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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 didnt have before with any of the other variants when they started is that we have vaccines. now, we know that two dont work. we know th...

By the end of the month — as the health secretary promises to "throw everything" at beating omicron. what we have now that we didnt have before with any of the other variants when they started is that we have vaccines. now, we know that two dont work. we know that three do. thats why its eminently sensible, absolutely the right thing to take this action. the target will mean up to a million jabs a day, but theres concern over the scale of the task for an already—stretched nhs. home lateral f...

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 thats 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 it...

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 dont 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, theres no backup or when things go wrong, with exactly as you say this kind of overconfidence. it doesnt work out. you dont have leadership at hhs. you ...

>> there was that feeling in medicine, this is going to be sars 1 or mers again, maybe we dont 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 theres no back up when things go wrong with the exact things you say, the sort of overconfidence, we got this, doesnt work out. you dont have leadership at hhs. you dont have leadership at the white house that coul...

Bigger issue of having one test inside cdc as opposedc which ist they did in south korea. where they had already experienced both sars, and mers, and say to all the pharmaceutical companies, every one of them you guys go get them. go develop a bunch of test. that didnt happen. >> exactly. when we brought these notes to experts at labs, they said was the bad guy here, and they said the government should have been taken b to other places. he was a calamity that this one tests then work out, but th...

We need a requirement, a mandate for anyone traveling by air to be vaccinated. whenever we do travel bans, those are reactive measures. if we really want to be proactive, we should require vaccination for air travel and long distance, train and/or bus travel. we need to have a more aggressive testing strategy, testing closer to departure if youre international travel, and a repeat test soon after arrival. that is regardless whether youre an american citizen or not. >> dr. chris purnell, thank yo...

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While some critics argue that resources instead should go to extra testing. >> there needs to be a testing strategy for people who cant have the vaccine or wont have the vaccine. there needs to be a strategy in place where you could test people frequently. >> tomorrow a vaccine mandate for all teachers and staff in new york city schools was scheduled to go into effect. a federal judge, however, temporarily blocking that rule. the department of education responding our current vax or test mandate...

Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], August 29 (ANI): Kerala Health Minister Veena George said here on Sunday that a revised Covid-19 testing strategy is being introduced in the state in the wake of 71 per cent out of total population eligible to be vaccinated taking at least first dose of the vaccine against coronavirus.