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To get ahead of the virus. im a little bit concerned it may be difficult to keep up with omicron because it spreads so fast. and in the past few days there have been more and more cases being picked up. so, i wonder whethered government is going to have to consider bringing in more stringent public health measures. you mentioned in your report, whats happening in the mainland, each time theres an outbreak in the city in the mainland, theres a very stringent depth of interventions implemented to ...

Berman. the visa of novak skwroerb sreufp has been revoked days before the australian open. he is unvaccinated. australia is struggling with rising case numbers and have been investigating a series of errors and discrepancies in covid testing and travel documents. . >> djokovic now faces deportation. if he is ordered to leave, he will be unavailable to defend his title and break the grand slam record he covets for now. djokovic is appealing the ruling. australian minister alex hawke said the dec...

>> reporter: jose, theyre largely attributing this surge in hospitalizations to the transmissibility of the omicron evaporate. the case numbers here are just exploding. and as this virus makes its way through more and more of the population, that drives up those hospitalization numbers. the governor here calling this covid wave the omicron tsunami, because right now, there are more people hospitalized in new jersey at this point in the pandemic than at any point in the last year, in fact, the mo...

>> i think it is two things first and foremost. the economy, inflation is out of control. nobody can buy anything at the store without breaking an arm and a leg. lastly, secondly, not a very distant second, the pandemic. somebody the president was elected in large part if not solely because he promised to make the pandemic go away. everything was supposed to be better and we are going into a third year, a full year into president bidens term in office and nothing has gotten better. everything ha...

Need to go further, because case numbers are going up massively? the hospitalisations are going up quite a lot and there are voices out there saying we need a more proportionate approach with more restrictions. this afternoon the action will move to parliament because parliament is back after christmas recess and the prime minister will do a statement to mps updating them on all of this stuff so thats where we will get a lot more detail. i think lots of conservative backbenchers will be looking ...

Where proof of vaccination is required. joining us now to talk about this, reporter for "the washington post," eugene scott. eugene, great to see you. were glad youre here. theres a record number of covid cases in the u.s., almost hard to get our heads around, the sheer size of the infections that are across the country right now, nearing half a million. the biden administration, the president has said it candidly. hes said it publicly he knows they have to control it and bring it to an eventual...

By the middle ofian. thats something that should have been there in january. they the nih didnt approve the home test until october. they said they can bring tens of millions of tests out to people, but what? we have half a million new cases of omicron a day and we dont have the testing for it. now the flu season is starting. patients call me and i try to figure out over the phone what they have without the testing i need. snail speed is the word. katie: the admin said everybody should get teste...

>> as those case numbers grow higher, one consequence is clear. right now more kids are hospitalized with covid-19 than ever before. cnns polo sandoval joins me now from new york city. polo, health experts say the times square new years eve celebration could come back to haunt the city. so how is new york gearing up amid the omicron surge? >> paula, those health officials have been warning that the current explosion in covid numbers is something that they have never seen before. in fact, four ti...

You think of that? >> i think that is wrong. schools should stay open. i worry more about the teachers that are fully vaccinated and boosted. im not worried about the children. children, again, very few of them get very sick. the omicron variant doesnt cause anything but a cold-like illness in children. keep the children in school. its more troublesome to take them out and close the school. >> trace: lastly, dr. hahita, is it time to forget about the case numbers? just worry about severe illness...

Points to the fact that over christmas we already depended on the taterat— christmas we already depended on the lateral flow test because covid is everywhere, particularly in london over christmas, and to be able to go out and _ over christmas, and to be able to go out and do _ over christmas, and to be able to go out and do anything, everyone was checking _ out and do anything, everyone was checking it. — out and do anything, everyone was checking it, so i dont think youll be out _ checking...