against people like you. are you scaredd? you are really shaking in my boots, laura . who doesn t knoww where he is half the time isoi going to come afterng me. but it is extraordinary what s happening in the biden administrationna. ra it sti weird to i can t i can to tell whether to be angry. it sad for for what a guy clearly doesn t seem to be totally with it. but his administration is filled with radicals. and charlie, we have this segment called positive boosted, which we always want everyone to be healthy, but it s just a kind of a checklist of who has been boastfully vacs yet keep getting they keep getting covid. so the white house communicationsit director kate bedingfield is another dild isely boosted person. another positively boosted person, the latest in a lon the latest in this long lineg oh these white house officials who test positiveit like others. you know, p apparently she s not to be considered someonene who ever had close contact
the tennis open in melbourne starts today and one breaking bit of news in the last howry, it is reported the next tennis event, the french open, will demand all tennis players are vacs in a minuted, back to you. ashley: we will bring in former brexit party leader nigel farage. i think djokovic knew the rules and what had to happen. he was under the impression he was cleared because he had natural immunity, is this about the health of people or more political statement from australia? nigel: this time last week i was in belgrade with the djokovic family, who are friends of mine. he had been allowod an airplane to go to melbourne in victoria state. the rule necessary melbourne state in victoria, if you had
we re going to need these tests not necessarily just today but we have to incorporate how these tests can help us moving forward to resume normal life. when you talk about the eye to the future, is this the last variant we need to worry about, the last serious variant or are there others on the horizon? so i ll be very kind of blunt and say, no. this is not the last variant because that is just not how viruses work. i am hoping this is the last variant that causes such disruption to daily life and the economy and now that we have vaccines that can prevent disease we can focus in the future on preventing disease like we do other disease areas. i do think this will not be our last variant and certainly i hope we ve gotten enough vacs around the world so we have as much defense as possible for the next variant. which is why testing,
boosters needed, all of the masks needed, all of the protection needed. are you afraid that some states and cities are moving too quickly to loosen indoor mask mandates? well, you know, it s, i committed that i would follow the science, and the science say as put forward by the cdc, and the federal people, and i think it s probably premature, but it s now, it s a tough call. at least 3,000 municipal workers in new york city must show proof of covid vaccination or face termination starting today. that equates to less than 1% of the city s work force but it is still believed to be the largest worker reduction in the nation, in response to a vaccine mandate. the new york city mayor eric adams says people who choose to be unvaccinated won t be fired but effectively quitting. so far about 95% of the city s 370,000 workers have received at
you say to other restaurant owners and bar owners in d.c.ng that they are complying? they re asking for a vacs card . people show them their vaccine cards and they go in and presumably they have a good time. in i mean, do you think this should be a period ofec resistance because we know restaurant reservationsau are down in d.c.? i from a customer told me the restaurant reservations were down 60% from 2020 i m twenty twenty one . what do i say to them. well they re not doing it anyways. ay everybody knows that there are people come talk to me every day and say oh yeah i got all these places and nobody s doing it. the mayor just wanted tobb t co maybe not the mayor but the city health administrationh decided that this was a place that they wanted to target and they wanted to make ann example out of you, eric, maybe virginia for but fight on because i think ultimately they re going to break on this mandatere nonsense.