PM is asked again why other Downing St events won't be investigated Boris Johnson says Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, who will conduct the inquiry into the Christmas party, “may wish to look at other things”
Omicron accounts for a small percentage of cases in the UK. So why the rush to bring in Plan B?After four weeks, you might only be seeing 50,000 cases a day.
But the next three days, one more doubling, would take it to 100,000. And the three days after that would double it again.Even if all those infections were mild, that’s a lot of people isolating and absent from work or school. Add the potential for sickness to that, even at low rates, and the picture gets worse.
Omicron’s spread, once it’s established in the UK, could be slower or faster than these early estimates. It’s still too early to know. But this is a reminder of why there’s so much urgent work going on right now to understand Omicron and so much caution.
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