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Hello and welcome to Coffee House, shots, to spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Katie Balls, and I'm joined by James Fisciper and Issaver Hardman.

And the papers are once again dominated by COVID, following the decision to bring in a few

new restrictions in light of a new strain of COVID in Omnacron.

James, where are we at with this? There are now several cases in the UK.

Yes, and it seems, the expectation seems to be that there will be high double digits or triple digits of cases by the end of a day.

I think the big question is whether these are imported cases

or whether you're now beginning to see communities spread.

In Scotland, they are saying that some of their cases

don't appear to have any link to foreign travel.

So maybe it has already started.

This seems to be the kind of one commonly agreed fact about Omnacrom

is that it does appear to be more

transmissible than previous variants. What we aren't clear about yet is to what extent there is,

the vaccines are less effective against it. We don't know that yet. And also we don't know

what kind of illness it leads to, whether it leads to a milder form of disease

than other previous versions of the virus, or whether it is still as problematic. So I think these

are the things we are waiting to find out about. Isabel, on that, we had the health secretary

said to Javid at the weekend saying say we are very far away from another lockdown.

The Prime Minister is still predicting a Christmas better than the last, I think much better than the last,

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