The World Health Organisation reports the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has now spread to 57 countries. The WHO director-general has told authorities around the world they must “act now”.
We get the latest on the spread risk of Omicron from Dr Ajay M Verma, who’s part of the UN’s Team Halo Covid response project. UCL Professor Andrew Hayward, a member of the government’s SAGE advisory group, warns the strain’s doubling time of two to three days is “very fast” and we can expect “a very large peak”.
Ahead of Thursday nights Game Awards 2021, we speak to Veteran games developer Nick Rodriguez.
Rodriguez is tutoring the next generation of programmers at London’s Ravensbourne University.
Bitcoin ‘founder’ gets to keep crypto billions but must pay family of late business partner. Literally hotter than the Sun...two-star space system discovered. We speak to Twitter for their annual Year on Twitter report. British archaeologists have discovered a crucifixion victim from nearly 1,900 years ago when Romans ruled Britain. And, the tech boss who sacked 900 staff on Zoom call apologises after going viral.
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