Bracing for a possible Omicron wave

Jack Horgan-Jones on the new measures announced by the Government yesterday in light of the emergence of Omicron, a potentially more transmissible variant of Covid-19.


Plus: If the worst comes to the worst, can our economy weather another Covid-19 wave? We ask economics columnist Cliff Taylor.


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