SAGE has warned that without a further tightening of Covid rules, modelling indicates a peak of at least 3,000 hospital admissions per day in England and it has advised implementing further restrictions
Tougher restrictions should be introduced as the Omicron Covid variant spreads rapidly across the UK, experts have warned.
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