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Effect of those infections, and the number of people having to self—isolate for seven days in england, ten days in other parts of the uk, the pressure that puts on public services, the absence rates in the health service. i dont expect to see any change in restrictions this side of the new year. businesses have been crying out for certainty, the government has been given that certainty, so the changes during the first week of january when parliament is sitting in any case. mil january when par...

People not, perhaps coming forward for a test because its christmas day, as well as the actual processing of the data and producing the results. normally into the beacon we say lets wait and see what happening by wednesday or so, so those numbers, so 100,000 new cases a day on average is quite high numbers, and we have seen in countries all over the world over the weekend posting record numbers of new cases. so this is mostly because of omicron, but also last week, again, uk health security agen...

Indian authorities are imposing a night—time curfew in delhi to try to contain a growing number of cases. the restriction will last for six hours each night. well visit all of those stories in a moment. first, lets start with the latest in the uk. heres our correspondent simonjones. after the christmas festivities, tough decisions. borisjohnson will be poring over the latest covid data to see if he thinks new measures are needed in england. though no new restrictions are expected to be announc...

That 100,000, there are still considerable numbers of delta cases, and we know that the delta variant of the virus is very infectious, but also very dangerous. doctor sarah pitt there from the university of brighton. well, the us has been seeing a spike in the number of covid cases —— and it has to led to president biden warning that some us hospitals could be "overrun" by covid. speaking during a virtual meeting with state governors, he said the us is generally well prepared to meet the sur...

To justify any further regulations, and bearing in mind that weve got a lot of information from very senior positions in south africa, where the omicron variant originated, they have added for four weeks already, and what we should be expecting is what we are finding — fewer hospitalisations, more transmissibility, people going to hospital, staying in hospitalfar to hospital, staying in hospital far less than under the delta variant, and thankfully far fewer deaths. andrew bridgen conservative...

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Service has been reinstated in hospitality settings where alcohol is served. table service has also resumed in hospitality venues across northern ireland. a record number of daily cases have been recorded in scotland, we will look at that data later in the hour. table service has also resumed in hospitality venues across northern ireland. no more than six people will be allowed to sit together. dancing is also prohibited, except at weddings. yesterday in wales, the rule of six was reinstated for...

Body — if you have had a vaccination. we know that sort of about 60% of the people who are in hospital are people who have not had any vaccine at all, so it isnt really the virus, it is the protection that your body has from having the two doses of the vaccine, potentially the boost it now, and a little bit of immunity from previous infection. not that any of that is going to last for a very long time, but it is going to give protection in the short term from very serious illness. but i would ...

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New cases a day on average, thatis new cases a day on average, that is quite high numbers, and we have seen in countries all over the world over the weekend, posting record numbers of new cases. so this is mostly because of the omicron, but also last week, again, the uk health security agency sort of gave an analysis from the samples where they had actually done the detailed sequencing to see, was it omicron, was it delta and so on, and found out that probably 70% of the cases at the moment are ...