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The spread of covid that theyre seeing now. one of the new york city health officials said they have never seen it like this. maybe its perhaps that the truth is, new york early on was the epicenter of this covid-19 virus. we didnt know what to expect. so it was hard to know how to identify it. but now, health officials are saying, they didnt even see then what theyre seeing now and its causing them a lot of concern and causing them to take measures that they hope will arrest the continued sprea...

A year. with delta already putting a strain on hospitals just days from winter, the speed of omicron is fueling a rapid explosion in covid once again. in the uk, cases are at record levels for the entire pandemic. now doubling every two days or even less. the cdc says omicron accounts for about 3% of cases here nationwide but about 13% in parts of the northeast. but researchers from harvard say an omicron surge is already under way across the united states, outrunning our ability to even track i...

Random testing. so theyll pick someone ran come randomly and youll go get tested and get your results back. so if it comes back positive, the whole class has to go on, like, remote. >> that is so hard to listen to, you can hear the fatigue in their voices, which begs the question, as we approach christmas gatherings, it is december 2021, not december 2020. should we be measuring the threat differently than we did a year ago in terms of hospitalizations, not cases, since covid is going to be with...

Attendance. lets move on now. new york citys mayor-elect has tapped the next commissioner of the nypd. commissioner sewell will be only the third black person to lead the nations largest police force. joining me is incoming police commissioner, chief keechant sewell. thank you for joining us and congratulations on this very big and important job. >> thank you so much for having me. its a pleasure to be here. >> youre coming in at a precarious time. the city is dealing with all sorts of stuff, ...

>> forgive the word, if you will, katy, but new york city is trying to boost the safety protocols to protect people around this covid disease that we have now. one of the things that the mayor said just a short while ago is that the data that theyre monitoring, its showing an alarming trend. hes pointed out that the percentage of people in new york city testing positive for covid-19 doubled in three days this week. as a result of it, the mayor said theyre going to be giving out 500,000 free rapi...

Anything is going to feed that discussion in washington about whether or not we are in the or falling into the risk of falling into a cold war with our two traditional main adversaries youre seeing it now, arent you. the way they set this up, the athletes could go but there was no diplomatic presence, and im not sure there could be one given covid. but it is a interesting symbolic move. with russia, it is high stakes and if the troops do move in and this is more cyber activity for ukraine, coit ...

John Cox JOHN Cox a former editor of the Gazette Series sadly passed away on April 15 following a battle with dementia. John, a lifelong Gazette journalist started as a trainee reporter at the Dursley Gazette in 1950, before becoming sports editor, creating the motoring section, editing the Wilts and Glos Standard before becoming editor of the Gazette and group editorial director. His most notable early story was covering the River Severn rail bridge disaster, along with long time Gazette...

IT was 23 February, 2009, and Cerrie Burnell remembers the story in the Evening Standard well. “Dozens of parents,” she read, “have complained…

Officials will this week launch urgent talks to thrash out a Brexit deal for the City by March, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The Treasury’s top Ministers and civil servants will hold meetings with City lobby groups to form a plan for selling British financial services in EU countries. John Glen, the City Minister, and Katharine Braddick, director general of financial services at the Treasury, will play key roles in drawing up a ‘memorandum of understanding’ with the EU. John Glen, the C...