John Edmunds says variant is ‘very severe setback’ to controlling Covid pandemic and that plan B ‘absolutely not an overreaction’
Cases of the Omicron variant could top 60,000 a day in the UK by Christmas, according to a senior scientific adviser who warned that the variant was a “very severe setback” to hopes of bringing the pandemic under control.
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