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It's what scientists and politicians have been expressing as COVID-19 cases in the UK finally appear to be stabilising.

It seems the worst fears about the Omicron wave in the UK may not be realized.

Britain has seen a surge of cases linked to the variant in recent weeks, but there

are tentative signs the number of new cases may have peaked. Signs that we might have passed

the peak of the Omicron wave are certainly encouraging, but we're

not out of the woods. Case numbers remain incredibly high and the NHS is under immense strain, all of which could continue as government

ministers hint that plan B coronavirus measures could be lifted in England very soon.

I'm under no doubt the kind of burdens this puts hospitality,

wider business scores and so on under.

And I want us to get rid of those if we possibly can.

The signs are encouraging, but clearly we'll wait to see the data side of the UK's Omicron wave?

From the Guardian I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly.

Nicola Davis, you're the Guardian's science correspondent.

So first of all, can you give us an update on the current Omicron Wave here in the UK, where are we at?

So if we look at the cases, I mean, on the 16th of January, there were nearly 80,000 cases.

If we look back to the 31st December 7 years

eve, it was nearly 190,000 cases.

So it is clearly a downward trajectory.

However, that is sort of the big picture in terms of the whole United Kingdom and there are

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