Covid: Health officials urge people to get a booster vaccine
In Scotland, household contacts of people who have tested positive for Covid are now being asked to isolate for 10 days - regardless of their vaccination status or if they have had a negative PCR result.
However, more Conservative MPs have suggested publicly that they will vote against the government's latest Covid restrictions in England when they are put before parliament on Tuesday. "Omicron, unfortunately like every other coronavirus variant, loves winter, loves it when we are spending more time indoors, less ventilation and it particularly loves it when we are getting together with other people as we will do at Christmas," she said.
The UK Health Security Agency estimates that more than half of all cases in the country will be Omicron by mid-December and that if growth continues unabated there will be more than 100,000 cases a day by the end of the month.
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