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Being fuelled by the more infectious 0micron variant. so across all age groups, we are seeing increases, but particularly driven by those young age groups, we've seen increases among school—age children fairly recently, particularly from nursery through to primary. but we are now seeing infections among older age groups as well, so young adults from the mid—20s to the mid—30s, but spreading right the way up to increases now in the over 70s, although they remain the lowest group to be infected. there's some more encouraging news on boosters. new uk data suggests a booster shot is 88% effe...

Recently, particularly from nursery through to primary. but we are now seeing infections among older age groups as well, so young adults from the mid—20s to the mid—30s, but spreading right the way up to increases now in the over 70s, although they remain the lowest group to be infected. there's more encouraging news on boosters. new uk data suggests a booster shot is 88% effective at preventing people ending up in hospital due to 0micron. and after a huge push, all uk nations say they've hit the target of offering all adults a third dose by the end of the year. i would just say to people ...

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In a week in london. one in 15 would test positive. but there were big rises too in the north—west, yorkshire and the humber and west midlands, and other regions weren't far behind. and it is now the dominant variant. statisticians say infections are twice the level they were this time last winter in england because they're being fuelled by the more infectious 0micron variant. so across all age groups, we are seeing increases, but particularly driven by those young age groups. we've seen increases among school—age children fairly recently, particularly those sort of from nursery through to...

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