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But there are labs like this all around this area. and we saw a lot of them. many of them right now are focused on running tests to make sure that these sorts of kits still work. so this is the at-home rapid antigen covid kit that you can buy over-the-counter, produced by abbott, it's called binax now. it's a relatively simple kit that comes with two tests. this sort of thing is a device, a tool that a lot of families are planning to use as they go home to visit other family members for the holidays. and when you look at something like the omicron variant and see its frankenstein mix of mutati...

They trade one off for the other. so you may sigh that. in terms of what we know, this is, again, unfolding real-time. the specimen that was collected that ended up being the first specimen that was on november 9th so, you know, just three -- three weeks ago or so. and it was identified to have this genomic sequence. we now know it's in 15-plus countries around the world and there's some 50 mutations on this. some of these mutations, we have seen before and they were associated with more transmissibility. other my tutations were associa with a higher chance of escaping the immunity. i don't kn...

There is also this potential tug of war as the south african health minister was talking about this morning as viruses become more transmissible, evolve into becoming more contagious, sometimes they lose some of their punch as well. they trade one off for the other. so you may sigh that. in terms of what we know, this is, again, unfolding real-time. the specimen that was collected that ended up being the first specimen that was on november 9th so, you know, just three -- three weeks ago or so. and it was identified to have this genomic sequence. we now know it's in 15-plus countries around the...

The nhs test and trace service. do you think the government is going to give way on that? i you think the government is going to give way on that?— give way on that? i think it's a really important _ give way on that? i think it's a really important point. - give way on that? i think it's a really important point. we - give way on that? i think it's aj really important point. we are give way on that? i think it's a - really important point. we are now in a position where travellers have started to travel again, they were using the antigen tests, the slightly cheaper test. pcr test, unfortuna...

Omicron virus spreads across the region. 6 new cases reported in scotland. that means the cases in the u.k. up between 9 and 12. we've seen one case now reported in austria. we've seen 13 cases reported in portugal and the interesting thing about the six cases reported in scotland, some of them had no connection to travel. no travel history at all. they didn't come from southern africa. that is a clue. it might mean that there are already more cases of the omicron variant across the european union, maybe across the u.s. the genomic sequence has just happened. we might see more cases from here ...