to justify any further regulations, and bearing in mind that we ve got a lot of information from very senior positions in south africa, where the omicron variant originated, they have added for four weeks already, and what we should be expecting is what we are finding fewer hospitalisations, more transmissibility, people going to hospital, staying in hospitalfar to hospital, staying in hospital far less than under the delta variant, and thankfully far fewer deaths. andrew bridgen conservative mp. we can take you through the figures we have for scotland, because we do have the latest covid infection figures for scotland, a record number of cases recorded over the christmas break. on christmas day, 8252 cases were reported, 11,030 confirmed yesterday, thatis 11,030 confirmed yesterday, that is boxing day, sunday. that is the highest ever number of covid cases recorded in
out in the new year? ads, when are we likely to see that play out in the new year? when are we likely to see that play out in the new year? a good rule of thumb is that out in the new year? a good rule of thumb is that it out in the new year? a good rule of thumb is that it generally out in the new year? a good rule of thumb is that it generally takes - thumb is that it generally takes around ten days from an infection to when you see it coming up in the hospitalfigures. we heard in the report, it takes about a month until you start to see, sadly and brutally, in the death figures. there is a lag. we are starting to see probably now in the infection figures and test figures people who would have been infected over christmas. in this wave in the uk of 0micron, up to christmas most of the infections were taking place in the younger groups. not really school age children, but people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. 0ver age children, but people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. over the cosmos
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