All hospitals nationally asked if they can host temporary facilities to cope with new Covid wave
It is unclear exactly how many admissions the NHS will see due to the new variant, although early data from the UK Health Security Agency has suggested the risk of hospital admission was roughly 80 per cent lower for people infected with Omicron compared with Delta, while for those in hospital the risk of severe disease was roughly 30 per cent lower.
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