in colombia are trying to help those in need this holiday season. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, the world health organization warns a storm is coming to europe where the omicron variant is partly to blame for more than 2.7 million new covid cases in just the past week. france and spain have broken new daily records, and germany, portugal, and scotland are bringing back covid restrictions. israel is now the first country to offer a fourth vaccine dose. medical workers, people over 60, and those with compromised immune systems will be eligible. meanwhile, u.s. president joe biden is laying out his strategy to fight surging covid cases in the u.s. due to the omicron variant. he says fully vaccinated americans can go ahead with their holiday plans, but he s also planning to make half a billion free at-home test kits available starting next month. more now from cnn s jeff zeleny. let me give it
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The chinese government might do. but what we ve been led to believe is if individuals test positive, they may be kept in china for as many as two weeks to quarantine before they re allowed to go home. wow. you put all that together, and why in the world would the nhl want to send its players to the olympics? meanwhile, the nhl season is on hold until after christmas because of covid outbreaks among several teams. the pandemic has devastated colombia s economy. many have lost their jobs, and inflation is also a big concern as prices for basic supplies have surged. stefan pozzebon is in bogota with a look at the crisis there. reporter: with about a week until christmas in one of bogota s poorest neighborhoods, missionaries handing out meals to the homeless and everyone who needs it. the numbers they serve have grown steadily since the pandemic hit. before covid, most of the people that would attend were drug a