Masks in classrooms dropped tomorrow
said: “It looks like the Omicron variant, by becoming more transmissible, that it’s also become less severe, and we would hope that’s the general direction of travel.”There were 94,432 new cases in the past 24 hours, with 438 fatalities also recorded.
Deaths have risen compared to the past few days, but are still not near the levels seen in the Alpha peak last year of over 1,000. This fits with the pattern of a Covid wave, however - a few weeks on from high cases, some extra deaths will now sadly catch up for those harder hit with the virus. This time last week there had been 120,821 new daily cases recorded, as the country shows promising signs of the variant wave having peaked.
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