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hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. more than 150,000 people in the uk have now died, within 28 days of a positive covid test. another 313 deaths have been reported in the latest daily figures. the uk is the seventh country to pass this number of official deaths afterthe us, brazil, india, russia, mexico, and peru. 0ur health correspondent, catherine burns, reports. how do you begin to imagine 150,000 people? it s almost the entire population of oxford, a city, like others, where the pandemic has caused so much pain. the first death within 28 days of a positive covid test was recorded in the uk on the 6th of march, 2020. five weeks later, more than 10,000 people had died. sabir hussain mirza was oxford s first muslim councillor. mostly, though, he was a family man married with ten children. they relied on video calls when he went to hospital. we would be like, come on, dad, get better quickly and come back. but one day, sabir stopped an ....
hello. tennis star novak djokovic is facing fresh controversy after photos have emerged of him in public, without a mask, at around the time his lawyers say he tested positive for covid 19. australia has banned him from entering the country to defend his australian open title because he has refused vaccination. his lawyers say he doesn t need one as his infection was confirmed by pcr test on 16 december and he has since recovered. djokovic posted these images to his twitter page on 17 december. he s pictured at an event the day before commemorating his own personal stamp. it s unclear whether djokovic knew he had covid when these photos were taken. he s currently in an immigration detention centre ahead of an appeal hearing on monday. the bbc s shaimaa khalil reports from melbourne. the world s top tennis player is spending the weekend in an immigration detention hotel. and his supporters have turned up for a third day. this is novak djokovic arriving in melbourne on we ....
it down. the prime minister now says he the president now says he believes the new normal will not last forever, but that covid in our environment is, quote, here to stay. biden is also responding to an underperforming december jobs report. we have fox team coverage tonight. alexandria hoff has more on the vaccine mandates. first, though, to lucas tomlinson live at the white house. reporter: some medical experts think the silver lining with this new variant is an immunity boost. president biden insists things are going to get better despite a record number of cases nationwide nearly two years into this pandemic. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. but having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay. covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be. we have so many more tools we re adopting and continuing to develop that ll contain covid and other strains of covid. reporter: of course, t ....
two masks why not. maybe just do a hockey filter. of course what a legacy media keeps you briefed over the vaccine mandate is still in force some of these essential truths about health in a world where you can trust the media o government you control your own risk factors. that is the good news about the pandemic. the lethal morbidity that influences us is one that you can beat and that is obesity. the problem is you are living i a country where you can get a cheesesteak out of the vending machine. there is a station near my apartment that is rated four stars. it s really not our fault that we are fat. we are just awesome and making great food. we can t stop eating it. we knew this but in the media nobody ever want to say this. it s a media that regularly scolds you. they would bend over backwards to give you a mask. we mentioned this would be a good time to lose weight becaus of the risk factors. we were called at chambers. people in the media would later call you a mo ....
fda signed off on booster doses of pfizer s vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds and shortened the waiting period between second and third doses to five months from six. meantime, testing remains hard to get. questions about how dangerous low omicron is in general, and specifically to kids remain unanswered. early developments on that front as well. guidelines on isolation. the effectiveness of home testing kits, mask wearing remain confusing or controversial and sometimes even cri contradictory. feels like a lot to process because it is a lot to process so tonight we want to devote plenty of time to answering the questions most of us still have. our randi kaye starts us off with a quick rundown. reporter: what are we supposed to think about rapid tests? the fda has announced that rapid-antigen tests may be less sensitive to picking up the omicron variant. meaning, they will spot an infection less often. pcr tests are considered the gold standard. but the fda still suggests ....