London ‘badly hit’ by Covid-like winter bug - Evening Standard

Research from INEOS Hygienics suggested hundreds of thousands of radical were disconnected enactment past week.

Over fractional of radical surveyed said they had felt “the astir sick they person ever been” with a wintertime bug. Many radical person reported feeling sick implicit the Christmas play and beyond with a bug with Covid-like symptoms, but they past tested antagonistic for the virus.

The probe recovered astir fractional [49%] of Londoners blasted themselves for falling sick this winter, with care-free socialising [36%], mediocre manus hygiene [29%], mediocre fare [25%] and excess intoxicant [18%] connected the tally up to and implicit the festive season.

In the week ending 7th January 2023, INEOS Hygienics witnessed a 43 percent uplift successful income crossed its manus hygiene products compared to the erstwhile week, highlighting that radical are progressively investing successful preventative wellness erstwhile again.

Fran Millar, the company’s CEO said: “Over 3 quarters [85%] of Londoners fearfulness falling sick again this winter. So, if handwashing fatigue has acceptable successful in your household, it’s worthy remembering that conscionable 30 seconds of it regularly tin assistance mitigate feeling nether the upwind for weeks.

“With reports of hospitalisations connected the emergence and accrued unit connected the NHS, we request to enactment rapidly to assistance support ourselves and the radical astir us.

“Keeping our hands cleanable and sanitised is 1 of the astir effectual routes we tin instrumentality to forestall getting sick and halt the dispersed of viruses and bacteria.”