the concert in paris, they ve canceled fireworks. it s going to be a pretty grim new year s eve because the governments don t want to blow the progress they ve made essentially in kind of keeping the cases where there are cases that are lower than france certainly. they don t want to take any risks like that, so we re seeing all sorts of closures, curfews and restrictions for new year s eve. after that people want to go back to school, they want their kids to go back to school. several countries have said they will try to keep kids in the classrooms. this week is going to be a grim one across continental europe, max. steven, there are lockdowns in europe but nothing like they are in china. how s that working against omicron, sfleks have you got that sort of information? reporter: omicron is not a big problem in china. the few cases are imported. domestically the delta variant is still the prevailing variant