border, it seems many in carlisle will do and i ve been asking staff and they understand, they are not angry people are coming from scotland and they understand that if it was the other way around they would be doing exactly the same. back to you. would be doing exactly the same. back to yon- back to you. olivia, thanks for “oininr back to you. olivia, thanks for joining us- authorities in china are attempting to stick to a zero coronavirus strategy ahead of its lunar new year celebrations and the beijing winter olympics. the country s vice premier has visited the northern city of xi an, where 13 million people have been confined to their homes in one of the country s strictest lockdowns since the pandemic began. these images are from inside xi an. sun chunlan told officials there to speed up testing and do more to isolate the close contacts of those found to be positive. more than 1,200 cases have been found in the city in the past few weeks.
this is bbc news broadacsting to viewers in the uk and around the world, i m martine croxall. our top stories. australia has welcomed in 2022 with a firework display in sydney harbour. but around the world many celebrations are cancelled or scaled back due to concerns over covid infections. and celebrations are underway in north korea this is the scene in pyongyang. china is attempting to stick to a zero covid strategy ahead of its lunar new year celebrations and the beijing winter olympics. one in 30 people in the uk were estimated to have tested positive for covid heading into christmas a new record high for infections. new data suggests the risk of hospitalisation with the omicron coronavirus variant is about one third that
and edinburgh s hogmanay celebrations have also been called off. china is attempting to stick to a zero covid strategy ahead of the lunar new year. its vice premier has visited the northern city of xi an, where 13 million people have been confined to their homes in one of the country s strictest lockdowns since the pandemic began. here in the uk, new figures suggest that nearly 2.3 million people in the uk were infected with covid in the week ending the 23rd of december the highest level since the data was first compiled. separate data shows the number of nhs staff at acute trusts in england who were off work has risen by more than a0%. but some good news data published by the uk health security agency shows the risk
Chinese researchers ‘actively thinking and planning’ ways to improve the nation’s policies in dealing with the pandemic, according to one of China’s most prominent epidemiologists, Wu Zunyou.