U.S. likely to see COVID-19 surge in fall: expert

NEW YORK, April 8 (Xinhua) -- There will be an uptick in cases of COVID-19 over the next few weeks in the United States and it is likely there could be a surge in the fall, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said.

"I think...that over the next couple of weeks, we are going to see an uptick in cases - and hopefully there is enough background immunity so that we don't wind up with a lot of hospitalizations," a CNN report quoted Fauci as saying in a Bloomberg TV interview on Wednesday about the prospect of another wave of COVID-19 from BA.2 or another variant, given the level of immunity believed to exist in the country today.