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That year. respond to what angie -- the point that angie is making here. >> i dont think theres an issue. i know teachers, and i know teachers want to be in school. but they want to be in school where its safe and healthy. they understand the social, emotional, and academic toll it took on students to stay home. but to bring us back to school was something that was not in the teachers control. the ventilation systems are old in many buildings, and, truthfully, it is going to take billions of dol...

Infections are still very high, the government surveillance programme estimated one and 19 people in england was positive last week although hospital cases are still falling. one of the theatres it could leave people feeling under pressure to return to work before they have recovered both one of the fears. we dont know what it means the sick pay and isolation payments some people are entitled to. there are others who say we can overestimate the impact that government rules have. the government r...

Joe biden runs out of tests after christmas he runs out of monoclonal antibodies. cant get the antivirals. they didnt have operation warp speed for anything, they learn nothing from donald trump. >> we in the trump administration left joe biden the most advanced, most sophisticated testing system in the modern world. in western europe. we were out testing all of western europe combined. he destroyed it and he was offered a plan, as "vanity fair" said, creating millions of covid tests and he reje...

Partly as the spike in demand began to plateau, but also because of temporary changes to regulations. this included things like allowing deliveries to supermarkets later into the night. and temporarily extending the visa scheme for foreign drivers. it also relaxed the rules around how long drivers can work per day, and shortened the overall fortnightly period drivers are supposed to rest. another blockage was a bottleneck of getting new drivers through the testing system. that number of tests pe...

We dont know what it means for sick pay and for the isolation payments that some people are entitled to, but there are others who say we can overestimate the impact government rules have. for example, the government did not place any rules on mixing at christmas and the numbers of contacts people were having each day was actually very low, similar to the sort of levels we saw in the first lockdown. it is not like the testing system is picking up all the infections. it was only picking up about h...

Forward. it was march 2a, that self isolation was going to end. and that isolation was going to end. and that is because infection levels remain pretty high. we havejust got is because infection levels remain pretty high. we have just got from the office of national statistics, that this is thes monitoring programme to see the effect on the population. the latest data for the last week shows that one in a 19 people in england has a covid—19. thats actually up very slightly from one in 20 the p...

By the testing system so these people werent being told to self—isolate and even those who are told to self—isolate, one in five do not fully adhere to that but if this happens and ministers seem keen it happens and ministers seem keen it happens early, we think the uk will be the first developed country to take the step and it marks the point at which in england we are treating this like any other respiratory infection. the mayor of london says the metropolitan police commissioner has "days...

Still infectious. we dont know what it means for sick pay and for isolation payments that some people are entitled to, but there are others who say we can overestimate the impact government rules have. for example, the government did not place any rules on mixing at christmas and the number of contacts people having each day was actually very low, similar to the sort of levels we saw in the first lockdown. it is not like the testing system is picking up all the infections. it was only picking up...

Our health correspondent nick triggle is with me. talk to us about what the prime minister said in terms of ending these restrictions depending on the current encouraging data continuing. how likely is that? the trends are positive, hospital cases are coming down and despite the huge wave of infections driven by the omicron variant the overall numbers of deaths of these winter are not above what we would normally see during any winter but it has come as a surprise to many that this move is being...

To give an assurance now that the scottish government is determined to retain a robust testing system capable of providing scotland with a strong resilience against future covid threats and firmly aligned with public health advice and the principles underpinning the national health service. now to the key points in detail, starting with our revised strategic approach. in earlier phases of the pandemic it was important to try to eliminate covid and suppress it to the lowest possible level, becaus...