UK downgrades Covid-19 alert level amid falling cases
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Chief medical officers said the wave of Omicron variants was subsiding', although further surges are likely'
The UK's Covid-19 alert level has been downgraded to level 2, meaning the virus is in general circulation" but healthcare pressures and transmission are declining or stable".
The chief medical officers of the UK nations and the national medical director of the NHS in England have jointly recommended that the Covid alert level be moved down from level 3 amid falling cases. They said the Covid-19 wave of the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 was subsiding".
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