Covid-19 cases are once more on the rise in the US, but this time there is little impetus for new restrictions or funding to help combat them.
The number of daily new cases in the US has increased by 14 per cent since the beginning of April, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, reaching about 32,000 cases a day. The rise is being fuelled by the BA.2 variant, which has caused surges in Europe over the past few weeks.
Unlike in other waves, however, the US policy response has so far been muted, with Congress still wrangling over $10bn in extra pandemic spending and mask mandates largely abandoned.
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