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Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: most countries probably have 0micron cases and it's spreading faster than previous variants. the world health organization warns the world to prepare. evenif even if 0micron does cause less severe disease, the sheer number of cases could, once again, overwhelm unprepared health systems. noes to the left, 126. wow, cosh. in the uk, dozens of the prime minister's own mps vote against

Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines: most countries probably have omicron cases and it's spreading faster than previous variants. the world health organization warns the world to prepare. evenif even if omicron does cause less severe disease, the sheer number of cases could, once again, overwhelm unprepared health systems. noes to the left, 126. wow, cosh. in the uk, dozens of the prime minister's own mps vote against

Like so many others around the uk to fire up the booster programme. it's a big ask for the nhs at a time of intensifying winter pressures. and the welsh health minister says help will be sought across local communities. we recognise that the workforce is absolutely exhausted, which is why we are really making sure that the net is really cast much wider this time to make sure that we can ask those volunteers to come back in. the minister said firefighters and military personnel could be deployed, but gps in wales have warned it'll need big vaccination centres to be set up again rather than rely...

Of intensifying winter pressures. and the welsh health minister says help will be sought across local communities. we recognise that the workforce is absolutely exhausted, which is why we are really making sure that the net is really cast much wider this time to make sure that we can ask those volunteers to come back in. the minister said firefighters and military personnel could be deployed, but gps in wales have warned it'll need big vaccination centres to be set up again rather than relying on their practices. where gps have the time and aren't exhausted and wish to contribute as they did i...

Contribute as they did initially, then they could help with the centres, but at the moment, from a general practice point of view within our own infrastructure, we really are under the cosh. this pharmacist in hull, like others, is increasing opening hours to offer boosterjabs seven days a week, just some of the range of health workers expected to deliver the booster plan. now we are asking them to do a lot more through the step up in the national vaccination programme. i know that they are up to it, but we want to make sure they are provided with all the support that's needed, this includes t...