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Government scientists to share information here, and that criticism now, of course, spreading from other world officials as you noted and certainly public health officials, too. who have come out and criticized the administration saying at this point, they're not going to do much good to slow the spread of this new variant in the united states at least. >> and antonia, today is the day the administration's new testing requirements are in place for international travelers. you're at jfk, tons of international travelers coming into the east coast there. what are you hearing from folks? how stric...

The previous requirement of a negative test within three days of traveling into the u.s. >> we know that travel is a big way that we spread not just the existing variants but also new variants from place to place so these new testing requirements will help. >> reporter: for the first time in two months, the u.s. is averaging more than 100,000 new cases each day. covid deaths are also on the rise in the u.s. largely among the unvaccinated. and an average of more than 1600 people dying each day. average daily deaths have not been that high in more than a month. >> we have a major -- if you are n...

♪ ♪ >> greg: after pushing fear and causing panic at, the biden administration now backtracking on the dangers of the new covid variant, last week the white house put in place travel restrictions, extended mask mandates and new testing requirements, but now they are saying omicron might not be that bad. >> it's too early to make any definitive statements about it, thus far it does not look like there is a great degree of severity to it. hopefully we will be able to lift that ban within a quite reasonable period of time. i mean, we feel very badly about the hardship that that might've put u...

A significant setback for demand this winter, real impacts on christmas. i think we'll see people now cancelling, or postponing, travel plans. and for a sector that hasn't had any revenue for 18 months — give or take a few months over the summer period — it's really significant indeed. the airlines do not make money in the winter, and so, we've got a really difficult stretch ahead of us now. at london's heathrow airport this morning, travellers were pragmatic about the new testing requirements. yeah, that obviously definitely adds some inconvenience to myjourney, but i totally understand i...

My partner, she would have to self—isolate on the way back for four days, and that's four days lost of pay, she doesn't get paid. and it's those sorts of concerns that are worrying the travel industry. we believe this would be a significant setback for demand this winter, real impacts on christmas. i think we will see people now cancelling or postponing travel plans. and for a sector that hasn't had any revenue for 18 months, give or take a few months over the summer period, it's really significant indeed. the airlines do not make money in the winter, and so we've got a really difficult stre...