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From 4am on Friday (January 7), fully vaccinated travellers and under-18s arriving into the UK will not need to self-isolate while waiting for PCR test results.
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Basis spread by 50%, 500%, you would have said, biden, what are you drinking? >> trying to head off criticism on the covid testing front, president biden today announced the government will start mailing 500 million at-home test kits to american homes for free. joining me now for more on the administration's efforts against the omicron variant, the director of the centers for disease control and prevention, dr. rochelle walensky. i follow this closely. i'm not an epidemiologist, but it's been my job for the last 19 months to follow this. we did know omicron was going to spread quickly. i think...
Omicron is causing outbreaks even in highly, highly vaccinated places. one example is denmark. that is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world. 81% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated. 36% is boosted. to give you some context how high that number is, here about 66% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated and 30% vaccinated. so it is a very, very vaccinated place. in denmark they're in the worst wave of the virus case wise they've ever seen since this whole thing started, averaging over 9,000 new cases a day, in a population of about 5.8 million, equal to the state o...