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providing £7.5 billion in support for the sector over the next two years. new government figures show that more than 45,700, people arrived in the uk in 2022 by crossing the channel on small boats. the last crossings of the year happened on christmas day when 90 people made the journey from france in two boats. now on bbc news it s time for review 2022, and it s been a year where health news has again dominated the headlines. our correspondent, dominic hughes, looks back now on some of the biggest challenges faced this year by the uk s health services. was 2022 of the year we finally learned to live with covid? at the start of the year, driven by the highly infectious omicron variant, the virus still had us in its clutches. even as the new year s eve fireworks faded into the night, an estimated one in every 15 people in the uk would have tested positive for covid. it is because of the threat from omicron that i announced on wednesday that we would move to plan b in eng ....
of 2021, the government had already been forced to introduce what it called its plan b measures facemasks, compulsory covid passes and working from home. in just a few days in the new year, a grim milestone. the uk reached 150,000 covid related deaths. to picture 150,000 people, it helps to start small. so this is one student, but in a classroom, there might to picture 150,000 people, it helps to start small. so this is one student, but in a classroom, there might be around 30 of them. there are between 500 2,500 people at smaller gigs or in a nightclub. but see how 21,000 fans can fill manchester arena. and the biggest events hold more than this. more than 73,000 at the principality stadium in cardiff, 90,000 at wembley, and see how around 100,000 people turned out for this climate change strike during cop26. and this crowd are not even all of the 135,000 people who buy tickets for glastonbury every year. but 150,000 people, that is everyone who lives in a city such ....
it s described as the blizzard of the century . thousands are still without power and there is still widespread travel disruption. now it s time for review 2022 , and it s been a year where health news, has again dominated the headlines. our correspondent, dominic hughes, looks back now on some of the biggest challenges faced this year by the uk s health services. was 2022 the year we finally learned to live with covid? at the start of the year, driven by the highly infectious omicron variant, the virus still had us in its clutches. even as the new year s eve fireworks faded into the night, an estimated one in every 15 people in the uk would have tested positive for covid. it s because of the threat from omicron that i announced on wednesday that we would move to plan b in england. you must wear a face covering in indoor public spaces, and from tomorrow, work from home if you can. faced with a huge number of infections, in early december of 2021, the government had alr ....
zero covid policy. the move comes as china struggles with the virus ferocious spread after restrictions were lifted. now on bbc news it s time for review 2022 and it s been a year where health news has again dominated the headlines. our correspondent dominic hughes looks back now on some of the biggest challenges faced this year by the uk s health services. was 2022 the year we finally learned to live with covid? at the start of the year, driven by the highly infectious omicron variant, the virus still had us in its clutches. even as the new year s eve fireworks faded into the night, an estimated 1 in every 15 people in the uk would have tested positive for covid. it s because of the threat from omicron that i announced on wednesday that we will move to plan b in england. you must wear a face covering in indoor public spaces, and from tomorrow, work from home if you can. faced with a huge number of infections, in early december of 2021, the government had already b ....
but in a classroom, there might be around 30 of them. there are between 500 2,500 people at smaller gigs or in a nightclub. but see how 21,000 fans can fill manchester arena. and the biggest events hold more than this. more than 73,000 at the principality stadium in cardiff, 90,000 at wembley, and see how around 100,000 people turned out for this climate change strike during cop26. and this crowd are not even all of the 135,000 people who buy tickets for glastonbury every year. but 150,000 people, that is everyone who lives in a city such as 0xford. 0ther covid waves came and went. in march, july and october. but that was the last time restrictions on socialising were put in place. and crucially, while the number of people admitted to hospital with covid did rise with each successive wave, they were nowhere near the peaks seen injanuary 2021. and the same is true of deaths due to covid, each wave saw an increase in deaths, although nowhere near what was seen in 2021, an ....