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