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For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Credit: AP Photo\/Matt Dunham, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe.jpg\" alt=\"Living with COVID: Experts divided on UK plan as cases soar\" title=\"Workers walk over London Bridge towards the City of London financial district during the morning rush hour, in London, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Credit: AP Photo\/Matt Dunham, File\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Workers walk over London Bridge towards the City of London financial district during the morning rush hour, in London, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Credit: AP Photo\/Matt Dunham, File<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over.\n                                                <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                Mask requirements have been dropped. Free mass testing is a thing of the past. And for the first time since spring 2020, people can go abroad for holidays without ordering tests or filling out lengthy forms.<\/p>\n<p>That sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared  in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible omicron BA.2 variant that&#8217;s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in the U.K. may portend what lies ahead for other countries as they ease coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>France and Germany have seen similar spikes in infections in recent weeks, and the number of hospitalizations in the U.K. and France has again climbed\u2014though the number of deaths per day remains well below levels seen earlier in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S.,  more and more Americans are testing at home, so official case numbers are likely a vast undercount. The roster of those newly infected include actors and politicians, who are tested regularly. Cabinet members, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Broadway actors and the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut have all tested positive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"A woman wearing face mask, walks in front of an open Parisian cafe, in Paris, France, Monday, March 14, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. France and Germany have seen similar big spikes in infections in recent weeks, and the number of hospitalizations in the U.K. and France have climbed again. Credit: AP Photo\/Francois Mori, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-1.jpg\" alt=\"Living with COVID: Experts divided on UK plan as cases soar\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                A woman wearing face mask, walks in front of an open Parisian cafe, in Paris, France, Monday, March 14, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. France and Germany have seen similar big spikes in infections in recent weeks, and the number of hospitalizations in the U.K. and France have climbed again. Credit: AP Photo\/Francois Mori, File<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Britain stands out in Europe because it ditched all mitigation policies in February, including mandatory self-isolation for those infected. Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s conservative government is determined to stick to its &#8220;living with COVID&#8221; plan, but experts disagree on whether the country is coping well.<\/p>\n<p>Some scientists argue it&#8217;s the right time to accept that &#8220;living with COVID&#8221; means tolerating a certain level of disruption and deaths, much like we do for seasonal flu. Others believe that Britain&#8217;s government lifted restrictions too quickly and too soon. They warned that deaths and hospital admissions could keep rising because more people over 55\u2014those who are most likely to get seriously ill from COVID-19\u2014are now getting infected despite high levels of vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals are again under strain, both from patients with the virus and huge numbers of staff off sick, said National Health Service medical director Stephen Powis.<br \/>\n                                            <!-- Google middle Adsense block --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blinding ourselves to this level of harm does not constitute living with a virus infection\u2014quite the opposite,&#8221; said Stephen Griffin, a professor in medicine at the University of Leeds. &#8220;Without sufficient vaccination, ventilation, masking, isolation and testing, we will continue to &#8216;live with&#8217; disruption, disease and sadly, death, as a result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-2.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"A shopper wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks out of a Marks and Spencer store on Oxford Street, in London, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Credit: AP Photo\/Matt Dunham, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-2.jpg\" alt=\"Living with COVID: Experts divided on UK plan as cases soar\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                A shopper wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks out of a Marks and Spencer store on Oxford Street, in London, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Credit: AP Photo\/Matt Dunham, File<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Others, like Paul Hunter, a medicine professor at the University of East Anglia, are more supportive of the government&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still not at the point where (COVID-19) is going to be least harmful \u2026 but we&#8217;re over the worst,&#8221; he said. Once a high vaccination rate is achieved there is little value in maintaining restrictions such as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> distancing because &#8220;they never ultimately prevent infections, only delay them,&#8221; he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s official statistics agency estimated that almost 5 million U.K. residents, or 1 in 13, had the virus in late March, the most it had reported. Separately, the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/235377\/16-infected-with-coronavirus-react-study\/\">REACT study<\/a> from London&#8217;s Imperial College said its data showed that the country&#8217;s infection levels in March were 40% higher than the first omicron peak in January.<\/p>\n<p>Infection rates are so high that airlines had to cancel flights  during the busy two-week Easter break because too many workers were calling in sick.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-3.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"A doctor injects vaccination against the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease to a man as other people line up for their vaccination inside the Sage Beach Bar and Restaurant in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. France and Germany have seen similar big spikes in infections in recent weeks, and the number of hospitalizations in the U.K. and France have climbed again. Credit: AP Photo\/Markus Schreiber, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-3.jpg\" alt=\"Living with COVID: Experts divided on UK plan as cases soar\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                A doctor injects vaccination against the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease to a man as other people line up for their vaccination inside the Sage Beach Bar and Restaurant in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. France and Germany have seen similar big spikes in infections in recent weeks, and the number of hospitalizations in the U.K. and France have climbed again. Credit: AP Photo\/Markus Schreiber, File<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>France and Germany have seen similar surges as restrictions eased in most European countries. More than 100,000 people in France were testing positive every day despite a sharp dropoff in testing, and the number of virus patients in intensive care rose 22% over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s government, keen to encourage voter turnout in April elections, is not talking about any new restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, infection levels have drifted down from a recent peak. But Health Minister Karl Lauterbach backed off a decision to end mandatory self-isolation for infected people just two days after it was announced. He said the plan would send a &#8220;completely wrong&#8221; signal that &#8220;either the pandemic is over or the virus has become significantly more harmless than was assumed in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., outbreaks at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University are bringing back mask requirements to those campuses as officials seek out quarantine space.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"article-gallery js-article-gallery\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-4.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past a health campaign poster from the One NGO, in an underpass leading to Westminster underground train station, in London, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Credit: AP Photo\/Matt Dunham, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-4.jpg\" alt=\"Living with COVID: Experts divided on UK plan as cases soar\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-low-up text-truncate mt-3\">\n                    A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past a health campaign poster from the One NGO, in an underpass leading to Westminster underground train station, in London, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Credit: AP Photo\/Matt Dunham, File<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-5.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-5.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Nurse Marie-Laure Satta caresses her face during a pause in her New Year's Eve shift in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. France and Germany have seen similar big spikes in infections in recent weeks, and the number of hospitalizations in the U.K. and France have climbed again. Credit: AP Photo\/Daniel Cole, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-5.jpg\" alt=\"Living with COVID: Experts divided on UK plan as cases soar\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-low-up text-truncate mt-3\">\n                    Nurse Marie-Laure Satta caresses her face during a pause in her New Year&#8217;s Eve shift in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. France and Germany have seen similar big spikes in infections in recent weeks, and the number of hospitalizations in the U.K. and France have climbed again. Credit: AP Photo\/Daniel Cole, File<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-6.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-6.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"People queue for coronavirus booster jabs at St Thomas' Hospital, in London, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Credit: AP Photo\/Matt Dunham, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/living-with-covid-expe-6.jpg\" alt=\"Living with COVID: Experts divided on UK plan as cases soar\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-low-up text-truncate mt-3\">\n                    People queue for coronavirus booster jabs at St Thomas&#8217; Hospital, in London, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. Mask requirements have been dropped everywhere and free mass testing is a thing of the past. The sense of freedom is widespread even as infections soared to record levels in Britain in March, driven by the milder but more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant that\u2019s rapidly spreading around Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere. Credit: AP Photo\/Matt Dunham, File<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Across Europe, only Spain and Switzerland have joined the U.K. in lifting self-isolation requirements for at least some infected people.<\/p>\n<p>But many European countries have eased mass testing, which will make it much harder to know how prevalent the virus is. Britain stopped distributing free rapid home tests this month.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Tang, a flu virologist at the University of Leicester, said that while it&#8217;s important to have a surveillance program to monitor for new variants and update the vaccine, countries cope with flu without mandatory restrictions or mass testing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eventually, COVID-19 will settle down to become more endemic and seasonal, like flu,&#8221; Tang said. &#8220;Living with COVID, to me, should mimic living with flu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cambridge University virologist Ravindra Gupta is more cautious. Mortality rates for COVID-19 are still far higher than seasonal flu and the virus causes more severe disease, he warned. He would have preferred &#8220;more gentle easing of restrictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no reason to believe that a new variant would not be more transmissible or severe,&#8221; he added.\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                                                                        UK hits record COVID-19 levels; nearly 5 million infected\n                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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For many in the U.K., the pandemic may as well be over. 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