this is bbc news. the headlines at 11am. home lateral flow test kits are currently unavailable on the uk government website a day after the government changed its testing strategy. the problems have emerged as ministers launch a new push against omicron with every adult in england offered a covid booster by the end of the year what we have now that we didn t have before with any of the other variants when they started is that we have vaccines. now, we know that two don t work. we know that three do. that is why it is eminently sensible and absolutely the right thing to take this action. the target will mean up to a million jabs a day, but there s concern over the scale of the task for an already stretched nhs. i m martine croxall live
by the end of the month as the health secretary promises to throw everything at beating omicron. what we have now that we didn t have before with any of the other variants when they started is that we have vaccines. now, we know that two don t work. we know that three do. that s why it s eminently sensible, absolutely the right thing to take this action. the target will mean up to a million jabs a day, but there s concern over the scale of the task for an already stretched nhs. home lateral flow test kits are currently unavailable on the uk government website a day after the government changed its testing strategy. a hong kong court sentences hong kong businessmanjimmy lai and seven others for taking part in a vigil marking the 1989 tiananmen massacre. a federal disaster is declared in kentucky after the largest outbreak of tornadoes in american history leaves at least 90 dead, across six states. a bbc investigation finds networks of breeders are offering
hutch this is bbc news. the headlines: the first death in the uk with the omicron variant of coronavirus is announced as the booster programme is expanded to combat its spread. the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus, i think that s something we need to set on one side, and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population. home lateral flow test kits are currently unavailable on the uk government website a day after the government changed its testing strategy. and we ll be putting all your questions on the omicron variant and the booster campaign to experts in your questions answered at 2:30. you can get in touch on twitter using the hashtag bbcyourquestions,
that is not going to be that bad. there was a feeling in both medicine that this was going to be sars one or mers again. so maybe we don t need to put so much energy into this. then you have a totally dysfunctional and incompetent administration, that throws its own testing strategy out the window. its own pandemic strategy out the window. so, there s no backup or when things go wrong, with exactly as you say this kind of overconfidence. it doesn t work out. you don t have leadership at hhs. you don t have leadership at the white house. that can put the resources and energy into thinking why did things really go bad? what should we do? this is the quote that stuck with me. there was a feeling this wouldn t be a major outbreak, early on. a cdc lab official told bus venues, saying that senior leaders didn t tuneup to encourage and joshua test manufactures to mobilize. that sentence, that there was going to be a major outbreak early on. that s the epitaph for that whole early response
there was that feeling in medicine, this is going to be sars 1 or mers again, maybe we don t need to put this energy in it. on top, you have a totally dysfunctional and competence administration that throws its own testing strategy out the window, pandemic strategy out the window so there s no back up when things go wrong with the exact things you say, the sort of overconfidence, we got this, doesn t work out. you don t have leadership at hhs. you don t have leadership at the white house that could put the resources and the energy into like thinking, you know, geez what if things really go bad, what should we be doing? this is the quote that stuck with me. there was a feeling this wasn t going to be a major outbreak. the senior leaders didn t do enough to encourage, that sentence, there was a feeling there wasn t going to be a major outbreak. that was the epitaph for the early response. that s very real. i was asking questions january 17, 2020, this is a new