stepped up as the world health organization wants country to prepare the potential new surges because of omicron with travel bands at best only delaying its spread. mark labelle, bbc news. lobel. south africa, which recorded some of the earliest instances of the omicron variant, is seeing a major increase in cases. over the last week, the daily number of new covid infections has increased fourfold, from less than 3,000 to more than 11,500, three quarters of which are omicron. so far hospital admissions remain low and symptoms of the new variant are reported to be mild. but early figures suggest an increase in the number of people who ve had the virus are becoming reinfected. our africa correspondent andrew harding has more. it s summer time here in south africa, but a shadow looms over the beaches and holiday season. a fourth wave of covid infections is spreading fast, driven by the new variant. are you worried about this new variant, omicron?
is it what is really new now in divided society is the phenomenon of brutalization if the language the way we communicate is changing is getting more brutal and course. what is really missing is a sense of belonging we need a new social contract how can we live together under such stress while conditions face. the refugee question has become the central question in europe what coding to allow to ask the consequences of global capitalism and the wars all over the world can no longer be kept at arm s length. europe is part of the globalized world and has to reposition itself there. is an old lobel society something is growing together which does not belong together that is what global society is and that is the reality we live in. we can no longer rely
her dog new see too many of those events. now kristie of joins me for business these am good news it seems on the equity markets because that s right i m retired lobel stocks have largely rebounded following thursday s massive selloff european shares are trading higher where the germany is a blue chip index dax up about half a percent those gains followed a partial recovery. hong kong s hang seng index surged more than two percent and the market in shanghai was up almost one percent among the issues that have been weighing on investors minds are the prospect of more interest rate hikes in the united states at the trade dispute between china and the u.s. . and this rao could become even more severe figures show that china trade surplus with the united states has hit
half an hour of the incident this tense exchange was captured by a possible by. the officer was praised for his bravery and for not shooting when others might have pulled the trigger now police will be able to question the suspect named as twenty five year old alec massey an authority say his act was deliberate but his motive unclear they sought to play down terrorism links on the basis of all of the lobel information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident but the attack happened just after lunchtime in toronto with many people out enjoying some afternoon sun police said the van was used to plow along a two kilometer stretch of sidewalk with no calf or who or watch was targeted it.