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Variant, _ variance, starting with the wuhan variant, the — variance, starting with the wuhan variant, the alpha variant, the delta — variant, the alpha variant, the delta variant, how it works. you start _ delta variant, how it works. you start seeing a rise in cases, people -et start seeing a rise in cases, people get ill, _ start seeing a rise in cases, people get ill, some enter hospital, some, sadly. _ get ill, some enter hospital, some, sadly. die. — get ill, some enter hospital, som...

Vaccinated, 97% of them we are testing antibodies. 50 vaccinated, 97% of them we are testing antibodies.— testing antibodies. so you are seeinu testing antibodies. so you are seeing then — testing antibodies. so you are seeing then the _ testing antibodies. so you are seeing then the picture - testing antibodies. so you are seeing then the picture has i testing antibodies. so you are - seeing then the picture has changed. is it difficult then to unpick whether this variant is less strong, ca...

Severe illness and hospitalisation, you said it is one tenth of what it was before, can you put some figures on that, what that looks like when you are looking at a spread in the population? you are looking at a spread in the p°pulati°"-’_ population? sure. he dealt it variant is— population? sure. he dealt it variant is an _ population? sure. he dealt it variant is an example - population? sure. he dealt it variant is an example during | population? sure. he dealt it. variant is an exampl...

Impact. his critics would say it is also a way of evading scrutiny, because if you dont do a press conference then you dont get questions from journalists, if you dont do a statement in parliament, you dont get questions from hostile mps, sometimes they have been on the prime ministers own site. the reason they are going big on the poster campaign is because scientific data tells them that they need to. that is how the health secretary, sajid javid, explained this morning. we have seen what covi...

Excess of 100,000 per day, given the low rate of testing. relative to what is done in the uk. the uk certainly will reach1 what is done in the uk. the uk certainly will reach 1 million cases of omicron by december, because of the amount of testing you do, that does not necessarily translate into additional hospitalisations and deaths, compared with what occurred with the delta variant.— with the delta variant. thank you very much _ with the delta variant. thank you very much for— with the de...

Moment in england because of omicron?— moment in england because of omicron? ~ ., �* ., ., ., ., omicron? we dont have that granular data. we omicron? we dont have that granular data- we do — omicron? we dont have that granular data. we do know— omicron? we dont have that granular data. we do know how _ omicron? we dont have that granular data. we do know how many - omicron? we dont have that granular data. we do know how many people i omicron? we dont have that granular. data. we do kno...

Hope that all parts of the scottish government will be delivering the same message about the 0micron variant. same message about the omicron variant. , ., , same message about the omicron variant. , . , ,, ., same message about the omicron variant. , ,, ., ., variant. james shaw in glasgow, thank yom _ the latest coronavirus figures for the uk show there were nearly 51,000 new infections recorded in the latest 24—hour period, bringing the average number of cases reported per day in the past se...

On average in the past week, 122 covid—related deaths were recorded every day. the number of new omicron cases has almost doubled in a day, with 249 recorded in the past 24 hours. it means more than 800 have now been identified in the uk. 0ur medical wditor, fergus walsh, reports. last christmas, the alpha variant put huge pressure on the nhs as it swept through a largely unvaccinated population. so, what will omicron do? within a couple of weeks, suspected omicron cases from pcr swabs have go...

The health— trade—off between on the one hand the health factors and on the other, the health factors and on the other, the economic and social factors, and yolrve _ the economic and social factors, and yolrve been — the economic and social factors, and youve been running stories in a sense _ youve been running stories in a sense quite rightly today about the fact that _ sense quite rightly today about the fact that this will have an impact on business as you have had restaurants and hospi...

Going to go through the rest of the country. were in for a terrible wave yet again. >> what about the news out of south africa that while omicron is spreading, it doesnt appear to be very serious? >> i think you have to be careful. in the early stages when we see a new variant, whether it was the original lineage out of central china, whether it was the alpha variant out of an unvaccinated population in the uk, delta out of an unvaccinated population in india, we heard lots of different things a...