in hong kong now facing its toughest battle against the virus in two years. we talked about this tough battle. against the virus. and two years. what s the lathest from the city? here in hong kong the hospital system is overwhelmed. the city is hit with a record surge in covid-19 cases on sunday reporting well over 1,300 new cases of covid-19. and on top of that additional 2,000 suspected cases of the virus. we learned that 90% of hospital beds for covid-19 patients are already full. sunday over the weekend we got more details about the meeting that took place. that meeting on saturday between hong kong government officials and government said that beijing has pledged to offer support for the growing out break in the form of treatment. testing services and boosting. capacity for quarantine as well. task forces have been announced by the government. as for time line that remains
for help. here in hong kong, the health care system is being absolutely overwhelmed as the territory is being hit by a record surge of covid-19 cases. in the last few hours, we got the latest numbers. hong kong reporting over 2,000 new daily cases of covid-19, adding on top of that 4,500 suspected cases. that is a significant rise from the previous day. we have also learned that in terms of beds, hospital beds for covid-19 patients, they are at 90% capacity. over the weekend, it was on saturday, that was when hong kong government officials met with mainland chinese officials and they got a pledge of help from beijing saying they would help with testing, with treatment, with quarantine capacity. as for a time line when that help would arrive, that remains to be seen. late on sunday we heard from hong kong government officials, they said they plan to open up vaccination to children ages 3 and up. that to start from tuesday. and this is just grim because what you have are covid-19 cases e
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that s on lies. ok, i take it that you don t want to take the pledge, all right. russia battles a record surge of covid as the capital moscow goes into partial lockdown. and the battle escalates overfishing rights between france and britain. the french authorities detain a british trawler. we start with two big stories developing in washington. first president biden says his democratic party has reached a framework agreement on economic reforms worth nearly two trillion dollars. the plan sets out investment in social care, affordable health and efforts to combat climate change. here s the us president. it s a framework that will create millions ofjobs, grow the economy,
because he can t afford to be seen as being soft on fishing. which is partly true. certainly the election will make it easier to find a compromise would this have happened anyway even if they weren t elections coming here want us to ask themselves. and i think the answer is yes. and in the past few minutes we ve had this statement from a uk government spokesman. lets turn to to russia, where new lockdown restrictions have come into force in moscow, as the country experiences a record surge in covid deaths and infections. russia has reported a record number of covid deaths in the past 2a hours more than 1,100. the data also reveals more