well, we are seeing a really quick increase in prevalence right across the country and across all ages. significantly, for the very first time, all of the numbers are, at the moment, very, very small in the over 70s. this chart shows how rapidly infections in the uk were rising as measured by the 0ns at the end of last week and into the weekend to more than 1.7 million people with the virus. there were differences around the uk, though. in england, it was one in 35 people. in northern ireland, one in a0. in wales, one in a5. in scotland, it was one in 65 people with the virus. 0micron cases are rising rapidly but it s less likely than delta to put people in hospital, according to new research, and officials say that s reassuring. there is a glimmer of christmas hope in the findings that we published yesterday but it definitely isn t yet at the point where we could downgrade that serious threat.
college of medicine. thousands of flights cancelled and it shows just how fast the 0micron variant is spreading. yeah, absolutely. 0ne 0micron variant is spreading. yeah, absolutely. one of the interesting things about this wave compared to alpha and delta is that we had a 4 six week lag before the uk surge with alpha and delta before it hit the us so we had an opportunity to learn from the united kingdom on how and what we might expect and we don t have that luxury right now, this came up so fast, and is causing pretty widespread social disruption from the standpoint that so many of the workers in various businesses of course, including the airlines, i getting sick now with breakthrough hovea, meaning they have had two or three immunisations and yet are still getting breakthrough infections so it s knocking out a lot of the work force covid. even though we don t really have a lockdown as we would call it effectively, it is almost acting like that because it is hard for businesses