The Prime Minister says the country is in a better place and despite warnings from the NHS he's confident there will be no need for a Plan B.

Boris Johnson accepted that cases were high but that they were within the parameters forecast by scientific advisers and insists the government's focus is on the vaccine programme and booster shots. The number of covid cases in the UK have exceeded 50,000 for first time since July.

Sky's Health Correspondent Ashish Joshi reports.

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