Cabinet Sub Committee on Covid-19 to meet to consider actions to be taken

The Cabinet Sub Committee on Covid-19 will meet this evening to consider what action needs to be taken to tackle the escalating covid cases.

The wider use of vaccine certs, antigen tests and working from home are all up for discussion.

596 people were in hospital last night with covid and 106 in ICU.

Professor Sam McConkey from the Royal College of Surgeons says vaccines aren't protecting as much against transmission.