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Hello and welcome to bbc news. government scientists are warning of a possible "large wave" of covid—19 hospitalisations in england this autumn — but say the situation could be avoided by the early introduction of "light touch" restrictions. the sage committee says its modelling suggests hospital admissions could reach as many as 7,000 per day next month — the figure now is about 1,000. borisjohnson says his "plan a" is designed to prevent the nhs in england being overwhelmed — and if th...

Professor andrew hayward, from university college london, advises the governments sage committee. he told the bbc�*s andrew marr show that the uk faces a challenging period ahead. i think its now very clear that we will have a substantial third wave of infections. the really big question is how much that wave of infections will translate into hospitalisations. the fact we have 55% of the adult population double—vaccinated means that will be substantially less bad than it could have been but ...

This week for the under 0s 30s to get their first vaccine. with 27 million people now fully immunised, many of those will be wondering when legal restrictions on their freedoms to meet and travel will be lifted. and fergus is here now. how worried should we be about the news that this variant is 40% more transmissible? well, that assessment a few weeks ago from the sage committee said if it was 40% more transmissible, we could have a wave of summer hospitalisation, worse than in january. that wa...

Seven in 10 positive Covid cases in school children likely to be wrong Thousands of pupils and their families are having to isolate needlessly, and missing more days after months away from classrooms Seven in 10 positive coronavirus tests in school children are likely to be wrong, experts have warned, as they called on the Government to bring back confirmatory PCR testing.  Biostaticians are concerned that infections in the community are now so low, that false positives and negatives are vastl...

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