is what the government said that mr campaign will be enormously his fall, but probably not to adjust the infections were seen around the christmas period and how many people the current wave of omicron puts into hospital and the pressures on the health surface generally. robert cuff they had the health surface generally. robert cuff they had with the health surface generally. robert cuff they had with the the health surface generally. robert cuff they had with the statistics - the health surface generally. robert cuff they had with the statistics we | cuff they had with the statistics we have been telling you about, thank you for that. at least 39 people have been killed after a packed ferry caught fire in southern bangladesh. at the time, the ferry was near the town othalakati. it had sailed from the capital, dhaka, and was bound for the southern town of barguna with hundreds of passengers on board. bbc s akbar hossein reports from dhaka. the fire is believed to have started in
london. 5 6% of people are estimated to have coronavirus at the moment, that s a huge number. that puts two pressures on hospitals. firstly, an increase in the numbers of people going into hospitalfor whatever, but they have coronavirus, and that put some pressure on them because both you could spread out in the hospitals. secondly, we are also seeing an increase in the number of people who get sick and end up in hospital. even though we have got great data, great news in the last few days that omicron is less severe, it still does put people in hospital. in london we are still seeing an increase in the number of people going into hospital because of coronavirus. it is just exactly how much less of your omicron is that tells us how long it is going to take and what will be the pressure on the health system before you get to that herd immunity threshold, where nine people have had it that it is spreading down
and boosterjabs are available, including on christmas day and boxing day. people are so keen to come in. there was a big rush at the beginning of the week, it slowed down a little bit but in fact people are really positive about having theirjabs. people in scotland, wales and northern ireland are being encouraged to get a jab to with vaccination centres closed over christmas until the 27th. even as the push on boosters continue, experts are mulling over the latest more hopeful research on the omicron variant, indicating it could be less severe than delta. potentially this is good news, if omicron really is less nasty, and it is certainly shaping up to look less nasty, that s fantastic, what better christmas present could we have? but at the moment the data is small, mainly across the younger population so we are holding our breath. it is a cautious welcome, still some big unknowns, particularly how older people might be affected.
at the last 24 hours. the committee figure for the last seven days, there have been 810 deaths lets talk to the bbc s head of statistics, robert carr. interesting to hear from statistics, robert carr. interesting to hearfrom doctor clark statistics, robert carr. interesting to hear from doctor clark learned about these figures and how they are rising quite significantly in the last week. what do you see particular from the ons today? the ons particular from the ons today? iie: ons figures particular from the ons today? tie: ons figures tell particular from the ons today? ti2 ons figures tell a story that we have been hearing about cases for some days, but really help us to understand just how spreadable omicron is. you read out case numbers there, they are at levels we haven t seen before. they do not include the reinfections. those case
in the last couple of weeks. so, yeah, we are going to see a patient numbers. again, i don t think we will see the peak we saw last week. those numbers will continue to go up at the same time the number of people available to care for them well perhaps come down slightly. on a more positive note and taking what you said earlier, having to look at this in a regional sense, the figures for london in the 0ns survey today, one in 20 people on december the 19th having it, and presumably for days on, and it s even worse than that at the moment. does that mean that actually there will be a peak in london before the rest of the country and that will come reasonably quickly? i willjust say one thing, there, that figure of one and 20 was actually an average for that whole, and if you look at the most recent data for the 19th itself it was one in ten, so omicron really has been incredibly widespread in london. you are right, what we have seen both in the uk data and what we have already seen in s