love and banning stuff away from us, but i'm not even have to watch my own car and everyone with leader holes and every day just getting are you ready to meet the german and join me rachel stuart on d w. t. ah, ah ah, this is the deputy news live from berlin authorities in europe extend corona virus restrictions in the hope of limiting the spread of the army con berry and the netherlands calls a snap christmas lockdown with hobbs and non essential shops close for business. london declares a major incident after it sees a dramatic rise in cases there. also coming up hong kong hold to vote under new

election laws thought only candidates staging. consider to be patriots. are allowed to ramp. ah, i'm rebecca writ as welcome to the program. governments across europe struggling to stem, the huge increase in karone of ours case is due to the new army con variant. the netherlands is the 1st country in europe to reinstate a lockdown, which will last until at least mid january, all non essential shops as well as restaurants, bars, cinemas, and theatres. i closed as of today that sunday. meanwhile, the situation in the british capital london is also concerning. the cities mer has declared a major incident health authorities there reported their highest every single daily tally of corrosion of ours cases. at more than 26000. a city in

crisis mode. lumniss being hit hard by the omi chron variant of the corona virus. it is already overtaken delta, as the dominant strain here, driving up infections and forcing them may of london to react hostile emissions are going up, but also stop absences. i guide up by massive level, so i've taken the position in causal taishan with our partners to declare a major incident today. the measure was last taken in january and allows local government to work more closely with emergency services. it's not just the capital that's in crisis for several days now. the u. k. as witnessed, record case numbers in response of the government has stepped up its vaccination campaign over 3000 locations across england. what turn into makeshift vaccination centers on saturday the world health organization says omicron has already been detected in 89 countries. more and more are responding to the new threat. no. dutch

prime minister mark wrote on saturday, announced locked on that will limit gatherings over christmas and close shops, restaurants, and cultural venues. chapa's rush, both em last minute perch this before the measures come into effect. lockdown or none. the w h o expects omicron to become dominant in the countries where it is taken hold. scientists won the surgeon cases could fir, the burden overstretch health systems and lead to staff shortages across many sectors o of a more. let's bring in the tireless health analysts john campbell. he joins us from carlyle in the u. k. john is good to see you again. so as we to say, we're seeing a variety of restrictions coming back, the netherlands, going back into a lockdown on other countries, such as germany opting for travel bands from high risk countries. what's the most effective on travel bands? merely kicking the can down the road. in fact, they are just kicking the can down the road. rebecca,

because this on the convent is taking over europe and, and indeed the world. it really we've all going to be exposed to this in the next few weeks. now the travel bands can be useful in that go by you a bit of time. so it's what you do with that time. that's important. so governments in the u. k, the u. k. in germany for example, of trying to great greatly increased vaccination. but i think we also need to take a bit of time to increase our and think about our personal immunity, how we're going to prepare for this because i'm convinced on going to be exposed to this wives in the next few weeks. i'm thinking about things like nutrition, getting plenty of sleep, thinking about making sure you're using levels are okay in your victim. indeed levels are all right and things that if they know that, for example, if victim indeed deficient that we're more likely to become or to get infected. so thinking about being ready for this to use the time effectively is the important thing. oh, that's a great tips, actually, even things that people can quite easily do themselves and, but it certainly looks as though micron is, is more contagious. the daughter is coming in to prove that i believe. and

thankfully though, and it's like it's having milder symptoms. some verola just even calling for a herd immunity approach. could that be a way to go to thank well, it certainly could. i mean, if we look at the south africa day to rem bear in mind, the army cons been spreading in south africa, africa for a month. now. there's only about 8000 people actually in hospital with only kron in south africa at the moment. and even not all of those are there for arm across some have just been discovered incidentally when they've been admitted to hospital. and it's only about 1200 people actually on oxygen at the moment. now there's a big debate, whether this is the arm across that is intrinsically less pathogenic. that is intrinsically less virulent. or whether it's the fact that the armor chronus hit a population with a large amount of immunity, as indeed we have in south africa. but as we also have in europe now, but the combination of these 2 things, whatever the science turns out to be so far in london, most of the clinical features of on the corner turning out to be those of the common cold. so people are getting runny nose, sore throat, sneezing,

general tightness, headache. those sorts of common features. part of the problem at the moment is of course everyone has to isolate for 10 days. so as we saw in that clip, a lot of people, for example, healthcare workers are actually having to isolate so the out of the workforce for 10 days. so governments might have to review this fairly soon, because this virus is now becoming endemic, really for, for, for the next few months, really, for the foreseeable future. or if that in the dead is true, that army kron isn't as dangerous. and that certainly is a positive thing, but we also know that it will more than likely or definitely mutate into another very and obviously i'm lucky i, i've been vaccinated 3 times already and plenty of other people in europe. but there are many places in the world that aren't receiving that same vaccination level at what's going to happen that that's, that, that's a remarkably good question. so if we take a lot of africa, for example,

if it turns out the army kron is just as virulent that a lot of people in africa are going to be exposed to the virus who don't have much immunity. so that could be a lot of problems there in the next few months now. so far it's looking like it's not going to be a massive issue. it's looking like it might be less virulent and causing less of a disease in africa. so that is, that is encouraging, but the good thing about this is potentially, this is going to, as you say, give rise to heard immunity community immunity sort of situation. because there's more and more people are exposed romker on every time someone's exposed to immune systems, going to react to it. that is going to increase the immunity. and don't forget this for corona viruses that have been here all the time since people discovered viruses . and that they caused common cold type features, and we get those all the time. so we're all exposed to a corona virus, probably at least every year. it's just that it causes common cold type features, and we're hoping that this virus is heading in that direction to, to be endemic, but less pathogenic, causing less severe illness and disease. but there were

a lot of unknowns at the moment because so many people are going to be infected with this. even if a tiny percentage becomes ill, that could be a problem because this is happening all at once. so all at once this is going to hit you up like a freight train basically, and people are going to get it all at the same time. which is good because it means it should be all over by about february or march in terms of amazon. but what happens in the meantime is really still a bit of an unknown. so we still have to be cautious and to optimize our unity as much as we can turn as ever. thank you very much for that health and left john campbell. thank you back. oh i several governments in europe, i drastically tightening restrictions. there also thing push backs this way, cancel protests against restrictions in a number of major european cities. some resulting in clashes between protesters and police breach bubbling over in germany. i more than 11000 protesters flooded the streets of hamburg as

opponents of tighter cobit measures came out across the country. oh, miss also flying in london. these protesters said they've had enough ground. 5000 of them marched against the latest round of colbert restrictions in the u. k. here, the more transmissible on the cranberry into the force, the government to tight restrictions. but scientists, a warning that even more must be done and fast. if the country wants to stop hospital admissions from soaring, all of the meetings that we've attended in so far as the network is concerned with modeling is taking place. that the message is clear that this looks like it's the calm before the storm. ah, it's a problem across europe. searching cases, obama crohn increased frustration that restrictions to combat it. in austria, several people protesting of vaccine mandate,

were arrested after demonstrations gone increasingly out of control. thousands of protesters in france also took to the streets to express darian grover vaccine past being discussed by the government. if the bill passes, it will bar the unvaccinated from entering public establishments like bars and cafes. it was, lexi does say vaccine pass is a form of dictatorship, not a public health issue, but a political one. have to realize where an assist in it is working more and more to reduce affraid, m o. d beck, d, ask governments across europe, get ready for an onslaught of bar micron. they may also have to fight against frustration and wariness. that new restrictions can bring pals have opened in hong kong 1st parliamentary elections since a crackdown on the pride of mercy movement by, by ching, observe as are expecting a relatively low turnout as many hong kong residents say the process as neither

fair nor democratic. if the 1st legislative council elections, since paging, imposed, sweeping the national security law and refer, reformed the electoral system under new rules, only candidates considered patriotic to china can run many opposition. candidates have been silenced, jailed or even fled the territory on culminated carrie lamb was one of the 1st to cast her vote. she denies that can accusations her government has set voter turnout rights, but i do have said very key. a target for this general election of the legislative council. one is to ensure patriots administering hong kong. and i think that objective has been met through the design of the candidate eligibility review committee database correspond vitti can't pay. the cong is covering those elections for us in hong kong. phoebe only so called patriots are allowed to run in this election. how does a candidate prove to the election committee? he or she is a patriot?

yes. so monopole a new stretch hold has been set up under a new electro rules to screen candidates who are not deemed as patriotic according to official standards. so essentially a new of acting body has it by hong kong senior officials, will be in charge or is in charge of screening the candidates that every single candidates who was around for the elections, robi assessed by these panel to determine whether they're patriotic or not, according to the requirements laid out in the national security and the basic law and audit on that candidates also have to secure nomination. take us from a panel which a stack for probation spec us so on. these kinds of threat shows will essentially are black bar to many of the po, democracy candidates to run for the election. according to many in a society. what avenue do pro democracy activists have left to show their

opposition? while the on the election, they only a few activists from the opposition group are protested against on that you'll get a new elections. but are the majority of the opposition that goes, i have shown that indifference to the new game rules that they are. most of the major opposition party is didn't send any members to run for the elections, which is very different from what they have done in the past and are like the turnout rate is at the core issue of these election that many see this as a reflection of the legitimacy and the representativeness off the new election act are over the 1st few hours of the election. late around 10 percent of the algebra voters have cast that photo which has a slightly lower figure compared to 2 attorneys, texting. they just say to be election, and the government has done a lot to step up at those 2 are boost the turnout rate, including setting

a polling stations at the border and or so on to our even the over free rights for public transport to attract people to cast that vote, and that guy who has also laid out new measures to deter people from protesting, threw out blank votes, and boy caught up the elections that at least 14 people have been arrested. according to the new rules of the b, is the protocol kasey movement still alive, or has it been successfully squashed by the government? why the movement have been our last a suppressed, i'll say the in possession of the national security law on dozens of the leading factor as are from the opposition. cam has now been detained or jailed under the national security law. and also for odda charge us relating to it. a 2019 antique government protest. so many up to lee. there is an out like absence from the cfo society. and we have seen in many cfo groups many important organizations out from

now position cam. happening to spend after the past year. so on this is our of course, the major blow today, possession movement, and the movement is now resorting to add a path outside the institution to continue the momentum. hopefully they these thank you, did have any cars on it? 50 c v kong. speaking to us from hong kong, you're watching data abilene use that her update this albert, i go away, coming up next. this shift living in the digital age. we'll have more headlines for you at the top of the hour. i'm rebecca written thanks for watching i we're all set to go on field. yes. citizenship and we're all live as we take on the we're all about the stories that matter to.