Omicron Wave Accelerates News Today

Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the number of new covid infections across the uk hasjumped again to a new record — more than 88 thousand cases in the past 2a hours — 10 thousand more than yesterday. as the omicron wave accelerates, the uks chief medical adviser, professor chris whitty, told mps that he expects the peak to come "incredibly fast"— but subside more quickly than previous variants — because of the boosterjabs. more than 745,000 people had their booster yester...