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EXCL: Health bosses have launched a £50,000 probe to uncover why NHS staff arent getting Covid and flu jabs in a project that will cover the North West, West Midlands, and London.

Hospital admissions are also rising sharply - up a fifth in a week - sparking concerns that the UK is on the brink of another wave just as the country heads into the autumn when the NHS gets busier.

UKHSA advisers admitted they are spooked by Pirolas catalogue of mutations. Britain has already detected a case of the highly-evolved variant, joining the likes of Israel, Denmark and the US.

Dubbed "Pirola" by variant trackers, the strain is different enough from other Omicron to potentially warrant a Greek letter from the WHO, experts say.

Not much is known about BA.2.86, which was first spotted by virus trackers earlier this week and has already been detected in four countries.

EXCLUSIVE: Nearly 600 districts reported clusters in the week to August 12, up from just 270 two weeks earlier. Hospital admissions are also rising sharply.

Not much is known about BA.2.86, which was first spotted by virus trackers earlier this week and has already been detected in four countries.

Another new Omicron variant has got scientists talking. Although the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency in May, the virus is still widespread - and mutating. While the EG.5 and EG.5.1 now makes up one in seven cases in the UK, a new heavily-mutated version of Omicron could be another cause for concern.

A new Covid 19 lineage is being monitored by global health officials due to its large number of mutations that could make it tougher to prevent and tr...

BA.2.86 appears to descend from the BA.2 variant that emerged in early 2022.