up interest rate rises, and inflation up again. what is for people all over the country. what are people saying to you? it is over the country. what are people saying to you? saying to you? it is not ust that it is relentless, i saying to you? it is not ust that it is relentless, that i saying to you? it is notjust that it is relentless, that month i saying to you? it is notjust that| it is relentless, that month after month we keep seeing these record rises and are back in again talking about yet another one. it is the fact that the forecast suggests it will get a lot worse before it gets better. these forecasts talking about 11% inflation before things start coming down in large part because of the energy bill rises were expecting to see in october and thatis were expecting to see in october and that is killing people. it is really scaring people. the idea that might be coupled with it is scaring people. i have been talking to a range of people, a lovely young couple who met la
that can happen inside people s homes. greece, italy and austria really looking at closing down the hospitality sector on new year s eve to prevent people from being out late. the united kingdom is bucking the trend. it has not announced any new year s eve restrictions. it has avoided restrictions seen elsewhere, instead focusing on the idea we heard, creating emergency hubs outside of hospitals. sort of dealing with the consequence rather than trying as elsewhere to prevent the spread. special tents will be set outside of eight hospitals. so fast do they expect the hospitalizations to rise as a result of the spread of omicron. here in france we re not far behind that, with the entire continent right now looking at these record rises. what the health ministry says is you can expect the health care systems in the next few weeks to come under severe strain and even face potential difficulties coping, given how fast this omicron variant is spreading.
picture as patchy, every five minutes it said people are being turned away without being able to get a lateral flow test. the government says it has improved things down the supply chain and the number of deliveries have been doubled but clearly this is another issue we are going to keep talking about because of the case numbers continue to go up. we about because of the case numbers continue to go up. about because of the case numbers continue to go up. we will have more on that in a continue to go up. we will have more on that in a moment. france has reported europe s highest ever number of new daily covid cases, as the 0micron variant continues to spread rapidly. nearly 180,000 infections were reported on tuesday, and france s health minister has warned there could be 250,000 daily cases by the start of january. italy, greece and portugal also reported record rises, as well as the us which had more than 440,000 new infections on monday. millions of families in the uk are facing