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Fears about another Covid crisis are overblown, leading experts insisted today amid doomsday warnings that the NHS might be crippled by the impending wave.
Virus cases and hospitalisations are already on the rise, causing health chiefs to raise the alarm that Covid is 'still a danger' and that the winter will be be 'extremely busy' for an already overstretched health service.
However, experts today explained the new wave was inevitable and is unlikely to spook ministers into pandemic-era curbs because the disease is milder now than during the darkest days of the crisis.
Cases are ticking up because of waning immunity against infection, as well as the seasonal move into the colder months, which sees Covid, the flu and colds take off as millions of youngsters return to classrooms and people socialise more indoors.
Professor
Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, told
MailOnline hospitalisations will be 'nowhere near' as bad as levels seen
last winter, when rates fizzled out naturally without collapsing the
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