Over 10,000 additional confirmed omicron cases in UK
An additional 10,059 confirmed cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 have been reported across the U.K., according to the U.K. Health Security Agency's daily omicron overview on Saturday.
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Confirmed omicron cases in the U.K. now total 24,968.
-ABC News' Rashid Haddou