The SARS-CoV-2 may be becoming just another respiratory bug, along with flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), rhinovirus and adenovirus, UK experts contended. With 2,257 cases being recorded daily, the UK is currently seeing a fresh rise in Covid-19 infections. The related-hospitalisation is also at a five-month high -- 3,366 patients, the UK Health Security Agency (HSA) report said.

Yet they are still far below levels seen during the pandemic. Covid is "well on the way" to becoming seasonal, Professor Paul Hunter, an infectious-diseases expert at the University of East Anglia was quoted as saying by the BBC. Prof Hunter said that flu is likely to cause more deaths from now on, while Covid will eventually become "just another cause of the common cold", like the other coronaviruses that circulate.