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But there are labs like this all around this area. and we saw a lot of them. many of them right now are focused on running tests to make sure that these sorts of kits still work. so this is the at-home rapid antigen covid kit that you can buy over-the-counter, produced by abbott, its called binax now. its a relatively simple kit that comes with two tests. this sort of thing is a device, a tool that a lot of families are planning to use as they go home to visit other family members for the holida...

They trade one off for the other. so you may sigh that. in terms of what we know, this is, again, unfolding real-time. the specimen that was collected that ended up being the first specimen that was on november 9th so, you know, just three -- three weeks ago or so. and it was identified to have this genomic sequence. we now know its in 15-plus countries around the world and theres some 50 mutations on this. some of these mutations, we have seen before and they were associated with more transmiss...

There is also this potential tug of war as the south african health minister was talking about this morning as viruses become more transmissible, evolve into becoming more contagious, sometimes they lose some of their punch as well. they trade one off for the other. so you may sigh that. in terms of what we know, this is, again, unfolding real-time. the specimen that was collected that ended up being the first specimen that was on november 9th so, you know, just three -- three weeks ago or so. a...

The nhs test and trace service. do you think the government is going to give way on that? i you think the government is going to give way on that?— give way on that? i think its a really important _ give way on that? i think its a really important point. - give way on that? i think its a really important point. we - give way on that? i think its aj really important point. we are give way on that? i think its a - really important point. we are now in a position where travellers have started to ...

Omicron virus spreads across the region. 6 new cases reported in scotland. that means the cases in the u.k. up between 9 and 12. weve seen one case now reported in austria. weve seen 13 cases reported in portugal and the interesting thing about the six cases reported in scotland, some of them had no connection to travel. no travel history at all. they didnt come from southern africa. that is a clue. it might mean that there are already more cases of the omicron variant across the european union,...

Hannah, rich. >> good afternoon, sandra. in their investigation last year, former state department officials say they examined a report that claim to the lab leak in on was plausible, that was first reported in "the wall street journal," the report last year from the lawrence livermore national laboratory analyzed the genomic sequence for the virus that causes covid had been 19, found a lab leak was plausible and state officials use that information in their report, fast forward a few months, se...

More news begins now. >> dana: fox news alert on a stunning report involving the covid lab leak theory. a respected lab in california thought it very plausible for the leak in wuhan. the report is more than a year old from the early days of the pandemic. senator tom cotton reacts in a moment and here is rich edson at the state department. >> bill: report dated in may state department officials received this report in october among the first u.s. government efforts to seriously explore whether th...