Covid live: Omicron spreading through UK ‘much faster’ than other variants, PM says; alarm at South Korea surge

Boris Johnson says Omicron infecting people‘much faster’ than previous iterations of virus; South Koreahospitald under strain as cases riseOmicron can partially evade Covid vaccine protection, study findsUK races to deliver booster jabs before Omicron takes holdModerna or Novavax after AstraZeneca jab confers high immunity: studyUp to 6m eligible Britons may not have had a jab. Who are they?China shifts Africa approach from debt to vaccine diplomacyGermany reported 69,601 cases of Covid-19 and 527 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute, taking the total cases in the country to 6,291,621. There have been 104,047 deaths.South Korean authorities are urging people to get vaccinatedas case rise in the east Asian nation generally regarded as having dealth with the pandemic well.Continue reading...
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