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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
⚠️Omicron could be a dangerous disease even if it is milder, because the variant is spreading more quickly, Professor Chris Whitty has said.

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➡️In a press conference from Downing Street on Wednesday night, Professor Whitty, urged “really serious caution” over reports that omicron was leading to fewer hospitalisations than delta
🇿🇦His comments were made after the first major real-world data from South Africa suggested that the country’s omicron wave had led to 23% fewer hospitalisations than when the delta variant was dominant
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“I'm afraid this is going to be a problem. Exact proportions of it, of course, South African scientists and UK scientists and scientists globally are trying to determine at the moment.”

“All the things that we do know [about omicron] are bad"

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📈 Omicron is already causing record-breaking case numbers.

But extreme rises are likely to skew admissions and deaths figures to such a point that they may become largely useless in helping to drive policy, writes science editor @sarahknapton

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🦠 Dr Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser for UKHSA, predicted that Britain will see around 1m infections a day by the end of the year.

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🔴Boris Johnson is to update the country in a 5pm press conference.

The PM's official spokesman told today's lobby briefing that it would focus on the booster campaign, rather than any new restrictions.

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🔴NEW: A laboratory leak is now the more likely origin of Covid, MPs have heard, because after two years of searching an animal host has never been found

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Dr Alina Chan said there was also a risk that Covid-19 was an engineered virus.

"Right now it’s not safe for people who know about the origin of the pandemic to come forward. But we live in an era where there is so much information being stored that it will eventually come out"
Viscount Ridley said he also believed a lab leak was now the likely origin.

🗣️"After two years we still haven't found a single infected animal that could be the progenitor, and that’s incredibly surprising"
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