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In people in contact with children, and it's now going to spread into older adults at much higher risk of severe disease. there are now calls for nhs workers to be prioritised for lateral flow tests to ease winter pressures. the government says the number of kits will triple by early next year after supply was recently described as patchy. some pharmacists for example didn't receive anything yesterday, so i have been asking around in terms of, like, if people have had their supply. some pharmacies received one box, some received two, but some received none. so, it's very patchy, it's inconsist...

Double the normal number of absences we would expect to see. secondly, the sheer numbers coming into hospital. you do expect at this time of year about 1000 admissions a day for all type of respiratory infections, but we are seeing double that for covid alone. some of those normal winter pressures are much lower, flu rates are much lower, we have fewer than 50 patients in hospital with the flu at the moment in england. what matters now is when these covid infection do peak, it will make a difference to just how bad the winter could be. official figures from the national office of statistics ab...

Forward to celebrating this new year's eve, it's a different story for nhs workers, with winter pressures intensifying, made worse by staff sickness. the staff that are at work will be caring for more patients, trying to do more to cover for their missing colleagues, working extra hours, starting early, finishing late. the pressure will be immense. staff absences are already leading to cancelled appointments and longer waiting times. now, new data shows more than 25,000 hospital staff in england were absent each day due to covid during the christmas week — a 42% increase on the previous seve...

Very rapidly indeed. i think what will probably happen is it will keep rising, but it will peak fairly soon, and our hope is that this lasts for more weeks rather than months. the most recent data shows how fast omicron has spread in the north west of england. just before christmas, an estimated 3.2% of the population in the region had coronavirus — around one in 30 people. by new year's eve, that number had more than doubled to 7.8% — one in 15. january is always a really tough month for the health service, but as well as the usual winter pressures, there are now a growing number of covid...

Of hospitalisation with the omicron variant of coronavirus is about one—third that of the delta variant. the data also showed that a booster jab reduced the risk of hospitalisation by 81% when compared to an unvaccinated person. we'll have more on all of this — first this report on the situation in the uk from our health correspondent anna collinson. while most of us are looking forward to celebrating this new year's eve, it's a different story for nhs workers, with winter pressures intensifying, made worse by staff sickness. the staff that are at work will be caring for more patients, try...