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service has been reinstated in hospitality settings where alcohol is served. table service has also resumed in hospitality venues across northern ireland. a record number of daily cases have been recorded in scotland, we will look at that data later in the hour. table service has also resumed in hospitality venues across northern ireland. no more than six people will be allowed to sit together. dancing is also prohibited, except at weddings. yesterday in wales, the rule of six was reinstated for people meeting in pubs, cinemas and restaurants. then, outside of the uk, new york city has become the first us city to require vaccines against covid for private sector workers. it s also compulsory for everyone aged 12 and above to be fully vaccinated in order to access indoor entertainment and sports activities.
body if you have had a vaccination. we know that sort of about 60% of the people who are in hospital are people who have not had any vaccine at all, so it isn t really the virus, it is the protection that your body has from having the two doses of the vaccine, potentially the boost it now, and a little bit of immunity from previous infection. not that any of that is going to last for a very long time, but it is going to give protection in the short term from very serious illness. but i would like to stress that 100,000 new cases a day is a lot of virus, a lot of cases, and even if a smaller proportion of those people will end up in hospital, that still could be a lot of people in absolute numbers who are in hospital and potentially very seriously ill in hospital, and also, you know, the number of deaths is still running at
they are not all omicron. a, those cases will be omicron, they are not all omicron. a lot to unpack they are not all omicron. a lot to unpack there, they are not all omicron. a lot to unpack there, so they are not all omicron. a lot to unpack there, so i- they are not all omicron. a lot to unpack there, so i take - they are not all omicron. a lot| to unpack there, so i take your point about the two variants, but in terms of the actual figures, you are making the point that lots of countries around the world are suffering similarly, but if we see 100,000 or so cases a day, and i think your phrase was, that is really quite high, we know that omicron, with your caveats about the two variants, omicron is a lot more transmissible. so is a lot more transmissible. so is that going to keep climbing, in your estimation? it is that going to keep climbing, in your estimation? in your estimation? it doesn t look as though in your estimation? it doesn t look as though that in your estima
new cases a day on average, thatis new cases a day on average, that is quite high numbers, and we have seen in countries all over the world over the weekend, posting record numbers of new cases. so this is mostly because of the omicron, but also last week, again, the uk health security agency sort of gave an analysis from the samples where they had actually done the detailed sequencing to see, was it omicron, was it delta and so on, and found out that probably 70% of the cases at the moment are omicron, which means about 30% of them are delta, so that 100,000, there are still a considerable number of delta cases, and we know that the delta variant of the virus is very infectious, but also very dangerous. so although people are looking at and thinking, well, most of those cases will be omicron,