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vicki, thank you. young, from westminster. a key factor ministers will be considering is how well the nhs might cope should rising infection rates lead to greater demands for hospital care. there are fears that staff shortages may also hit the nhs as people are forced to isolate with covid. here s our health editor hugh pym. the nhs is braced for a wave of hospital cases in the weeks ahead. but they don t know how big that will be. what they do know is that covid is already taking its toll in the shape of higher staff absences. the nhs employers group told me that staff sickness is a particular problem in london. members are reported to us a really dramatic increase in levels of absence over these last ten days. three were four times more people off sick now compared to ten days ago. the fear is that we see the same pattern of absence replicated across the country. even if omicron generates a

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