Prognosis

U.K. Reports Most New Coronavirus Cases Since Start of February

Residents wait to be inoculated at a mass vaccination event at the London Stadium in London, U.K., on June 19.

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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A surge in cases of the delta variant continued to push the U.K.’s coronavirus infection numbers to levels not seen since the winter, even with most of the adult population now fully vaccinated.

With more than 60 percent of adults in the country having received two shots, there’s growing optimism among experts that the vaccine roll-out has broken the link between cases and deaths.