Health Security Agency: Omicron Shows Signs Of Immune Evasion

Headlines emerging from Sky News quoting the UK's Health Security Agency on the Omicron COVID-19 variant.

• Says that it is seeing evidence of immune evasion by Omicron variant.
• Says that a booster jab increases protection against mild illness from the virus to around 70-75% looking at stufy of 581 people with Omicron variant.
• Sky: "UK Health Security Agency says new data suggests vaccine protection against mild symptomatic disease from Omicron may be substantially reduced and boosters showed good effectiveness although with some reduction compared to the Delta variant"
• Sky: "UK Health Security Agency says it is projected that if current trends continue unchanged the UK will exceed one million infections a day by the end of this month"
• Major focus will be on whether gov't sees Plan B regulations set to come in on Monday as the final iteration of restrictions or just a step before Christmas. Could be major problem for gov't, with a large number of Conservative MPs planning to vote against Plan B, even more likely to vote against even harsher restrictions.