DAILY Covid instances within the UK have greater than halved in two weeks.
A complete of 81,713 recent infections have been reported within the newest 24-hour interval, in comparison with a staggering 179,637 a fortnight in the past.
An extra 287 virus deaths have been additionally recorded yesterday - down on final week's 313, however an increase on the 162 on January 1.
It brings the whole variety of optimistic instances because the pandemic started to fifteen,147,120.
And the UK's Covid dying toll now stands at a grim 151,899.
At this time is the second day in a row that the variety of individuals testing optimistic has fallen under 100,000.
Infections dipped to 99,652 earlier than falling additional to right this moment's 81,713 in a promising signal the nation is transferring previous the Omicron peak.
The final time figures have been under 100,000 earlier than January 14 was December 21, which noticed 90,629 instances.
And in additional optimistic information, coronavirus instances are actually falling in each area in England because the essential R price has stabilised, new knowledge has revealed.
The R price is at present between 1.1 and 1.5 a slight dip from final weeks 1.2 to 1.5.
It is highest within the North East, which sits between 1.4 and 1.7, however regardless of a excessive R price, infections are actually beginning to fall within the area - which had beforehand been an Omicron epicentre.
Specialists have put the declining numbers all the way down to the UK's speedy vaccination roll-out.
A string of massively optimistic research present Omicron is milder than different strains within the vaccinated, with the primary official UK report revealing the danger of hospitalisation is 50 to 70 per cent decrease than with Delta.
Covid booster jabs defend in opposition to Omicron and supply the perfect probability to get by way of the pandemic, well being officers have repeatedly stated.
The Solar's Jabs Military marketing campaign helps get the very important further vaccines in Brits' arms to chase away the necessity for any new restrictions.
A number of Covid measures have already been scrapped amid the optimism, together with self-isolation for optimistic instances being slashed to simply 5 days for the totally jabbed.
And it appears the UK is "on the opposite facet" of the Omicron peak with "hospitalisations, deaths and common severity trying extra optimistic", in accordance with epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector.
'STILL UNDER PRESSURE'
However whereas well being consultants have declared the latest decline in coronavirus instances "trigger for optimism", the NHS is "not out of the woods but".
Jillian Evans, head of well being intelligence at NHS Grampian, stated she was inspired by knowledge displaying a slowing-down of infections however the well being board is predicted to return below stress over the subsequent two weeks.
Talking on BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio programme, Ms Evans stated: "Actually, a slowing down of these an infection charges that we noticed in simply within the run-up to Christmas and in the beginning of New 12 months."
However she warned the impact of the Omicron would nonetheless be felt in hospitals round Scotland, and in the remainder of the UK.
"The baked-in instances that we have, we count on to see for the subsequent week, two weeks," she stated.
"In order that signifies that we're nonetheless below stress in well being and social care programs, but it surely offers us some trigger for optimism.
"Significantly once you begin to have a look at the consequences elsewhere in Scotland and the UK and in different components of the world the place the Omicron wave occurred sooner, we're beginning to see a slowdown or perhaps a plateauing of hospitalisations.
"In order that's optimistic information, however we're nowhere close to out of the woods but."
Scottish Well being Secretary Humza Yousaf additionally stated on Friday that the Omicron wave seemed to be "decelerating" however extra knowledge was wanted to be definitive.
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