RE: NEW COVID VARIANT COMBINATION DELTA AND OMICRON12 Mar 2022 00:54
Starknight.
I would render the "r" numbers in England to be almost meaningless at the moment due to the lack/change in direction of testing both in self testing and in clinical settings.
Even amongst all of the ukraine news you get snippets of covid news - scotland having highest hospital admissions in 13 months and suspected 1 in 18 of the population infected,Isle of man seeing rises and Royal Cornwall hospital stopping visitors due to increased rates.
The new hybrid variant is most likely covered by the CX300,although we still don't know of its proof of concept via an RNS route.