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and, provided you ve been good, father christmas is coming to a chimney near you. hello and welcome to the programme. for much of the world christmas day has begun, but the shadow of the omicron variant continues to loom large. infections are on the rise and the fallout is taking its toll. let s have a look at some of the most recent developments, as people try to deal with covid at christmas. here in the uk, the nhs is offering vaccination services even on christmas day. 1.7 million people are estimated to have been infected in the last week. the south african government has announced an immediate end to contact tracing, saying most of the country has now been exposed to coronavirus and they re now concentrating on mitigation rather than containment. and more than 4,000 flights that were scheduled for friday and saturday have been cancelled. many airlines blaming a lack of healthy staff. azadeh moshiri reports on the problems facing those trying to travel at this festi ....
on friday alone. in los angeles, new cases, they are tripled in the last week. and the surging infections making a real mess of holiday travel for so many people. several major airlines canceling hundreds of flights this morning citing staffing shortages. and we are monitoring all the developments. nadia, you are in atlanta. what is the situation for travelers there right now? good morning. it is ererily quiet here simply because delta for one canceled about 250 flights on wednesday. so some people were able to get those cancellations earlier this weekend a try to make the changes as best they could. but really we re seeing cancellations happening all across the country with major airlines, delta canceling some 283 flights. united 238. and jetblue, 120. just for christmas day so far. but over this entire weekend, we re looking at more than 1,000 flights being canceled here in the u.s. and you can imagine that impact on travelers. i listened to some of them, their frus ....
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reporter: the vice president said in recent days that that you didn t see delta coming. you didn t see omicron coming. how did you get it wrong? how d we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did the administration not expect that there could be moments like this one where you d have a highly transmissible variant? sure. it was possible. it was possible there could be other variants that come along. that s possible. but what do you plan for? you plan for what you think is available. that is, the most likely threat that s exists at the time and you respond to it. and i think that that s exactly what we ve done and that s for example, omicron is spreading rapidly. but the death rates are much, much lower than they were. this this is not march of 2020. this is a very different time. that we re in now. the new comments from the president they come on a day like every other day this week that have seen major dev ....
just a short time ago president biden spoke at length about criticism of his administration s fight against covid, and specifically about what vice president harris said in a recent interview that the administration didn t see the omicron variant coming. here is the exchange with abc s david muir. reporter: the vice president said in recent days that that you didn t see delta coming. you didn t see omicron coming. how did you get it wrong? how d we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did the administration not expect that there could be moments like this one where you d have a highly transmissible variant? sure. it was possible. it was possible there could be other variants that come along. that s possible. but what do you plan for? you plan for what you think is available. that is, the most likely threat that s exists at the time and you respond to it. and i think that that s exactly what we ve done and that s ....