primary school students. this comes on top of flight bans to eight countries where there are significant omicron outbreaks as well as other sort of social distancing restrictions. hong kong adhering to the zero covid policy. but on the mainland in china, you saw those images of those schoolchildren being taken into quarantine. thousands of them in anyan city. this is hunan province where the largest outbreak is in central china. that city along with yujo, another city in hunan province, complete lockdown. for chinese authorities, isa, their focus really is in tianjin which is 130 kilometers, 18 miles from the chinese capital beijing which, as we know, is hosting the winter olympics in just over three weeks. that s going to take off on the 4th of february.
some of these accounts amount to intimidation and blackmail, even. so serious allegations there. the prime minister and his government say that they don t evidence for these claims, but if they are proven true, of course, they will take these very seriously. but of course, there is that growing tension there from within the party. and if these breach of covid regulations do come to light, as a result of this investigation, we can expect to see even further pressure coming from the party against the prime minister and his role as the leadership of the conservative party. yeah, and interviews still ongoing for that inquiry. we ll hopefully learn more in the coming days. nadia bashir for us in london. thank you. now a new wave of omicron outbreaks is putting a crimp in jacinda ardern s wedding plans. she s been planning to marry her longtime partner sometime soon, but it s not clear what their wedding date actually was.
While governors are sending help to hospitals, they are displaying little appetite for widespread public orders or shutdowns, even as new COVID-19 caseloads break records.
among players, the lot of the surge that s happened, there s two different surges, the delta and then the omicron. what we ve seen throughout the pandemic, when cases rise, hospitalizations follow and increases in states across the country from connecticut to south carolina. many of the other spikes that are happening in the northeast right now, at least in cases, are driven by the new omicron variant. we should point out that the u.s. is behind other countries like the uk where omicron became the dominant variant overnight, and omicron charts look unlike other charts, okay, this is an example. like there s just nothing like this we ve seen in the pandemic before. it s a different thing. look at omicron shoots straight up at the end of the chart, that s the red line, overtaking the delta variant in just days, and there are numerous charts in countries undergoing omicron outbreaks that look like that, denmark, for example, the uk also recorded its highest number of daily covid cases sin