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Canada said five members of its olympic team were placed in protocols since arriving in beijing. not clear if theyre in quarantine. brazil is announcing the covid cases, 200,000 compared 228,000 the day before. germany health minister said covid numbers are lower than the measures already in place. it comes as german lawmakers debate whether or not to enforce a vaccine mandate. all right. lets bring in scott mclean live in london. scott, fewer cases expected in germany, but that doesnt quite tel...

Expert claims the country has passed the peak of its omicron wave. he says by the time this wave is over, more than half of israels population will have been infected with the variant. cnns had disgold joins me live from jerusalem. hadas, explain what this expert means about the peak passing and how it might relate to the rollout of the fourth vaccine dose? >> reporter: first the bad news. for the first time in a year, the serious hospitalized cases have passed 1,000 people. i think the latest n...

Main points, social distancing measures have not been scrapped in wales, much to the delight of hospitality and workplaces, and the rule of six has been scrapped along with nightclubs being able to reopen. they were the first, the last two it reopened last year and the first shot and now they can reopen just in time for the six nations in a few weeks here in wales. and of course the work from home rule, which was still a legal requirement, has now been madejust guidance only. a few things remain...

Going on among children? now the cases are starting - going on among children? firm" the cases are starting to come down, and in many cases they are coming down as quickly as they went up. the big question we have here for the omicron wave is doesnt continue to plummet and go back down to a very low level or doesnt resemble what is happening in the united kingdom, which goes down about halfway then plateaus. we are seeing a lot of paediatric hospitalisations, however with the omicron wave and th...

Let the virus run wild, knowing that they have high levels of protection from the vaccine, not every country, thats true for. im thinking of places like russia, ukraine, romania. they are all seeing huge spikes in cases, but all have vaccination rates less than 50%. >> interesting. and in israel, they have a very high vaccination rate, hadas, but there we have a leading top health expert there in israel, making this bold claim, despite the fact that cases are so high there, that the country has ...

One is that each state is kind of in a different phase of this wave. new york was hit early on so its cases have dropped down a lot further, a lot faster than some other places that were a bit later in this omicron wave and they havent gone all the way down. they say variations state by state and local level by local level depending on what the cases are. the cdc is maintaining that people should continue to wear masks in areas with highest substantial transmission. at this point the overwhelmin...

Protection. we just need to keep doing the right things to fight this pandemic. we need to keep doing the right things. thats why you are seeing the 50 pistons decline in cases we have seep in the past 3 weeks. >> omicron hit on month 11 of the pandemic. is the president angry at the advisers for not having tests stocked? >> i think we were prepared for the omicron wave. we have done a lot to vaccinate people. the fact that we had vaccinated 200 million people fully vaccinated 200 million people...

It was at the front of the omicron wave, and we are looking at new jersey at 3,000 cases on any average day now. at the same time when you are looking around the country, the masking of children in schools have been such a hot point in covid politics. there are 16 states including washington, d.c. that have mask mandates in schools. in the state of delaware, their governor announcing next month they would be lifting their own mask mandate in schools and now the attention turns to new york where ...

Manufacturing, be able to make these vaccines in different places so we are able to meet the need. >> let me ask you about the other headline today. one of them. specifically about masks with the cdc saying, okay. keep your masks on in places where there could be areas of high transmission like schools. now you have more and more governors saying students can take them off in schools. you know, whos got it right here? if youre sending your kid to school are you sending them in a mask or not? >> ...

We do have breaking news. some strong indicators of the receding omicron wave in the countrys move toward a new normal. one by one, five states just announced dates to end mask mandates in schools, child care centers, or end indoor machine datas entirely. new jersey, connecticut, delaware, oregon all ending their school mask mandates either this month or next. delaware and oregon will also drop their state-wide indoor mask mandates entirely soon. and cal ifornia as well. the indoor mask requirem...