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Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in England, the country is also experiencing a surge in reinfections. Provisional data shows that, as of the week ending March 20, 2022, laboratory-confirmed reinfections -- two positive tests taken more than 90 days apart -- have surpassed 50,000 per week in England, 10.7% of all cases, according to a weekly report from the U.K. Health Security Agency published Thursday. This is a jump from the less than 20,000 weekly reinfections recorded during the last week of February in England. The weekly rate is inc...

Experts said reinfections in England are rising due to the spread of the BA.2 variant, waning immunity and the relaxing of COVID-19 mitigation measures.

JCVI formally advises another booster shot in spring for groups deemed most at risk from virus

Pfizer boss Dr Albert Bourla said he thought a fourth jab would be needed a year after the third based on the previous variants in circulation, but Omicron's emergence means we 'may need it faster'.

Pfizer announced today that three doses of its vaccine provide a 'more robust' defence against the Omicron variant, which was first identified in South Africa last month.