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Report your results online so that test and protect can commence the contact tracing process and give you advice as quickly as possible. nicola sturgeon. vulnerable primary school children in northern ireland are expected to be offered a low—dose covid—19 vaccine in the coming weeks, in line with the rest of the uk. last month, the government's vaccine advisors said five to 11—year—olds with an underlying health condition — or who live with someone who is immunosuppressed — should receive two doses eight weeks apart. a decision on vaccinating all children in this age range has not ...

Where the number of people in hospital with covid but because of something else has more than doubled so far in december and now stands atjust over 400. the number of people in hospital because of covid has also risen: by 40% to nearly 1200. let's talk to the bbc�*s head of statistics robert cuffe. roberts, the government is advised by a group of scientists call sage and they've been saying that we could expect to see 1000 to 2000 people in hospital by the end of the 3000 people in hospital at a mccrum's peak but their models have been challenged and they are forever predicting doom and gloo...

In. they are assuming that any fall in a mccrum severity is just because more people were immune had been vaccinated in the past and know what we're seeing is that there is the hope it might even lower than that, we might not be heading to the doomsday scenarios and some of the models and the question is why that will balance out and as a result of the omicron wave public quite a substantial one and will see exactly where we got end up and we will see more information on that in the coming days. more information on that in the coming dam-— more information on that in the cominu da s. ., ., c...

Nightclubs will close for three weeks, while pubs, bars and other hospitality venues will return to table service only with one—metre social distancing and no more than three households in each group. let's look at london now, where the number of people in hospital with covid but because of something else, has more than doubled so far in december and now stands atjust over 400. meanwhile, sage has been advising the government that we should expect to see between i—2,000 people in hospital by the end of the year, and 3,000 in hospital at omicron�*s peak. bbc�*s head of statistics robert...

Or more, they didn't have those assumptions built in, and we were assuming that any fall in omicron severity was just because more people were immune or had been vaccinated in the past and now what we're saying is there is hope that the numbers might be even lower than that, that we might not be heading to the doomsday scenarios you can get if you look at the worst cases of the models, so the question is more about how they will balance out. we'll probably see an increase in people in the hospital as a result of the omicron wave, possibly quite a substantial one, and it is just getting into th...