England's Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty has warned that records for daily coronavirus case numbers "will be broken a lot" in the coming weeks, as the Omicron variant spreads through the country.
He told a Downing Street press conference: "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.
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