Will Smith now faces being banned from Bad Boys as Sony halts work on fourth instalment of the film franchise after Oscars shame Leading the way! Prince Charles is pictured showing tour guides around Highgrove Gardens as his country home gets set to openīBC Three's £80m re-launch sees less than 50,000 tune in for flagship shows as critics brand the move a 'misuse of the licence fee' NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard doubled down on claims that Omicron could cause even more hospitalisations than previous waves.
Meanwhile Top SAGE modeller Professor Graham Medley admitted he feared the super-strain could trigger a 'very large' wave of hospitalisations because it is so transmissible, while vaccine adviser Professor Adam Finn called for action to halt the 'alarming' spread of the virus. it is doubling faster, growing faster and in most regions in the UK it is now under two days.' 'The difficulty is that the growth of this virus has a doubling time, doubling days, at the moment which is shortening, i.e. Mr Johnson also hailed the 'absolutely vital' booster drive, which saw a record 611,000 top-up jabs dished out in the UK yesterday despite scenes of chaos with hours-long queues and people being turned away at clinics.īut experts, such as Dr Nabarro, who are advising the Government have been much more alarmist.ĭr Jenny Harries, head of the UK Health Security Agency, earlier warned Omicron posed the 'biggest threat' of the pandemic so far and could put the NHS in 'serious peril'.ĭespite modelling by her agency being widely disputed among scientists, she told MPs: 'I am sure for example that the numbers that we see on data over the next few days will be quite staggering compared to the rate of growth that we have seen in cases for previous variants. Grilled about whether Plan B was enough, he added: 'We think that, given the balance of risks and the balance of continuing uncertainties about Omicron, this is the right approach to take, the right mixture of approaches, to do these two things at once.'
The Prime Minister agreed with his chief medical officer, saying people should 'think carefully' before going to events over the Christmas period in a dramatic shift in tone. He described any prediction as 'just me expressing my hopes to you' and warned 'nobody has' the information to predict how many people will get Omicron in the coming weeks. 'If we are lucky then we won’t have high death rates but we will still get a very heavy load on health services and therefore on hospitals,' he said.ĭr Nabarro said he could not predict the potential case or death toll from the latest variant and added it would not be 'helpful' to speculate. He warned the escalating caseload, including many people who have had both vaccinations, will add stress to already overworked health systems worldwide. Over a thousand times more serious in four weeks.' Three hundred or four hundred times more serious in three weeks. 'That means that will be eight times more serious in one week. only do what is vital'.ĭr Nabarro said the Omicron variant is spreading 'superfast' and that the strain has 'a doubling time of numbers of cases every two to three days'. Interestingly, Motoring did point out that the Holden's electric steering is better than the Ford's hydraulic steering, which is a lot like a Porsche purist saying they prefer water-cooled engines to air cooled.Speaking to Sky News, Dr Nabarro echoed Professor Whitty's warning about Christmas parties and urged 'every single human being' to 'minimise contact to what is absolutely essential. As the guys from Motoring point out, the new VF Commodore is just too new and too good, with its extra power and its adaptive dampers (GM's excellent MagnaRide). Predictably, it doesn't end too well for the Ford. The HSV, though, with its Corvette-derived, 6.2-liter, supercharged V8 is just too powerful - 576 hp and 545 lb-ft of torque. The Ford boasts a 5.0-liter, supercharged V8, which the Aussies measure out at 449 horsepower and 420 pound-feet of torque. The cars aren't all that well evenly matched, though. And while both FPV and the Falcon might be on their way out, there's still plenty of time for a little head-to-head comparison between the two. Watch these Australian Ford and Holden muscle cars duke it out Wed, 20:29:00 ESTĪustralia's Motoring has put together a little video on two of the great performance vehicles available down under - the Holden VF Commodore HSV GTS and the Ford Falcon FPV GT R-Spec.