as the british government says it's facing a tidal wave of new infections fuel by omar crohn. the new k recorded a leap of 72 percent and the number of daily cases compared to the week before. and over $82000.00 cases per day. it's more than any time during the pandemic. g. w correspondent, charlotte chelsea. toll reports from london. ah, mister cheer on the streets of london. once again bringing holly shops and hospitality may will be opened. christmas party still allowed to go ahead as planned. the cove it is costing its dark shadow as the days ahead. is experts warm, the overgrown tidal wave is coming and it's coming at a phenomenal pace. what we know is that it reproduces very, very false. a week ago, a school. so we said it reproduces every $23.00 days or 3 times a week. i'm putting it very simply. that means in one week you get 8 times as many sections 2 weeks, 64 times as many, 3 weeks, 512 times as many says coming at us like an express train. you kay's already reporting record cove cases with all micron. now the dominant variance here in london resisting calls from some further restrictions, the government's focusing instead on its booster campaign, resulting in lengthy queues at vaccine sites across the country. obviously though, the kron is growing so rapidly london, and we just wanted to get in as quickly as possible. so many people i thought of getting covered again from last week out of the office. 401460 and them got cove. it clearly on the corn is really spreading quickly. it's very relevant, very important for me to come here today for in 5 hours. not that i want to make an issue of it. but um, i live with my mother and father who of, in their ages. i honest ideally get it done for i went to go and see relatives and people over christmas. i can't fill my toes there, but it's okay. it's okay. the government's throwing the doors open to every adult in england to get boosted by the end of the year. they're hoping to offer up to a 1000000 jams a day is early data suggests the 3rd vaccine is key to combating omicron. this is a massive undertaking for the health service they're being asked for. another major maxine pushed to try and vent hospitals like this one from being overwhelmed. but there are concerns. it won't be enough. as people here lie, not for that boosters. there are already people in hospital with omicron hospitalizations, all climbing and one person's confirmed to have died with omicron. while it's not yet clear how severe the variant is, the sheer number of cases alone could prove overwhelming. in the shadows, this vaccine center, a reminder of what's at stake and memorial wall, commemorating the 10s of thousands of lives lost to cove it and it's with the pain and sacrifice of the past that this weary nation is now facing the threat of another worrying winter to come more for more on the situation in the u. k. let's talk to julian tang a clinical ver ologist at the university of leicester julian. i thank you for joining us. the situation in the u. k is already bad, but recent models from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine indicate it's about to get a lot worse. there forecasting between $2575000.00 from over crime by the end of april. what will the coming month look like for the u. k? yes, some questions about those models may have been wrong before overestimating? no, that's in cases that one of the key things about the model is that they're trying to model the severity of illness. from from neutralization studies, docking done in the lab as well. we know from previous attempts to rows of illnesses, very hot model, and that way, i suspect that the number infections may be close to the mark with the new apostrophes, asians maybe less than the most predicts. in the most pessimistic scenario, even the most optimistic scenario where maybe not as many hospitalization, so just to wait and see. and those we know that she's our responses are also very important in keeping people out of the hospital and have more severe disease. and teeth responses are not really correlated in the model of the many fixed antibody neutralization that results. but no matter what way you really look at this, the u. k, the rest of the world is facing more cases. more hospitalizations is that avoidable and the u. k. now is difficult as if left it very long was you stop, see the peak of these cases. now use irma con, that if it essentially the horses bolted. so even though you impose restrictions now, there are a lot of viruses to lock people out there who are seeing the own con, no, very, and across the population lockers. delta hasn't gone away either. the restrictions will reduce both the variance in terms of infections and death and hospitalization and death, hopefully. but now it's very late on to do this and with christmas, new year already upon us, the says locations now will have increased even as we speak. you know, even behind closed doors, we've seen in recent days that countries like the netherlands returning to locked down. do you think leisure is? that's rector a potential lockdown are coming in the u. k. social a purely various point of view. i think that's probably what's needed if they wanted to achieve that goal of actually reducing was fro, omicron, and not just for 2 weeks. as some of said already, i think for at least 4 to 6, we're gonna have to use that kind of measure to really locked down the virus. but the low cost at the concert osland hosp, the hospitality industry and the economy in a, in a wider sense sort of social, psychological welfare. so as can be really hard to struggle balance between that those 2 extremes. one of the challenges here seems to be that we don't know a lot about on market right now. there's still a lot of unanswered questions about how deadly it is or how can governments, including the government in the u. k. draft health policies. when our understanding of this variant is still quite limited. so this, the issue of the precautionary approach in effect control, if you're not sure about how severe the virus is, how fast it spreads. you put in place measures that will cover those eventualities even at the most pessimistic level. but of course that has a knock in effect for him education as society and economy. but if you poorly looking to control the virus or some of the sockets, asian countries have done very well as, as the candidate restriction of measures that you need to impose early on. and then you can reap the benefits of that later on. that when you open up was of ours is down to, you know, virtually 0 for them over the u. k. and other european countries, the and it was just far too high for that. so what you're looking for as a mitigation of the peak and hopefully something we can live with as well as, you know, overwhelming your local health services. you mentioned there that net effective measures we've seen in, in south either asian countries. what exactly did you mean by that? can you elaborate a bit on what those have been? yes, so rather than getting the panoramic when they weren't sure about the viruses, well, the original hands tray, the went to universal masking and forced isolation, quarantine of effects and contacts. there will be had security texan on risks, ankles and mobile phone apps to track. they've been what he broke, those isolation, quarantine orders that even new friends they had to that they made, it won't stay at home and they need a written permission slip. so to leave the house for essential business that, that kind of measure, i did actually work very well to stem the tide of carrot in the 1st wave. and i was more people vaccinated and hung had baffling unity and the risk of severe disease and death is much less at moments. but if you want to reduce the risk of over one of the health care service, cuz they're dealing with the things that in the winter winter months that the you may need some kind of locked down, or at least something similar to restrict those numbers. that even further that given that lower area, 80000. now. so julian taking the long view here many in europe had really hoped his christmas would be different than the last. it doesn't appear that that's going to be happening. do you see a risk and this pattern every winter, just repeating itself and from now on? those are list put a lot to listing some of my colleagues. i think this versus no doubt into the human population. the number of spite person mutations, though rapid spread with less severity, from data coming out to south africa and also some early data now from hong kong and also chambers suggest that the vice wrecked gets better in the upper or lower asperity track. these are all changes i'd expect to see for a virus better adapt his human population, the host over the next few years. i think what you're gonna see is a mother marvel device on my spread more rapidly. but for which most people may not need vaccination. that is julian tang, a clinical neurologist at the university of lester. thanks so much for analysis. you now it's your turn. here's of your question for our science correspondent derek williams. oh, my husband was vaccinated then 2 weeks later tested positive for covered 19. could that be due to the vaccine? oh no, but depending on what kind of testy took for different reasons, there are basically 2 different types of diagnostics. the most accurate is called a polymerase chain reaction or a p c r test. now, it works my amplifying tiny amounts of sars, covey, two's genetic material in a sample, up to levels where it can be detected exactly why vaccines can't cause a positive pcr result is complicated scientifically. but more or less comes down to the fact that most of the currently approved vaccines don't use a full version of the real virus to kick start an immune response. they instead contain no short stretches of genetic material that don't replicate that the grade fast and cells and that aren't detected or amplified by pcr. the 2nd class of detection diagnostics called and engine tests, they work by revealing the presence of certain proteins that are specific to sars covey to they're cheaper and faster, but also less accurate than p c r. because some vaccines cause your body to produce the corona, virus spike protein to, to kick, start your immune response to the pathogen. it doesn't seem impossible that an antigen test which detects proteins, might be confused by that. however, to avoid any confusion, most commercial antigen tests are not designed to detect spike protein, but other corona virus pro, am in addition, vaccines are injected into the arm, but detection tests, they swab the nose or the throat, the cells, there are not the ones producing spike proteins after vaccination, so long and short vaccines don't cause coven 19 tests to turn up positive on the presence of the virus does. thanks for watching. ah. stay up to date. don't miss our highlights. the d w program online. d, w dot com highlights every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word, hello, pinnacle nico is in germany to learn german with why not learn with him. with its simple online on your mo bile and free t w's e learning course, nico speak, german made easy. ah, hello guys. this is the 77 percent the platform for africa. you repeat issues and share ideas. you know, or this channel, we are not afraid to happen. delicate because population is growing fast. and young people clearly have the solution. that future belongs to you is 77 percent. now every weekend on d w the landscape, a reflection of a turbulent history. the cities, the mosaic of different people and languages. the ron's mountains reveal unparalleled beauty. ah, a special look at a special country. he loan from above. starts december 27th on d, w. with. ah! these images were found last summer when deadly floods hit the r valley in western germany after days heavy rain, the river and it streams burst their banks in july. ready flood swept away numerous homes and devastated entire towns. the water came so fast and well, it's a fleet utter gale. the marks left by the flight can still clearly be seen in the region and its residence. the words, whenever trains i know is to panic that another downs hall like that's what could happened near the girl. it's works for the plumbing and heating company cock and nice. he and his colleagues have had their hands false and the flood. great, now they're doing what they can to make sure people have heating a small source of comfort. in the dark winter day. the company offers an arkenberg rhineland palatinate, but one of the buildings hadn't survived the flood. so griffith and his colleagues had their morning meeting outside and what was the last mamma then? what is that noble? this small container is serving as a makeshift office. grove, his remembers the floods. well, almost a global gonna comes to one of your mover here. you can still see it smoking, look at that house at the 1st floor in stock. you can see the mark left by the water into the bar. the cock and meas, office was pretty much, completely flooded, wasn't a bar, was often between these 2 windows appear, was our company signed your own bar? he knows us after the flood. everything was so flew, but it was still hanging awful, shooting nor, or to boss a saw that as a sign that giving open wasn't an option of good with a canopy on more than 130 people died in our valley floods. thousands lost their homes to this day, many of the small municipalities along the river feel like i can work with. i was completely destroyed. most of the houses remain inhabited by the ones that people have been able to return to mac. proper heating must have a check, but i need to check with my boss most are schriner booked up until late january, early february. the summer moved out of a problem is that it's winter and people are without heating because it's cold. so that's a top priority. we did that, we don't have time for me under john smith and for this enjoy more home for months girl. hasn't his colleagues have only been repairing flood damaged homes? all other projects have to wait list, but i'd take the surrounding of them love. no, this is just a daily madness for the phone keeps ringing off. and just when i moved across views that complicates things that you have to keep on through the mud here. school's starting slow, again. the cold weather has made the dire situation even more challenging. said screw up my job and doing my job as best i can and i'm trying to help wherever i can. nobody can fix the valley or no one person. anyway, it's a huge. this will take months or even year road has a rived and bad annoying where his 1st client of the day is waiting. only the basement was flooded in this house for the tenants to live here. the oil part heating system was destroyed though, for now, the only heat comes from a small wood burning stove. downstairs of this will see the whole house of you'd have to drill a hole in the ceiling to heat upstairs and over shows the top floor is called her bedroom is up there. and so we quickly jump under the shield and that's what we're fine school in the basement down below is less fine. home owner ants, your command explains that the water burst in through this to which pipes zoe. since then it's another feasible damaged oil tanks have already been removed or what a nightmare i've never seen anything like this. so 111, everything needs to be replaced. everything is broken. well, another problem to fix next year. so just when the truck was over, all this is what i expect in the future is that such extreme weather events will become more frequent with climate change. her desire and more in tanza as the screen on have to go another house in the region except that this one was completely flooded. it's uninhabitable, but get and a frieda gasper still come to check on things in their former home every day. even though it pains them, he thus will each time i come in and see this moment, oh, it hurts. students were stunned. for months they've been using an electric heater to try out the walls. although it's still unclear whether they will ever be able to move back into their house. if the walls or foundation are contaminated with heating oil or other pollutants, the house will have to be demolished. they're waiting for an appraisal that will provide them with answers to cobblestone hopes their house can be saved. but it's hard to remain optimistic. envy yet slew. yeah. hadn't the or if it were spring things would probably be better for you. all dish team, including our mode or stand, it gets dark around 5 pm or and that gets you to press all done, comment off the dip plus yawn, even if their house can be saved. it will take a long time until the repairs are complete. when the gas bass can move back in again, what was your name, sir? uh, mon, you do not know if you can get workers off the phone companies in the area or off a book to you. i do see on your smart just this town that was affected schools, consol the whole, our valley was hit either year, almost everyone wants to go back into the house as quickly as possible ends on halls, all the ins and a good boy, god care of his is on his way to his next client who needs a gas pipe connected to an interim house. hundreds of people were left homeless after their houses had to be torn down temporary homes like heath are providing short term solutions. here to load them onto oil, already filled out an entire row of houses is missing from there. let me see. i need number 28. from a unit gospel to little citizen. in just a few minutes, girls have connected the gas tanks, but the house won't get warm without functioning water pipes. and these aren't in place yet. this house belongs to molina zion. she's looking forward to not having to wear a hat and gloves in doors anymore. the flood damaged the house that stood there. i trust my parent's home. we bought this new one, so have a place to stay with my dog. all right, so i'll let you get on with it. we'll see you buy it. more often, woman, a barley, a written art book alone over 50 buildings were torn down because they were at risk of collapsing are contaminated over all the floods last summer, cause some 30000000000 euros in damage time to head to the companies warehouse located several kilometers about the valley, the hook it up, you know, what's crazy is that you only have to drive a short way and everything is fine with what i are gone all and how is it? and all of this happened to be of mill road. the heating and plumbing company rented this warehouse after the flight they salvaged what they could from their old office and brought it here on the owner of other than that of the mother of anything that got in contact with the flood water . it can't be used for tap water, which you drink from. com and you could use this for a heating system ball, but not for tub water and also another box we saved on or rather our boss rescued it super directed because it's not worth it to clean screws. hold on to this. you can see what happens. of course these brass screws have changed color helmer and login, but you can still use them to secure something. hm. all these things in what we saved, what we could offer you alone. forgotten condom. the team here faces another problem . global supply chain shortage is resulting from the corona virus pandemic. from time, the moment we're taking it one day at a time, we see which projects we can take on must come which emergencies pop up on on what can we finish up this? but right now in terms of materials, tomato, everybody in germany and internationally knows there are supply chain shortages. a farm girl guess is next job is in a former hotel i look like in almost every building in the our valley. the hotels heating system didn't survive the flight, but there's no one at the construction site huffman. i hate this there's no one here or we can tell you okay, has only been told that there is something wrong with the mobile heating system. though cameras is one option to protect houses from frost to damage. i'm not sure how many of these mobile heaters are now being used earlier valley. no, but i'd say quite a few high. did we speak on the phone? mr. logistic, if god follow us, has a look inside and quickly spots the problem. there is an error message on it that's normal. it's run out of oil and external oil tank needs to be connected to refill the system to work as tells the workers what to do and takes off the lot of the half of them. or if you run into problems, let me know, make the what i'll see you later start next week. i'll take care jaw. what brings girl his piece of mind is when a permanent heating system is up and running young's while the boys have been busy . the furnace has been installed camino. all that's needed is a connecting element and we're done installing. an entire heating system can take to 4 weeks and with a huge demand on the r valley for his and his colleagues can hardly keep up. many people have to live in unheeded homes for several more weeks. hendrick, tim is one of the few flood victims with the knack, know how to repair his own heating culture. a car mechanic asked to be experts for advice and then did the work himself. bunch and sheldon's redondo, that's all management naturally since summer i was working nights doing overtime issue and using vacation days, which came from world on mr. jonnesho. without that, i wouldn't be as far right about it for so i got i also don't know when this would be ready if i had to rely on others. i found wolf to fall under his v. uh huh. meanwhile, the r ripper is flowing peacefully through the valley again. but the havoc had wreaked in july will take a long time to fix what resolution soon bigger you have a nice view from appear. you can see alton are below the river, curving around and into they're still finding wrecked cars. their mom has my home region has been destroyed, had such good but as will recover eventually ah ah ah, with no no to nuclear power. that's what the brock doth protest is about. one last time after 35 years of struggle. by the end of 2022, germany will talk to using nuclear power. other countries, meanwhile, are stepping up production. why is that global 3090 minutes on d w. oh, yes, ma'am lee. oh oh i i was interested in the global economy our portfolio d w. business. beyond here, the closer look at the project, our mission to analyze the fight for market dominance. east this is wes, get a step ahead with the w business beyond on you to watch friends foot a lot, international gateway to the best connection, south road and rail. located in the heart of europe, you are connected to the whole world who experienced outstanding shopping and dining offers. enjoy alice services will be our guest at frankfurt. airport city, managed by frappe waterloo. ah, ah, this is dino be news and these are a top stories. u. s. president joe biden has announced new measures to battle a surgeon corona virus cases, including providing 500000000 free rapid tests. the alma kron variant has quickly become.

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