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Of those, when you get those, can get sent away for sequencing so you get sent away for sequencing so you get more information regarding the virus itself, so that sort of information may potentially be lost. but only a subset of those pcr tests are set way for sequencing anyway. so hopefully we will not be losing the levels of information we already have in this country which enables us to identify variants and so forth that we have been doing through the pandemic. that we have been doing through the andemic. , ., ., ., ., pandemic. does that mean that we are now rel inc pandemic. does that me...

Point, what they have advised us is we should vaccinate the u12s that are at risk and that is exactly what we plan to do and we plan to start that this month. but they are keeping it under review to see if we should expand that more broadly to everyone in that cohort. thank you, christina. i believe next is michelle from lincolnshire. please can ou michelle from lincolnshire. please can you exolain — michelle from lincolnshire. please can you explain why _ michelle from lincolnshire. please can you explain why the _ michelle from lincolnshire. please can you explain why the self - can you ex...

About 1t% of staff were off work due to covid at nhs trusts in england in the week up to the 16th of january. that is about 35,500 staff off each day on average, down about 22% over the course of the week. now, there were about 9% of staff off for any reason, down slightly. but it is still about double what you would expect in a normal winter. clearly, staff absences are still high and putting pressure on. they have been falling across english regions. in the north west and the midlands, still highest, accounting for about 6%. in london it is down to 2%. slowly easing but still pressures in di...

Any of the covid tests we're already using will still work. >> people should not take from "stealth" that means we can't detect it. all of our pcr tests that we know of and antigen tests are just as able to detect ba.2 as they are to detect omicron. >> reporter: this subvariant is apeerg just as 40 u.s. states and territories are seeing the number of new covid cases drop or level off. but tonight, there are still 17 states reporting an increase in covid hospitalizations. a new study underlines the b benefit of a booster shot. it shows for the average person, that booster shot increases protect...

Tests in, however data for the past 13 days, taking account of both pcr and lateral flow tests shows a significant fall in the number of new positive cases and to put some detail on that, on sunday, monday and tuesday of last week, 36,526 new positive cases were recorded through pcr and lateral flow tests, this week over sunday, monday and today, tuesday, 20,268 cases have been reported, so quite a significant drop and if we look atjust at pcr tests, although i would ask everybody to bear in mind the limitations now in doing so, we have seen cases fall from an average of almost 13,000 per day ...