people are catching covid again even if they have in the past, or even if they have been triple jabbed. there are some spring boosters coming along for the most vulnerable, soon, that will help offer a bit more protection. michele roberts. some live pictures now from the border between romania and ukraine, where ukrainians are continuing to flee in large numbers. we have heard from the pope in the last few hours who has called the war in ukraine a perverse abuse of power, weighs for partisan interests, and it has condemned, said the pope, defenceless people to violence. the pope has not named russia in that condemnation, but he has used phrases such as unacceptable armed
pointing to concerns about compliance from the public, particularly those triple jabbed, and how easy or not it would be to try and convince people in that situation to live with further restrictions going forward. at the moment number ten has not ruled anything out and are keen to stress this is not necessarily a crunch meeting today, just a regular data update but everything is kept under review and i think at the moment ministers are keen to hold tight until they think they can justify it. we ve just been hearing the cabinet office mr stephen barclay will be chairing a meeting on workplace resilience today as well as the regular briefing the prime minister will be getting. before christmas he was having these meetings on staff resilience daily to get an update from different departments and they will they last met four days ago. we will update you on those various briefings today when we get them.
restrictions that could be needed for england would politically be very tricky to get through. firstly there s the issue of mps, remember when the uk government tried to pass the introduction of covid passes in england, that was met with fierce resistance from backbench mps with the biggest backbench rebellion since borisjohnson has been prime minister so that something he will be keen to avoid. there s definitely disagreement in cabinet, at the moment from the last cabinet meetings that took place, the majority wanted to hold off until there was further dated but some are saying there are would be vocal opposition within cabinet itself where they further restrictions introduced and there are some in government pointing to concerns about compliance from the public, particularly those triple jabbed and how easy or not it would be to try and convince people in that situation to live with for the restrictions going forward. at the moment number ten has not ruled anything out and are keen
stay with us on bbc news, still to come: new documents linked to the assassination of presidentjohn f kennedy were released in the last few hours we ll find out what s in them. england s chief medical officer says uk covid cases will hit record highs in the coming weeks. here s our medical editor fergus walsh we could get to a astonishingly high numbers by the end of the year and the proportion of those are going to be serious and that sounds scary, but in many ways, we are in a much better place than we were this time last year. hospitaladmissions better place than we were this time last year. hospital admissions for the over 85 some of the group most at risk are nine times lower now than they were in january and these are than they were injanuary and these are pre omicron figures but than they were in january and these are pre omicron figures but that is because of vaccines given extraordinarily high protection against severe illness and if you double or triple jabbed, the individu