England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty told people to scale back their Christmas events and warned that Omicron ‘is going to be a problem’ after daily Covid cases rocketed to their highest ever level and Government scientists called for further restrictions.
More than 78,000 people tested positive for Covid in the past 24 hours – a 50 per cent jump on last week, and eclipsing the previous record of 68,053 during the second wave in January.
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