*As financial support announcement made by government
With the Coronavirus latest update, football fans won’t be allowed in stadiums from Boxing Day and Hogmanay events are cancelled under new Scotland restrictions. This is also as Rishi Sunak announces additional £1bn for the hospitality sector.
Former SAGE scientist has also warned that Omicron is spreading “incredibly fast”, according to the update by Sky News Tuesday afternoon.
Another 90,629 positive tests have been reported in the latest 24 hour period.
This has been caveated by the government – due to a technical fault, today’s data includes the removal of positive LFTs that have been cancelled out by a negative PCR for the last two days.
As well as that, 172 more COVID-19 related deaths have also been reported.
On vaccines, 897,979 booster and third doses of COVID-19 vaccines were reported in the UK on Monday – the second highest daily figure.
A total of 29,876,223 people have now had their third dose of a vaccine.
