northern ireland, the numbers of omicron here are far behind what you are seeing in london at the moment. but nevertheless the welsh government does expect by boxing day omicron numbers could be in the thousands. at any moment they have not reached 1000. they are predicting that will rise quickly and are putting the measures in force so that after christmas there are measures to mitigate that so that they can relieve the pressure is just as the other devolved governments. —— pressures on the nhs. they are trying to put these measures in place to ease the pressure on the nhs, so more people can get vaccinated and hopefully there will be fewer admissions to hospital with people who have covid. chris in belfast, chris page and tomos morgan.