The Chief Medical Officer for England said that Britons should be "prioritising those things that really matter", and urged: "Don't mix with people you have to for either work or the family things that really matter to you."

Prof Whitty added that "It looks as if delta which has been with us for a while is still flat, and the growth is omicron," he said. "So what we've got is two epidemics, on top of one another, an existing delta epidemic, roughly flat, and a very rapidly growing omicron epidemic on top of it."

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