Health secretary Sajid Javid sent shockwaves through parliament on Monday when he revealed that an estimated 200,000 people in the UK had been infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant that day.
If Omicron infections continue to double every 2.5 days, as current estimates suggest, there will be a million people infected this coming Sunday alone.
Why are Omicron infection estimates so much higher than confirmed cases?
On Monday, when the UK Health Security Agency estimated around 200,000 new Omicron infections occurred, there were 59,610 confirmed cases of Covid-19, of which around 37,000 are estimated to have been Omicron. The daily caseload was the fifth highest recorded during the pandemic.
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