As winter approaches in Europe, Covid cases are on the rise again - fifteen countries reporting infection increases over two consecutive weeks, at the last count.
That’s the first sustained rise seen across the region since the wave of the most recent variant - BA.5.
But this season always brings another infectious threat with it - the flu…Could these now combine to unleash what people are already calling a winter Twindemic?
Guests:
Jeremy Brown
Professor of Respiratory Infection at University College London
Rebecca Wallersteiner
Health Journalist
Edoardo Colzani
Group Leader Coronavirus and Influenza at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control