In england and wales. We follow covid workers through a remote part of eastern india to find out how they ve vaccinated 80% of adults, way above the national average. 2a hours before the olympics opening ceremony, the show s director has been sacked. I m in tokyo, where the organising committee has reeling but the japanese prime minister australia and new zealand pull out of the rugby league club later this year after good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. 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 a
Not vaccinated. It is a problem with an easy solution. Get vaccinated. It works. But, while the country still tries to get more shots in arms, there is a new question over when the people who have already been vaccinated need boosters. There is the possibility of a covid booster shot. There is waning immunity among people got their vaccine but dr. Fauci said the data shows that a third shot is not yet necessary. Elizabeth cohen following all of this. And i know this is confusing for folks at home, but help clear it up somewhat here. Because the current vaccine still provides an enormous amount of protections so how far down the line are we talking about booster shots? certainly not any time very soon, jim. I think it is clear that a booster will likely be needed at some point in the future. But when pfizer came out last week and said, hey, we see immunity waning already and so we re going to ask the fda for an emergency use authorization for a third shot. So just a third shot, the same
Process. I think we had good progress over the weekend, i thought, and we can see the end of the tunnel. I think we re starting to see a frame. We made a lot of progress over the weekend. We still have a lot of work to do. I m going to be pulling long days all this week in the hopes by the time we come out of the weekend, we have more and more of this framework being put together. That goodfaith effort and progress from representatives of both parties is a response to president biden s call to action. In his address last month to a joint session of congress. It was nearly a year ago before her father s funeral when i spoke with gianna floyd, george floyd s young daughter. She s a little tyke. I was kneeling down to talk with her, so i can t look her in the eye. She looked at me and said, my daddy changed the world. Well, after the conviction of george floyd s murderer, we can see how right she was, if if we have the courage to act as a congress. We have to come together to rebuild trus