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Impact of omicron on staffing levels 'a huge worry,' says head of BMA Scotland

THE impact of the rapidly spreading omicron Covid variant on NHS staffing levels is a “huge worry,” the chairman of BMA Scotland has said.

Dr Lewis Morrison said the NHS was facing a “double whammy” of winter pressures and the latest coronavirus variant.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced on Friday that omicron is now the dominant strain of the virus and a “tsunami” was beginning to hit Scotland.

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