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FILE - Family members write a message to two sisters who died of COVID on the National Covid Memorial wall in London, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Latest figures from Britain's statistics agency show the prevalence of COVID-19 in the U.K. has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week. Some 4.9 million people were estimated to have the virus in the week ending March 26, up from 4.3 million recorded in the previous week, the Office for National Statistics said Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
FILE - Family members of those who died of COVID walk past the National Covid Memorial wall in London, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Latest figures from Britain's statistics agency show the prevalence of COVID-19 in the U.K. has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week. Some 4.9 million people were estimated to have the virus in the week ending March 26, up from 4.3 million recorded in the previous week, the Office for National Statistics said Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
FILE - Family members write a message to two sisters who died of COVID on the National Covid Memorial wall in London, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Latest figures from Britain's statistics agency show the prevalence of COVID-19 in the U.K. has reached record levels, with about 1 in 13 people estimated to be infected with the virus in the past week. Some 4.9 million people were estimated to have the virus in the week ending March 26, up from 4.3 million recorded in the previous week, the Office for National Statistics said Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

According to the latest figures from Britain's official statistics agency, about 1 in 13 people in the U.K. have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus in the past week.

The number of people believed to have the coronaviruses in the week ending March 26 was up from the previous week, according to the Office for National Statistics. The dominant variant across the U.K. is the transmissible omicron variant BA.2.

The number of people dying with COVID-19 is still relatively low compared with earlier this year. According to the latest estimates, the steep climb in new infections since late February, when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson scrapped all remaining coronaviruses restrictions in England, has continued well into March.

On the same day the government ended free rapid COVID-19 tests for most people in England, the figures came. People who do not have health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the virus now need to pay for tests to find out if they are.

The government's strategy of living with COVID is nothing more than ignoring this virus going forwards.

The protection afforded by our vaccines is at risk because of the prevalence.

In the U.K., more than 70% of people 12 years old and above have had a booster dose of the vaccine. Parents in England can book a vaccine for their children between the ages of 5 and 12.

Most people in the country are likely to be affected by the BA.2 variant by the summer, according to a biology professor at the University of Oxford.

He said that this is literally living with the virus.

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