more and more people are being pinged by the track and trace app, and told to isolate. that s left businesses struggling with staff shortages. even large companies are affected. today, motor manufacturer vauxhall admitted production at its luton van plant has suffered. and, as the number of covid infections continues to rise, there s increasing pressure for the track and trace rules to be relaxed. theo leggett, bbc news. with cases on the rise, our medical editor fergus walsh says that there is still a huge amount of uncertainty about how high this latest pandemic wave could reach. a lot of possible scenarios where we would see hospital admissions, daily admissions, rising to maybe 2,000 a day. that would still be half the levels we saw in the winter peak. deaths should be much lower. they re being suppressed by about 90%. a small amount of variation
of hospitalisation and pressure on the nhs. it s not as pessimistic as some might paint the picture. looking at the present data, would you say that we are not seeing that rising hospitalisation that would trigger a fear? irate rising hospitalisation that would trigger a fear? rising hospitalisation that would triu aer a fear? ~ . , . , trigger a fear? we are seeing a rise in hospitalisations trigger a fear? we are seeing a rise in hospitalisations and trigger a fear? we are seeing a rise in hospitalisations and those - trigger a fear? we are seeing a rise in hospitalisations and those in - trigger a fear? we are seeing a rise in hospitalisations and those in our| in hospitalisations and those in our geographic areas of the uk that have the novel variant. this is not yet translating across the country. so it is a little bit early to call this a pandemic wave. it is not a third wave yet. we are seeing a rise in cases but we have to keep a very close eye on what happens in terms of
point. yeah, absolutely. i mean initially the sort of qanon believer we thought of also matched a trump supporter, white, likely evangelical christian, older. but really especially during the pandemic wave seen that change and we ve seen that grow into, you know, a much broader base of support. about 20% of the people surveyed agreed with the following statement. i m going to read it here. there is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders. 20% agree with that. and among those who agree 28% were republicans. so after january 6 how are we supposed to react to that? the national guard troops as you well know just left washington, d.c. so is the general threat level now just ongoing? right. i mean, in terms of assessing the threat it s difficult. but that really gets at sort of the fascist vision at the heart of qanon. and it s not when you look at it it can look like people just have some crazy ideas about the
The spread of the Covid virus in Osaka, Japan's second largest city, with a population of 9 million people, is causing what doctors call a "system collapse" of the city's healthcare network
The spread of the Covid virus in Osaka, Japan's second largest city, with a population of 9 million people, is causing what doctors call a "system collapse" of the city's healthcare network