Nearly 900,000 people could be forced to spend Christmas Day in self-isolation after catching Covid in the past 10 days, MailOnline analysis shows.
A total of 766,000 people across the UK have tested positive for the virus since December 16 — the cut-off date for coming out of quarantine in time.
And 122,000 more Britons were diagnosed today as the ultra-infectious Omicron variant pushes cases to record numbers.
It means around 888,000 people could be barred from visiting loved ones,
In news that makes one wonder if Santa and his reindeer deliver to low-earth orbit, a record number of astronauts will be spending Christmas in space this year.
In total, ten people — from four nations — will be celebrating the season tomorrow from the International Space Station (ISS) and China’s Tiangong Space Station.
Christmas Days spent in space were rare in the early years of space exploration — but have become customary since the ISS became continuously occupied in
Darüber hinaus werden in den kommenden Tagen trotz der sich abzeichnenden Frist noch schätzungsweise 10.000 Spend Local-Karten versandt.
Ein Sprecher des Wirtschaftsministeriums sagte der BBC, dass etwa 1.500 verspätete Einreichungen eingegangen seien.
Darüber hinaus stellte das Departement fest, dass einige Anträge fälschlicherweise als Duplikate identifiziert und daher ausgesetzt wurden.
Im November berichtete Advice NI, dass sie viele Anrufe von Leuten erhalten habe, die Probleme mit ihren Karten hatten.
Like all areas of society, the Royal Air Force can’t escape the need to go green or to save money, and it hopes that virtual training can help it do just that.
It costs tens of thousands of pounds every time the RAF sends a pilot up in a Typhoon as part of a training exercise, but in the future the Air Force hopes to reduce how often this happens, and BAE Systems is helping it achieve that goal.
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