New figures suggest one in 24 people have tested positive for COVID in mid-December.
It comes as a sub-variant of the Omicron strain of coronavirus was classified as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organisation due to "its rapidly increasing spread".
So what does this mean for Christmas socialising?
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