Variant 0micron News Today

wimbledon quarter—final. but heather watson has been knocked out. some breaking news. danish police say several people have been hit, after shots were fired at a shopping centre in the capital copenhagen. dozens of heavily armed officers have been deployed to the fields mall in the east of the city. all roads there and the metro line linking it to the centre is have been closed, and ambulance and fire crews have arrived at the site. the shopping centre is close to a music venue where...

is halted on the first lap after a huge crash — fortunately no one is seriously injured. these wonderful wimbledon champions! and wimbledon serves up its sunday best — as champions past and present celebrate 100 years of centre court. good afternoon. borisjohnson is facing fresh questions about how much he knew when he appointed chris pincher as deputy chief whip in february after a series of fresh allegations about his behaviour emerged. the tamworth mp resigned from the governmen...

Half a million in a week. 0ur health editor hugh pym gave more detail on dame jennys comments. she is acknowledging that there is another wave at a moment and that it is not finished and she is saying if you look at the numbers, she didnt give a timeframe on this, but it could well be more in hospital with covid than there were back in march. that was the previous peak, around 16,500, currently around 9000 in hospital now, so it is warning it could be higher because it is fuelled by these new va...

With ten others. now on bbc news, its time for panorama. tonight on panorama, hospitals under pressure as the impact of winter and covid bite. so the priority for the a&e team this evening will be making sure they are, keeping patients on the ambulances safe. the worry for us is the ones who havent been seen yet the latest variant 0micron is still sweeping the uk jc: do you think it was 0micron that caused this. ? maria: i — my feeling is yes. coz ive been fullyjabbed. i think what would i hav...

Despite that high figure the latest evidence from several studies suggests that fewer people are having to go to hospital with the new variant 0micron. but experts say they need more evidence before they can be certain. during the day the health secretary sajid javid announced that the quarantine period in england for people who test positive self isolation in england is to be cut from ten to seven days from today. the condition is that two negative lateral flow tests needed. people will need tw...

People can snog whoever they like and it is none of the government was like business. i would like to emphasise it is there choice of vocabulary, not ours, but this isnt some kind of game of snot, attend or avoid, there is a serious point here because we are living as yet with an unknown level of threat from this new variant 0micron and because of that the government have been tightening up restrictions and are urging people to be cautious, but they are not yet at the stage where they are not ye...