Urgent Cobra meeting TODAY over fears Omicron variant threatens a ‘tsunami of infections’

AN EMERGENCY Cobra meeting will be convened in Downing Street today amid warnings Omicron will trigger a “tsunami of infections”.

Nicola Sturgeon and other devolved leaders are attending the crunch gathering with top minister Michael Gove to work up a Covid battle plan.



An emergency Cobra meeting will be convened

It came after the Scottish First Minister tightened rules to stem the spread of the mutation ripping across Britain.

In a grim warning she said: “To be blunt, because of the much greater and faster transmissibility of this new variant, we may be facing – indeed we may be starting to experience – a potential tsunami of infections.”

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