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BREAKING: Official figures show the UK has recorded another 98,515 new COVID cases and 143 deaths.

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BREAKING: Ireland is to introduce an 8pm curfew for hospitality venues and a 50% limit on event capacity, from December 19 until January 30, in a new effort to prevent the spread of the Omicron #COVID19 variant.

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"I think there is a high chance that my original Christmas plans with family are going to be interrupted."

Professor Chris Whitty says he thinks a large number of people in society, including health care workers, are going to get COVID "simultaneously".

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BREAKING: Health Secretary Sajid Javid says mandatory #COVID19 jabs will be introduced for NHS England's 1.2 million full-time staff from April.

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BREAKING: England's #coronavirus R number has risen to between 1.2 and 1.5.

Last week the R number - which represents the average number of people each COVID-positive person goes on to infect - was between 1.1 and 1.3.

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Danish goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel was asked by a British journalist what it would mean to Denmark to 'stop it coming home'.

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