Welcome to the program. Global air travel is looking for a way out of the devastation the pandemic has been causing the International Air transport association. I. X. Have believes its possible to save the industry from ruin by reopening safety as soon as possible. And it seems to be high time. The industry body expects losses to belong to 84000000000. 00 in this year alone. The unprecedented drop is due to demand in the industry tanking by well over 60 percent. Now today i asked is holding its annual meeting where measures to remove travel restrictions will be high on the agenda. And a move towards what could become common across the industry. Australia. Squanto has announced that International Travelers wanting to fly with the carrier will need to be vaccinated against cove. At 19, earlier i spoke to director general and c. E. O. And xander vision yack and asked him what ideas the industry body had to move forward. You know what we are a commending because of that scene is not there
Travelling easier to be a bit safer, but that doesnt look likely any time soon with Testing Capacity at its limits. The government is trying to ease the pressure on overworked labs, even some hospitals are shifting away from the more reliable p. C. R. Tests. Instead using the faster cheaper antigen test to check best stuff for the virus. Has the advantage of rapid tests is that we get a result within 30 minutes. Its relatively reliable and a relatively easy testing system based on the other hand, the disadvantage is that we know the rapid tests are slightly less sensitive to the virus. The p. C. R. Test is the gold standard. Its more precise than the rapid test because its a fine balance between whats reliable and whats practical. But the rapid test come with that challenges to. In germany, they can only be administered by a Trained Health worker that costs time and money and means people cant test themselves at home. Nurse eve bomb and understands the tyler has hospital staff. Of cour
D 2 you know that 77 percent. Are younger than 6 of. Thats me and me and you. And you know what time all voices are. On the 77 percent. This is where. The 77 percent this weekend on d w. Fear anxiety and loneliness and then corona came along. Added isolation for those with dementia is damaging. So is forgetting to follow the new rules. To avoid getting or transmitting the virus. Its also a challenge and danger for can give is. Theres more evidence showing a person with dementia in a care home is actually at higher risk of catching covert 19 the risk of severe symptoms rises steeply with age one in 10 deaths have been people over 60. So how do you go about isolating someone who for whom isolation is the worst thing possible and explain to them what the coronavirus is and how to respond when they keep forgetting well talk to a dimension nurse about that in a moment 1st this report on how our families coping with the same situation in india. Quarantine has been fun for the sooty. She has
Public safety power shutoffs right now. More than 50,000 Northern California customers are impacted here in the bay area about 22,000 pg e customers are expected to lose power in seven counties. The utility hopes to restore service by 10 00 p. M. Friday. Pg e is stressing this power shutoff is shorter than last years when some customers were in the dark for about a week. That was a tough time for people. Yes. Thank you. The outages are having a big impact on people all across the bay area. Abc7 News Reporter anser hassan is live in walnut creek with more. Good morning. Walnut creek had power shutoff last night. No street lights, no homes with lights on. The light you see is from our news van. Pg e has been informing residents since monday that power may be shut off due to the threat of wildfires. Here in the east bay, the psps event will affect over 6,000 customers, mostly in walnut creek, danville, oakland. Pg e opened 40 Community Resource centers. These are places people can go to i
Tracking the strong winds, the peak wind gust with the offshore went 50 to 60 miles an hour earlier this morning, mount st. Helena, mount diablo gusting wind gusts of 63 miles an hour. Mount hood 39 and 38 milean hour wind gusts at the oakland hills. Because of the dusty offshore winds, low relative humidity values, a big concern with the red flag warning that remains in effect now through 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow for all the areas highlighted in red. The northbay and east bay mountains, Santa Cruz Mountains under the red flag morning. We continue to watch humidity levels drop throughout the day today into tomorrow. That is why we are talking about the extreme fire danger. Also looking at dangerously hot temperatures. Likely record breaking highs today into tomorrow which is why the heat advisory for the bay area in effect today and tomorrow. We look at daytimes highs 20 degrees above average this time of year. I can let you know what to expect in your neighborhood coming up in a few minut