in. the carrier is now expiring privatisation plans to ease the board and on colombo. we caught up board and on colombo. we caught up with richard nuttall, chief executive at the airline. there is a lot of executive at the airline. there is a lot of energy executive at the airline. there is a lot of energy around - is a lot of energy around privatising. the first thing, though, that we need to do if we re to privatise is we need to restructure the old dexter out there, so in round numbers we make $1 million of revenue a year. we have $1 billion of debt, some in dollars, some local, some owed to different creditors, and we are paying 100 million on servicing it. structure that that a large part of what we are paying any interest comes back and can be used to run the airline and it means that an outside investor can come in and, guess, basically not pay for the sins of the past. welcome i think you first lesson for me is don t ever go and be a ceo in covid, come after covid then you c
welcome back. data download time. it s january, it s cold in most of the country. the past two years, there s been a spike in covid, why? because everyone goes inside. the last 90 days we ve seen ahn uptick. most people aren t testing as much as they used to. mandatory test sergeant down. so there s some apples to apples here now, if you compare now, though, to a year ago, we re in terrific shape. this is where we are in january 2022. here we are a year later.
yes, it s up, but overall from year to year it s down. even with deaths, you see the big spikes we had at the start of 2022, we re seeing a spike here, but far below where we were. another interesting point we want to point out has to do with vaccine and the booster. the updated booster among those over the age of 65, does not have a lot of traction. . compare that to the initial vaccine series? 94% of those over 65 took it. look at where we are today. that s not good when it comes to seeing where this virus is going to go. if you want this look at it, welcome back. data download time. it s january, it s cold in most of the country. the past two years, there s been a spike in covid, why? because everyone goes inside. the last 90 days we ve seen ahn uptick. most people aren t testing as much as they used to. mandatory test sergeant down. so there s some apples to apples here now, if you compare now, though, to a year ago, we re in terrific shape. this is where we are in january 2022.
restrictions. it comes as china s experiences a surge in covid cases. cnn s steven jiang live for us. what prompted china let s move to reopen the borders and keep them open despite this covid surge? reporter: christine, it depends on who you ask. officials claim they did it proactively because they also had a scientific approach to the pandemic. others would point to those widespread protests against an increasingly unsustainable zero covid policy back in november. those protests are the very things that provide leadership. the way they did it t, that sudn u-turn both in terms of medical resources but also in terms of government messaging has results in a surge in reduction in deaths, not reflecting government data. and that lack of transparency obviously being noted both
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