the week ending May 7, up 25 per cent on the previous seven days.?

Yet this only 反映するs the fraction of society still 実験（する）ing and submitting results.?

Once the worst of the pandemic blew over, 公式の／役人s binned the 集まり 実験（する）ing 計画／陰謀s.??

'Positivity 率s' ? considered one of the best ways of 跡をつけるing an 突発／発生's size ?also?rose to 8.6 per cent in the week ending May 5, an 増加する on the 6.8 per cent logged in the previous week.?

公式の／役人s no longer 跡をつける the prevalence of the ウイルス in the same way they used to, as part of the 政府's 勧めるing in of pre-Covid normalities.

Dr Mary Ramsay, the UKHSA's director of public health programmes, last week said: 'Once again, Covid 事例／患者s and hospitalisations have risen this week, so now is the time to get your spring ワクチン if you’re 適格の and 港／避難所’t already.

'If you have symptoms of Covid or flu try to stay at home as it helps 保護する others, 特に those who are more 攻撃を受けやすい to these ウイルスs.?

'If you are unable to stay at home when unwell, consider wearing a mask.'

によれば the US university John Hopkins, FLiRT doesn't appear to have any new 明確な／細部 symptoms.

The period of infectiousness also remains the same as JN.1 and previous Omicron variants, the 会・原則 追加するd.?

There is 現在／一般に no 証拠 that FLiRT is any more of a 脅し than the dozens of 緊張するs that have come before it.?

によれば the CDC, there is no 推論する／理由 to believe it would also 原因（となる） more 厳しい illness than other 緊張するs.?

専門家s have long said Covid is 'on the way' to becoming seasonal, even 結局 becoming just another 原因（となる） of the ありふれた 冷淡な.

Other coronaviruses known to 感染させる humans typically 原因（となる） 穏やかな symptoms.

Health 公式の／役人s, however, still advise people?with respiratory symptoms to 限界 their 接触する wit h 攻撃を受けやすい groups, such as the 年輩の, 妊娠している women and those with underlying 条件s, over 恐れるs they could get 本気で unwell if 感染させるd.