{"id":1124779,"date":"2021-12-16T10:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1124779"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:13:42","slug":"774-or-maybe-11-another-minister-cant-remember-number-of-omicron-cases-in-uk-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/774-or-maybe-11-another-minister-cant-remember-number-of-omicron-cases-in-uk-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"774, or MAYBE 11? Another Minister Can&#039;t Remember Number of Omicron Cases in UK Hospitals"},"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\">30<\/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%2F774-or-maybe-11-another-minister-cant-remember-number-of-omicron-cases-in-uk-hospitals%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=1124779&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-1237245000-e1639660743626-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Another British minister has shown themselves unable to recall the number of Omicron cases in hospitals \u2014 presumably a matter of great importance, given government policy to lock the country down is justified by it \u2014 initially overestimating the real number over 70 fold.<\/p>\n<p>UK Health Minister Gillian Keegan tied herself up in knots on Thursday morning over the number of Omicron cases in the country\u2019s hospitals, initially giving a number over 70 times larger than her next guess.<\/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>The confusion comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/14\/project-fear-number-uk-omicron-hospitalised-revised-250-10\/\">similar incident<\/a> involving another minister, Dominic Raab, who gave three different numbers that varied significantly during three separate interviews on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KayBurley\/status\/1471382403356803074\">interview<\/a> with Sky News\u2019s Kay Burley, Keegan initially claimed that there were 774 people in UK hospitals with Omicron, before pausing for a moment and correcting herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh sorry that\u2019s total hospital, yeah, hospitalisations in the last seven days,\u201d Keegan said. \u201cWith Omicron, there is ten cases, em, with Omicron. Maybe going up to 11, actually. That wasn\u2019t confirmed yet, but I think it\u2019s probably going up to 11.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.65\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Day 4 of quizzing ministers on Omicron numbers and still confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GillianKeegan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gilliankeegan<\/a> has the figures this morning\u2026\ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KayBurley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KayBurley<\/a> FM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dJMjoNZH73\">pic.twitter.com\/dJMjoNZH73<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kay Burley (@KayBurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KayBurley\/status\/1471382403356803074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The minister also struggled to give one clear answer when asked about the number of deaths related to the new variant of the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deaths, em, were a hundred, and \u2014 ohh, I don\u2019t, I don\u2019t, I don\u2019t have the actual figure,\u201d Keegan said, before exclaiming: \u201cOh! [With] Omicron! Oh sorry! Sorry, Kay. No, we don\u2019t have eh \u2014 we have one death, eh, with Omicron, so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister also went on to say that she did not think that there was anyone suffering from Omicron on ventilators in the UK, but also urged for caution, asking the public to \u201cmake a sensible choice\u201d regarding mixing with others. The danger the government claims Omicron poses to the country have been used to justify <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/14\/tory-rebels-crushed-by-combined-weight-of-government-and-opposition-in-uk-lockdown-vote\/\">new lockdown measures<\/a>, and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/15\/boris-again-reaches-for-ww2-imagery-to-push-covid-booster-campaign\/\">urge the public to voluntarily give up socialisation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.8947368421053\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Project Fear: Number of UK Omicron Hospitalised Revised from 250 to 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2bfakGf0lm\">https:\/\/t.co\/2bfakGf0lm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1470799997889245192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Minister Keegan isn\u2019t the first government politician to get Covid numbers jumbled up this week.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab caused confusion on Tuesday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/12\/14\/project-fear-number-uk-omicron-hospitalised-revised-250-10\/\">giving<\/a> three different numbers for how many Omicron cases were in UK hospitals during three different interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Raab claimed that there were 250 cases of Omicron in hospitals during an interview on Sky News, but significantly revised that number downward to nine during a later interview with the BBC that same morning.<\/p>\n<p>When confronted on the issue during the third interview on Good Morning Britain, Raab revised his figure again to ten, claiming that he misheard the question during the initial Sky News interview, and that he was giving a number more \u201cgenerally\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, officials told Sky News that the minister had actually \u201cmisspoke\u201d during the first interview, and confirmed that the actual number of Omicron cases in hospital at the time was indeed ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another British minister has shown themselves unable to recall the number of Omicron cases in hospitals \u2014 presumably a matter of great importance, given government policy to lock the country &#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-1124779","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\/1124779","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=1124779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124779\/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=1124779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}