Covid-19: what will Omicron mean for 2022? podcast
by Presented and produced by Madeleine Finlay with Ia from Science | The Guardian on (#5TA5T)
Yesterday, daily cases in the UK exceeded 100,000 for the first time since the pandemic began. Despite this, the government has stuck to its guns in refusing to introduce any restrictions in England before Christmas Day. Yesterday also saw the publishing of a report from a team at Imperial College London that suggests, in the UK, the risk of a hospital stay is 40% lower with Omicron than Delta.
To find out what all this means for the weeks and months ahead, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian's science editor, Ian Sample.
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