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New figures show that the Omicron variant is now the dominant COVID strain in London, making up 51.8% of new cases.
It is also spreading across the UK with most regions seeing a rise in cases.
It comes after health bosses warned we’d see a “quite staggering” rise in infection numbers in coming days.
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