Covid-19 surges in winter just like flu does, DoH confirms - a second wave would have been "very difficult to avoid" this winter
Submitting... A very quiet Belfast city centre pictured only four weeks before Christmas. Photo Pacemaker Press The News Letter then put it to the Department of Health that Covid-19 follows a seasonal pattern just like flu and that this appears to be supported by much lower death rates along the equator, where it is typically hot all year round. The Department of Health (DoH) confirmed to the News Letter that it had taken all these facts into account in setting policy. Asked if a second wave of some description was therefore ‘absolutely inevitable’ with the onset of winter in NI, she affi...
Source: newsletter.co.uk