Capital's hospitals brace for strain from Omicron

Up to one in three patients coming through Hutt Hospital's emergency department have Covid.
At the same time 800 doctors and nurses at Wellington region's three hospitals have been off sick or in isolation this week- that's nearly 15 percent of the clinical workforce.
With the Omicron outbreak yet to peak, frontline health workers at the Capital and Coast DHB were warning it was more critical than ever to slow the spread.
RNZ's Ruth Hill reports.