The reasons why you may have dodged Covid

You may know one. You may be one of them - the lucky few who have never had Covid despite not being vaccinated. Now we are more than two years into the pandemic, these people could give us greater insight into how to combat the virus and other pandemics in future.

With this in mind, a doctor has put together a list of reasons why some people have seemingly managed to walk between the raindrops and avoid catching Covid. The virus has claimed millions of victims but left many untouched.

Coronavirus first hit the UK at the start of 2020 and is still with us today. But unlike two years ago, it is now regarded as being mainly under control, thanks to the vaccine programme. So far, the virus has killed more than 180,000 people and infected 22.7 million people in the UK.

Using current Government data, seven in 10 people (70 per cent) in England have had Covid - which means 30 per cent of the English population have never caught the virus.

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Or have they? What that actually means is that 30 per cent of English people have never tested positive for Covid. However, the virus is on the rise again with 21,412 new cases reported on June 28.

That is still a huge drop compared to January of this year when there were 179,000 new cases every day. Scientists are now turning to the question of why some people have, seemingly, never had Covid. Several international studies are under way to find the magic spell that helps people dodge the virus.

According to a report in BirminghamLive, Dr Tara Hurst, a lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at Birmingham City University, who is studying this area, contracted Covid herself last autumn and said