Are you prepared for omicron?

Omicron (or “omnivore” as some spellcheckers will have it) has come out of the blue – or has it? Scientists (and politicians) have, sometimes in the past, hedged their bets when talking about the future direction of the pandemic with words such as “providing there isn’t a dangerous new variant” - but we ignored those words of gloom and concentrated on how soon vaccines would work their magic.

In the numbers, in the Weekly Briefing Report, I consider travel; people are slowly returning to where they were, but not in the numbers they were before.

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