have coming from the ons, what we have here is the number of people arriving, net migration, the year ending june 2023, was 672,000 people, so the difference between those arriving and those leaving. a positive figure of 672,000. that was higher than a year earlier, injune 2022, when it was 600,000, so 10% higher, another 65,000 people arriving in 2023 compared to 2022. but the one thing they saying this is that the number was down on the estimate. if you took the december figure, it went up, but then down compared to december 2022. possibly an indication of a downward possible turn of the curve but still, as you were saying, very high figures, particularly if you consider that if you look back to the beginning, of the last election, this latest government, at the point they came in it was 226,000, so very roughly a third of the level it is now. and the promise in 2019 from the conservative government in their manifesto was that overall numbers will come down. we haven t seen
school children heading back to school that have yet to be vaccinated yet. let s get to whit johnson here in new york. i know the fda giving us a better sense of a timeline to move from emergency use authorization of the pfizer vaccine to a full approval of the pfizer vaccine, and i know many health experts hope this could also be an important step to convincing more people that this is not temporary. it would be a full approval. reporter: david, the fda granted that accelerated six-month timeline for review. this could give full approval to the pfizer vaccine in those 16 and older by january 2022. possibly sooner. some think this might persuade businesses and schools to require vaccines and perhaps give some of those people on the fence more confidence to go ahead and get their shots. david? whit johnson, we know you ll be anchoring this broadcast tomorrow night. in the meantime, we know a lot of you at home have questions on