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We are in a summer wave of Covid so if you have a cough or fever then the virus is a possible culprit.
Around 3,000 people in hospital are now testing positive for Covid - around twice the figure for early April .
We do not collect the same detailed data as during the peak of the pandemic, but the wave started to build around May .
Met Office says climate change has the potential to affect hay fever by increasing the pollen-season and the intensity of the pollen.
This is a long-term trend, but Prof Cruickshank says this could explain feeling “a little bit worse” this summer .
People are just a little bit more aware of sniffles and things that, maybe pre-Covid , they just got on with life.
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