The scientist behind the Zoe Covid tracker app said people should work from home and not go to Christmas parties if they have a sniffleMore than a thousand people a day are now being infected with the Omicron variant in Britain, official data suggests. It will account for most of the country’s coronavirus cases within a month and appears to be spreading as fast as the original strain did at the start of the pandemic, experts said. SponsoredScientific advisers to the government believe that Omicron infections in Britain are doubling every three days, and there is increasing concern in Whitehall about the speed at which it is spreading. One scientist said that there would soon be so many cases that travel restrictions become pointless. Boris Johnson told cabinet on Tuesday that there were no imminent plans for domestic restrictions, but his spokesman said that the government could move “relatively

Source: The Times December 08, 2021 09:26 UTC