for an omicron surge with the number of countries detecting the variant increasing daily. it also said it was too soon to say if omicron causes more serious illness. british scientists have found that the pfizer and moderna vaccines are the most effective to use as boosterjabs. they also found signs that a third jab protects against the new variant. prosecutors in michigan have charged the parents of the teenager accused of a deadly school shooting with involuntary manslaughter. jennifer and james crumbley bought the handgun allegedly used in the attack last sunday. and pope francis has visited cyprus. at a prayer service, he condemned what he said was slavery and torture being suffered by people fleeing war and poverty. at 10 o clock, sophie raworth will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, it s newscast.
not explain the african band. take a look. what justified the travel ban on the continents that have zero cases of the that is a very good question, an important question. we did struggle with that, but we wanted to see if we could buy time temporarily, so i do hope that this gets sorted out before it has any significant impact on your country. sean: i want to know why the nih what gave money to the alliance that according to the nih was involved in gain of function resource at the wuhan virology lab. to recap them according to biden, trump is a racist bird banning travel from china where the outbreak started to read perfectly okay for him to band travel from certain african countries where the omicron variant isn t even really present. throughout this entire pandemic, there is one thing we can always count on and that is the great