hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are george eaton, senior online editor of the new statesman and rosamound urwin, media editor of the sunday times. and rosamound urwin, tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the i reports that the number of covid 19 patients in hospital is climbing but serious illness from omicron remains lower. the daily telegraph writes that the nhs test and trace is incorrectly telling people to isolate for ten days, despite official guidance cutting it to one week. the guardian reports that uk households are being warned of the year of the squeeze as cost of living soars. the daily mirror writes new year, new hope adding that there is a growing belief that omicron will not swamp the nhs, despite the huge surge in cases. the financial times reports that is was a blockbuster year for markets as companies raised a record $12 trillion by selling stock and issuing debt and loans. the dai
australia s cricketers thrash england in one of the quickest ashes defeats ever. and unwrapping the secrets of an ancient egyptian pharoah. we ll hear from the researcher who peeled off the bandages using modern technology. hello and welcome. us health authorities have halved the recommended isolation period for people who test positive for covid but don t exhibit symptoms. they ve previously warned of a half a million cases a day in the coming weeks as the omicron variant takes hold. that isolation time goes from 10 to 5 days. officials insist this is being guided by the science. but we are seeing countries using quite different strategies. france and germany have both reintroduced tougher coronavirus restrictions. the french government has stopped just short of a stay at home order, but working from home will now be compulsory. demonstrations have taken place across eastern germany overnight against the new measures there the uk government is to wait untiljanuary before r
more normal have been replaced by a realisation that covid will be around for much longer than we first thought. its impact on how we live and how we work has been far more significant than feared and our social lives and shopping habits in our travel plans all changed by this pandemic. and now we are learning to live with this virus, but learning to live with it and its consequences will be harder, the lostjobs and the rising prices, and a big covid bill still to pay. getting back to where we were will take time and the big question is, just how long will it take? since the pandemic began last year, the whole united kingdom. the start of 2021, it was not a happy new year. but we now have a new variant of the virus. we must therefore go into a national lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant. that means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home. a rise in cases plunged the country back into a national lockdown. shops are bars and restaurants
and unwrapping the secrets of an ancient egyptian pharoah. we ll hear from the researcher who peeled off the bandages using modern technology. hello, and welcome. us health authorities have halved the recommended isolation period for people who test positive for covid, but don t exhibit symptoms. they ve previously warned of a half a million cases a day in the coming weeks as the omicron variant takes hold. that isolation time goes from ten to five days. officials insist this is being guided by the science. so, why is this step being taken now? we put that question to david edwards, an aerosol scientist and a harvard university professor and bioengineer. i think understand the logic. it s important for people to understand that the omicron variant, like previous variants, infects us initially in the upper airways. there s nothing about vaccination that prevents that happening. what s cleary true, as time goes on and more of the population has been infected or has been vaccina
hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening. england cricket fans have spent the last three weeks waking up to bad news, but the final nail in the ashes coffin came before they even went to bed. everyone in that dressing room is gutted. that s not a good enough performance. we all know that. we need to put some pride back into the badge. west ham swap places with spurs as they win for the first time in five premier league games to go fifth. and the three time champion becomes the third player to withdraw from the pdc world darts after testing positive for covid. hello again. in the end it took less time than the team had to quarantine on arrival in australia. england s ashes hopes turned into dust in just 12 days of cricket. the final nail being bowled out for a measly 68 in melbourne to lose the third test by an innings. it leaves england three nil down in the series. and a significant fallout to deal with both down under and back home. joe