for 300 million years. good evening. 73% of new covid infections in the united states are 0micron. it has become the dominant strain just three weeks since the first case was identified. in fact, new york has seen a threefold jump in infections in just seven days. the white house is trying to avoid talk of any new restrictions, but in the past hour, joe biden has sounded a note of urgency. there will be a renewed focus on testing not something the united states has particularly excelled at. demand for home testing kits has outstripped supply. so the president has today announced 500 million kits will be made available on a government website, free of charge. around 1,000 servicemen and women will be sent to help out, at hospitals around the country over the next two months five times the number currently deployed. the president said they will add new covid wings to hospital if they are needed. there will be new federal testing sites nationwide, with the first expected in
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disagreement in the cabinet over the cost of living crisis with the chancellor reportedly saying there s no money to help households there s a similar story in the telegraph, which leads on the pressure now being faced by the chancellor to cut taxes. the financial times says elon musk s car company tesla has seen its share price fall. investors are worried about how he will finance his 44 billion dollar purchase of twitter. the sun reports reports claims from portuguese police and german prosecutors about the suspect in the madeleine mccann case. the mirror tells the story of a grandmotherfrom hartlepool who has given £11 million to charity this year alone after she won the lottery in 2019. so let s begin. thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us this evening. will get started with the front page of the metro, headline reading crunch time uk. quite a few front pages talk about this. the cost of shopping, of bills, apparently grocery bills now are an extra �
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