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Advisers, we will leave this now on bbc one but you can keep following it on the bbc news channel and of course a lot of you are waiting patiently for the news where you are, in the regions of england and in wales and scotland and northern ireland and to the scientists, people are going to feel pretty flat today listening to this press conference. they were told to get theirjabs, to get their boosters, that they would have an irreversible path out of lockdown, that life would continue, winter comes and we are now being told we have to live with restriction again. is this just the reality of living with covid, so this is notjust another year this is happening, but this is our lives now for years to come? i think people will be worried about that. yes, on yourfirst people will be worried about that. yes, on your first point, people will be worried about that. yes, on yourfirst point, i repeat what i said to laura. i think that allegra has been an outstanding ....
Data on omicron and these are data people have probably seen versions of in media in the last few days but i think the need flashing out a bit. these are the number of people testing positive for covid 19 in south africa. at this point in time, the big increase in covid in south africa is almost all the omicron variant and this has now spread all around south africa and you can see it is an incredibly steep increase in rates and we are now seeing this translating into increasing hospitalisations. i was talking to some of my colleagues from there this afternoon and they were saying that informal data, still to be added to, there was around about a 300% increase on hospitalisations over the last week. some of those will have come in with omicron and some as a result omicron but the ....
Voluntarism of the british people, that incredible public spirit, they re that incredible public spirit, they re willing this to roll up their they re willing this to roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated, huge their sleeves and get vaccinated, huge proportions of the population have done huge proportions of the population have done so. i think there will come have done so. i think there will come a have done so. i think there will come a point if we can show the vaccines come a point if we can show the vaccines are capable of holding omicron, vaccines are capable of holding omicron, that is the key thing i think omicron, that is the key thing i think we omicron, that is the key thing i think we need to test, i think we will have think we need to test, i think we will have to think we need to test, i think we will have to have a conversation about will have to have a conversation about ways in which we deal with this pandemic because i want to be absolutely t ....
Were, with the vaccines we got, with drugs, with hospital treatment, there is a whole bunch of things that are so much better than they were. it will be much quicker getting over this than it would have been if it had been the same situation as it had been a year ago. but at no point had we said that there would not be new variants, significant ones, potentially, that has been said byjust about every media outlet which has been represented here, and for good reason, that is the biological inevitability. when it comes to this particular, in the long run i think the outlook is good, but i think we have to accept that it is still a difficult period and in terms of this particular variant, the question i think is really going to be, is this held by the current vaccines, with boosters, or are we actually going to have to do a reformulation of the vaccine, at least four more vulnerable people, and that that is what we will need to do overtime? it may be that ....