The capital, being a global city, is among the regions with the highest number of cases of the mutation in theSo far, 437 cases of the Omicron have been identified in the UK after 101 were added to the total on Tuesday.
Boris Johnson told members of the Cabinet that, while it was too soon to draw conclusions on the Omicron variant, early indications showed it “was more transmissible than Delta”. But he made it clear the Government would be able to move swiftly if data showed that the Omicron variant risked a major spike in infections which could overwhelm the NHS.
“We do have further measures already set out through plan B which we can move to should they be required. It’s too early to say at this stage.”Earlier, Dr Jeffrey Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said he thought Omicron would take over from Delta in the UK as the dominant variant of coronavirus “within a matter of weeks”.
The professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London told BBC Breakfast: “The official estimates are about 350-odd Omicron cases, and because the current testing is missing a lot of those, it’s probably at least 1,000 to 2,000 I would guess at the moment. “So it means that perhaps twice as many people are going to pass it on from when someone gets it in a crowd.
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