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They fear is coming in the fall. i want to play for you what the new white house coordinator dr. ashish jha said about this. >> i want to make sure we have enough >> i think its critical. we dont have the resources to do that right now. without additional funding from congress, we will not be able to buy enough vaccines for every american that wants one once the vaccines come out in the fall and winter. >> what to you make of the warnings like this from the white house? >> so, again, whats the g...

Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants.

Million people had the virus last week in the uk, that was down 2a%, thatis week in the uk, that was down 2a%, that is the same sort of rate of decline we have seen in previous weeks. so heading down quite rapidly. the peak in late march was nearly 5 million. and this is the lowest level since mid december. in northern ireland, it is the lowest since mid—november. now, that is all pointing in the right direction and hospital numbers have certainly fallen. but there is always the possibility of...

And hospitalizations have started to go up, too. i wanted to ask you this. it seems like anecdotally that people who got covid, and the omicron variant, even just say two months ago or so ago, theyre therefore thinking they would have some immunities from that and be safe for a while. theyre getting it again. perhaps one of these sub variants. what are you seeing? whats the data on the reinfection rate? how worried should people be that if they had covid a couple of months ago, they might be sus...

Get tested rapidly. get started on therapy right away, and that will be helpful. >> so are the symptoms still the same that weve heard before, like, you know, loss of taste and smell? stuffy nose, runny nose, or are they somewhat different with the sub variants? >> you know, theyre a little different. we dont hear as much about losing your sense of taste and smell with this variant. we hear people complaining of a scratchy throat. a sore throat. they talk about nasal congestion like a head cold....

Been preventable if people were vaccinated and boosted. get yourself vaccinated and get yourself boosted. the second thing is about the variants. the virus is rapidly evolving, rapidly -- the variants are evolving rapidly. after the onset of omicron, weve seen the virus take different mutations with sub variants of omicron. each one of the sub variants is more transmissible than the other. chances are you are going to be confronting this virus and be exposed to this virus. and with people droppi...

Inside the administration really track closely and is based on the underlying assumption there will be no extra mitigation factors. that includes no additional funding from congress for the administration to respond to this pandemic. now, in an abc interview recently white house covid response coordinator dr. ashish jha didnt talk about these numbers specifically but he talked about a potential surge in the fall that could be fueled by some of these sub variants. take a listen. >> with waning im...

NEW DELHI, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the COVID-19 challenge was not over yet, and that there was an urgent need

While there have been a few cases of new Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, so far there is no change seen in the severity or transmissibility, the World Health Organisation has said.

JOHANNESBURG, April 13 (Xinhua) -- South Africa National Department of Health on Wednesday confirmed that Omicron sublineages BA.4 and BA.5 exist in the country