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we introduced before christmas, we have a chance to ride out of this omicron wave without shutting down our country once again. we ll bejoined on the programme by a public health expert to discuss the latest numbers and anti covid strategies. also ahead: lawyers for prince andrew argue for the first time in court, that the sexual assault civil lawsuit against him should be thrown out. they say he can t be sued because of an agreement signed by his accuser. and running out of time a tribute to an historic travel hub in thailand as it prepares to close for good. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. china is showing its determination to continue with its zero covid strategy. the authorities have put an entire city into lockdown after the discovery of just three asymptomatic cases. residents won t be allowed to leave their homes in yuzhou, which has a population of 1 ....
national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they are all unvaccinated. parents are unvaccinated, siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think that what we are gaeigae going to see is once children going to school, within a week or two of schools opening is when we are going to see our highest numbers. reporter: amid the winter weather, the pandemic is roaring across the country with over a quarter million new cases now diagnosed daily. that s a record. this omicron variant is such a game-changer, in terms of its high, high transmissibility. it s like this big virus blizzard. reporter: hospitalizations are only about half of what they were last winter, but some ....
variant as they are to older strains. this, as hospitals, schools, transportation networks, and other institutions are scrambling to cope with all of it. a lot to talk about tonight. cnn s tom foreman starts us off. reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up. on average, nearly 50% in just one week. new york city has seen pediatric admissions jump to five times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the kids coming to children s national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they are all unvaccinated. they are unvaccinated. parents are unvaccinated, siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think that what we are going to see is once childre ....
administration is taking a closer look at the effectiveness of at-home antigen tests. the tests are still beneficial. our reporters are covering the developments from london to beijing. tom foreman has our lead story, reporting in from washington. reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up, on average, nearly 50% in just one week. new york city is seeing pediatric admissions jump to five-times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the kids coming to children s national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children that are hospitalized because of covid, or icu because of covid, they re unvaccinated. they re unvaccinated, the parents are unvaccinated, the siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think what we re goin ....
that is entirely possible. were these ancient artifacts the personal belongings of his mother, mary? we do know that it was a house of the kind that mary and joseph could ve lived in. i personally think it s very possible this was the childhood home of jesus. and what might the childhood of jesus tell us about jesus the man? we are looking at such an important part of human history. according to the gospels, jesus spent his childhood in the village of nazareth, in the region of galilee. today, nazareth is a bustling city of more than 70,000 people in northern israel. here, in a deep cellar beneath a 19th-century convent, lie the remains of what may prove to be one of the most extraordinary discoveries ever made, the very home in which jesus was raised. if this were in fact the childhood home of jesus, it would allow us to picture the world that jesus came from in a way that no other discovery has. how people fed themselves, what people worked at, the pol ....