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At six, a new record number of covid cases in the uk. more than 88,000 have been recorded in the past 2a hours. the queues forjabs continue. almost three quarters of a million people had their boosters yesterday, a record number. hospital admissions are rising slowly but in london where cases are rising the fastest hospital staff are feeling the pressure. most of the patients who are coming into us are unvaccinated patients. they are a lot younger than the patients that we had in the first and second surge. the 0micron wave has prompted france to shut its borders to most british travellers fro...

Offer, the chance to book your booster before the end of the year but it is inevitable that some appointments will be injanuary, but the ambition will be to do the vast majority of those in the coming days. that's important because having your booster cuts your risk of getting infected with 0micron by 70% whereas two doses really doesn't protect you, likely, protect you from getting infected with 0micron, but either two or three doses of vaccine should give very significant protection against severe disease. it is uncertain what the 0micron wave is going to do. it is going to lead to a huge nu...

And as new data comes in, we will consider what action we do require to take in the face of that data. this is the last news people wanted to hear in the run—up to christmas. we face an anxious wait before we knowjust how big and how serious the 0micron wave will be. fergus walsh, bbc news. the new german chancellor, 0laf scholz, has been on a whirlwind tour of europe, calling for european unity to tackle a range of challenges, including the pandemic and tensions with russia. he travelled first to paris to speak with french president emmanuel macron, where he promised to work together to str...