BBCNEWS Dateline London January 16, 2022 02:41:00
With boosters and first and second doses in some countries really not being available to anything like the majority of the population or they have not been jabbed so far. i think with omicron which has emerged in southern africa as you say, the evidence there from south africa is that it caused quite a sharp spike and the hospitalisations but then it receded quite quickly and people have looked at that and said, well, it's not quite as bad as delta and of course south africa has a younger population and there are different factors, but the evidence from the uk