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Infects. also with omicron now detects in all states, and d.c. and puerto rico, the biden administration is lifting the travel ban on seven african nations and south africa. let's begin with lucy kafanov. right here in new york, this is the epicenter of the pandemic when it started to two years ago and just broke another record in terms of case counts. >> reporter: that is right, poppy. more than 44,000 new cases in new york. that is up 14% from the previous record breaking day. but there is good news heading into the holiday weekend. the governor there announcing a shortening of the isolation...

From my colleagues in kansas city some schools are going mask optional this week is certainly very he, very concerning to me. i think we need to continue with these layers of protection. testing being one important part. >> part of it seems to be symptomatic of the fact we just don't have an effective testing strategy. we're rationing the tests because we don't have enough of them. we certainly don't have them distributed in a comprehensive and uniform way. i want to talk to you about this data on hospitalizations because we're trying to focus more on that number. unless on these explosive cas...

Really tell us anything, it's an incomplete number. but if that happened and the media went along, wouldn't that be sort of a political gift to joe biden by defusing the focus on the surging number of cases? >> i mean, maybe, but i would argue that the political optics is less important to the underlying reality which is that how many americans are getting sick from covid, how many americans are getting covid. those are the numbers we need. public health officials use those daily case counts in order to formulate policy, and the media, by the way, uses it to paint a picture of covid in this co...

Health secretary says introducing new restrictions would be a last resort. i want to point out that those numbers, though, were for england only. scotland, and in fact, northern ireland did not report because of holiday delays. for more on all of this, we are joined by cnn contributor, barbie nadeau, who is live for us in rome. i mean, look, barbie, this continues to be an issue, those rising case counts in europe. is there any suggestion that anymore measures will be taken? i feel like a broken record. i've been asking you about this for several days now. and yet, european countries, with the...

London. >> reporter: amid skyrocketing infection rates and record-breaking case counts, britain's national health service says it is now on a war footing. it's preparing plans for a potential wave of omicron patients. the national health service officials saying there is no time to wait. preparations must go into place now. so, what are these preparations? well, there's going to be surge hubs built, these will be temporary stations at eight hospitals across england. each station should be able to accommodate up to 100 more covid patients. there's also more surge beds potentially as part of thi...