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Will fill those gaps. at the moment, were seeing mostly groups of around 50, and some of the biggest we have are around 100 for this christmas. we have seen some bigger ones previously. but im not sure if its a case of splitting down to departments and coming in smaller groups or them not having the party in the first place. the government havent changed any of the rules around meeting in big groups. its up to individual companies to decide whether or not they want to go ahead. but some firms ar...

Not having the party in the first place. the government havent changed any of the rules around meeting in big groups. its up to individual companies to decide whether or not they want to go ahead. but some firms are taking small steps to try and mitigate that risk, making people do lateral flow tests, perhaps meeting in smaller groups, in better—ventilated venues just to try and make everyone feel more comfortable. i think it is scary with the masks coming back in, but i dont think it should a...

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Jason leitch in scotland, the national clinical director there, again, dont change your plans, get lateralflow again, dont change your plans, get lateral flow tests, and again, dont change your plans, get lateralflow tests, and he again, dont change your plans, get lateral flow tests, and he added again, dont change your plans, get lateralflow tests, and he added it also might be an idea for your gathering to ask people are vaccinated, so still a message about caution, at least until we know mor...

Scope more rapidly than had been planned is going to involve, as we have been hearing, a huge effort in the uk nations, but its something which at least ministers, health officials, nhs staff, volunteers, pharmacists and other vaccinated can do something about. what they cant really influence is how quickly we learn more about the new variant. it had been thought that might take three weeks or more, but the who has said today that we could get more information about how transmissible it is withi...

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To work over holiday periods and christmas. and if we have to have some inconvenience for ourselves in order to make sure we do ourjobs properly for our constituents, the people that pay us to represent them, then i think thats absolutely fine. , ., ~ pcr tests and self—isolation are back for travellers arriving in the uk. weeks after international travel rules were eased to allow faster lateral flow tests, the government has tightened restrictions once again in response to the spread of the 0...

Thank you forjoining us. i will start with ourfirst thank you forjoining us. i will start with our first question which comes from gareth. can the lateral flow tests detect the map variant? that is a good question. we think the answer to that question is yes. there has been some work that has been done today looking at whether or not there lateral flow will detect the omicron virus. this will be over the next few days but its looking like the letter of protest will work which is good news. so we...

With me isjonathan ball, professor of virology at the university of nottingham, and paul hunter, professor of medicine at the university of east anglia. thank you both not only for doing this but also being willing to put your knowledge against the questions as it were. lets kick straight off all across omicron and the impact of it. paul, claire asked do the current lateral flow tests pick up the new omicron variant? it appears that they d0- — the new omicron variant? it appears that they do. ...

A relatively recent change to move away from pcr testing to lateral flow testing. lateral flow tests are cheaper but the disadvantage is they cannot be sequenced to be able to identify the variant. they were originally phased out a month or so ago. because the suggestion was with no variants of concern that we knew were circulating there was not necessarily a need to be able to identify it. some epidemiologists said that this was too early, obviously the point of having these pcr tests on entry ...