to class with winter break next week. the school board member say that goal for mandating test is for safety and peace of mind. the u.s. from the country in the country to record a million plus of covid-19 test and a single day. as america continues to deal with long testing lines and little to no progress being made, president biden s pledge last month to send out half a billion covid test. good evening dan springer. good evening, shannon the record no country wants to have is coming to the united states. this covid-19 search by the omicron parent has scrambled to find test and parents worrying about whether schools will be open. according to st. john s hopkins, excuse me, there were 1,082,549 new cases of covid reported tuesday in more than 1600 deaths. the cdc reports 300% increase from the seven day average just
as the u.s. faces highly transmissible all macron. his critical. we move forward protection for workers with the urgency needed in this moment. government is simply going too far trying to require employers, individuals what is going on with the vaccine it s a fight that s going to continue in the weeks ahead, they are ready to take it to the supreme court. eric: those unvaccinated remain so, we are told at their own risk. arthel: it s an all-too-familiar feeling and new york, omicron parent hitting hard, recording its highest single day for new public cases. there are testing lines in new york city with people waiting for hours ahead of the holiday spirit mark is live with more lauren companies are bring chaos, arising cases, shut down
this is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani in singapore, our headlines. as omicron spreads across europe, a fresh warning from the world health organisation that the new variant is spreading at an unprecedented rate. as we been telling you the omicron parent has been shared unpopulated population. in pop in the guinea expressing serious concerns of a new covid variant. while the reported case rate remains low, the country has the lowest vaccination rate of any country in south east asia. just 2.4% of the population has recieved two doses of the jab. one expert raising concerns is adrian prouse is head of international humanitarian programs at the australian red cross.
international air travelers as america reports the cases of the omicron parent has been found in five states. the u.s. president laid out his strategy for testing as well as vaccinations. mr. biden said the u.s. will face the new variant without lockdowns and from a position he says of readiness. we ll of course have much more on those two stories in the next 20 minutes or so right here on cnn. now, more countries across the globe of the world are reporting cases of the omicron variant. and germany is taking a major step as we told you earlier in the show to fight the infections driven by the delta variant. unvaccinated people are on lockdown banned from most essential businesses. european officials say the omicron variant could account for half the cases in the next few months. that as africa has seen a 20% rise in new cases in the past four weeks driven as you heard from david mackenzie at the top of the show by the news there. if we look at the asia-pacific