UK: COVID disrupts public life again, but symptoms ‘less sev

The number of people hospitalised with COVID-19 in England, which accounts for more
than 80 percent of the UK’s total population, has doubled in less than two weeks, rising to
more than 14,000 – lower than the peak of 34,000 patients recorded last winter.

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But the UK’s soaring caseload has disrupted public life, with staff across a range of
industries self-isolating, some train operators cancelling services and schools facing
teacher shortages as term restarts in England.
Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands, reporting from London, said up to one million Britons were
absent from work as they were “sick with COVID-19 or self-isolating”