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team gb s most successful canoeist, liam heath, has added to his olympic medal haul with a bronze in the k1 200 metres sprint. and coming up this hour: 15 million of us live with a long term condition but are some social media influencers faking illnesses for fame, money and attention. fully vaccinated travellers will no longer need to quarantine on arrivalfrom france , as part of a shake up of coronavirus travel rules in england, scotland and northern ireland. seven more european countries have been added to the green list, while spain will remain amber despite concerns about covid variants there. other changes include india, bahrain, qatar and the united arab emirates , switching from red to amber , meaning arrivals from those countries will no longer have to quarantine in government approved accommodation. while austria, germany, slovenia, slovakia, latvia, romania and norway will be moved onto the green list. but georgia and mexico have been now be added to the r ....
in an hour, president biden will announce a new offensive in his fight against coronavirus, a vaccine requirement for workers. president biden will order that all federal employees be fully vaccinated or submit to regular testing. he joins a growing call for vaccine requirements from public and private sector employers. they re balloting the surge in cases driven by unvaccinated people. the cdc says only 1% of the u.s. population lives in an area now with low virus transmission. the u.s. is now averaging almost 64,000 new cases a day. nearly 40,000 people are hospitalized. both of those are. major increases from just the week before. but there are some signs that unvaccinated people are being swayed. more than 700,000 vaccine doses were administered yesterday. that s way up from the day before. and the average number of people getting their first shot is the highest it s been in three weeks. let s get to phil mattingly. what should we expect to hear from president biden ....
particularly parts of the southeast here. consider alone that right now, every state has an average seven-day at least a seven-day average of new covid cases that, if it doesn t match last week, it s exceeded. the best way to get ahead of any surge is to get the preemptive vaccination, according to experts. sadly, according to the latest cdc figures, showing many of those efforts continue to slow. if you happen to be among a third of the nation s population out living in the community considered to have high covid transmission, you can blame it on the unvaccinated, says alabama s republican governor kay ivey. the new cases in covid are because of unvaccinated folks. reporter: the u.s. averaging 43,000 new covid cases a day. a 65% increase over the last week. the dark colored regions on the map showing the highest concentration of cases. you re just watching this freight train coming, that delta is going to sweep across the south. so many people are going to get ....
the last borscht belt comedians. out speak up, be offended enough people should car to speak 9out speak up, be offended enough to make an issue out of it. duncan: and later, how american g.i.s changed the way the japanese ride the waves. this is the cbs weekend news with jericka duncan, reporting from the new york. duncan: good evening, thanks for watching. america s covid recovery is being threatened by a summer surge. hospitalizations and deaths are up nationwide. the highly contagious delta variant is giving new urgency to the country s vaccination push but that s actually lacking. seven months after the first shots only 49 percent of americans are fully vaccinated. we begin tonight with cbs lilia luciano in pasadena, california, lilia, good evening to you. reporter: good evening, jericka. that national vaccination rate is nowhere near enough to stop the spread of the delta variant and now health officials are bracing for an even bigger spike in infections ....
eastern india, to find out how they ve vaccinated 80% of adults, way above the national average. i m martine croxall in scarborough, as part of the bbc s coastal britain project, finding out how seaside communities like this are responding to the challenges and opportunities as they emerge from the pingdemic restrictions. and coming up, the mercury music prize nominations are out. we ll bring you the details. hello, good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. retailers are calling on the government to make food workers who ve had both doses of a vaccine exempt from the self isolation rules which they say are making it increasingly difficult for some shops to keep their shelves stocked. almost 620,000 people received a contact tracing alert in the last week. the government has said the isolation rules will be relaxed for only a very small number of critical workers, before wider changes in england next month. theo leggett reports. empty shelves in supermarkets, retailers are warnin ....