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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 s...

London. 5—6% of people are estimated to have coronavirus at the moment, thats 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...

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 om...

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 par...

In the last couple of weeks. so, yeah, we are going to see a patient numbers. again, i dont 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, a...

Figures actually mean. the 0ns figures tell a story, we have been kind of hearing the case for some days, but really help us to understand just how spreadable omicron is. you read the case number is there, they dont include the reinfection. the reason it is spreading so quickly is because it can evade some immunity that infection creates. so those case figures are probably a bit of an underestimate. the figures that came back from the 0ns earlier today said 1.7 million people in the uk are infec...

Data and what we have already seen in south africa is that because certain characteristics of omicron including the fact that it may have a shorter period of time over which someone becomes infectious, that may lead to a much faster and steeper peak, but a shorter wave overall and perhaps even a peak at lower levels than we might have feared. thats promising knees, as is as you have alluded to their is a smaller percentage on cases where we require hospitalisations as we are seeing with other va...

In bradford, an area where vaccine hesitancy has been higher than the rest of the country so they are trying to make the process as easy as possible. we are creating access where our communities are. a restaurant is the best place for this time of year, to come and bring the vaccines to make it as easy and as accessible as we can. the latest estimate by the office for national statistics is that by last sunday more than 1.7 million people in the uk were infected with the virus, around one in 35....

Typically we are seeing omicron largely in young people and its onlyjust now the cases are starting to tip into the older population, particularly in the 60 and 70 plus —year—olds. there are a number of different reasons why we need to continue to look at this data further. even if the virus causes less severe illness in most people, it is so contagious, hundreds of thousands are likely to catch it, including health service workers, raising concerns about a staffing crisis. some have already...

A two an immune response specifically against omicron it should give you decent protection. of should give you decent protection. of course, theres still a lot of delta are circulating as well. the outer immunity doesnt give great protection against omicron. some people seem to be taking it read, mistakenly, that omicron will give you protection against delta. i think that is unlikely. let mejust let me just recap those daily figure just announced by the government. 122,000 is the daily new case...