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Karnataka Police on Saturday unearthed a racket involved in providing Covid negative certificates to people without collecting swab samples and arrested two persons in this connection.

Started testing everyone. we have been doing this. and that rate, that percentage of tests that is coming back positive has gone up so theres no doubt that there is more covid in our community. >> i want to ask you about a debate were saying about the process. the fda has approved the nasal swabs, our children are doing this now as well. and in europe some are suggesting that the throat swabs are more effective. do you think thats something that we should be looking into now? are they more effec...

Inside was a gun. >> however, that gun was a 22-caliber -- not a 40. >> that gun was not a match for any of the four homicides? >> it was not. >> meaning that if its dwight jones, he still has that gun with him? >> right. and meaning they dont necessarily have enough yet to link dwight jones to these four murders. >> but there was still the dna. a detective who flew late sunday night to get dna samples from dwights family now rushed those swabs back to the lab and -- >> within about four hours, ...

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Protests against restrictions there with 12 police officers being injured in clashes overnight. so its just really across the board. every country is handling it a little differently as they go into this holiday -- the next phase of the holiday season with new years coming up. max? >> it could be, couldnt it, because so many people are testing that the numbers are going up. so that might be skewing the omicron variant numbers slightly. is that a theory? >> reporter: well, you know, you look at t...

How much blame does president biden deserve for this? >> you know, to be honest, amara, from the beginning, theres been a problem with testing. remember when kids didnt have swabs they needed. this is kind of along -- you would have thought this would have been fixed. now we have the variants, people are more susceptible. government, private industry have to respond to demand. we have to be clear that tests are not stopping covid, but theyll give us a snapshot in that window of time, baseline wh...

Safely. >> reporter: another sign that the swabs could play a massive role in our return to normalcy. how far away are we from a time when well have enough toasts accomplish that? >> we can all hope that the testing bottlenecks are resolved quickly, but im rather convinced that this will take some time. >> now, a lot of the criticism here is not just about the quantity of testing but its about developing a more aggressive strategy. now, for example, pills that treat covid, they may be available ...

>> my covid-19 team -- >> reporter: senior administration officials tell cnn that president biden is set to announce new testing measures today. theyll purchase a half billion at-home rapid tests to be delivered starting in january and set up more federal testing sites including one in new york city that will open before christmas. >> this prior to the pandemic, the u.s. is, you know, light-years behind our, you know, our peer nations in terms of making these tests readily available. >> reporter...

Requested, but the lab made a mistake, so when we got here -- >> we had to do another one. >> and it was very expensive. for the three of us, it cost almost $600 just to get another covid test. >> reporter: and travelers can also expect in some major international hubs like jfk or in atlanta to see increased bio surveillance. that means that an organization called express check is going to be working with the cdc to sample some particular passengers coming out of some international locations to ...

Are in fact perishable, and if you dont have an infrastructure in place, you dont have the capacity or personnel or the ability to keep them sub-ic cold, if you dont have the gloves, the swabs, the alcohol swabs, everything involved in vaccination, you have to have all of it and everybody needs to know how to do the job. its not that difficult, but training is required. now, we do have a huge infrastructure for childhood vaccinations and thats great. and many countries that are very poor have a ...