covid
"Symptoms don't = contagious virus."
This equates to around 3.27 million people, according to the Office of National Statistics.
Schools are expected to become a particularly large problem with Omicron transmission in the coming weeks.
Maggie Throup has been the vaccines minister for more than 100 days but has only just appeared on the morning media rounds.
UKHSA has found the risk of hospitalisation with Omicron is just one third the risk posed by the Delta variant.
"I must, of course, urge everybody to be cautious and take a test if you’re going out."
Some 189,213 infections reported on Thursday.
Data from the ZOE Covid app suggests there are 194,451 daily symptomatic cases of Covid on average now.
“We can’t continue with it – something’s got to be done."
"NHS wants space for up to 4k extra beds nationally...but who will staff these beds?"