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ROME. KAZINFORM - The new COVID-19 sub-variant BA.2.3 currently accounts for around 20% of new coronavirus cases being reported in Italy, geneticist and Naples university COVID task force coordinator Massimo Zollo told ANSA Wednesday.

>> good morning the biden administration says theyve extended it with the cdc now taking it from april 18 to may 3rd for the mask requirement. they want to dive into the sub variant. this accounts for 85% of all new cases in the united states now. the biden administration says they are hoping to use this extension of several weeks to learn more about the sub variant and its potential to spread even as cases in the u.s. continue to stay relatively low compared to what weve seen in the past. we un...

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Even on broadway, sometimes the show must not go on. most of these theatres only reopened in the second half of last year after being shut for the best part of 18 months but now the curtain is falling once more. only at a couple of venues and only to begin with for a couple of days. ticket holders don�*t seem too worried. i am not as concerned because we are all vaccinated and boosted and i know that theatres make you mask still. i don�*t think i would go if they did not require maskings and...

The ceremony in london last night celebrated the gaming industry which is now worth £7 billion a year. covid infections rates in the uk have been flattening out — thats according to the latest estimates from the ons. data for the week ending april 2nd suggest there were just under 4.88 millions cases of the virus, very slightly done from 4.91 million the week earlier. our medical editor, fergus walsh, is here. it is still a lot of infections. it is, we are still in the midst of the biggest le...

Thanks. >> dana: washington state announcing a new version of omicron was detected there earlier this month. the new sub variant has turned up in parts of asia and europe. jonathan serrie live in atlanta home of the cdc headquarters. >> good morning, dana. ba2 is the name of this new sub variant and it has some additional mutations including to the spike protein but researchers at this point dont know how it compares in terms of trance missability or the severity of disease it caused but serves ...

Variant. >> two weeks ago, we were inside a covid icu at the cleveland clinic and met ron. >> what would you say to people who think that omicron is mild and its no big deal? >> i tell them to walk out the door and they can come and sit in here and see what its like. >> he is back home and slowly recovering. but his son has been hospitalized for 71 days. with double pneumonia and covid. >> whats the lesson that we should learn from what your family has been lieu? >> i think appreciate family. ti...

. thats going to do it for us tonight. ayman mohyeldin ayman mohyeldin will be here for me tomorrow night. but i will be back with you monday. "way too early" with jonathan le mire is up next. president biden reaffirms his promise to nominate a black woman to the u.s. supreme court. with justice stephen breyer officially announcing his retirement, the question is when will the president name his pick. new comments from vladimir putin indicate that the crisis on the border of ukraine is heade...

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Fully vaccinate and boosted. >> lets keep working on improving therapeutics and vaccines and make sure theres plenty of them so whenever the next variant hits, well be ready, we wont have to shut down schools or our lives. >> reporter: theres now a sub variant of omicron but experts say it is not yet cause for alarm. >> were keeping a close eye on it. it looks a bit more transmissible but not necessarily more severe. >> reporter: sadly, some 2,200 americans are still losing their lives to covid ...