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Mantas. i definitely believe that they all have different personalities. this is something that hopefully peop people will look into in the future. >> reporter: for now beth's team collects data on their population size, behavioral habits and reproduction. >> manta rays have been studied just over a decade. in scientific terms it's not that long. there are still so many questions we don't know the answers to. and you can't persuade people to protect something that they don't know that much about. >> reporter: so far, the team's work has helped lead to legal habitat protection for mantas and th...

Do you agree with that? >> yes, i do, christine. we're projecting to do a little over a million tests a day. the amount of tests a country should do, no one has a specific number. it's not based on your population size. it's actually based on the level of the epidemic or outbreak in your particular country. so given the burden of coronavirus prevalence that we have, we should be doing even more tests. i want to applaud that improvement, but there is further for us to go. and further genomic sequencing of coronavirus variants. >> it feels like from the very beginning of this we never quite got ...

Existing expanded child tax credit, we know that kids who grow up in good circumstances with real opportunity have the best chance of having families, themselves, who don't need that kind of help. so it's important to make a reasonable, accurate estimate and to do that we have to put some kind of realistic timeframe. we can look ahead at what we think our economy is going to be doing in a year or five years. but we don't know what kind of -- what the economy's going to be doing. we don't know population size looking ahead. >> but 2025. i mean, that's only -- that's only a few years away. >> th...

And the way that we stop this is by everybody staying at home. so that's the situation in new south wales. staying in australasia — and fiji is another country in the region experiencing a surge in infections. there have now been over 41,000 cases and the death toll stands at 405. bear in mind this is a small nation, with a population size of less than a million. and the vaccine roll—out is in the early stages — 23% of the population are fully vaccinated. cherie ann wilson is a journalist in fiji — she joins me from the capital suva. can you give us more detailed update on what's going...

Shift, hospitalization rates are increasing dramatically for every age group. and i want to put some numbers to that because this is really important. florida, just based on data from the federal government yesterday, had more than 7,400 confirmed covid-19 hospitalizations in the past seven days. that's over 1,000 hospitalizations per day. it's a 141% increase from two weeks ago, and it's a quadrupling from just one month ago. it's the most we've had since january 19th where we didn't have much of a benefit of the vaccinations, and florida has the highest seven-day confirmed covid-19 admission...