looking out that is going to handle this inflation we are seeing now. a month ago, april 20th, the dow was at 35,500, roughly, and here we are today, 31,500, lost a lot of market value during that time. the white house refuses to change any economic policies going forward. that includes policies on energy production, includes policies on regulations that they are imposing, and additional regulations that keep on coming related to this, and that is something the market is looking at and are concerned down the road. you have to remember the markets price out what s going to happen 6 or 8 months down the road, so this is not a reaction for today, but a reaction for what the market believes is going to happen down the road. the white house press secretary was asked about this and she then fell back on what they have always fallen back on. released the strategic petroleum reserves, gas prices have gone to the ninth straight day of
about 1t% of staff were off work due to covid at nhs trusts in england in the week up to the 16th of january. that is about 35,500 staff off each day on average, down about 22% over the course of the week. now, there were about 9% of staff off for any reason, down slightly. but it is still about double what you would expect in a normal winter. clearly, staff absences are still high and putting pressure on. they have been falling across english regions. in the north west and the midlands, still highest, accounting for about 6%. in london it is down to 2%. slowly easing but still pressures in different parts of the country. those figures are interesting, because some people are arguing that without the requirement for confirm a true pcr tests right now, it is
true hollywood legend. thank you very much- and true hollywood legend. thank you very much. and we true hollywood legend. thank you very much. and we will true hollywood legend. thank you very much. and we will have - true hollywood legend. thank you| very much. and we will have more true hollywood legend. thank you . very much. and we will have more on sidney poitier s life and career later on this hour. the uk health secretary has warned of what he calls a rocky few weeks ahead for the national health service as it deals with rising numbers of covid cases and a sharp rise in hospital staff absences caused by health workers contracting the virus. in england the number of hospital staff away from work was up by 41% in the week after christmas compared to the previous seven days. on average more than 35,500 workers off with covid related sickness every day. hugh pym has more. reinforcements related sickness every day. hugh pym has more. reinforcements for - related sickness every
turned away from an event, or going out tonight, or the football at the weekend. 0pposition parties say the technical problems and the soft launch underline that this is a scheme which they believe should have been binned before it started. it came into force at 5am, it will start to be used tonight, but it is not being in waiting days. it shows that the scottish government know it is not ready. i would love it if they scrapped it. it is the wrong scheme and it is not going to do what they think it is going to do. no other part of the uk is bringing in a scheme quite like scotland. the government here hopes it will encourage more people to get double jabbed. but the introduction has proved politically controversial, beset by glitches and far from straightforward. the government s later coronavirus figures show there were over 35,500 new infections recorded in the
meanwhile, scottish labour has said it ll vote against plans for so called vaccine passports being proposed by the government at holyood which will be voted on by msps in the coming days. let s take a moment to look at the latest uk coronavirus figures. there were 37,011 new infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period, which means an average ofjust over 35,500 cases per day in the last week. the figures also show there were just over 7,500 people in hospital being treated for coronavirus three days ago. 68 deaths were reported in the latest 24 hour period that s people who died within 28 days of a positive covid 19 test. it takes the average number of deaths per day to 113 over the last week.