Beyond mid february. Buy now, pay laterfirms face stricter controls following fears over young shoppers debts. A Court In Moscow is due to decide shortly whether to jail president Vladimir Putins leading critic, Alexei Navalny. Also coming up heavy snow hits parts of Northern England with the met Office Warning some Rural Communities are at risk of becoming cut off. This morning. Door to door tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African Coronavirus Variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant and find every case. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 people over the age of 16 will be swabbed to find the true extent of the new variant. Theres no
with him in person? so great. i was there when he was born, right before the pandemic and haven t seen him since. he s grown so much. i m sad i missed as much as i did. this is my in-laws, first time i ve seen them in two years and saw my mom over thanks giving first time in two years. reporter: we spoke with a grandmother who had never seen her grandson in person so she was flying from atlanta to baltimore and said that moment when she was going to wrap her arms around her grandson for the first time was going to be worth just flying during the variant and with all of the other inconveniences of holiday travel. i think that s what is so frustrating, felt like the time we re finally going to see family members you haven t seen, a grandmother not seeing her grandson, oh, i can t even imagine that feeling. nadia, thank you for checking in with us this morning. that s right. amid the omicron surge, at-home coronavirus tests have
we have a billion tests that will become available to people that they can order through the website, starting january 19th. we have 50 million tests we ve sent to community health centers around the country and starting january 15th, yesterday, people will be able to get coverage, private insurance coverage for up to eight tests per person per month that they order. all of these together will help us close a gap in testing and make sure that everyone does, in fact, have a test who needs it. but it does seem like the state of testing is not yet acceptable. a new study out from kaiser this week showed out of almost 500 searches for at-home coronavirus tests, that online retailers just last week tests were only available 43 times. that s just 9% of the time. we re nearly two years into this pandemic. president biden has been in office for almost a full year. would you agree it s not yet at an acceptable level? well, jake, as the president said, we certainly have more we
month that they order. all of these together will help us close a gap in testing and make sure that everyone does, in fact have a test who needs it. but it does seem like the state of testing is not yet acceptable. a new study out from kaiser this week showed out of almost 500 searches for at-home coronavirus tests, that online retailers just last week tests were only available 43 times. that s just 9% of the time. we re nearly two years into this pandemic. president biden has been in office for almost a full year. would you agree it s not yet at an acceptable level? well, jake, as the president said, we certainly have more we need to do on testing and that s a message that s very clear from him to the tupublic, to the tea we need to pull every lever possible. that s why you see so many additional spigots open with testing and supply in the months ahead. we can also t allow to lose sig