The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 3,628 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
As of 8am today, 420 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 105 are in ICU.
Possible Omicron cases can be identified by the number of PCR results with ‘S gene target failure'; using this methodology, The HPSC estimates that approximately 35% of reported cases are now due to the Omicron variant.
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