routing care and all but urgent operations have been postponed. dutch ministers are meeting health advisers on saturday after they recommended that the country go into a strict lockdown. lucy grey, bbc news. scientists advising the uk government on coronavirus say more stringent restrictions will need to be implemented very soon in england if ministers want to prevent hospital admissions reaching 3000 per day. the comments are included in leaked minutes from a meeting of the scientific advisory group for emergencies, or sage. the government s cobra committee will meet this weekend, to discuss the spread of the omicron variant. professor neil ferguson who sits on the group told bbc radio 4 that the situation looks precarious the epidemic of omicron is in london, very obviously now, but it is not obvious in every region, so we think omicron is doubling in case numbers every three days or so at the moment and that will become more
and in the netherlands, is the health care system deals with an influx of covid patients, routing care and all but urgent operations have been postponed. dutch ministers are meeting health advisers on saturday after they recommended that the country go into a strict lockdown. lucy grey, bbc news. i ve been speaking to the epidemiologist catherine hill, who s based in paris. i began by asking her about the situation right now in france. we have little 0micron from the time being, but a lot of delta and we are in the middle of a fifth wave with 50,000 cases diagnosed every day, increasing numbers arriving in hospital every day, an increasing number arriving in icu units. they have begun transferring patients from marseille to brittany, which is a very long travel for people in intensive care. because the hospitals are already submerged in some parts of france, so the situation is really not good.
is the health care system deals with an influx of covid patients, routing care and all but urgent operations have been postponed. dutch ministers are meeting health advisers on saturday after they recommended that the country go into a strict lockdown. lucy grey, bbc news. covid case numbers are also rising sharply across large parts of the united states, with new york reporting its highest daily number of new infections. there ve been long queues at testing centres in the city, and some broadway shows have been cancelled. unveiling a raft of new measures to try and control the spread the outgoing mayor of new york bill de blasio explained the situation now facing new yorkers. it is clear that the omicron variant is here, in new york city, in full force and we are announcing a series of measures to address the situation. obviously we knew omicron was here and we knew it was going to be more of a presence in our city. it is now quite clear that it is.