Boris Johnson this week confirmed the country's move to Plan B to curb COVID-19 infections as the Omicron variant continues to spread across England. The prime minister said at a Downing Street press ...

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The UK’s top public health officials have advised ministers that “stringent national measures” need to be imposed by 18 December to avoid Covid hospitalisations surpassing last winter’s peak, ...

We've had Omicron XE, the Centaurus and more recently the 'XBB' Covid-19 variation. Now we’re facing a new Covid XBB.1.5 sub-variant, which has been spreading rapidly across the US, with some cases ...

LONDON (AP) — Preliminary data suggest that people with the omicron variant of the coronavirus are between 50% and 70% less likely to need hospitalization than those with the delta strain, Britain’s ...

Anyone entering the UK will require a PCR test by the end of the second day after their arrival. The UK-UAE flight path is likely to experience a “limited” blow from new travel restrictions related to ...

LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - There is a lower risk of hospitalisation for people with the Omicron coronavirus variant compared to Delta, but the higher transmissibility of Omicron could still lead to ...

The omicron variant could cause a new wave of the pandemic worse than that seen last winter without a new lockdown, modelling by top UK scientists advising the government has found. Scientists at the ...

The latest work from home guidance to tackle the spread of the Omicron variant had a significant impact on footfall across UK retail destinations as shoppers avoided the high streets, new data shows.

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