Omicron surge: record Covid-19 cases in UK as public warned to scale back Christmas plans

England’s chief medical officer warned people not to mix with others unless they have to in the run-up to Christmas after Britain recorded its most daily coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.With a new highly transmissible Omicron variant of the virus surging across Britain, a further 78,610 Covid-19 infections were reported on Wednesday, about 10,000 more than the previous high reported in January.Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said that Britain is being hit by “two epidemics…

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