that can happen inside people s homes. greece, italy and austria really looking at closing down the hospitality sector on new year s eve to prevent people from being out late. the united kingdom is bucking the trend. it has not announced any new year s eve restrictions. it has avoided restrictions seen elsewhere, instead focusing on the idea we heard, creating emergency hubs outside of hospitals. sort of dealing with the consequence rather than trying as elsewhere to prevent the spread. special tents will be set outside of eight hospitals. so fast do they expect the hospitalizations to rise as a result of the spread of omicron. here in france we re not far behind that, with the entire continent right now looking at these record rises. what the health ministry says is you can expect the health care systems in the next few weeks to come under severe strain and even face potential difficulties coping, given how fast this omicron variant is spreading.