The Cabinet are to be briefed on latest COVID data this afternoon, Sky News understands. However, there isn't a cabinet discussion or meeting being held today, according to our political correspondent robpowellnews. Read more here:
By Thomas Moore, science correspondentThe UK Health Security Agency estimates every infected person is passing the virus on to between three and five others. And in some parts of the country cases are doubling twice in just three days.
That may come after Christmas, when the UKHSA predicts 250 cases will be in hospital – enough for a meaningful statistical comparison with the Delta variant. It's still possible that the peak in daily hospitalisations will be lower than the January record of 4,583. Hannah Essex, co-executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce, told BBC Breakfast:"What we need to hear pretty much now, over the weekend, which should have been one of the busiest weekends of the year for businesses, is what are they going to do. Doing nothing is not an option right now ... or we will see businesses fail.
"I think it's really important to realise the booster doesn't kick in the moment you leave the vaccine centre," she said. Speaking to Times Radio in a personal capacity, he said:"The only way really, or at least the most effective way, we can have an immediate effect is to decrease the number of contacts we have."Now, you could have it after Christmas, the problem is after Christmas it's probably too late, it's probably by then we will have had a huge surge of infections with all the impact upon society.
"In some pockets of London, there are black Londoners, there are Muslim Londoners, there are Jewish Londoners, there are Eastern European Londoners, who still haven't had the vaccine," he told broadcasters.
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