scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon faces growing calls to resign after a committee of msps concluded that she misled them. the army s new specialist unit designed and equipped to fight the wars of the future. sunday is census day, the compulsory survey painting a picture of the population. for the first time sexuality is included. and coming up in sport on bbc news: rachel blackmore makes history as the cheltenham festival s top jockey, but she s beaten in the gold cup by minella indo. good evening. continental europe is preparing for a third wave of coronavirus amid a surge in new cases and a shortage of vaccines that can reduce the spread of the disease. large parts of france are going into lockdown again tonight amid a sharp rise in cases. only 8% of the population has been vaccinated. switzerland is extending its restrictions. poland, where the surge is being driven by the variant from southern england, is going into partial lockdown. the german chancellor angela m
he does the top of the hour i m brianna skeerl. in moments president biden and vice-president kamala harris will visit the cdc as they set guidelines for reopening schools safely. one big change is the six feet of social zanlsing is becoming three for elementary school students. for middle school children and older in communities with higher transmission rates, six feet is still recommended. and moments ago, the cdc director emphasized masks are a must no matter the age of the student. i want to emphasize that these recommendations are specific to students in classrooms with universal mask wearing. cdc continues to recommend at least six feet of distance between teachers and staff and other adults in the school buildings and between the adults and students. let s go to atlanta now where cnn s jeff zeleny is. we know, jeff that the president and vice-president use the time in atlanta to meet with asian-american leaders following that devastating shooting spree that killed
about strains spreading in the u.s. the overall progress on vaccinations is encouraging. the daily rate is going up. the nation now averaging a new record for daily vaccinations around 2 1/2 million doses per day. that is a relief to see. this all comes as the biden add administration is scrambling to find shelter for migrant children at the u.s.-mexico border. 422 of those children are in u.s. custody. they plan to move thousands of migrant teenagers to a conv convention center in dallas. we ll get to more on the push to vaccinate america. elizabeth cohen is us with. the daily vaccinations keep going up, that s great. you have the big gatherings without masks like we saw images of and serious hesitancy, mainly from republicans. that s right. it s interesting. in a way we can t visualize the hesitancy. so many people are getting vaccinated which is great. i ve been talking with public health officials that are concerned that once everybody that wants the vaccine gets it,
to take covid patients, it by demand we take covid patients the patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn t have otherwise died had we screen them out. murphy officials countered by saying that there were guidelines for separating covid positive patients. the long-term care administrator reportedly said the problem of course is there s no separating safely. it s almost certain that even though you have staff only on that unit, something will migrate. we have learned from recent reporting that michigan governor gretchen whitmer s office didn t force nursing homes to take covid positive patients but instead offered financial incentives. new york s governor andrew cuomo and his administration issued a directive telling nursing homes not to turn away covid positive patients and then allegedly covered up the number of deaths of nursing home or long-term care residents. pennsylvania governor tom wolf also reportedly guided covid positive patients back into nursing homes and at
to take covid patients, it by demand we take covid patients the patients will die in nursing homes that wouldn t have otherwise died had we screen them out. murphy officials countered by saying that there were guidelines for separating covid positive patients. the long-term care administrator reportedly said the problem of course is there s no separating safely. it s almost certain that even though you have staff only on that unit, something will migrate. we have learned from recent reporting that michigan governor gretchen whitmer s office didn t force nursing homes to take covid positive patients but instead offered financial incentives. new york s governor andrew cuomo and his administration issued a directive telling nursing homes not to turn away covid positive patients and then allegedly covered up the number of deaths of nursing home or long-term care residents. pennsylvania governor tom wolf also reportedly guided covid positive patients back into nursing homes and at