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LIVE: Boris Johnson Holds U.K. Covid Briefing in London
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January 4, 2022
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49:22Now Playing(Jan. 4) Watch live as U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a virtual news conference on the coronavirus pandemic in the Downing Street briefing room in London on Tuesday, Jan.uary 4, 2021.
The U.K. government sees nothing in the data to suggest the need for further Covid-19 regulations, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said, even as new cases remain at record levels.
Some 157,758 new coronavirus cases were logged nationwide on Monday, driven by the fast-spreading omicron variant. That brought the seven-day running total to almost 1.2 million, according to official data.
Yet while hospital admissions and occupancy are “increasing significantly,” the cases appear to be less serious than in previous waves of the pandemic, spokesman Max Blain told reporters at a regular briefing on Tuesday.
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