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Marking world aids day. >> were listening to press secretary psaki. lets get you updated on what we just heard from dr. fauci. it is now confirmed, the first case of omicron has been detected in the united states. its detected in san francisco by the university of california at san francisco. it was an individual traveler who came from south africa, got here on november 22nd, tested positive on november 29th. all of that persons close contacts have now been tested. they have tested negative. the...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. youre his chief medical adviser. do you think thats something the country should adopt? >> im not so sure we should say that should be a requirement. we have 60 million people in this country who are not vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. lets get them vaccinated, lets get the people who are vaccinated boosted, lets get the children vaccinated. thats where we want to go as opposed...

I only heard about it, - that it comes into force this morning at four oclock. this is taking money out of my pocket again that i dont have. people will have to pay for pcr tests, and some travel industry leaders are calling for them to be made available on the nhs for travellers. others say they have not had enough notice of the changes. unfortunately, the industry does not get information in good time, ahead of government announcements, so we can make sure customers are where they need to be i...

And incredibly frustrating. the uk isnt the only country to introduce new restrictions. british people planning skiing holidays to switzerland now face the prospect of quarantining for ten days on arrival. and from tomorrow, you will have to be fully vaccinated to go to spain. no one knows for certain the risks of this new variant but many countries are taking no chances. charlotte gallagher, bbc news. as weve been reporting, borisjohnson will be leading a downing street briefing at 4pm today. h...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Nations around the world sought Monday to keep the new omicron variant...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Taking an act-now-ask-questions-later approach, countries around the...

So you already got that omicron coming into that situation. what we are going to see is a lot more quarantining and a lot more lockdown and simply to hear a backlash against this. the good news is the stepping up of booster and hopefully as the two doctors are saying, there will be the ability to reformulate the vaccines to accommodate omicron. the ultimate point we are talking about this all year is you need to vaccinate the world. you have to vaccinate the world otherwise this will keep coming...

You know, the basics, quarantining, of course, the vaccinations, that sort of thing. >> 30% of the people in the united states eligible for a vaccine are not vaccinated. thats why experts are encouraging vaccinations. also the president after these remarks on the omicron variant he will be talking about the supply chain which is loosely related to code. thats going to be later this later this afternoon. a lot for president biden as he gets back from the thanksgiving holiday. back to you. brian: ...

Right now were allowing residents and citizens to return which we should but we should have mandatory quarantining and testing otherwise there are too many loopholes and were not obtaining our goal, which is to contain omicron. we should be doing other things, too, including encouraging boosters but ramping up testing and imploemting indoor mask mandates too. we do know president biden will be providing an update to the united states tomorrow. dr. lena wen, thank you for joining us tonight. >>...

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