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Plans to tighten its covid rules heading into the new year. starting next week, eating and drinking will be banned inside most public venues. officials say working from home will be mandatory at least three days a week when possible. it comes after france reported more than 100,000 new infections on christmas, the highest number since the pandemic started. italy has also seen a record-breaking surge in new infections with nearly 55,000 cases reported on christmas day alone. for more, we go to cn...

House where i would go. it would take less than five minutes. i would just walk there and thats it. and now the line extend into, like, the next street. its crazy. >> reporter: and how long the wait is kind of fluctuating throughout the day. but bottom line, it is typically hours long. we spoke to one woman who came in overnight. she got in that line at 3:00 in the morning because this is a 24-hour testing site. it took her three hours to get a test. now, that is the on-site testing. i should ad...

>> okay. thank you very much as always. speaking of tests, huge demand continues for testing. people still waiting? >> still very long lines. this will put it in perspective for you, this morning when we got here, we spoke to a woman who got in line at 3:00 in the morning. pretty much overnight she made it to this testing site, one of the busiest in south florida. she ended up waiting three hours before she was able to get that test. the health group that runs this site here at tropical park, a ...

Calling on you this is the time you have the kids home from school. there is plenty of vaccination opportunities from your pediatrician to a site set up by the state of new york, our urgent care centers. >> reporter: new york city also implementing the strictest private sector vaccine mandate in the country while also adding even more testing like this site in times square. >> this is a priority. like dont eat the steak. never mind the chicken. go get covid tested or get the vaccine. >> reporter...

Have a lot of patients that are concerned. just, oh, i was exposed or i was next to somebody who was exposed. i just want to make sure that im okay. >> so how long will you wait if you come to this testing site? that will vary anywhere from three to five hours in the car line. >> miami-dade was giving out at-home covid tests at public libraries, but you tell us theyve run out after only two days? >> right. they did two days of distribution at 27 public libraries. they distributed about 152,000 a...

Smaller percentage of cases being omicron than the previous week. so what they told us last week was that 73% of the new cases rr omicron, and now theyre saying its 58%. now,ly say that the cdc has been clear that theres a large margin of error here. this is not an exact science. but interesting to see that its not sort of taking off the way that people thought it might, at least according to these numbers. >> elizabeth cohen, i appreciate you. thank you so much. as you know, the covid surge i...

A rapid COVID-19 testing center is opening in New Haven and it’s the first in the state. Gov. Ned Lamont said the state has formed a partnership with CVS...

COVID-19 testing sites throughout the Omaha area featured long lines after the holiday season.

Probably traveling trying to go somewhere but today you can get tested for covid-19 part of a plan the state has where they are putting what they call pop-up testing sites in subways to alleviate some lines we have seen across the city in the last week or so and opening fivedy asianal sites and wept down into the subway in times square as the testing site got under way. this is the first time anywhere in the city we have seen testing inside of a subway. a man said he thought he contracted covid-...

We just checked with someone who got a test, is an hour and a half long at this testing site. poppy? >> leyla, thank you for that reporting. you have thousands of holiday travelers scrambling to rebook their flights after major u.s. airlines continued their cancellations this morning. lets go to our national correspondent live outside of atlantas hartsfield-jackson international airport. is most of the cancellationings caused because of covid? >> reporter: thats what were hearing from airlines, ...