study was carried out by imperial college. the variant is driving a surge of cases in the u. k. though. daily infections of exceeded a $100000.00 for the 1st time. the past they days have seen britain's highest numbers of new cases since the start of the pandemic. but 8000 people are currently hospital with the virus which is lower than during previous waves. the un security council is applying a sanctions exemption to afghanistan to get humanitarian aid to the millions in desperate need. governments and agencies can now send the money and goods to the country for the 1st time since the taliban to power rescue teams have been searching for at least 70 missing people in myanmar after a landslide, at a mine it hit while workers were digging for jade a northern catching state when they were swept into a lake. so far, one person has been confirmed dead. the area is the center of the and mars secretive jade industry. or minor is often work in dangerous conditions, landslides, of course, hundreds of deaths in recent years. back to witness. now i have been use our for you and just unde

u. k. studies and they've been studies in spain and other parts of the world. and places like canada have been mixing and matching vaccines that it's not interesting to do. it's a sad thing to do. and in fact, when you mix and match, particularly that's presented, followed by 5, you get extremely high antibody levels. so there's nothing wrong with it. in fact, the european medicines agency has just recommended johnson and johnson as a booster for people who've had one of the m r in a vaccine. so it's definitely a thing at the moment. does any of the advice coming from europe resonate closer to home where you are in australia because it's still a great deal of vaccine hesitancy in one wonders? why? yes, i think a lot of it started by started off with the fact that these vaccines have been produced and rolled out in a manner more quickly done than ever before. the quickest vaccine that went from start to finish prior to code 19 was month. it took 4 years, so there was always some suspicion them with the astrazeneca johnson and johnson, the clothing issue, where t

now that we do have this study from the u. k and also another study from south africa. what picture are you getting about the risks from on the chrome? so it's a very impressive piece of work. i mean, both of those studies. and what they show is that in the real world on the chrome does seem to be causing a lower rate of hospitalizations. and this doesn't appear to necessarily because it's a virus that's less severe because of some biological property. but because of the people that it's infecting, so it seems to cause re infections more than parents radiance like delta, which means that people who are getting infected a higher proportion of their have previous immunity which, which provides a good level of protection against severe disease. and that means the overall impact in terms of hospitalizations and the risk of hospitalization is lower for this way. and simply because of it's sort of infecting a different demographic because of the way it can escape and unity much more than delta, it's more infecting people who have been infected before. that is so. so to just r

u. k. study for no difference in severity and denmark has found no difference in percentage of people infected to go to the hospital either like the severe cases, the milder piece is not bearing out and again, excellent. eventually increasing cases will ultimately out swamp. any benefits of a slightly milder virus, the virus will increase at a rate that is not seen before, and that is ultimately we'll send more people to the hospital and that's why we have to stop transmission notches worry about severity epidemiologist. eric phi holding thanks so much. they said, ah, the sport noun in the bonus league, it was the last round of matches before the mid season break. on sunday top for high poles, hopefuls rather lay the keys and traveled to they said in surprise, package, pride book, who end of the year with a wind cape than on course for a champions league fish. fryeburg fans could toast to a fantastic 1st half of the season with their side consistently at the top 6 since matched a 2 in front of a limited crowd of $750.00. the hosts have the early chances but couldn't convert and to live accusin

u. k. based studies that release that this week. imperial college estimated that people infected with on the con are 40 percent less likely to be hospitalized for a night or more compared to the delta variant. and very early data from the university of adam brush indicates a 2 thirds reduction in risk of hospitalization. while in south africa where the strain was initially identified, people are 70 to 80 percent less likely to go to hospital scientists. they are say daily cases appear to have peeked at last week with about 23400 on december 17th. and they have fallen every day since we've barcode begins our coverage health services across europe on a war footing. taking the fight to armor crohn by giving booster vaccinations to hundreds of thousands of people a day. the variance fueling a new wave of infections across europe. in the french capital long queues formed outside pharmacies and coven testing centers in the run up to the christmas holidays. elsewhere, french police increase their checks on people's health passes, allowing for now at least the cities restaurants to remain open. pres

with only crohn tube was sent, a studying u. k showed no difference. but even if you do thing that it's causing fuel hospitalizations, when you have a turbocharged, transmissible virus or even a small percentage of a large amount of people could potentially strain hospitals. what advice would you give people going into christmas week? well i think about the a, b, c, d e's is assess the destination. you're going to high amount of virus or, and assess yourself for your immune compromise on boxing. in all your old and 65, you may worry, be definitely getting a boost served from what we discuss. i see vaccinate via children if they're eligible. d. do diagnostic tests like rapid testing before going in and any gathering. like a family reunion and e. everything else where? well fitted mass and get your flu shot. dr. peter chin hong thanks for talking with us. that was professor peter chin home at san francisco university, california, san francisco. my pleasure, terry. thank you. now to chile, which has elected a former student activist, become its next presi

new studies from the u. k. suggest the new corona virus, mary, and all me crohn may be milder than the deltas aversion. but scientists say their findings must be treated with caution as hospitals could still be overwhelmed by the sheer number of cases. the news comes as the u. k. records 100000 new daily cases of covered 19 for the 1st time. there's no christmas rush in london this year . the number of shoppers and tourists down dramatically on even a few weeks ago on microns rapids spread an a record number of infections. keeping many people at home. britons newspapers summing up the mood but the u. case health minister gave weary britons a glimmer of hope by announcing the purchase of millions more antiviral pills to combat omicron alongside the booster program. these sup, pharmaceutical defenses, you taken together are a huge new way to defend ourselves against cove it. there's no need for any further restrictions before christmas. we will certainly keep the situation under review. but across the u. k. cond

that back seems to be much less efficient than previous variance with one relatively large study in the u . k. suggesting even with a booster, you're only really protected for around 2 months. what do you say that, what does that mean for people? well, it all depends where i'll go. push is, if your goal poses prevention of infection, then sure you can look at the vaccines and say, to do, says, you know, 2030 percent. a booster or probably doesn't give you much more, but i'm not for that long. but if you look at the outcome of serious disease, hospitalization, and death are the vaccines are really spectacular that and as an infectious disease doctor, if you told me at a choice between just preventing infection or serious disease, i'll choose serious disease at any time. absolutely. does that mean then that we're going to be having those to shots every couple of months? well, again, it comes back to what our goal in society is. so i can give you all the science and tell you that this vaccine or booster might only last 10 weeks before it wins in efficacy against infection. but if we reevaluate a

u. k. so just at the all mccaul, variants may not produce as severe symptoms as delta, but they're still concerns about it being highly transmissible. right, so these 2 new studies that have come out from the u. k, one from scotland, one from england, both of them suggesting that the on the cross variance is less severe results and few hospitalizations than the delta variance. so to give you the, the study that's come out of england, it found that $40.00 to $45.00, there was a 40 to 45 percent reduction in hospitalization is lasting, one light or longer. when compared to delta? so quite a market reduction mass scientists, experts here are saying it's encouraging, but the rules i really stressing caution. hey, this is very, very early data that is still emerging at that i'm lot still isn't known. and crucially, even if this is less to via the shit, number of infections of cases could still mean that the health services on the very intense pressure and how much pressure is the embattled prime minister boards johnson feeling for mom across that. so currently gripping great britain, well, he's resistant, more restrictions coming into place said that he doesn't scotl

but a study shows that the new variant may result in 50 to 70 percent fewer hospitalizations than delta. earlier on we asked biologist mohammed minear from the university of lancaster and the u. k. he gave us this study at this take on that study. so far we all have a modeling data, and these are one of the few studies that we have information from real life, which mean the people who have been infected with me, crohn they've been compared with what has been the situation with the delta various and based on that, it was concluded that the solidity of the disease is very low, and particularly for the hospitalized ation and for the emergency. but there are certainly copy it in this data collection is that most of the data being collected from people who are very young, 40 years old because that is on the chrome has been pretty prevalent. and also, there is no cohort under vaccinated people because most of the time the micron has been vaccinated or previously exposed people. but all in all, the overall trend is that it is miter compared to the delta variant. vladimir putin has welcome to dialogue with the u. s as fears mount in the west of russia's military build up near ukraine,

k higher education afloat. people from all around the world come to study in the u. k and pay i watering amounts of money to do it. but the people who leads you pay higher education institutions would rather see mass disruptive industrial action every year than fix these basic problems. this is the voice of amy and english lecturer. in these universities are making a lot of money off of students. but they are not at compensating their staff and staff are having to live and really severely and insecure conditions. she doesn't want to appear on camera because she doesn't want what happened to her to undermine her future career balls, doing her postgraduate degree and teaching at a london university. she made $15000.00 a year and able to pay rent cost. she chose to live in a tent for 2 years and carry on teaching. the students never knew there been stories about cache i staff who've been facing homelessness. i'm definitely a lot of cash i staff have had experienced that not being able to afford, ah, rent, and have had to couch server or do those kinds of things or they'r

where we challenge has more from london on a study by researchers in the u. k. that the thresh see only con variant could pass . studies has been done by imperial courage, they've, they've stress that they don't really have the moments particularly good data to go on. so these are figures that could change, and particularly when it comes to the severity of the micron varying. that's one of the big questions we have to have answered, and we have an awesome quite soon when people get it all day, going to end up in the hospital. how many of them are going to going to end up in hospital? the worrying these that's coming out of this study from imperial college is that there's nothing that they have seen at the moment to suggest that alma crohn is any less severe than the delta variance. although they are caviar caviar thing that with saying that, you know, they, they need to see more insights. the re infection rates is 5 times higher as he said than, than, than delta. and that's also worrying. but the good news is that the boosters do provide 85 percent protection aga

u. k. infections past the 100000. but new studies show it's less likely than delta to put people in hospital. ah, laura barbara, sarah, you're watching al 0 life from that also coming out. the un security council approved was approved as sanctions exemption for afghanistan, allowing vital aid to float back there. and the world food program cuts rations for millions of yemenis because of a funding shortfall. ah . the head of the world health organization has hit out at wealthy countries. rushing to roll out cobit 19 booster shots, while large portions of the globe remained unvaccinated tedra sat down and gabrielle, who says their only deepening vaccine inequality and prolonging the pandemic by giving the virus more opportunities to spread and mutate. the global priority might be to support all countries to reach the 40 percent target as quickly as possible and the 70 percent target by the middle of this year. no country can boost its way out of the pandemic and boosters cannot be seen as a ticket to go ahead with the plan celebrations

us health regulators have now authorized they 2nd pill to treat those sick with the virus. studies from the u. k . are suggesting that the army chron variance holds a reduced risk of severe disease. but health experts, they are still concerned over how fast it's spreading. and a study by the african center for disease control suggest the variance is up to 80 percent less likely to cause hospitalization than delta and south africa's approved the single shot. johnson and johnson vaccine to be used for booster jobs as well. let's go live to family miller. she's joining us from breath. johannesburg. forgot to tell us more about this study in south africa and what we've learned from it's well, so far experts is saying that based on their observations, in terms of the number of people in hospitals and the number of people who bought the death rate at this stage they say that it potentially or mccartney is list of causes less severe illness. now, what they're doing is comparing the numbers and the data they have available now to the 2nd and 3rd waves experience in south africa. they continue to say tha

that back seems to be much less efficient than previous variance with one relatively large study in the u . k. suggesting even with a boost day, you're only really protected for around 2 months. what do you say that, what does that mean for people? well, it all depends where i'll go. push is if your goal post is prevention of infection, then sure you can look at the vaccines and say, to do, says, you know, 2030 percent a booster or probably doesn't give you much more, but a not for that long. but if you look at the outcome of serious disease, hospitalization, and death are the vaccines are really spectacular that and as an infectious disease doctor, if you told me at a choice between just preventing infection or serious disease, i'll choose serious disease at any time. absolutely. does that mean that we're going to be having those to shots every couple of months? well, again, it comes back to what our goal in society is. so i can give you all the science and tell you that this vaccine or a booster might only last 10 weeks before it wins and in efficacy against infection . but if we reevaluate

all with no, honey, i think it's vivian and vision of that also attended them a ah, another study from the u. k provides further evidence that influence and marketing is highly effective. 176 children between 9 and 11 years were split into 3 groups. the 1st group watch instagram influences advertising healthy foods. the 2nd group, watch them advertising, unhealthy foods, and the 3rd group watch them advertise for the products. then the children were offered various snacks, result, the caloric intake of the 1st group was 26 percent higher. a few years in countries regulate marketing to children of introduce to sugar text and in these countries, consumption of calories in products sell while in other countries, rose the world health organization has also identified influence and marketing. that's problematic. it's very much a question of monitoring and of course it's important to understand which of the platforms and apps that children are using and which food product advertising campaigns can be found that we are aware that marketing of unhealthy foods, in particular, is increasingly aggressive

kelly was all with no, i think it's vivian and vision of that also attended them a ah, another study from the u. k. provides further evidence that influence and marketing is highly effective. 176 children between 9 and 11 years were split into 3 groups. the 1st group watch instagram influences advertising healthy foods. the 2nd group watched them advertising, unhealthy foods, and the 3rd group watched him advertise for the products. then the children were offered various next result. the caloric intake of the 1st group was 26 percent higher. a few years in countries regulate marketing to children of introduce to sugar text in a nice country, consumption of calories big product, sell while in other countries, rose around the world health organization has also identified influence and marketing. that's problematic. it's very much a question of monitoring and of course it's important to understand which of the platforms and apps that children are using and which food product advertising campaigns can be found that we are aware that marketing of unhealthy foods, in particular, is increasingly aggressi

kelly was all with no, i think it's vivian and vision of that also attended them a ah, another study from the u. k. provides further evidence that influence and marketing is highly effective. 176 children between 9 and 11 years were split into 3 groups. the 1st group watch instagram influences advertising healthy foods. the 2nd group watched them advertising, unhealthy foods, and the 3rd group watched him advertise for the products. then the children were offered various next result. the caloric intake of the 1st group was 26 percent higher. a few years in countries regulate marketing to children of introduce to sugar text. and in these countries, consumption of calories big product sell. while in other countries, rose around the world health organization has also identified influence and marketing. that's problematic. it's very much a question of monitoring. and of course, it's important to understand which of the platforms and apps that children are using and which food product advertising campaigns can be found that we are aware that marketing of unhealthy foods, in particular, is increasingly

real problem for stress on the hospital system data on omicron is still new and limited, but studies from the u k show. no evidence it's any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection news never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity, an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contain omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor fauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. >> well, several large school districts across the state, including west contra costa, i've actually delayed their vaccine mandate deadline for students. they say th

to recent studies from the u. k, have also suggested all me, con, holds a reduced risk of severe disease health, but experts at cautiously optimistic, but still concerned over how fast on me crohn is spreading. that says, astrazeneca claims a 3rd dose of their vaccine protects against omicron. similar to that of pfizer and medina, south africa's also approved johnson johnson's vaccine to be used for boost to jabs . let's bringing it for me to mila now. who's alive for us in johannesburg? hello there for me to. thanks for being with us on this news. our tell us more about this study in south africa. can we be cautiously optimistic? well, that's according to the experts. and i think are they that well, cautiously, cautiously optimistic, but i think also quite confident in terms of some of their findings thus far. they have said, look, these are early indications. but what they have observed is that people are becoming sick, but not severely. so and also there are lower hospitalization rates, especially compared to the

to recent studies from the u. k. have also suggested omi called holds reduced risk of severe disease health experts. cautiously optimistic, but still concerned over how fast on the crown is spreading. that says, astrazeneca claims, as food severe vaccine protects against me. crohn similar to that who finds that? and medina, south africa is also approved in johnson. and johnson is vaccine to be used for the booster jabs. for more on this story, let's bring in for me to mila who's alive for us in johanna. big hello. that for me, that tell us a little bit more about the study in south africa and how we can be cautiously optimistic. all experts so far are saying that it could potentially be promising in terms of just how sick people get or rather the how, perhaps not severely they become ill. they become a given that, that yes on the crime does appear to spread very quickly. there's been a to under an 8 percent increase in infections in southern africa loan in the last 4 weeks. so the is that increase in numbers for that

right, so these 2 new studies that have come out from the u. k, one from scotland, one from england, both of them suggesting that the on the cross variance is less severe results and few hospitalizations than the delta barian. so to give you the, the study that's come out of england, it found that 40 to 45 percent, that was a 40 to 45 percent reduction in hospitalizations, lasting one light or longer when compared to doses. so quite a market reduction math scientists, experts here are saying it's encouraging, but the rules i really stressing caution. hey, this is very, very early data that is still emerging at that i'm lot still isn't known. and crucially, even if this is less to via the shit, number of infections of cases could still mean that the health services on the very intense pressure and how much pressure is the embattled prime minister bores johnson feeling for mama crohn that's currently gripping a great burden. well, he's resisted more restrictions coming in to a place said that he doesn't scotland, northern ireland and wales have all

in another study from the u. k. provides further evidence that influence and marketing is highly effective. 176 children between 9 and 11 years was split into 3 groups. the 1st group watch instagram influences advertising healthy foods. the 2nd group watch them advertising, unhealthy foods and the 3rd group watched him advertise for the product. then the children were offered various snacks, result, the calorie intake of the 1st group was 26 percent. hire a few years in countries regulate marketing to children of introduce to sugar text . and in these countries, consumption of calories big product sell. while in other countries, rose the world health organization has also identified influence and marketing. that's problematic. it's very much a question of monitoring and of course it's important to understand which of the platforms and apps that children are using and which food product advertising campaigns can be found that we are aware that marketing of unhealthy foods, in particular, is increasingly aggressive a

u. k. he gave us this take on a study before we all have a modeling data. and these are one of the few studies that we have information from real life, which mean the people who have been infected with me, crohn they've been compared with what has been the situation with the delta variance. and based on that, it was concluded that the solidity of the disease is very low, and particularly for the hospitalized ation and for the emergency. but there are certainly copy it in this data collection, is that most of the data being collected from people who are very young, 40 years old, because that is where the crowd has been pretty prevalent. and also, there is no cohort under vaccinated people because most of the time the micron has been vaccinated previously exposed people. but all in all, the overall trend is that it is miter compared to the del cover. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. hundreds of women have protested in sudan over a legit recent sexual attacks by security forces on at least a dozen women and

while the risk posed by the new covered strain is still being studied, new research in the u. k suggests it's 70 percent less likely to lead to hospitalization, exhibiting symptoms similar to the common cold. although the wild health organization says it's more contagious and vaccine resistant than previous trains, we discuss details with us spokesperson. it's very contagious. it infects more quickly and it infects both people and, and the growth rate is much faster than previous variance. so it's certainly a theater and foster variance. what we don't know yet is the severity of the illness that produces, we've had some early information, but in the countries where they're studying closely. they haven't seen the hospital philips weekly, but we don't know whether that's on the crime or the fact that there's been very good vaccination in those countries. or a lot of penetration by previous variance in the populations where those studies have been done. the critical thing, and this is why the restrictions are taken is to leave some reserve in your health system for other things. th

u. k. reaches a record high passing 100000 in a single day for the 1st time thought new studies suggest omicron is less severe than delta. also coming up, russian president vladimir putin is hosting his annual news conference. we hear what ordinary russians think of their long term lead up, plus profound dark and monumental justice. some of the words being used to describe a new exhibition in paris by one of germany's most celebrated artists. ah, i am rebecca writ as welcome to the program. he studies from the united kingdom suggests the army kron karone of iris variant may be milder than the previous versions, such as delta. but scientists say their findings must be treated with caution. as hospitals could still be overwhelmed by the she it number of cases. the news comes as the u. k. records more than 100000 new daily cases. for the 1st time. there's no chris, this russian london this year. the number of shoppers and tourists down dramatically on even a few weeks ago. all microns rapids spread an a record number of infections, keeping many people at home. britons newspapers summing up

problem for stress on the a% hospital system data on omicron is still new and limited, but studies from the u k show. no evidence it any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection who's never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contain omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor fauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. rudabeh shahbazi reporting for us tonight. meanwhile, here in the bay area on tuesday. the oakland city council. >> is expected to vote on a new vaccine plan. us the c

real problem for stress on the hospital system data on omicron is still new and limited, but studies from the u k show. no evidence it's any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection who's never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity, an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contein omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor gauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. >> well, it's also impacting the sports world to because it's not just the nfl and the nba that are having to adjust and in some cases postponed games because of co

u. s. health regulators of approved phases pill to trade cove at 19 studies show it produces severe symptoms by nearly 90 percent. this is following on the approval of a mac pill in the u. k. is there as prime minister? meanwhile, there was welcoming a plan for a full vaccine dose to be offered to people all to the 60, the world health organizations. warning vaccine inequalities will any prolong the pandemic. and even security councils agreed on a resolution to allow aid into afghanistan. humanitarian support will be exempt from sanctions aimed at the taliban. more than half the population are basically extreme levels of libya. elections, commissions, proposing the countries presidential paul take place on january 24th. was supposed to be this friday, but the balance been made by the spirits ever rules and regulations. malik, trainer reports from tripoli, just 2 days ahead of what had been scheduled as the 1st round of a presidential election. he hi, national elections commission released a statement suggesting polling people spoke for a month to january 24th. more than 2 and a half 1000000 people had already picked up the records for the december 24th vote . but the whol

u. k. he joins us now. so thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera, a lot of interesting studies have come out of america now. it's only been a month, as we've been saying, since it was 1st identified in south africa for a long time. we just didn't have the data, it seems now that a picture is emerging, a must a much more infectious, a variant, but perhaps a less deadly one. i. yeah. the, the data from the u. k is fairly small scale. it's only from infections younger people. so have to remember that caveat as well, but it's showing us initially at least a reduction in risk of going hospital of 50 percent, all the way down to half 2 thirds. but unfortunately, if you look at the numbers and you compare where we are today yesterday we were on the same days. now sir, we have 3 times as many infections and probably an awful lot more, which are, are very, very mild, are a soon to magic. so we could well end up with a situation where off dropping inability to cool seas is pulled the other way by the increased numbers of people who are being affected. so on an individual level, if you're lucky enough to

real problem for stress on the hospital system data on omicron is still new and limited, but studies from the u k show. no evidence it any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection news never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity, an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contain omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor fauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. we have a reporting tonight. meanwhile, the world health organization says that cases of the omicron variant. >> are now doubling somewhere between a day and a half to

real problem for stress on the hospital system data on omicron is still new and limited, but studies from the u k show. no evidence it any less severe than delta. we are going to see breakthrough infections truck. there's no doubt about that. >> the difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection in someone who has an infection news never been vaccinated. a major difference with regard to the risk of severity, an increase in positive cases forcing the nfl and nba to cancel games. even prompting president biden to address the nation on tuesday on the country's fight to contain omicron and with 109 million americans expected to travel before the end of the year. doctor fauci says the safest thing you can do is get vaccinated and boosted. if you're vaccinated and you're boosted and you take care when you go into congregate settings like airports. >> to make sure you continually wear your mask. you should be ok. >> well, in terms of its impacts on the sporting world. covid is pushing not just the nfl and the nba to postpone games. it's now the nhl too. also taking action. so t

there is a silver lining, though, which is that new data that's come out from a study that's been done in the u. k. suggest that if you have the micron variance, you are a 3rd less likely to end up in hospital than you would have done if you had the delta variance. add to that the improvements that being triple vaccinated gives to your chances as well and 81 percent reduction in the likelihood the over in end up in the hospital compared to what you would be likely to end up in hospital if. if you have been completely vaccinated, those are the silver linings, but yeah, i have to say it's still looking pretty grim out that with the that the severe number of people who are getting into hospital anyway. and the burden that all of those hospitalizations are putting on the national health service at the u. k. you have lots of start from the n h s who are off sick at the moment with coven 19. and the system is starting to creek. so politicians around the u. k. a warning that the situation is worsening. we don't yet know when the peak at the micro wave is going to be reached at the moment and the number o

u. k. hospitals with admissions on the rise. again, a new study wants that next year. medical stuff, absences due to burnout, could triple. the findings suggest that hospitals could experience severe stop shortages, 17 percent of work is expected to call in sick. just last week were an admissions rose absences followed suit switching 12 percent. the while unions of cold on the government to increase staff pay or face industrial action. then it just says the pandemic has created unprecedented pressure and it's doing all it can to support doctors and nurses asked. he spoke to medical staff on the ground, he say something has to give david is with us almost 2 years. our doctor, the nurses commission on the ground, absolutely exhausted. they're not just exhausted that scared the tired. you must remember the doctor. the news of the patient do we sick? we get physically think we get mentally thing and quite frankly we bad the moral burden of what's been happening every couple of years. so yeah. and at the moment it's exhausting. and what's worse still, of course, it's not ov

transport for example, some good news though emerging over the last 24 hours from a couple of studies and one from the u. k. health security agency. it's reporting new evidence that on the chron may, in fact, be a mild or li results in a reduced number of hospitalizations. it found, according to this preliminary data that people with the on the chrome variant of 50 to 70 percent less likely to be admitted to hospital. now that's very early data based on a small number of people we've been warned. there is also that has also need to be counterbalanced with the trends miss ability of this variance, not so could result in hospitals being overwhelmed. but it's certainly encouraging news as we go into the christmas period. all right, so maybe something to be hopeful for that. maybe not as much severe disease as we've seen in previous waves. now young, i'd like to turn back to you in light of the new restrictions. you say they are still relatively moderate. one of people in spain been saying about how they intend to celebrate christmas this year. well, looking at her, i figure of new infections. a lot of people