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"During those first lockdowns, we saw numbers of other infections fall. "We are mixing in a way that we haven't been mixing over the past 18 months. She told the BBC: "We've actually been seeing a rise in the number of coughs and colds and viral infections. It has been expected for some time that this winter would see an increase in colds and flu due to the fact that people are socialising largely without any restrictions for the first time since March, 2020.ĭr Philippa Kaye, a GP based in London, said numbers have already been as high as you'd see in a normal winter. The illness has been described as the 'worst lurgy ever' and is leaving people with a sandpaper throat, chesty cough and runny nose that's reportedly tough to shift. Reports of a terrible cold have swept across the country.