{"id":1117719,"date":"2021-12-14T11:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117719"},"modified":"2021-12-14T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T16:58:48","slug":"project-fear-number-of-uk-omicron-hospitalised-revised-from-250-to-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-fear-number-of-uk-omicron-hospitalised-revised-from-250-to-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Fear: Number of UK Omicron Hospitalised Revised from 250 to 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fproject-fear-number-of-uk-omicron-hospitalised-revised-from-250-to-10%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117719&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1353587295-1-e1639487536921-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The number of people with Omicron in UK hospitals according to Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has been revised down from 250 to ten, with government officials claiming the minister had \u201cmisspoke\u201d in earlier interviews.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, has revised the number of people in hospital with the Omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus from 250 to ten, over three interviews given on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Raab had initially <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNews\/status\/1470657960070242308\">told<\/a> Sky News that the number of people in UK hospitals with the variant was 250 the \u201clast time [he] looked\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, Raab later <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/covid-19-officials-clarify-omicron-hospitalisation-figures-as-dominic-raab-gets-numbers-wrong-twice-on-morning-broadcast-round-12495367\">told<\/a> <em>BBC<\/em> <em>Breakfast<\/em> that only nine people in hospitals were suffering from the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have one death,\u201d Raab said regarding Omicron in the UK. \u201cI think we\u2019ve got nine people who are in hospital with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>When Raab was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMB\/status\/1470674607594160132\">confronted<\/a> on ITV\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Good Morning Britain<\/em> on the fact that he had given two different numbers regarding cases of Omicron in hospitals during two different interviews, he proceeded to revise this number again for a third time to ten people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.108504398827\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;You&#8217;ve done two interviews this morning, you were asked a simple question, how many people are in hospital? You told Sky News 250 people and you told BBC Breakfast 9.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Raab clarifies 10 people are in hospital with Omicron, after getting the numbers wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MYccrkXIsN\">pic.twitter.com\/MYccrkXIsN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning Britain (@GMB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMB\/status\/1470674607594160132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This was much to the annoyance of one of <em>Good Morning Britain<\/em>\u2018s hosts, with&nbsp;Adil Ray saying to Raab: \u201cSo you\u2019ve given three different numbers on three different national news shows to the population!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After accusing Ray of liking to \u201crant\u201d at politicians, Raab claimed that he misheard the initial question asked on Sky News, thinking that he was being asked to provide the number of cases \u201cgenerally\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sky News has also reported that officials are claiming that he \u201cmisspoke\u201d during both the BBC and Sky News interviews and that there are, in fact, ten cases of Omicron in UK hospitals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8698224852071\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Veiled Threat? Boris Tells Public to Get Booster Jab to Save &#8216;Freedoms and Way of Life&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lH0sa1gTSH\">https:\/\/t.co\/lH0sa1gTSH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1470167717122650124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the deputy prime minister has been struggling to pin down the number of Omicron cases in UK hospitals, those who fear they have Covid in the UK are struggling to get tested.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-59651166\">the<\/a> BBC, there are no longer PCR tests available at any Covid testing site in England, though home tests are still available.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the NHS <a href=\"https:\/\/test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk\/order-lateral-flow-kits\/service-unavailable\">website<\/a> for England states that there are \u201cno rapid lateral flow tests available to order\u201d for home use.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the fact that it is now a requirement for vaccinated close contacts of Covid cases to take the tests daily for a period of seven days.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of availability online, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/covid-19-home-testing-kits-have-run-out-on-governments-website-12494810\">assured<\/a> the public that there is no shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can get those tests, we do have a ready supply of lateral flow tests,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIf you can\u2019t get one online for any reason, then there are ample supplies in the shops.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people with Omicron in UK hospitals according to Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has been revised down from 250 to ten, with government officials claiming the minister &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}