One school in Lancashire has reported just 67 out of 1,300 pupils being prepared to take a test and wear a mask
One common testing method isn't detecting the Omicron variant, according to the experts
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According to experts, the symptoms of the Omicron variant differ slightly to past variants
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'The anxiety for a lot of us in the health service is that this is likely to get more difficult and challenging over coming weeks and months'
'If Omicron really were such a deadly variant, we would expect the numbers to have shot up, yet that simply isn’t happening here'
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