with the additional cost of hosting families. this is for two months. having said that, this is a short term solution obviously. to what could well be a very long term problem. we have had the deputy foreign minister saying this morning that the amount of aid that the european union has earmarked for all of the country is ukrainian refugees is about $550 million is far, far too little and he said it is estimated to actually caused housing 1 million refugees which poland has done alone, would be over $2 billion. he is calling for more aid from the european union and from international organisations. that is for1 million refugees. at the number increases, then this is even more onerous for the countries in
there are emergency room equivalent. reporter: maybe so, but the airline s top medical adviser warns with omicron s high transmissibility, airline passengers are two, even three times more likely to catch the virus than wit d. t abk nmen long lines of covid test takers include the holiday s hosting families. family coming in from california. we re all vaccinated, but we just want to be double safe. reporter: most travelers, roughly 100 million people, will drive at least 50 miles. nationally, average gas prices run high $3.29 a gallon, more than $1 above last year, the highest holiday price at the pump since 2008. despite paying up to gas up, and whatever the viral risk, one theory for this surge in holiday travel: people being cooped up for a year and a half. they need to see family and