that is most important to them, and that therefore means in practice it is sensible for people to cut down on work or other interactions with people including potentially social ones which are less important to them so that they reduce their chances of catching covid and indeed reduce the chance of passing it on. getting boosterjabs into as many arms as possible remains the government s main tactic for tackling the new wave. this vaccination centre in kent has seen the number being delivered increased fourfold. the prime minister denied there was any confusion between the message from health experts and ministers. there s a lot of 0micron around be careful, exercise caution if you want to avoid isolation, getting unwell over christmas. implement plan b but get boosted now is the fastest route back to normality because the booster does give you an excellent level of protection. in scotland, it s expected that 0micron will be the dominant strain
we are not closing things down, we are not asking people to cancel things. what we are saying is that people will understandably not want to catch covid in the next few days, or ever, and the sensible thing to do is to get boosted now and exercise caution. that s what we are saying. and the queen is leading by example, cancelling a pre christmas lunch for extended family, due to take place at windsor castle. fergus walsh, bbc news. health officials say, on average, one person with the 0micron variant is now spreading it to between three and five other people. the uk s latest covid figures show there were 88,376 new cases in the latest 24 hour period. the average over the past week is now more than 63,000 new cases every day. the number of people in hospital
two years. keep doing those and try and have as much space between individual and have as much space between individual people as you can possibly individual people as you can possibly manage any space you are working possibly manage any space you are working on possibly manage any space you are working on. that is my best advice, i working on. that is my best advice, i am working on. that is my best advice, i am afraid working on. that is my best advice, i am afraid- i am afraid. ok, i am ust going to add in i am afraid. ok, i am ust going to add in one more i i am afraid. ok, i amjust going to add in one more question, - i am afraid. ok, i amjust going to add in one more question, which l add in one more question, which quite a few people have mentioned to me recently and this is around, if you have had your booster, your primary vaccines and your booster, and yes had probably been dealt a variant of covid, does that give you added protection against omicron? yes, it s
300,000 co2 monitors in england going out to schools, but if you decide that between early years schools and colleges, you might be talking about a handful for a secondary school, so some schools are moving them around from one classroom to another. if they go over the certain level, the only solution is to open the windows and of course we are in the middle of winter, it is freezing and also energy bills for schools are also going up. energy bills for schools are also auoin u. energy bills for schools are also auoin u -. ., ~ energy bills for schools are also moinu ., energy bills for schools are also uu-oinu. ., , . going up. ok, thank you very much for that, branwen going up. ok, thank you very much for that, branwen jeffreys, - going up. ok, thank you very much for that, branwen jeffreys, our i forthat, branwenjeffreys, our education editor. the time is almost 3pm. let s ta ke take a look at the weather stabbed in a house. a lot of missed and merck, as we head for this evening a
those people will either have covid symptoms themselves or will have potentially tested positive using a lateral flow and had then gone to get a pcr confirm test. so those people are high risk. then also with the booster roll out, we havejust heard there were these record numbers of people getting boosted this week this weekend we are going to see vaccine roll outs at large venues like stamford bridge, so a lot is really down to those venues making sure that they have adequate crowd control, that there is spacing. we have seen lots of people, i myself had to queue in the rain on monday for my booster, which at the time is not fun, but it is definitely safer if you re going to be outside and you are spaced. then if you are moved inside again you want well ventilated spaces and lots of room between people. yes, and then i think the other thing is to be thinking about, particularly when you are going to both, really, is wearing a face covering, all the other things we have talked about, h