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Complaining on social media that after going through all the hoops to make sure they could travel during this pandemic period, including standing in chaotic and long lines at testing clinics, their christmas plans are now being ruined. kim, this comes as covid-19 cases are surging across australia. queensland reporting the highest daily case count since the pandemic started, reporting nearly 600 cases. health authorities there saying they expect the numbers to increase significantly in the comin...

♪ ♪ welcome back to "cnn newsroom," live from cnn headquarters here in atlanta. im rosemary church. the australian state of new south wales is reporting record covid infections. more than 3700 cases have been recorded from tuesday. france has broken its record for daily infections. the government blames the omicron variant for mondays case count of nearly 73,000. meanwhile, the uk is cutting the required isolation period for most covid cases in england from ten days. along with two negativ...

There is good news, both new york and new jersey are not seeing a drastic increase in hospitalizations just yet. a few minutes ago, we spoke to a hospital official here in new york who says stay calm. this isnt 2020. he says they still have plenty of hospital capacity. >> telling you it is not a crisis. those are good things to hear. president biden, meantime, later today, hes going to lay out a new strategy to fight the covid resurgence. this strategy centering on testing. the president will ...

Frankly, hospitals are full of people who made that mistake. and so are graveyards, full of people that have made that mistake. >> unfortunately, that is where we start tonight. overburdened hospitals and staffing shortages. tonight, the pentagon announced it is deploying two teams to indiana and wisconsin to support hospitals in those states with covid relief. this comes as ohio has deployed its national guard to hospitals this week. ohios case count is at its highest point in just over a year....

Have plenty of capacity, at least for now. this is not 2020, he says. we are learning of the first known omicron-related death in the united states. a texas man in his 50s with underlying health issues. he was unvaccinated and previouprevious previously had been infected with covid-19. and the nhl is postponing their games until after christmas at least. >> at the white house, a staff member tested positive for covid. president biden will be tested again today. today, he is set to direct the p...

U.s. covering the covid crisis. natasha chen is in los angeles, where officials say they are seeing cases rise again. but first to new york, where cnns paulo sandoval reports on another record case count for the state. >> reporter: for three days now, new york state has seen a significant increase in the number of new covid cases. now, in fact a record number of covid cases confirmed throughout the statute here. we have heard some optimism coming from new york city mayor bill de blasio on sund...

Starting to go up. we have a report from atlanta on the covid outbreaks in sports including the nfl, nba, and nhl. but first to new york where cnns paulo sandoval reports on another record case count for the state. >> reporter: for three days new york state has seen significant increase in the number of new covid cases, a record number of cases confirmed throughout the state. we have heard optimism from the new york city mayor bill de blasio on sunday saying the bringing back of several of the m...

If youre boosted, that will be a big point of emphasis for the president on tuesday, you are protected from serious illness and hospitalization. that is the dichotomy that this white house is now dealing with, and at the same time ive also been told that white house officials have been looking at ways to shift the public focus to hospitalization, severe illness and death rather than just this case count which is going to rise astronomically in the weeks ahead. but that doesnt mean the hospitaliz...

Year, and for those who are unvaccinated experts say prepare to get infected. >> i think if youre unfvaxnate now and you travel in this country you are going to get this virus. i think if youre unvaccinated in this country and you go to a holiday party you are going to get this virus. if youre unvaccinated and you walk into a bar, you are going to get this virus. its that contagious. and it will be that ubiquitous. >> new york just broke a troubling covid-19 record for the second consecutive day...

Already overwhelmed health care system. now, despite all of that, americans arent putting the holidays on hold. more than 109 million people are expected to travel this year, close to pre-pandemic levels. new york just broke a troubling covid-19 record for the second consecutive day. the state is reporting more new cases than it did at the start of the pandemic. cnns polo sandoval explains. >> reporter: well, the state of new york reported its highly daily covid case count, roughly 21,000, earli...