jonathan gribbin. congregation and customers and delivery workers at a kfc outlet are being told to get a pcr test after the omicron variant of covid was detected in brentwood. essex county council said it affected people who had visited kfc in brentwood high street between 1pm and 5pm on november 19th, and anyone who attended trinity church in pilgrims hatch on november 21st. the latest uk coronavirus figures have been released, showing 37,681 new infections in the latest 24—hour period. another 51 deaths were recorded — that's of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. on vaccinations, more than 17.5 million people have now had, a boosterjab. the president of south africa, cyril ramaphosa has hit out at countries, including the uk, who have placed travel bans on the country in the wake of the emergency of the omicron variant. in an address to the south african nation, mr ramaphosa ruled out imposing further restrictions for now and encouraged south africans to get their vaccines.

jonathan gribbin.ch congregation, and customers and delivery workers at a kfc outlet are being told to get a pcr test after the omicron variant of covid was detected in brentwood. essex county council said it affected people who had visited kfc in brentwood high street between one and 5:00pm on november 19th, and anyone who attended trinity church in pilgrims hatch on november 21st. our political correspondent, iain watson, is here. a lot going on, and a lot changing, actually, hour—by—hour, let us talk the politics though, what do you make of the judgment that the government is making, here and now as of sunday evening. what the government would say is they are acting very swiftly to deal with this, they are one of the first countries to reinstitute the red list, to start banning flight, it is interesting from what was happening, perhaps that variant has been here longer than we might have imagined so there are concerns about how widespread it will be. there is no firm idea how quickly to spread, so w