BBCNEWS BBC News at Ten December 13, 2021 22:16:00
There were 7,372 people in hospital being treated for coronavirus. 38 deaths were recorded — that's of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid test. on average in the past week, 119 covid—related deaths were recorded every day. over the past week, on average 425,869 people have had a booster vaccination every day. and more than 23.5 million people in total have now had a boosterjab. the omicron variant of coronavirus was first identified in south africa around three weeks ago. doctors there say early indications are that while hospitalisations are rising so far, the number of de...