BBCNEWS BBC News January 7, 2022 11:05:00
Previous week. around half of the absences down to covid, people infected are self isolating because of someone in their household. it is those kinds of pressures. we are noticing that london, obviously the kind of first place to see a big increasing omicron infections, the number of staff absences is either plateauing or starting to go down, so some news there. instead what you're seeing is a move north of england, following covid infections is the increase, so sheffield for example, the number of staff absences was 1625 on average last week due to covid, up by about 50%. the greater manchest...