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Public Health Dorset is urging residents to continue to stay at home if they test positive or display symptoms of the virus.

Public Health Dorset has welcomed the easing of measures but is still urging caution over the coming weeks.

A number of local hospitals and healthcare settings now require visitors to take a lateral flow test and to prove a negative result.

“Omicron means more patients to treat and fewer staff to treat them,” said NHS national medical director Stephen Powis.

A critical incident has been declared at University Hospitals Dorset due to limited availability of beds and a high number of staff off work.

The Stroke Association is urging people not to delay seeking treatment due to fear of Omicron as they did in first wave of pandemic.

Because of NHS pressures, the collaboration between the two services, which began in 2020, is to continue until April next year.

Dorset has ramped up its vaccination programme and upped the number of vaccines given to local people by almost 60% on the previous week.

With more than 830,000 booster jabs reported on ‘super Saturday’ the NHS confirms it has delivered another record-breaking day.

The NHS is to offer every adult the chance to book a Covid-19 booster jab by the end of December.