Professor Peter Openshaw, who sits on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) today said that Brits are lucky that coronavirus wasn’t this infectious when cases started to climb at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
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He told BBC Breakfast: “Omicron is so infectious.
“We’re lucky really that it wasn’t this infectious when it first moved into human-to-human transmission.
“We’ve had several iterations of this virus going through different stages of its evolution.
“It has ended up being so infectious that it almost needs just a whiff of infected breath and you could get infected.
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