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Important ones. boosters, important. people should get them. what is most important is to get those first vaccinations. thats thats more important. so this data, the reason why we care about this data, israel started a robust booster program back in august, way before a lot of other places did. in addition, israel has a centralized national health service and theyre great at keeping data. their data is quite meaningful. lets look at one of their findings. they looked at more than 843,000 people,...

>> im salma abdelaziz in london. the u.k. government is taking steps to curb any potential spread of the ohm mi omicron va. the health secretary says he expects the case count to rise. what are the new restrictions? mask mandates will go into place on tuesday in public transport. travel restrictions have been expanded against south africa and several other neighboring countries but crucially, the u.k. is looking at expanding its booster program. everyone over the age of 18 now will be recommende...

Confirmed up in ontario in canada. the uk government is announcing new restrictions. >> there are new measures coming into force in the uk, perhaps not as stringent as what weve saw when previous variants were found. but the prime minister did announce yesterday that mandatory mask wearing will be brought back into force on public transport. and the government is looking at the booster program, widening the pool of people eligible to get that booster jab and of course shortening that gap between...

Coronavirus variant. hes called on people to come forward for booster vaccinations and is urgently considering widening the booster program. two people who tested positive for the new variant remain in isolation. as our health correspondent anna collinson reports. the borders have already been breached by omicron with two cases of the heavily mutated covid variant detected in england, scientist and the government fears there may be more. the threat it poses is currently unknown but there are con...

More is learned about what these countries can do to stop or mitigate the spread of it. >> and in the meantime, europe still in the throws of the existing covid crisis, because of the delta variant. so how are the worst-hit countries trying to cope with that? >> well, exactly right. the w.h.o said that europe is the epicenter of the fourth wave of the pandemic. now, it was already difficult for countries like germany, which has seen record-breaking cases. austria is in full lockdown, the netherl...

Response. >> delta was primarily driven by the ability to spread really rapidly. this one here, really the biggest thing that is leading us to which to move rapidly is to do with the least strong theoretical reasons for thinking that some degree of vaccine escape is likely. >> reporter: after suspending flights from several southern african countries on friday, johnson said new targeted measures are necessary to contain new variant. all travelers to the uk will have to take a pcr test within two...

Citizens, permanent residents, they will be exempt. theyll still be able to get back into the u.s., but they will need to have a negative covid-19 test, alex. >> the fact that this variant, any of these covid situations dont respect borders, were going to take everybody right now to listen to the british prime minister boris johnson whos talking about whats going on there in great britain. take a listen, everybody. >> essentially there are three different -- in younger children, there is quite s...

Is relatively stable compared to some other countries, we must continue to take care and we must not allow ourselves to be lulled into any false sense of security so let me now give more detail in the recent trend we are seeing here. last week, i noted that cases had increased gradually over the previous fortnight from just over 2500 new cases per day to just over 3000. since then, the situation appears to have stabilised again and in the past 7 days, the average number of new cases being record...

So six months. if you got your second shot before may the 1st, you are eligible to get the booster right now. ive made it clear we have ample supply of boosters. and thanks to our planning and preparation, our booster program is off to a very strong start. over 20 million americans have now received a booster. in fact, in just six weeks, weve already gotten boosters to about half the eligible seniors who received the pfizer vaccine. nearly half of the eligible seniors in just six weeks. it took ...

Months after you get your vaccination. if you got your second shot before may the 1st, you are eligible to get the booster right now. ive made it clear, we have ample supply have boosters. thanks to her planning and preparation, our booster program is off to a very strong start. over 20 million americans have been received booster. in just six weeks, we have gotten boosters to half of the eligible seniors who received the pfizer vaccine. half the eligible seniors in just six weeks. it took nearl...