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Over the age of 12 have received their first dose of the vaccine; more than 78% have had both doses. 0ur health editor hugh pym says there have been new warnings today that we face a difficult winter ahead. those cases, week on week, seven days on previous seven days, are up in the uk 13%. hospital admissions and death numbers are up as well on that basis and interestingly today, professor chris whitty, england s chief medical officer, at a conference of gps said, that modellers really were not clear where we go from here, but he said what was clear that even if covid remained relatively low, or there was a surge, whatever happened, the nhs would, quote, have an exceptionally difficult winter because of flu and other viruses and other pressures and that really underlines what we have been hearing today from gp practices, from hospitals and a&e units, about the surge in demand that they are having to deal with now, never mind the winter months ahead. ....

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