new coronavirus restrictions have come into force in wales, scotland and northern ireland to try to slow the spread of the 0micron variant in the uk. borisjohnson has not announced any further restrictions in england. ministers in england aren t expected to discuss whether to impose further measures until tomorrow. it comes as more than 6,000 flights have been cancelled around the world over the christmas weekend, as the spread of the 0micron variant causes chaos in the airline industry. more than 100,000 daily infections have been recorded in france. that s a new record for three consecutive days. and cases of the virus are surging in countries around the world. more on that in a moment. but, first, tomos morgan has been looking at how the rules now differ across the four nations of the uk. a bit later. more than 1,500 flights across the globe were scrapped
to talk to people, just normal general stuff. so you are talking about because of the pandemic, basically? notjust the pandemic, i m also worried about stuff that will happen in the future like what happened in the past, like sats and gcses. i needed it in primary because it was bad in there. so they took me into a room and they talked to me and asked how i was and then they tried to help me through it. how did that make you feel? it made me feel better, a lot better. we ve seen, kind of, an increase in numbers accessing our service due to covid, limiting people social activity, and we ve been able to offer support just through talking and through doing intervention. the community fund raisers are a vital part of our funding stream and the money they raise is able to buy resources and materials that we just wouldn t have been able to provide otherwise. adam illingworth is the reason his mum kate will be taking part in the dip for a fourth time. ages five he was diagnosed with a brain t
that made sense in 2020, and i m not criticizing them entirely, i do think we need to acknowledge the impact vaccines have had when we re building in this risk paradigm. a lot of places might have increasing test positivity, nicolle, due to covid-19 because few people are testing. they re only testing if they re systemic and yet the vaccine rates and hospitalization are low. we need to narrow the definition of risk, we need a message on hope and we need to be clear that breakthrough infections from delta are rare especially mild or any type of symptomatic illness so people recognize there s hope here. that we are back to day zero. the breakthrough infections are rare. there s a piece i was going to read from a former bush speechwriter about how you re more likely to die by a lightning strike than cope covid if you re vaccinated. if you could explain why we re going back to the mask mandates.
end without agreement. the countdown is on to the euros, which kick off in just 48 hours, with england and wales playing at the weekend, scotland on monday. coming up on sportsday on the bbc news channel, ahead of england s second test against new zealand tomorrow, captainjoe root says his players have faced up to some ugly truths after a number of offensive historical tweets were revealed. one thing we ve learned through the covid pandemic is that young people have suffered most from the disruption it s caused notjust here but around the world. new figures show that, globally, one in six under 25s were unemployed at the end of 2020 double the rate for those over 25. in addition, a billion young people have missed out on education and training. dharshini david starts her report in crawley in west sussex, and those affected by the shutdown in the travel industry. what s missing from the skies above crawley
first, run by friends of dominic cummings, people who had also worked with michael gove. the cabinet office as michael gove was not involved in the decision but his name was on the legal papers, and thejudge decided there name was on the legal papers, and the judge decided there was apparent bias because they didn t consider other firms, bias because they didn t consider otherfirms, and bias because they didn t consider other firms, and that is embarrassing for the government. the case brought by the campaign group the good law project, but dominic cummings has been tweeting today, suggesting that this judgment means he should have been concentrating on paperwork, ratherthan he should have been concentrating on paperwork, rather than the covid crisis. public first says it is proud of its work that it did, and the cabinet office says there was no actual bias and procedures have been tightened up. but a loss in court for the government today. lucy, thank you for the government today. l