The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is encouraging people to consider wearing face masks, among other precautions, as a number of winter viruses are spreading across the country.
Health chiefs are particularly concerned about the levels of influenza, flu, after a mutation of the virus kick-started flu season more than a month early this year.
“We haven’t seen a virus like this for a while, these dynamics are unusual,” said Prof Nicola Lewis, the director of the World Influenza Centre at the Francis Crick Institute. She added: “It does concern me, absolutely. “I’m not panicking, but I am worried.”
In a new post on X, formerly Twitter, the UKHSA is urging people to “help stop common infections like flu from spreading” by taking a number of steps.
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