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COVID: New Year's Eve parties in London and Scotland scrapped amid Omicron surge
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Scotland and London have both moved to cancel New Year's Eve celebrations as the United Kingdom is gripped by a surge of COVID infections, driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant.
The UK has reported record cases in recent days, with 91,743 in the last 24 hours reported on Monday, a rate of 716.1 cases per 100,000 people.
On December 17, there was a daily record of 92,503 cases reported. It means case numbers are higher now than last Christmas when a lockdown was imposed.
This time around, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pushed people to get a boost vaccine but has so far stopped short of imposing harsher restrictions.
But north of the border First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday announced the cancellation of all large events
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