Overview
- The UK Health Security Agency shared a checklist on X on Tuesday with the message, "Feeling under the weather? Help stop infections from spreading with this checklist for you and your family."
- The five steps are to wash hands regularly, cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue, stay home when unwell, ventilate indoor spaces by opening windows, and consider wearing a mask when going out.
- Flu, Covid, the common cold and RSV are circulating more widely during the autumn and winter period, with overlapping symptoms and differing severity risks.
- Government data show Covid cases up 1.9% in the week to October 8, deaths rising from 87 to 100 in the week to October 3, and hospital admissions increasing from 1,894 to 2,077 in the week to September 30.
- The public-health reminder urges families to use simple, low-cost precautions over the coming weeks and months to reduce transmission.