Page 3 - 0micron Wave News Today

Case rates are rising. with the obvious risk this will continue to increase the pressure is on nhs. so increase the pressure is on nhs. so in response to the latest data, the cabinet agreed we should stick with plan b for another three weeks with a further review before the regulations expire on the 26 of january. people in england should carry on working from home whenever they can, wear face coverings on public transport and in most indoor public transport and in most indoor public places and ...

We had a lot lower levels of a year ago, and you have this combination that is putting the hospitals all around this country on the brink of overflowing. so, yeah, we are vaccinated throughout the older population, we have some immunity from prior infection, but all that is raised by the fact that we are taking care of so many other patients and the extravagant contagion of this variant means it finds everybody. so right now providing the top care that we are able to do becomes more and more dif...

Even though the 0micron wave is not yet over, ministers are clearly thinking about what happens next and how we live in covid in the years to come. dominic hughes — bbc news. joining me now is craig beaumont from the federation of small businesses. good afternoon. nadhim zahawi is making the point that reducing isolation could help with staff absenteeism, so is it something that your members would welcome? it absenteeism, so is it something that your members would welcome? it would be. it has ...

Damian, china notwithstanding, is 2022 looking like the year we are going to learn to live with covid? it might be very early to say that, actually, im sorry to start the new year off on a low note. what we are seeing in the uk at the minute is this sort of lowered tiers of restrictions at the minute, which were brought in just before christmas for this 0micron wave, this highly transmissible variant, and the government here is resisting going further than that. partly, ithink, because, ideologi...

Continuing to infect large numbers of people in scotland, across the uk and in many other countries around the world. hospital admissions and overall hospital occupancy also remains high. however notwithstanding the very real challenges covid continues to present the evidence i set out last week suggesting that the situation was beginning to improve has significantly strengthened over the past seven days for topic combination booster vaccinations, the willingness of the public to adapt their beh...

268 deaths were announced every day. 0n vaccinations, just over 36,750,000 people have now had a boosterjab, which means that nearly 64% of people aged 12 and over have now had three vaccine doses. the first minister of wales, mark drakeford, has said he believes the peak of the 0micron wave has passed. his comments came as there were more easing of covid restrictions in wales today, as well as in northern ireland. in a moment, well hearfrom emma vardy in belfast, but first, heres tomos morgan i...

Testing regime and the self—isolation rules. because cases of coronavirus are so high in the community at the moment, we no longer need routinely to take a follow—up pcr test after a positive lateral flow test result. 0ur wales correspondent, hywel griffith, has been telling us the latest update has thrown up some suprises. perhaps what many people were expecting was a suggestion that there be no changes for at least two weeks while many thought that we might be approaching the peak of the 0...

National statistics, which monitors wider infection levels in the population, because after all the daily statistics are just about the people coming forward for tests, the ons people coming forward for tests, the 0ns data shows infection rates are dropping as others that we have seen hospital admissions starting to plateau last week. they are now dropping, although albeit not quite in every region in england. but really, it looks like hospital admissions have peaked over all at just over 2000 a...

Latest figures? everyone wanting to know if 0micron has leaked are not. probably not quite peaked yet. but there are certainly some hopeful signs. we are still seeing... they did rise by a little bit less in the week to the 6th of january. that is not the case in the latest figures. similar pictures in scotland, wales and england. they are still rising there. within england, you are seeing a pattern of rises in some places, particularly in the north of england, and london, which is always led th...

Yuzhou, in the central province of henan, a city of 1.1 million people, has been locked down. three people there are infected. damian, china notwithstanding, is 2022 looking like the year we are going to learn to live with covid? it might be very early to say that, actually, im sorry to say and start the new year off on a low note. what we are seeing in the uk at the minute is this sort of lowered tiers of restrictions at the minute, which were brought in just before christmas for this 0micron w...