A major incident has been declared in London as Omicron continues to wreak havoc across the country. It comes as a further 10,000 cases of the new variant were recorded in the UK today, bringing the total number of Omicron cases to nearly 25,000.
On Friday, 93,045 more cases of Covid-19 were confirmed - the highest daily total since the pandemic began and a rise of 4,669 on the previous record set on Thursday. READ MORE:Mad Friday 2021 in pictures Omicron is now thought to the dominant variant in London, Manchester and most other parts of the country.
The number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in London, which has seen some of the biggest rises in cases in the last seven days, has risen to 1,534, up 28.6% on last week, according to
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