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Late last night i was contacted by the uk health security agency. i was informed they have detected two cases of this new variant in the united kingdom, one in chelmsford, the other in nottingham. the two individuals concerned are self isolating alongside their household while further tests and sequencing is carried out and contact tracing. the two cases are linked. we have always been clear that we wont hesitate to take further action if that is what is required and today i can announce one thi...

This is bbc news. the headlines at four: the government says two cases of omicron, a new variant of covid—19, have been discovered in the uk, amid fears it has a higher re—infection risk. the two individuals concerned are self isolating alongside their whole household whilst further tests and sequencing is carried out and contact tracing. the two cases are linked. two men are killed by falling trees as storm arwen hits parts of the uk with high winds, rain and snow. one of the 27 people who ...

Whether it just kind of glances over us we dont know. the biggest question for me, do the current vaccines actually protect against this particular variant? the science suggests to me that it should. we know when people get vaccines, it is more than just whats in the vaccine, theres a wide variety of variants that are protected, even more than we see after a natural infection. for those people that had covid before and said im not going to bother with a vaccine, you still need to get the vaccine...

This is bbc news. the headlines at four: the government says two cases of omicron, a new variant of covid—19, have been discovered in the uk, amid fears it has a higher re—infection risk. the two individuals concerned are self isolating alongside their whole household whilst further tests and sequencing is carried out and contact tracing. the two cases are linked. two men are killed by falling trees as storm arwen hits parts of the uk with high winds, rain and snow. one of the 27 people who ...

The variant into the database. its one thing to ramp up testing in genomic surveillance. its another thing to share it rapidly and transparently and we need to do muchmore of that global sharing. >> yeah. the world health organization were grateful, 118 or 116, genomic sequences. does that mean different variants or different examples? >> there are 118 different genomic sequences of omicron. many of those coming from south africa and some of them coming from botswana and you have one from belgiu...

Seen some wet weather, particularly across scotland, northern and eastern england as we start the day tomorrow. still some of these showers running along this north sea coast and for northern ireland a cloudier day, some patchy rain is possible here and an area of rain, sleet and some snow pushing out of scotland into parts of northern england as we go on through the day. either side of that youll get to see some sunshine. these are your average wind speeds. there will be higher gusts, but overa...

The health secretary, sajid javid, has been speaking to reporters in the past hour. the two individuals concerned are self isolating alongside their whole household while further tests and sequencing is carried out. the two cases are linked. we have always been clear that we wont hesitate to take further action if that is what is required and today i can announce one thing that we are doing immediately is carrying out targeted testing and sequencing of positive cases in the two areas that are af...

Short time ago, saying that they have a high probability that a travel alert from south africa will test positive for this variant. though they still have to do the full sequencing. a lot is not known about this variant and theres a lot scientists are concerned about. in a world fatigued with waves of covid-19, now renewed fear. in south africa, scientists identifying the troubling new variant of the virus. that is dominating infections here. >> the variant is of serious concern which is this no...

More risk of reinfection even if you have been double jabbed. some of these measures have been brought in because we have seen with alpha and delta, variants are very hard to contain. omicron has already been confirmed in six countries and the chances are we will see more reported in the coming days and weeks. and ministers hope that these tactics will help provide some time for scientists to do research in their labs and gather real—world data about how this variant works. and while it looks ...

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