COVID-19 rules, "modelling indicates a peak of at least 3,000 hospital admissions per day in England," they said in minutes of a meeting on Dec.
16. Last January, before Britain's vaccination campaign gathered speed, daily hospital admissions in the United Kingdom as a whole surged above 4,000.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has faced a rebellion in his governing Conservative Party over some of the measures he has taken so far to try to curb COVID-19's latest spread.
A newspaper said on Saturday that Johnson's Brexit minister, David Frost, had resigned in part because of the new rules. The advisors said it was too early to assess the severity of disease caused by Omicron but if there was a modest reduction compared to the Delta variant,