ready to roll. millions of doses of moderna's coronavirus vaccine are set to ship across the u.s. numbers of hospitalizations and deaths keep climbing. plus -- >> it is with a heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas as planned. >> millions in the uk face last minute holiday restrictions as concern rise over a fast-moving new strain of coronavirus. and the u.s. congress is on the brink of agreeing on a crucial

stimulus bill. can it avert a looming government shutdown? live from cnn world head quarters welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." >> about 6 million doses of moderna's co-vid vaccine are ready to be shipped as soon as today. final authorization from the cdc is expected at any time. it will be the second time in a week the cdc director has signed off on a new vaccine. the cdc says at least 272,000 americans have received their first shot of the pfizer drug since it was distributed last week. the vaccines are arriving as new cases and deaths keep soaring. in the six days since the pfizer

vaccine appeared people have died. we are outside a shipping facility in mississippi. >> reporter: the moderna vaccine shipments start sunday. it begins right here. this is a facility that is the company distributing the vaccine for moderna. it's a bit of a strategic spot. we're not far from memphis, the head quarters of fedex. it and ups will ship the vaccine to 3,000 locations across the country. this rollout about four times larger than the pfizer rollout of last week, and operation warp speed is apologizing to states that didn't get as much vaccine as they initially hoped. >> it was my fault. i gave guidance. i am the one that approved the forecast sheets. i am the one that approved the allocatio allocations. right? there is no problem with the

process. there is no problem with the pfizer vaccine. there is no problem with the moderna vaccine. right? it was a planning error, and i am responsible. >> now, the moderna vaccine has an advantage over the pfizer volcano. it does not need to be as cold. in fact, a regular freezer works just fine for storing this version of the vaccine. 6 million doses will go out sunday, and it all begins right here. cnn, olive branch, mississippi. in the uk a new disturbing development has promised the prime minister to cancel his plan to ease restrictions for christmas. he announced strict tier four guidelines for southern and eastern england saturday. the new measures effect more than 16 million people including those living in london. this is after british scientists detected a new variant of the can ha coronavirus. it may be hard tore detect, but

england's chief medical officer says there's no evidence that indicate this strain is deadlier or effects vaccines and treatments. cnn has more from london. >> reporter: europe's nightmare before christmas, last-minute coronavirus restrictions forcing travelers to unpack their bags and families to cancel plans. authorities in some european countries are scrambling to maintain rise in infections with warnings of a third wave next year. in england an 11th hour u-turn amid fears of a new strain of coronavirus. the prime minister says it could be up to 70% more transmissable. >> given the early evidence we have on this new variant of the virus, the potential risk it poses, it is with a very heavy heart i must tell you we cannot continue with christmas as planned. >> tier four rules going into

effect in sunday and monday forcing residents to stay at home unless necessary. all nonessential shops to close and crucially travel in and out is banned. the british government heeding advice from health experts to call off a planned five-day easing of restrictions over the christmas period. a day earlier, italy sweden and austria announcing tough new restrictions to curb social gatherings. the prime minister will put into force a nationwide lockdown around the holidays. >> translator: it is not an easy decision. it is a painful decision to strengthen the regime of measures necessary for the upcoming holidays. and to better protect ourselves. >> reporter: and austria, a third lockdown is set to begin december 26th. the government says residents can celebrate christmas but must stay at home for new year's eve. sweden, a country that has so far resisted pandemic measures will enforce its toughest rules

yet. recommending face masks on crowded transport and from december 24th, alcohol sales must end at 8:00 p.m. one prime minister pleading with the public to exercise caution. >> translator: do not let there be an outbreak during christmas. do not meet relatives over christmas dinner. celebrate only with those closest to you. >> reporter: the question now is one of compliance. will people scrap holiday gatherings or are the moves too little too late to contain the virus? >> all right. we are joined from london. i want you to pick up where you left off. the restrictions so l.a.-minute. it seems late to try to stop the travelers. >> reporter: it's funny that you say that, kim. as i finished the last words of that script, pictures started coming in on social media of people flooding the train stations, rushing out of their homes, rather than them going indoors and following the

restrictions, trying to make it out before the rules fall into place at midnight. the prime minister announced it when he announced it, there was just a matter of hours for restrictions to go into place. this morning, of course, the house secretary being confronted with the images and asked his opinion. take a listen to how he reacted. >> unfortunately, this virus, the new strain was out of control. we've got to get it under control. and the way that we can do that, the only way you can do that is beby restricting social contract, especially in tier four areas. everybody needs to behave as if they might well have the virus, and that is the way we can get it under control and keep people safe. >> behave like you might have the virus. very stark words there, and to be honest, quite scary words, but that's the level of

seriousness, and, of course, what they're dealing with is many people who don't want to follow the rules because they feel the restrictions have come in place very last minute. that health experts have been asking the prime minister for them for days, and he has essentially refused. he stood in parliament wednesday and said i am not going to criminalize christmas. it's inhumane, and now a u-turn, about face. >> thank you so much. let's now bring in an associate professor of molecular virology. thank you for being with us. i want to start with the new strain. we know viruses mutate all the time. i believe there's been several variants of co-vid already. as a layperson, when i hear this new variant in the uk is 7 0% more transmissable when co-vid seems already easy to spread, it worries me. >> and it rightly worries you.

if all other things are equal between the variants including basically hospitalization, other damage to organs, et cetera, then this is bound to increase the number of people that wound up in hospital, and it will increase the number of people who will die of it. it gets out there more effectively. we need to stress that it's a little difficult to take apart how exactly this has taken over and whether or not it's more transmisable. we need to do ek peermts -- experiments to confirm that before we can say it 100%. that takes days if not weeks to to execute. we know we can't let things pan out and hope for luck. we have to act on the precautionary principle. on those grounds alone, it's worthwhile, unfortunately, and it hurts me, because i had plans for christmas, but unfortunately we have to stop the mass

movement of people because if this thing is transmitting more efficiently, then we're going to basically explode up that number, not by .4, but up to 3.5, and that will be a massive, massive increase in the transmission. the consequences early in the new year will be brutal if we don't do anything. >> yeah. i want to get back to christmas later. but on what you said, so emphasize it, the variant isn't necessarily more deadly, but more people might die because of it. i'm just wondering with the flu vaccine, the efficacy waxes and wanes depending on the mutations, that season, you know, sometimes the efficacy dips to less than 50% depending on how well it's matched. so would we see similar implications for the efficacy of the co-vid vaccines? >> so this strain, as well as another strain that's arisen in south africa, we have more than

just one mutation on the spike protein. these things tend to come in groups. if you have too many differences, the vaccine has a higher chance of not working. there's no such thing as a yardstick, how many mutations and how it's going to work. it's something that we have to determine, experiment with. the precautionary principle applies. we've seen what happens if we just let things be. these things take over. they overcome our defenses, if you'd like, and they put economy and society at risk. the right thing to do right now is to contain at least the uk variant in the uk and in the parts of the uk where it's spread out, and do correctly now this time around, what we didn't do correctly in february. and allow the original version of co-vid to spread like wildfire through the country. >> yeah. and to stop that, so many countries england, where you

are, italy, so on, they're enacting the christmas lockdowns. here we've been encouraged to cancel christmas, but if thanksgiving is any indication, that's not going to happen. we're being left to our own good judgment. is that a mistake? >> there are many cultural differences that define what the outcomes are, and unfortunately, there is -- the united states there's a lot of talk around mask and vaccine denialists and there's no co-vid and nonsense. my personal view is there's a substantial risk to the u.s. society if the heart felt requests from health care professionals and those associated with health care like myself is not listened to. because the moment the icu units fill up, the u.s. is in a really bad situation right now. the moment the icu units fill

up, that's it. people will die in the corridors or the ambulances, and is that what we want for a couple of days of eating a lot and being altogether, not to see people again? that's the concern, really. we need to think about what is most important. our loved ones or a piece of turkey. >> yeah. absolutely. well-said, and hopefully people will heed that warning. thank you for being with us, professor. always appreciate it. >> you're welcome. all right. there is more ahead on cnn including glimmers of hope on capitol hill that agreement on a stimulus package could be near. and the pushback from the president after the break. stay with us. the sun is pretty incredible... it makes our lipton leaves better. which makes this smooth tea taste better.

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chuck schumer a vote could come hours before government funding runs out. democratic senator chris coons says help should have been provided long ago. >> i know that there are millions suffering because the pandemic is in its worst phase ever. a friend of mine from delaware buried her husband on friday who died from co-vid. so i'm perfectly clear. i have a hard time understanding how my colleagues are not also perfectly clear. it is long past time for us to get this done. we should have passed a big and bold co-vid relief package months ago. we should not be playing games with this right up against the holidays. >> we have more on what's at stake from capitol hill. >> reporter: congress is running up against a sunday deadline to fund the government by 11:59 sunday night if no deal is reached, the government will shut down heading into monday, because now government funding is tied to this $900 billion

co-vid relief package because the leadership wants to tie the two issues together. but if they don't get a deal on either, it will be a government shutdown come monday. all major questions remain. so much is riding on the $900 billion package for co-vid relief including unemployment benefits. people are seeing those dry up in a matter of days. $600 for individuals under certain incomes. money for schools, more than $80 billion for school and education providers as well as money for vaccine distribution. so much so critical at this moment. can they get there and get it passed? p big questions remain as we head into a pivotal moment. capitol hill. we're learning that president trump is still looking for ways to hold onto power. sources tell cnn there was a fiery meeting at the white house friday where staff argued over highly controversial ideas to overturn the election. cnn's jeremy diamond has

details. >> president trump isn't just publicly refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election. he is also privately still grasping for ideas and ways to possibly overturn the results of the 2020 election. sources telling cnn that those ideas were floated during an oval office meeting that the president held on friday that grew heated and ugly at times according to sources as two people, two allies of the president pushed some really deranged ideas about overturning the results of the election. those two people are sydney powell, the attorney who was part of the president's legal team and pushing the deranged conspiracy theories about the 2020 election including suggesting that the deceased venezuelan leader was behind rigging the election, as well as michael flynn, a client of sydney powells and a former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to

federal investigators before he was pardoned by the president. the president discussed the important of naming powell as a special counsel to investigate voter fraud allegations in the 2020 election and entertained this idea brought forward by michael flynn. >> within the siwing states, he could take military capabilities and rerun an election in each of the states. it's not unprecedented. these people are talking about martial law like it's something we've never done. it's been instituted 64 times. >> reporter: to be clear, there's no indication the president is going to be imposing martial law in the united states in order to rerun the 2020 election as flynn suggested. but obviously just the fact this was an idea that was being discussed in the oval office with the president of the united states, the president who is refusing to accept the results of a democratic election, certainly is alarming.

and it generated quite a bit of pushback from several of the president's advisers including the white house chief of staff, mark meadows as well as the white house counsel, pat s. both of them pushing back about overturning the results of the election. sources telling us at times it devolved into a shouting match. as the president is hyping up the claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, trying to overturn the results of a democratic election, he's also down playing an attack on the u.s. government, the cyber attack that u.s. government officials believe was conducted by russian intelligence services. the president tweeting on saturday the cyber hack is far greater in the fake news media than in actuality. he says actually russia is the priority whenever something happens, he said he's doesing the possibility that it could be china behind the attack. the notion has been really

pushed back on by members of the president's own administration. in fact, it was the secretary of state, mike pompeo, who on friday said it was very likely that russia was indeed behind the attack. we're told white house officials were drafting a statement friday to ascribe blame for the cyber hack to russia and now it seems we know while the statement ultimately was not released. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. for more on all of this, let's bring in our next guest, professor of international politics and a visiting professor at london school of economics. thank you for being with us. i want to start with the hacking attack. president trump says to big deal. probably wasn't russia. might have been china. so it seems his administration won't be punishing russia and he's happy to sort of hand this mess off to joe biden. >> well, i think president trump has long admired vladimir putin,

and i think has admired the powers he exercised at home and he's been reluctant to criticize anything that russia might do, although it's clear that we're not fully sure what the intelligence is on this hack. but we always know that president trump has his own personal interests, and i think there are some business interests and nuclear power program building in the gulf which gulf states which the elijah cummings house oversite and reform committee was looking at. there's a broader division among the form policy establishment about whether russia is a greater threat or china, and i think president trump has always erred on the side of china. and i think that is going to -- that balance, if you like, has always been contested throughout this presidency. >> so then how will president biden have to deal with this when he takes office? >> no. he's basically -- i think their strategy is that russia and china are equally threatening

but in different kinds of ways and that china is a power with which to more closely engage at the global level as well as the economic recovery. on climate change and so on, but the way to do it, the way to kind of contain and engage china at the same time is through an alliance with the european union and western allies and sort of build a transpacific partnership sort of institution to, if you like, to contain china that way and maybe to integrate china or assimilate it into the broader program. but it's an alliance between the eu and the u.s. rather than a unilateral u.s. program of the type that president trump actually handled. >> right. all right. let's go to the co-vid relief deal. we heard from both sides. it seems as a deal is pretty much done. it hinged on the republican's ability to -- according to

republicans they got what they want. are they right? did the democrats cave? after all, it wasn't really on the table initially, and republicans seemed to have got some major concessions here. >> it seems the democrats caved on this question. they gave up the power of the federal reserve to have emergency powers from about march this year under the cares act in order to give money to relief to small businesses to cities and states and so on, in order to stimulus the economy in a state of crisis. that cushing of democratic government power means they actually have far less room for maneuver, and i think it tells us something really big going forward. working people's conditions are less important than the power of the republican party to contain the government when they're out of office in order that ordinary people don't get as much relief, because the democratic party, of course, has constituencies among poor and working people at a

greater level than the gop. i think the senate and republicans generally are going to keep a tight grip on that. >> our thank you to the professor. a heart breaking plea from a los angeles doctor. he's begging people to stay home and turn the city back into a ghost town as covid-19 cases surge. we'll have more on the new epicenter of the coronavirus crisis coming up. and israel's prime minister rolls up his sleeve as the country rolls out the new coronavirus vaccination program. we'll go live to tel aviv after the break. stay with us. say na-na.

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welcome back to all of you watching in the united states, canada and around the world. final authorization of moderna's co-vid vaccine is expected any time. it will be a second time in the week the cdc signed off on a new vaccine. earlier saturday a cdc panel recommended the moderna vaccine for americans 18 and older. it has the added advantage of keeping stable in a regular freezer instead of needing a deep freezer like the pfizer vaccine. the medical expert explains how that will help meet a critical need. >> it can go to smaller hospitals, local county health departments that can start distributing the vaccine while the folks dealing with the pfizer vaccine will vaccinating in large medical centers. so we'll have two arms, two vaccines going at the same time.

>> but as the u.s. gets ready to distribute the second vaccine, california is facing a severe coronavirus crisis. the state is reporting more than 1.8 million covid-19 cases with more than 43,000 new cases saturday. things are particularly bad in los angeles county which one ask doctor says is quickly becoming the pandemic's epicenter. cnn is in los angeles with the distressing details. >> doctors and nurses battle weary in california. 43,000 new cases announced. 727 deaths and the hospitalizations at 18,000. 3500 of them in the icu. when the head of the unit here started a shift at 2:00 a.m., he walked into a perfect storm of covid-19 infections. >> i had a patient this past week who waited too long. i asked him why are you not coming in earlier.

it broke my heart. what he said was i didn't want to take someone else's bed. i thought someone is going to be sicker and needed it more. >> as the death toll rises and so does the number of people in the icus, the doctors, nurses, physician's assistants, so many others are playing a role in trying to get the sick in touch with their relatives. >> until you have to go through talking to someone's family and telling them that we have to take these extra steps because they're not getting any better, or people calling their family and telling them they're about to get intubated because they're not getting any better, it's a feeling that's indescribable, and it's so sad. >> as the pandemic rages on in california, what's the solution? this doctor says he thinks los angeles needs to go back to

being a ghost town. people need to stay at home. >> we have an emergency medicine physician at uc davis method cal center. thank you for being on with me. the worst situation in the state is south of where you are, but how serious is the spike in cases and the lack of beds in your community? what are you seeing? >> we are seeing a large spike in cases. every day i go to work and see more and more cases than we've seen before. it's rapidly accelerating at a pace that's pretty surprising, but fortunately, we're not yet at the point where they are down in los angeles and the san joaquin region. >> yeah. there we've seen they're running out of beds. they've had to set up stations outside for people. you're not there yet, but still having to deal with so many sick people, and some of the co-vid patients you're dealing with the

serious ones they have to be intubated. we read about that. we hear about it. but it's sort of for us it's abstract. most of us luckily don't know what that's like. i saw you posted a video on twitter showing exactly how it's done. i want to play a clip from it. >> let's go ahead and intubate. the first thing i do is insert the blade into the patient's mouth. and then use the bag valve to breathe for them. this patient is currently paralyzed and will be put on a ventilator. for who knows how long. >> i mean, that was just frightening to see that. you know, that first tool, it looks almost like a claw. why did you decide to post this? >> you know, the -- what we do

in the icu is highly technical maneuvers. a lot of it is going unseen. i think that's one of the biggest problems with this pandemic. people don't see the suffering. i volunteer to elmhurst hospital in april. and one of the issues that i saw there was that because patient's families weren't allowed on the coronavirus wards, they had to say good-bye to their families over face time. what i'm trying to do is get across to the public what it's like when you get sick with coronavirus or critically ill, and the things that you or oh loved one may have to go through. >> yeah. i mean, a lot of people think well, it's just kind of like the cold, and so on and so forth, clearly having to go through that would be horrific. on a much more hopeful note, you were among the thousands of frontline worker who is got the vaccine this week. first off, how are you doing? and how is the rollout going? and when might we see this make

a dent in the pandemic? >> yeah. so i'm very fortunate to have received the vaccine on tuesday. my arm was sore for one day. and aside from that, i had no other side effects. at uc davis health we vaccinated about 3,000 people already. and we're hoping to get up to another 1,000 next week. and where this is is we have to recognize that although we're rolling out the vaccines, it's sort of bittersweet. right now we have 200 to 300,000 people in the united states being diagnosed with coronavirus each day. it lasts -- a couple days ago we saw 3,565 deaths in one day. so it's -- the vaccine is ultimately going to be the thing that fixes this problem, but at the same time we can't forget the public health measures that

will help us get through this winter. >> yeah. it's obviously going to take a long time to get this under control. well, listen, thank you so much for being on with us, and good luck and stay safe out there as you help the community, doctor. we appreciate it nich. . >> thank you. >> the headline in today's british daily telegraph says it all. christmas cancelled for millions. huge areas under new lockdown restrictions because a new variant of coronavirus spreading fast in england prompted the prime minister to cancel his plan to ease restrictions for christmas. that means no christmas travel. the closure of nonessential shops and in order to stay home in london and southeast england. johnson apologized on saturday for the abrupt change in plans that effects more than 16 million people. >> let me first just say to

everybody who has made plans for christmas as i said earlier on, everybody who has thought about it, all the care and love that's gone into plans for christmas, we, of course, bitterly regret the changes that are necessary, but alas, when the facts change, you have to change your approach, and the briefing that i had yesterday about this mutation of the virus particularly about the speed of transmission was not possible to ignore. >> england's chief medical officer has said there is no evidence that the new strain is deadlier or resistance to a vaccine, but that hasn't stopped other european countries from taking measures. within hours of the agreement, netherlands banned all flight from the uk starting today. israel's coronavirus vaccinations are underway. benjamin netanyahu was the first in the country to get a shot. he says he chose to do it live on tv to set a personal example,

and he's urging all israelis to get vaccinated as soon as possible. the country has reported more than 373,000 cases in more than 3,000 deaths. we are joined by a journalist live from tel aviv. so you're in the middle of it there. it's happening behind you. how's the rollout being received? >>. >> reporter: it's been well received. people showing up. scores if not hundreds of people vaccinated here today. they've began this kicking off the vaccination campaign in earnest with music blaring from speakers and a d.j. we even saw health workers dancing out on the floor earlier on. but then they went to the serious business of getting to the vaccinations. we also saw the finance minister being vaccinated, the head of the hospital, a former chief rabbi, and the message they're

trying to send out is that everybody else should get vaccinated. the vaccine is safe. and effective. and that everybody should follow suit. that was the main message that the prime minister wanted to convey yesterday when after his -- the first of his two vaccination jabs, he evoked the lunar landings to describe the situation. >> that was a small jab for a man, a huge step for the health of us all. may this be skful. go out and get vaccinated. >> as well as encouraging other israelis to get vaccinated. benjamin netanyahu the face of what is hopefully a successful rollout. there are doses enough for 4 million. there's a population of 9 million here with many more doses to come. he hopes that will hope boost his political fortune as well if the rollout is successful informal one other note.

there was a coronavirus virus cabinet meeting. this is politicians and officials who decide on what restrictions to impose on israel as a result of the coronavirus. and due to that mutation you were discussing happening in the uk, netanyahu is directing his officials to consider banning entries by nonisraelis from the uk and other countries into israel for fear of that mutated version of co-vid coming to israel. >> interesting. okay. well, before you go, i want to know what of the palestinians living under israeli control, when might they get the vaccine? >> reporter: the short answer is we don't know. the longer answer is they're not part of the israeli rollout of the vaccine, and to be honest, even if they were able to get ahold of sufficient doses of the pfizer vaccine, there's only one refrigeration unit in the palestinian territories that would be capable of keeping the

vaccine at the freezing temperatures minus 70 degrees celsius that are required. so they're not part of the campaign. they are trying to gain access to the vaccine with an initiative aiming to help poorer countries vaccinate up to 20% of the population. there are reports they may get ahold of some of the russian vaccine as well, but for now israel moves full speed ahead with the campaign, and the palestinians have yet to begin. >> all right. thank you so much. appreciate it. still ahead, they have been hit hard and they're still waiting for help. back to back hurricanes last month devastated parts of nicaragua. we'll see how people are struggling. and co-vid free corridors. we'll explain how it works

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back to back hurricanes devastated central america in november. affecting more than 5 million people. the hurricanes made land fall in nicaragua, one of the hardest hit countries. that's causing a major food shortage for thousands of people. >> what's left is on the ground or destroyed. as thousands of farmers were getting ready for harvest season, not one but two powerful hurricanes ravaged the region in november, flooding fields and ruining crops. the rains washed away our crops this farmer says. it destroyed our irrigation systems and hearts. now we don't even have the drive to go on. olivia gomez says since there

were two hurricanes in the span of two weeks farmers like her didn't have the time to recover. mud slides covers most of her field where she had sewn beans. now she wonders if she will make ends meet. >> translator: i pray to god there's a little left for us to eat. we had dreams but now our hope is gone. >> reporter: the situation is even worse on the northern caribbean coast where both back to back hurricanes made land fall. this farmer whose pardon whose located north of the port says he lost all of his crops of yucca and plantains. everything has been damaged he says as he shows us what's left on a plant torn off the ground. he says he has no seed left, and even if he did, he would have to wait 7 to 8 months for the next harvest. next month the government

estimated both hurricanes caused more than $742 million in damage in economic losses. >> miguel, regional director of the world food program says 260,000 people were affected by the hurricanes, and 95,000 of them don't have enough to eat. the hurricanes not only destroyed their homes but also the farms they owned and their ability to make a living he said. the world food program calls it the country one of the poorest in latin america. 7 out of 10 people work in agriculture and almost 30% of the families in the country live in poverty. in the aftermath of the hurricanes, the world food program delivered more than 220 metric tons of food to the hardest hit areas. last week there was another 35 ton food shipment to the so-called mining triangle in

northern nicaragua according to the government. for farmers like these, the help is welcome, but the need doesn't end there. their only hope is that next year's harvest will allow them to not only pay their farming loans but also feed their families. cnn. a major airline is opening a way for travelers to get from the u.s. to europe without quarantine. but if you go, get ready to take several swabs. we'll show you how the co-vid free corridor works. stay with us.

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airlines are trying a new technique to ease international travel during the coronavirus pandemic. co-vid free corridors. delta is among those trying out the new normal means of travel which enables passengers willing to take multiple co-vid tests to span the globe. richard quest takes us aboard. >> reporter: passengers headed to amsterdam on delta flight 76 actually began their journey up to five days earlier. when they took the first of several co-vid tests that enables them to avoid quarantining when they arrived

in amsterdam. this is delta and klm's co-vid free corridor between atlanta and the dutch capital. that first pcr test is followed by a rapid test at atlanta airport before boarding. of course, if both are negative, you can fly. there's a third pcr test upon arrival in amsterdam. only if that is negative can you avoid quarantine. >> it's really the idea of stacking tests or sequential testing to papture the individuals that either falsely tested negative or have converted in the three-day since they had their initial test. another layer of protection. >> reporter: building co-vid corridors is part of the airline industry's effort to restore confidence and revive air travel. eliminating the need for time consuming quarantines. >> we're hoping in the first quarter of next year we'll be able to at more cities.

>> reporter: there are similar corridors from rome to new york and soon atlanta to rome. currently the number of passengers on these flights is limited because of both eu and u.s. travel restrictions. that ban each other's citizens from nonessential travel. all the major transatlantic carriers are experimenting with corridors of one sort or another. but their success depends on government giving permission. all in all, these individual flights are a glimmer of hope that a new normal for safer air travel in the co-vid era is well on the way. richard quest, cnn, new york. that wraps up this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. for our viewers in the united states and canada, "new day" is

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