this is bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. i m rebecca jones. our top stories. the uk prime minister says there is no reason forfurther restrictions in england, despite a surge in covid cases. as he visited a vaccination site, borisjohnson hailed the progress of the booster rollout but said hospitals would still come under pressure. the pressure on our nhs and on our hospitals is going to be considerable in the course of the next couple of weeks and maybe more because there is no question omicron continues to surge through the country. but in the netherlands, scientists meet to discuss whether schools there can re open next week after closing early for christmas amid the spread of omicron. sudan faces a deepening political crisis after the resignation
speaker. we said we would get this country through covid and we did. we delivered the fastest vaccine rollout in europe and the fastest booster program of any major economy. so that we ve been able to restore people s freedoms faster than any comparable economy. and at the same time, we ve been cutting crime by 14%, building 14 new hospitaling and rolling out gigabit broadband mr. speaker, and delivering all the promises of our 2019 agenda, so that we have the fastest economic growth of the g-7. we have shown that we have done things that people thought were impossible, mr. speaker. and that we can deliver for the people. mr. speaker, i remind the bench is opposite. the reason we re coming out of covid so fast at least partly because we doubled the speed of the booster rollout. and i can tell the house and this country that we are going to bring the same energy and
this is bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. i m rebecca jones. our top stories. the uk prime minister says there is no reason forfurther restrictions in england, despite a surge in covid cases. as he visited a vaccination site, borisjohnson hailed the progress of the booster rollout but said hospitals would still come under pressure. the pressure on our nhs and on our hospitals is going to be considerable in the course of the next couple of weeks and maybe more because there is no question 0micron continues to surge through the country. but in the netherlands, scientists meet to discuss whether schools there can re open next week after closing early for christmas amid the spread of 0micron. sudan faces a deepening political crisis after the resignation