UK has 10 people in hospital with Omicron, says deputy PM Raab<\/p>\n
(Reuters\/NAN)<\/p>\n
British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday that there were 10 people in hospital with Omicron.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Raab had told Sky News that there were at least 250 people with Omicron in hospital.<\/p>\n
He then told the BBC that nine people with Omicron were in hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cI misheard one of the questions,\u201d Raab told ITV when asked about the range of figures.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe figures are one dead from Omicron, 10 in hospital,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
When asked to clarify the figures, a spokesman for the justice ministry told Reuters to call the health ministry.<\/p>\n
The health ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UK has 10 people in hospital with Omicron, says deputy PM Raab (Reuters\/NAN) British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday that there were 10 people in hospital with Omicron. Earlier, Raab had told Sky News that there were at least 250 people with Omicron in hospital. He then told the BBC that nine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":4062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n