Was located roughly 400 miles thats 615 kilometres south of mexicos southern edge. President joe biden spoke about the preparations under way. I also want to note that my team is closely monitoring hurricane hilary, which has the potential to bring significant rain and flooding to southern california. Fema has repositioned personnel and supplies in the region, and they are ready to respond as needed. Repositioned. I urge everyone, everyone in the path of the store and to take precautions and listen to the guidance of state and local officials. Were tracking multiple wildfires in canada as the country faces what is being called its worst fire season on record. Fires in the kelowna region of british columbia, and 1,200 miles or 2,000 kilometres north in the countrys Northwest Territory capital of yellowknife are some of the more than 1,000 active wildfires across canada. 186,000 residents in both kelowna and west kelowna are under a State Of Emergency Afterfast Burning and unpredictable
and i guess there s a couple of new ones that we re actually seeing around the world. there s a one in the us, the eris variant, and then there s also a new one in the uk. have you been tracking these, and how concerned are you now about the appearance of a couple of what look to be new strains of covid? well, you know, most of them are variants of what s been known as xbb, which is a shoot off of 0micron that first took off in the winter of 2022. so eg5, which is also eris and also known as eris, as well as the xbb variants, seem to be the ones that are really starting to ramp up now and accounting for most of the increases in the uk and the us. and on the us side, now we have a new booster, a monovalent, a single booster that s supposed to be ready by the fall, hopefully by next month. and that specifically
bbc news, in guayaquil. cases of covid 19 are on the rise again in the us, but they remain well below their pandemic levels. in august, more than 10,000 people were hospitalised for covid in the united states according to data from the us centre for disease control and prevention that s up 60% sincejuly. in the uk, positive covid cases are up 17% over the last seven days. this comes as a new 0micron subvariant eris has become the predominant covid strain in the us. while health agencies in the uk, us, denmark, and israel are have also detected the emergence of a new highly mutated strain of the virus. earlier, i spoke with dr peter hotez, co director of the texas children s hospital centre for vaccine development and dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. dr hotez, thank you so much for being here to discuss these new variants.