Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, in a letter to eight states with a maximum number of Covid-19 cases as asked the authorities to keep a strict vigil and take pre-emptive action in areas of concern to stop the infection, which has seen a steady rise over the past few days. Bhushan’s letter was directed to Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Haryana, and Delhi. , Health News, Times Now
The same as us. if we re all in this together, they have to be leading - by example, don t they? labour s leader unimpressed too. the only reason that he s u turned on this is because he has been busted. it s like bank robbers who got caught and now they re offering the money back. one rule for them, another for everybody else. it s contemptuous of the british public. this has been a pretty messy start to a week where government communication is going to be key. most legal restrictions will be lifted in england tomorrow, but ministers don t want this to be a free for all. they will still be urging caution and for people to behave responsibly. the vaccine roll out has given ministers confidence to open up. but there s an expectation that cases will rise. i think it s almost certain we will get to 1,000 hospitalisations per day. it ll almost certainly get to 100,000 cases a day. the real question is, do we get to double that, or even higher? and that s where the crystal ball starts to fa
Governments will do. well, i think there governments will do. well, i think there are governments will do. well, i think there are two - governments will do. well, i think there are two main - think there are two main takeaways from this report here. the first one is, you know, i think people are quite surprised by the scale of this. some of the leaked data has around 50,000 phone numbers on there, which may have been selected for targeting. so that level of scale is really, i think, beyond what many people think, beyond what many people think and envision. nso group says from time to time, oh, a very small number of targets, this is for the osama bin ladens of the world. so i think this sheer scale and just the number of countries in which this is being abused, for example india represent itself as a democracy. yet we see cases where politicians, judges, journalists and others are being spied on by the government. are being spied on by the covernment. ~ . ., , government. what, i
Indoor settings that they re going to spend time in. now, one of the world s most vaccinated populations finds itself a testing ground again. tom bateman, bbc news, jerusalem. so many different challenges and so many different countries. thai police have used force to break up large protests calling for the resignation of prime minister prayuth chan ocha. hundreds of people were defying covid restrictions to take to the streets. cases have been rising sharply in thailand as in other parts of asia as well. the main story, the tokyo olympics get under way next week but there is already a growing number of athletes testing covid positive or being
Isjust a shame that thinks there is zero risk. it is just a shame that the anticipation building is about numbers of covid cases possible rather than the games at this point. thank you very much, the very latest from rupert in tokyo. the german chancellor says the world must hurry in the battle against climate change. after visiting some of the areas worst hit by last week s deadly flash floods, she expressed her shock at what she called surreal destruction. more heavy rain has caused further flooding in southern germany and austria. our europe correspondent jenny hill reports we really need help here, she says. and outside the village shop, you can see why. as in so many other parts of western germany, people in the town of bad munstereifel still can t quite believe what happened. we met gertrude here. volunteers have brought food, water.