this only hurts restaurant which you brought up covid before, they probably struggled more than any other business during covid and finally back on their feet getting hit with these charges because we are going green and who suffers? restaurant owners, workers and the people buying the food because they are seen on the menu got more expensive than the last time. we are going to save you 100 a year, by an electric vehicle, not everyone can afford a tesla or electric vehicle, the rich buying tesla s, coming out of california as well but you mentioned electric stoves and all of this initiatives to be green, it s one giant wasted to signal. if the green energy works, it works well better than fossil fuels and go there but if you got an electric stovetop not working as well as gas stove and it s affecting businesses and energy bills because they have to re- cook, cook more and don t
covid before and you ve been vaccinated, which i call super immunity, you are not going to get more than a mild, mild case. but we don t know, actually, who s got the best immunity and who doesn t. i can do a spike protein test to give me an idea, but if you are boosted and you ve had covid before, if you get it, and you can get this variant this way because of the mutations, chances are almost 100% it s going to be a very mild case like a bad cold. it s the people that are unvaccinated and never had covid before that are getting the serious cases. gillian: very quick follow-up, five seconds left. is the spike protein test something americans should be asking their doctors for? yes, because if it s low, it s helpful. then i might say get a booster. it s not 100% accurate, that yes, i like to follow that test. gillian: awesome. good to know. haven t heard that elsewhere. dr. siegel, thanks so much. always great, gillian. thank you.
it his normal life, this man works in logistics, but every saturday he trains as a soldier. he has wanted to do this, he says, since russia s invasion in 201a of crimea. and now a new danger looms. translation: i am ready to fight back. | i am confident the enemy will not reach kyiv. we ukrainians have always been good at self organisation. and we will be the first to support the ukrainian army. they ve said they ll defend their capital street by street if they have to do if diplomacy to deter an invasion fails. caroline hawley, bbc news. two thirds of people recently infected with the omicron variant of coronavirus say they ve had covid before, according to research. the findings come from the react 1 study which also found that earlier this month, 1 in 23 people in england would have tested positive that s the highest rate ever recorded. here s our health correspondent, anna collinson.
newest numbers show there were more than 102,000 292 new cases on average per day in the last week. the number of people in hospital with covid is just over 16 and a half thousand. another 300 and a6 deaths were reported and that is of people who died within 28 days of a positive test. on average in the past week there were 262 deaths per day. on vaccinations just over 37 million people have had a booster jab. that s nearly 60 for a half percent of those aged 12 and percent of those aged 12 jab. that s nearly 60 for a half percent of those aged 12 and over. more and i a top story and officials at number ten say they still haven t received the report from gray on parties on downing street and elsewhere in white halls. it stopped the report has been completed. in another headache for the prime minister, whistle blower e mails publix by the foreign select committees seem to show that boris
at home, and certainly we see the people from large households do have a higher infection rate. while adult infection rates have been falling, having pupils back in the classroom after the christmas break may explain the rise amongst children. prevalence in the north east is said to be particularly high. the situation in school at the moment is a nightmare. we ve got more staff testing positive every week, and i m dreading tonight, because we test twice a week, and i m expecting more staff to go down with it tonight. we ve got children off across the school, i think in the high 205 now of children who ve tested positive, but on top of that, we ve got staff whose children are testing positive so they are trying to juggle childcare with their partners. it s really difficult. high levels of covid among children can then be passed on to adults, including the hundreds of thousands of people who are at higher risk of serious illness. it s thought that s what happened to tom, who has immunode