at the height of covid, scientist in the east of england led the world in monitoring new variants as they came along. a lot of those checks have now been wound down, but a team in cambridge is still researching how well the vaccines are working. especially for the thousands of people who remain vulnerable because of illness or age. here s our correspondent richard westcott yes, we all love to forget about covid, but many don t have that luxury. people who ve had cancer or other illnesses are still at risk, as are older people. and that s why jack s giving his blood today. 0k, well done. 0k. he s one of 150 volunteers helping scientists keep tabs on how well the vaccines are working. talk me through your motivation for volunteering for this research. so, i lost family to covid. so the first wave last year, before i had covid myself, my family had covid. so i thought, well, if i can help out in my own little way, then hopefully people can benefit from that and research can work
planes in the sky as covid wound down, people got back in the air and more airplanes means more traffic, more number crunching for the computer systems and the computer systems are quite simply old. sandra: we hear you, john scott, it s it s tough to see these numbers. it s just brutal. and it has a lot of people sort of stepping back. we were having a conversation with our team this morning, people are going to have second thoughts about taking flight destinations for their future trips, perhaps planning some trips closer to home, some folks. yep, yep. john: drive if you can. fly at your own peril. thanks, john. sandra: thank you, john. thank you. disgraced the house of representatives and we do not consider him one of our congress people. he has betrayed the public s trust. and given insincere glib and insulting answers when asked legitimate questions about his
navigate through, and we won t suffer that recession, but if we do, it s probably 12, 18 months down the road, and it will mean higher unemployment. in terms of uncomfortable, the home prices, gas, groceries as well, let s talk about rent because they are skyrocketing. rents in february, they went up 40% in austin, 36% in new york, 30% in miami compared to this time last year. any relief in sight for consumers on that front? that s going to take a bit of time too. that just goes back to the housing market, and, you know, the lack of supply, and this is a problem that s been building, you know, since the financial crisis a decade ago. zoning restrictions, higher permitting costs, and now because of the pandemic and the global supply chain disruptions, you know, builders can t get the lumber or appliances that they need to get homes across the finish line to complete them. we have had a real lack of supply, and demand has been strong because as the pandemic has wound down, a lot of m
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here s our health editor hugh pym. everyday life with covid has involved many guidelines on how to keep safe that won t change. but the big shift tomorrow will be the announcement that remaining laws governing public behaviour are set to be scrapped in england, including the requirement to self isolate after testing positive. and pcr testing sites will be wound down, though the government says the ability to monitor the virus will be maintained. free lateral flow test kits are likely to be cut back, with availability only for those most at risk and that could prove controversial. we need resilience but we don t need to keep, for instance on testing, we don t need to keep spending at a rate of £2 billion a month, which is what we were doing in january. the key thing is that people have access to free testing, they know their status and they do the right thing by staying at home. scotland s health secretary said the uk government must continue to fund testing in any nation where there