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Effect of those infections, and the number of people having to self isolate for seven days in england, ten days in other parts of the uk, the pressure that puts on public services, the absence rates in the health service. i don t expect to see any change in restrictions this side of the new year. businesses have been crying out for certainty, the government has been given that certainty, so the changes during the first week of january when parliament is sitting in any case. mil january when parliament is sitting in any case- in any case. all right, ian, for now, in any case. all right, ian, for now. thank in any case. all right, ian, for now, thank you in any case. all right, ian, for now, thank you very - in any case. all right, ian, for now, thank you very much. i in any case. all right, ian, for - now, thank you very much. political correspondent. earlier we heard from dr sarah pitt, a virologist from the university of brighton who explained that although 0micron is causing by f ....
People not, perhaps coming forward for a test because it s christmas day, as well as the actual processing of the data and producing the results. normally into the beacon we say let s wait and see what happening by wednesday or so, so those numbers, so 100,000 new cases a day on average is quite high numbers, and we have seen in countries all over the world over the weekend posting record numbers of new cases. so this is mostly because of omicron, but also last week, again, uk health security agency gave an analysis from the samples where they d actually done the details, was at omicron, with that delta? they found out that 70% of cases that we are seeing at the moment are omicron, which means there s about 30% of delta, so in ....
Indian authorities are imposing a night time curfew in delhi to try to contain a growing number of cases. the restriction will last for six hours each night. we ll visit all of those stories in a moment. first, let s start with the latest in the uk. here s our correspondent simonjones. after the christmas festivities, tough decisions. borisjohnson will be poring over the latest covid data to see if he thinks new measures are needed in england. though no new restrictions are expected to be announced today. at this bar in bristol, they say they need clarity as they look ahead to the new year. he needs to get on with it, he needs to get on with it now, and he needs to help people now. people need to know now. they have got staff that they need to put in place, they have security that they need to book, they have stock that they need to order. he needs to tell people now, right now, so they know what they are doing. a key consideration is going to be hospital admissions, ....
That 100,000, there are still considerable numbers of delta cases, and we know that the delta variant of the virus is very infectious, but also very dangerous. doctor sarah pitt there from the university of brighton. well, the us has been seeing a spike in the number of covid cases and it has to led to president biden warning that some us hospitals could be overrun by covid. speaking during a virtual meeting with state governors, he said the us is generally well prepared to meet the surge of 0micron cases and its citizens need not panic. but he also urged americans to get their booster shots. because we have had so many unvaccinated and not boosted, we are not seeing unvaccinated and not boosted, we are not seeing hospitalisations rises sharply not seeing hospitalisations rises sharply as we did in march of 2020 or even sharply as we did in march of 2020 or even this sharply as we did in march of 2020 or even this past fall. america made progress or even this past fall. am ....
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 ....