highly contagious variants, both delta and omicron infections are climbing fast just as the holidays are approaching. cnn s nick watt has the story for you. reporter: covid-19 cases and hospitalizations climbed around 40% this past month. deaths, says the cdc, forecast to rise in the month ahead. the delta variant still rampant. omicron on the rise. it s here now, and it s spreading, and it s going to increase. for unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death if you re unvaccinated. for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they ll soon overwhelm. very soon, it s going to be the dominant variant. we ve seen that in south africa. we re seeing it in the uk. and i m absolutely certain that s what we re going to be seeing here relatively soon. reporter: for the vaccines, this variant is now the most complete escapee, say researchers in a new pre-print
many were over 12, none of them were vaccinated. none of their family members. no one was vaccinated. we talk about boosting, but we need to make sure even if you get two doses of an mrna vaccine, i think that s highly likely to protect you against severe illness. while booster shots are playing a central role in european efforts really to slow the omicron variant, moderna is expected to deliver 10 million doses to germany as supplies were running short. here in london, a source tells cnn queen elizabeth has canceled a pre-christmas lunch because of the surge in covid cases. the uk has recorded more than 88,000 new infections in the past day. that is yet another record. scotland is telling people to stay home as much as possible. in france, is saying visitors arriving from the uk will need to have a compelling reason to travel. it s frurging its own residentso postpone trips to the uk. and denmark s prime minister is warning of new restrictions to slow the spread of omicron.
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the government meets with parliament today to really discuss its recommendations. cnn s salma abdelaziz is standing by. but first i want to go to eleni giokos. good morning. we painted a picture that s beginning to look a lot like last christmas for much of europe. talk us through the measures that are being taken to try and stem the rise of omicron as well as the spread of delta and the challenges, eleni, the governments are facing. reporter: i mean it s fair to say that what s happening in the uk is almost a harbinger of what s to come in various parts of europe. let s focus on germany, for example, that says it s only a matter of time before the omicron variant becomes the main variant in that country. while its seven-day incidence rate has dropped, they still reported 51,000 positive cases in the last 24 hours, and they re running out of vaccines. they ve now procured over 92
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