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Number one novak djokovic. in a statement released on wednesday, the tennis star admitted there were mistakes on his immigration forms and to meeting a journalist despite testing positive for covid. djokovic, who is unvaccinated, had his visa revoked shortly after arriving in australia. a judge dramatically overturned the decision, though, ordering the release of the player from a hotel detention facility. hes still hoping to defend his title at the australian open, which gets under way next wee...

There is maybe not a bed available to take care of you, and in addition, you have health care workers who are infected and the situation is dire and going to be worse over the next several weeks, we will see more problems in the hospitals throughout the nation. >> and this is the next question, that every person in america gets covid, and it is an individual test for them, and challenge for them, and if it is happening for workers who are under siege, it is all the more complicated. in californi...

Are testing positive for the virus every second. to try and quell the rising numbers, the french government says people should work from home at least three days a week. our correspondent, hugh schofield has more. one of the remarkable things about this latest spike here, as elsewhere, it seems to me, is that the numbers are, you know, sort of stratospheric, but we havent seen the complete panic and breakdown of health services which you might have expected, given that these numbers are so high....

Something completely unrelated. in the uk, as with much of europe, everybody gets tested for covid—19 on admission. we think in hospital, at least a third of those cases are what is called incidental cases, in for a different reason. it is important to get to the bottom of that figure. that never has been rising because you have thousands of people going into hospital every day, there will be more testing positive, even though that is not the reason they are going in. there is another key thin...

Has said shortening the isolation period in england, for people who test positive for coronavirus, would be helpful in dealing with staffing shortages. nadhim zahawi said, any decision would be made on the basis of advice from the uks health security agency — and said absences among teachers would rise, now that schools had returned. the us recently shortened isolation for those testing positive for covidi9 from 7 days to 5. the bbc�*s health correspondent, dominic hughes, has more. the good...

The headlines: tennis star novak djokovic faces more controversy after footage emerged of him in public around the time his lawyers say he tested positive for covid—19. theyre claiming the infection exempts him from australias vaccine rules, where hes currently detained in an immigration hotel after being barred from entering the country. more than 150,000 people in the uk have now died, within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus. its the first country in western europe to reach the fi...

Star novak djokovic will be "on the next plane home" without sufficient evidence to support his covid vaccination exemption to play at the australian open. more now on our main story, the potential change in england to drop the need for pcr tests after youve had a positive lateral flow. our head of statistics robert cuffe explained what it would mean. a lateral flow test, if you test about a thousand people, might give you may be one false positive. that doesnt mean a lot if about 40 people are ...

Of the nypd out sick. but the city is saying they have contingency plans and say theyll have the force they need to put on a safe and secure new years celebration. >> not the time to have big new years celebrations, you know, really dial things back. >> reporter: a new year bringing in new covid records. as for the big party in new yorks times square? >> were in the public health crisis of our life times. frankly it should have been canceled. >> reporter: but this ball will drop despite the high...

Hours from now, an australian court will rule on whether serbian tennis star novak djokovic can remain in australia to compete in the australian open. >> the 34-year-old received a letter from tennis australia said he had a medical exemption after testing positive for covid last month, but the australian government canceled his visa after border agents determined his exemption was invalid. paula hancocks is live outside the facility where djokovic is detained. paula, whats the latest? >> boris, ...

Millions of cases and record hospitalizations. ive been saying that as we remain in this pandemic, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. vaccinated and unvaccinated people are testing positive. what happens after that could not be more different. if vaccinated people test positive theyre overwhelmingly having no symptoms at all or mild symptoms. if youre unvax namted if they test positive you are 17 times more likely to get hospitalized. as a result, theyre crowding the hospitals leaving littl...