Officials drawing up two week lockdown plans in UK

[kiwibird]

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...down-over-omicron-threat-reports-say-12498746

COVID-19: Officials drawing up plans for two-week post-Christmas lockdown over Omicron threat, reports say


Advisers have apparently recommended moving to restrictions seen in step one and two of the easing of lockdown in the spring. This included a ban on indoor mixing and indoor hospitality.

Multiple news sites are running this story.

 

[kiwibird]

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-ne...on-faces-fresh-lockdown-party-claims-12469075

COVID news live: 65 patients in hospital with Omicron as UK emergency meeting planned


Coronavirus latest as Wales to introduce new coronavirus restrictions; Tory chairman defends PM's May 2020 meeting as 'appropriate'; restrictions to remain the same before Christmas due to 'key' booster rollout.

Article further states that the R rate in Scotland is believed to be 4.

 

[kiwibird]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...th-biden-warns

• Half of adults in the UK have now had a Covid-19 booster dose, Boris Johnson has said, after the programme was accelerated this week in the face of Omicron.A total of 26.3 million people aged 18 and over have received a vaccine top-up. The government said the milestone makes the UK’s booster rollout one of the fastest in the world.

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• The UK reported 93,045 new Covid cases today, breaking the daily record for the third consecutive day. There were also 111 new Covid deaths reported and 7,611 patients in hospital, 875 of whom were on beds with ventilators.
• There were an additional 3,201 confirmed Omicron cases in the UK today, reports the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), nearly twice the number of infections announced yesterday (yesterday it was 1,691)

 

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