france has reported europe s highest ever number of new daily covid cases, as the 0micron variant continues to spread rapidly. nearly 180,000 infections were reported on tuesday, and france s health minister has warned there could be 250,000 daily cases by the start of january. italy, greece and portugal also reported record rises, as well as the us with more than 440,000 new infections on monday. millions of families are facing a cost of living catastrophe next year because of soaring bills and tax rises that s the warning from the economic thinktank the resolution foundation. the organisation predicts that from the spring, households could face a hit of £1200 a year to their incomes. we re joined now by political correspondent peter saull. this prediction is likely to put the government under pressure to do something about it. figs government under pressure to do something about it. something about it. as ever i am here to bring something about it. as ever i am here to bring y
it s the latest in a long line of shows to do so. over the busy christmas period, 10 of the great white way s biggest shows shut down, including hamilton, the lion king and and moulin rouge, all citing covid 19. whilst four broadway shows have announced they will close down completely. michael riedel is the feared theatre columnist for the new york post, and gave me his thoughts on where broadway goes from here. when we started to reopen here on broadway in the fall when we thought everyone is going to be vaccinated and everybody wants to go back to seeing a great broadway show again, this is an enormous setback. and a lot of shows are not going to be able to survive this herky jerky movement that s going on, and there are literally people who went to broadway shows, they were sitting in their seats at 7:00 and then the stage manager would come out and say, sorry, tonight s show has to be cancelled because of a covid outbreak among the cast and this devastating, devastating percept
airlines don t make money in the winter, so we have a really difficult stretch ahead now. 0n the high street, there was a quicker return to something more normal. shops reopened, and shoppers in need of a retail fix rushed back. what have you got? a pair of trousers. i have bought my little boy three outfits, from the sales. do not show my partner this. i ve had my firstjab, but i ve got my mask for going into places. my firstjab. but covid has changed our habits and the shift to online gathered pace in the pandemic,
hello, and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has urged everyone in the uk to get their boosterjab he says 90% of people currently in intensive care beds with covid had not received their third vaccine. his comments come as new figures show more than 10,000 people in england are in hospital with covid, the highest number since march. meanwhile, doctors and pharmacists in the uk are warning of variable supplies of covid tests, because of a big rise in demand. 0fficials says more kits are being made available. contributing to both the demand for testing kits and those high number of covid patients is the surge in cases. the latest data shows a further 183,000 people have tested positive for covid in the uk. the figure is significantly higher than a week ago because it has been affected by delays in reporting over the christmas period. 0ur health correspondent
many more pharmacies. some customers are very understanding with it, but some are getting very angry about it as well, saying that we ve been told we need to test every day, so how are the tests not available? health officials say they re responding to unprecedented demand, with record numbers of pcr and lateral flows tests being sent out. the advice is to keep trying back on the government website as more are released throughout the day. spiralling cases are leading to an increase in hospital admissions in england. the weekly average is up by more than 50% compared to a week ago. the number of people with covid in hospital has risen above 10,000 for the first time in nearly ten months, but there are some signs of optimism. it s quite difficult at the moment to interpret the data. we have very high rates of infection in the community, and therefore we may see some of these people naturally in the hospital as well. but equally, we re not seeing the same rate of admission