Boris Johnson is to hold a press conference at Downing Street today as the Omicron covid variant continues to spread rapidly across the UK.
Number of Omicron cases in Scotland and the ten areas where it has been found
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The Omicron variant is said to be driving a recent surge in Covid infection across Scotland.
Scientists have raised fears over the heavily mutated strain of the virus, which has resulted in similar spikes in case numbers elsewhere in the world.
Early studies have shown that the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines has fallen when it has come up against Omicron.
Nicola Sturgeon yesterday claimed that the reproduction rate, or R number, of Omicron could be as high as four in Scotland.
As a result,
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