the same pattern and we compare the population of both countries, 50,000 daily cases in u.k., would mean 1.4 million daily covid cases in india. reporter: they worry the election cycle could fuel a new wave of infections. people might not get tested if the symptoms aren t visible. there s more chances of the election rallies becoming superspreader events. but there s no doubt that we should postpone the rallies for two months. prevention is the best cure for india. reporter: in the spring of 2021, india s health care system buckled under the pressure of its second coronavirus wave, which peaked at some 400,000 recorded daily cases. since then, the government has increased the number of icu beds and bolstered oxygen supplies.
care and vaccines in particular are provided to those people who need them most. those who generously devote themselves for caring for family members, the sick and the most vulnerable in our midst. and vatican analyst john allen is in rome with more for us. and john, there were some restrictions on crowd size for his services today. reporter: yeah, hi there, jessica. very merry christmas to you. hope that you are with your loved ones. here in rome, my wife and i are celebrating with some of our closest friends and it is a glorious thing. yes, so the crowd size was less than well, less than would be normal in the pre-covid era in st. peter s square. the vatican has had to make accommodations to try to make sure that these big papal events don t become superspreader events. last night there were just about 2,000 people whereas the ordinary capacity would be
you could use to basically, you know, mitigate the infection. so that was missing in the fda approval process. they did not have that concept of frequency. nor they had a concept of a test that is not just for diagnosis, like we all know medical professionals need, but also population, something that is called monitoring and that the fda does not regulate and still doesn t have a template or any kind of mandate to companies to do. i m sorry, dr. hilton, understanding that this test is not as sensitive, it still could have been very helpful in picking up what would later become superspreader events. and we are still grappling with this question of testing. i want you to take a listen to president biden. mr. president, what s your message to americans who are
Attendees of the Dec. 10 event in Sydney, Australia, have been told to get tested and isolate as officials say some cases may have been omicron variant.