As temperatures begin to fall away following a heatwave earlier in the month, eyes turn towards what could be a difficult winter for the NHS with a new highly mutated Covid variant and the flu
Health chiefs have offered their top tips to help people avoid the twindemic of a new Covid variant and the flu, as the UK becomes the global centre of the Pirola outbreak.
The UK Health Security Agency has released some additional help, as temperatures begin to plunge and the country faces another tough winter for the NHS. Recent weeks have seen concern resurface over Covid as a highly mutated new variant, BA.2.86 nicknamed Pirola, appeared in the country already moving by community transmission, leading to the Autumn booster programme being brought forward.
Alongside that, every winter, growing flu cases puts extra pressure on an already struggling NHS. So ahead of the chillier weather, the UKHSA has released a number of their top tips to help reduce the spread of the twindemic of Covid and flu.
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