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What are the big changes, and what does it mean for everyone? >> this is bait of an end to an era. im happy to be sitting here and saying this after years and years of this, it feels like. so these changes are for several reasons. one of them really, the big one, is that its just -- covid isnt the threat that it once was. the vast majority of americans have immunity from vaccination or previous infection. plus we have vaccines, we have treatments. its different than it once was. lets look at wha...

Down in their homes and millions are facing compulsory testing, after a surge of covid—19 cases linked to a late—night bar in the chinese capital was revealed. its raised concerns of a city—wide shutdown just as chinas second—largest city shanghai slowly re—emerges from a two—month lockdown. a short time ago, i spoke to our china correspondent stephen mcdonell, whos quarantining in a hotel in the southern city of xiamen. hes just returned to china. i asked him to give us a sense what...

The events of the night _ and what happened afterwards. if there had been some criminal convictions, i if people that lived in social housing were never going l to be treated the way| that we were treated, if there was no one going - to bed at night with the same cladding as grenfell on their buildings, i that would be something. but none of that has happened, and thats why its so painful. . because, people here say, this is not over until justice is done. tom symonds, bbc news, at grenfell towe...

View of the virus, doctor, where with it seems under control and then suddenly its not. shanghai returned to business as normal, then theres a bit of a lockdown affecting 2 million less -- residents right afterwards. so where are we on this? >> well, this is a highly infective subvarian i cant, and you know there are -- subvariants, and you know there are subvariants of the variety i cant -- variant at the time. were all hoping that delta, that that doesnt arise. right now people are being infec...

Would have started now? >> well, youre right. this is a disease, monkeypox, that is present and endemic, as its called, in parts of west and central africa. i grew up in liberia and have practiced in south africa, and have seen cases of monkeypox there. whats unusual about this outbreak, laura, is that its spreading in places that dont typically have infections. how it started is unclear. were getting new clues every day. currently we have clusters of outbreaks in places like spain and portugal ...

That time when you have those symptoms just before the spots turn up, you can actually spread it that way as well through droplet infection and breathing, but its doesnt hang around in the air in the way that we have learned to think about covid. you still need extremely close contact. you could not know you have got monkeypox and i think you are going down with the flu which is why i was emphasising the swollen glands in your neck which is not something you would normally see with other sorts o...

Supply chain issues we have to build resilience around too. >> that is a good question. it truly is. quickly on covid, we are seeing cases rising all over the country now, dr. wen. a lot of people are getting and will be getting covid in this moment thanks to vaccines we are not seeing hospitalizations and deaths jump like they did before. and for many people, this is turning into something similar to the cold or flu. but what still sets covid apart and these illnesses are the isolation rules th...

Actor and one person responsible. >> i want to play something that the commissioner said, commissioner sewell, about some preliminary information and possible -- a little concerns about the mares, the mare eric adams, quarantining in gracie mentioned, his covid, one of the 60 plus people from the grid iron dinner. this is with the nypd commissioner had to say, take a listen. >> based on preliminary information, there was some postings put possibly connected to the person of interest, he mentions...

A disaster in china because they havent actually used the tools to make it much more manageable. now theyre left with their same kind of recipe book of taking children from parents and using drones to spy on people, make sure theyre quarantining. thats what they do when they should have been giving the vaccine all along so they wouldnt be this this situation. neil: what do you tell your own patients, doctor? many of whom are concerned should i wear a mask, should i get a booster, three, four sho...

Downtown tel aviv. the shooting took place in an area packed with restaurants. it is the fourth gunman attack in israel in the last two weeks. all right, covid cases across the country are dropping, but thats not the case here in the nations capital, where a surge of infections are getting dangerously close to the president of the united states. cbs weijia jiang is at the white house with more. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosis positive covid test today came less than 24 hours after she w...