UK Covid live: research into Omicron severity in England finds ‘moderate reduction’ in hospitalisation risk compared with Delta – as it happened
by Andrew Sparrow from on (#5T9KA)
Latest updates: researchers at Imperial College London stress that reduction in severity must be balanced with larger risk of infection
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Mark Drakeford, the Welsh first minister, is about to hold a briefing on Covid. Earlier he posted this on Twitter.
This chart, from the Public Health Wales dashboard, sums up the Covid trends for cases and positivity (the proportion of tests turning out positive) in Wales.
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