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The Isle of Man government has announced precautionary actions are underway to reduce the risk of transmission of the new Covid-19 variant.

There have been 99 new cases of coronavirus discovered on the Island in the last 24 hours.

Following the amber weather warning for this weekend, the government has issued a public notice.

A woman is asking the Manx public to send birthday cards to her husband - who is battling Huntington's Disease.

Due to severe weather that's expected to hit the Island, the Mountain Road will be closed overnight. 

A new police operation has seen 17 people arrested and significant quantities of Class A, B and C drugs seized.

Hundreds of vehicles were stopped by police in a recent winter road safety campaign.

A weather warning for the Isle of Man has been upgraded from yellow to amber.

A worrying new COVID strain has been classified by the World Health Organisation as a "variant of concern" - its most serious level - and officially given the Greek name Omicron.

So the new variant has a name, but we've no idea about its reputation.

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) is warning that waiting times have trebled as the country battles the highest COVID infection rate in the UK.

The first victim of Wednesday's tragedy in the Channel has been named as Mariam Nouri Hamadameen, a 24-year-old Kurdish woman from northern Iraq.