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india is the world's biggest vaccine maker but days of record breaking cold 19 infections have forced it to delay exports its hospitals are under strain and cases are rising so how will the government bring it under control this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm homage enjoy him just a month ago india declared an end game to the pandemic kovan 1000 infections were falling the health minister heaped praise on the prime minister as well as the

export of vaccines to developing nations but now the world's 2nd biggest population is recording nearly $300000.00 new cases every day that's more than joining the 1st wave of infections last year hospitals are buckling under the pressure the region around its capital new delhi is going into a weeklong curfew scientists say mass gatherings are fueling the spread of a new more infectious variant will bring in our guests in a moment 1st this update from victoria gate. india is in the grip of the 2nd wave of 19 and nowhere is that being felt moved in its hospitals there are beds oxygen supplies and medicine adult to say this time they've seen a change in who is being it made to the hospital what we're seeing and this is all i'm going to. experience is that our young patients who are being admitted into hospital. and are most strict then the type of

disease that young patients usually have makes this might be a moderate like many indian states delhi has been recording its highest number of cases since the pandemic began its leader has announced new restrictions for the capital's 30000000 people one can see the hologram of the legals but is it him and he lay down and out there we don't want to take delhi to a place where patients are lying in hospital corridors and people are dying on roads after carefully considering and analyzing the situation your government feels it is important to impose a log on and tell you for 6 days. india reported 275000 new cases a monday that's the highest daily tally in a country that's now the 2nd worst affected in the world scientists say a new variant with a double mutation may be driving up infections in most cases we've only seen one area of the virus mutating from the original virus in this case we have 2 separate

me taishan sites which is really concerning because as you know you know every time that we have a mutation we're worried about increased transmissibility increased threat of death and lack of ability of our back seems to work despite the rising cases political and religious gatherings are continuing in many places last week 3000000 hindu pilgrims bathed in the ganges river for the camelia festival and millions more voted in local elections in the state of utter pradesh. i think the guard was let down our just by indians but by indian leaders massive election rallies were held. and subsequently the matter of him don't pester will of whom all want to be doing 2 words massive storage. in the city of ghaziabad the criminal reams of fool who says some families had to cremate their relatives on the street

and with a new variant with a double mutation to contend with india faces many mood difficult days ahead it to be inside story with only one percent of india's population fully vaccinated against hope at 19 the government is limiting vaccine exports the serum institute of india is the world's largest vaccine maker is to lay the shipment of millions of doses to kovacs the un backed global initiative to deliver jobs to lower and middle income countries the institute c.e.o. has urged the u.s. to lift the embargo on exporting raw materials so it can ramp up production the indian government is now rushing to import vaccines. all right let's bring in our guest in india to some durham on a global coordinator for the people's health movement and professor at the school of health systems studies at the institute of social sciences in gangtok india deep sikka chettri

a medical doctor and member of unesco's international bioethics committee and here in doha would a chandra assistant professor of government at georgetown university a warm welcome to you all do let me start with you today how do we know if the new double mutation coronavirus in india might be behind this fueling of the record surge of cases in the country could that in fact be the case. yes of course i mean we speak from statistics and our observation and we have observed in the past one month or so that the transmission has increased rampantly the new strain has so many variations in itself i mean if you just speculate the population which it affects is the younger generation and you think look at it from a more common sense point a few of the younger population is a population that mobilizes more as compared to the older divident which the previous strain affected more commonly so that is one of the contributing factors also the new strain as of now we are observing that it does not fully detected on

r.t. p.c.r. test as well the s. mutation off it if it tends to get dropped off and we don't even miss it on our t. p.c.r. test so of course this new t. sions in the genitive grams of this virus does all in the rather ethically to dampen transmission in the current 2nd we have scenario of course yes but i saw you nodding quite a bit to what deepika was saying there did you want to jump in and add to it yeah i mean i don't think i mean i don't think government is very keen to own up to the fact that there is an immediate very now after the so back for kind of the u.k. or the brazilian variants and so it's a kind of case of vaccine mashing as a bomb iran and i think that's a cause of great concern now dr syndrome on how close is the health system in india to a breaking point at this stage. it is he very stressed

some of this. better performing and systems from earlier times or did fear in the 1st we. really have to believe better back and make it less crisis of the oxygen where some of the last thing you need speaking spirits made their. behavior into their will be the 1st time they're giving more than 10000 numbers that day then really because they're all going to gossipy these well i don't even know yet and i'll know there'll only give the having people. i am not going to have to do it all of this to those who did it is because i'm extending i miev yeah you can see that in some of the schemes there's no doubt not made its presence but there's a me i'd. rather you didn't do as one factor that holds all i generally they're not marking very weak management and defeating that is the big move as

tended. to be. locked up the government and i was that they're both going to stay they're not in 60 operatives in these ladies thieves at this stage mark being able to buy stock today in dirty not even dead but it didn't end there it's bad enough that the whole or whatever last stop because of that if this data dropping and i'll be out i ain't got that big loss on that one to get him off that the average. beat. fit me not as the standard big well glisan c.f. even your. back if that was the problems let me ask you india has pledged to raise monthly production of its own coven 1000 vaccine about 10 fold to nearly 100000000 doses by september given what you're seeing now the severe shortage of the vaccine

in india is that even possible. yes about the vaccine production i'm not worried as much as i'm worried about the transmission and the morbidity and mortality associated with the 2nd wave because we were as it is the highest crossing number of months produces the vaccine is just that the lull and the complete sense period you know it affected the entire people that scenario be it the precautionary measures or the vaccine production measures that also initially were rampantly exporting vaccines now with the curtailment of the seam and also the emergency approval of the sputnik 5 vaccine which is going to stop its must productions in india by the end of this month and also going by the statistics that we have i think till date that's the need it that means all to produce more than 120000000 that's in those us that's a production is not going to be an issue of course it will be difficult but it is a very attainable and possible sadness point as i again leave focus at a more concise concern and you know what about this market mortality and morbidity

of the 2nd wave than the vaccine production will die while all this is going on of course and while infections are soaring throughout the country politicians are continuing to hold huge rallies across the country for these state elections i mean is the government not worried that this could make things much worse. i really think that they've been caught napping they've been caught there you know i mean where's they really did take that betrayed no member of barge from the 2nd wave started you know they really i relax they didn't make the preparations they should have a window and i think we're seeing that now that the it did go ahead with the regular election campaign which really isn't ready at realestate by any kind of accounts but he only the multi government would get away most of the had a very busy election calendar in march in april and he was planning to continue and

i sigh my general sense is that the government can wait a sense of complacency so it does ultimately culpable for people also taking this is the situation very casually doctors and our own man how concerning is it for you to see that mass these huge these massive political rallies and the religious festivals are ongoing throughout the country at such a time such a dire time when it comes to the pendennis. scary editors are not here to watch he should have been was i want to be back on a few back to that with an on back because i would be both bad what about other paths not accepting the fact that we were the words and not just facts and stuff like that but today the lighting of all who joins the media and both us but the bigger the box beyond giving the following close to 4000000000 go 30 i do this today we believe me that being over the back is maybe soon but actually

we need to have last month employment of that 1000000 per day perfect 1000000 because of what we have to do anything about the blocking that would be left alone being banged up and be so the off law behind the. fabia i never forgot and katie is gone we've seen are going to do to get awful though the $500.00 or so public financing. spotfire thank god for being here we're desperate is tough life to reach that a 1000000. people have been all or because the wrong is being are you going to is also like the 6th floor company to stock up not a factory production and using this law back in the city to do this and to get that but all of this to happen are either the learning to do to stop production or the 15 to europe's disaster that's at a later date close to 3 miles and that full all of the cost of the 2nd is before

all back to the the way we didn't just explore the amount of dollars going into the books but even though the inboard to be a lot of it does to be manufactured but the last thing the other papers that will be stepping up of manifested in the legion is that if you you'll back to the nation it is also a real problem that the work cost of the unless there's a. oh that way did. they get that we can get at will laugh at that luteal blast maybe the atom are going to be. that it's admirable that they didn't eat. some of them dr ramani docs and our own i'm sorry to interrupt you but i want to get back to actually something you're mentioning now in just a few moments i want to i want to actually ask now to expand on

a point you were making as you were talking about the serum institute of india of course the serum institute of india is the world's largest maker of vaccines and the head of the serum institute of india has asked u.s. president joe biden on twitter to lift the u.s. embargo on exporting raw materials needed to make over $1000.00 vaccines the u. has also tighten restrictions around vaccine imports how much is all of that having an impact on the manufacturing of vaccines in india cars has a huge and impact i mean the ember point itself right now is if if at this point it is lifted up it is going to play a huge huge role in helping us and it in us to ramp up the production of vaccines and i think that is the plenary this was why he chose to tweet about such a sensitive topic and i think even by didn't was you know he should realize that at this juncture we should keep aside our political defenses and help each other in combating this pandemic because you know outsourcing and insourcing raw materials

from these places are embargo has been implemented is really going to help us and hence our production being as doctors and their mentioned we eat by september that's good 3 months from now the i said i'm not worried about the vaccine production i'm worried more about the transmission but that doesn't you know defy the fact that we need to ramp up the back to production as well and right now the air vaccine eating 40. a.v.o.'s and only do it with co-morbidities and the frontline workers but as i mentioned before the current stream that is transmitting in india affects their young opposition more and but the recent sentence said to sickle observation so no we need to shift our focus and you know not completely be oblivious of this young population as well because this vaccine has been i mean this virus is been affecting the younger population but as much aggression as was the previous that virus affecting the older population the people the direct very

significant need to logical changes and people are requiring oxygen and then to lead us much more and this is a young population we are talking about and doing this and they are vaccination campaign the young population has been absolutely sidelined because we were following the trend of the previous virus and now we need to update the trend of the vaccine also cordingley so of course that means more requirements more requirement of x. in production is out of the proportional to the requirement of raw materials which of course is again directly proportional to the embargo is lifted off all of these places so that we can get easier on the toodles from this so yes it is a very valid and significant point which the powerful 1st world nation in view of the greater good should really consider would i the fact that the that in india right now when it comes to cover 1000 vaccines we're talking more about imports than exports i mean the fact that the government has taken action to open the doors for vaccine imports and to fast track emergency approvals for other vaccines like johnson and johnson possibly pfizer does that speak to how much pressure the

government is under right now to try to turn things around. yeah i mean does the government primarily deals with big public policy questions headline management to tweet so this isn't this is this fall approach to public policy has been a has been explores now because of course it is not just this government previous governments haven't built the health care infrastructure and now we're kind of reaping. what has been sown in the past when mr government is actually doing it actually did not enter into agreements of modena fires or even sputnik for that matter right and now we have assessed that your ocean where there's this emergency approval for sputnik there are probably going to be other foreign vaccines as well as well as all the different private initiatives in india but it just seems like boarding the the stable door after the horses blame it seems too little too late at this point and so you can see that headline management comes across as not the best

way of implementing public policy dr syndrome and how big a problem in india is the issue of vaccine hesitancy and has it so far played a significant role when it comes to the very sluggish vaccine roll out throughout the country will i think there's also the ricin and by accident you can see what one needs is if you use a lot of. city beach. india's 1st problem is not that it's our turn to. access and al that and more a lot of people are ordered to rest and. fish. over to dinner to mend their left leg. and seeking behavior met they get back to the so you should see me ask wrong public and ok well that's they're

each step under fire here because of this. to have begun the fire very. well there are 3 very big i didn't hear meet maybe if you leave it to people who come and get all that registration was that the number one problem then there are a lot of what happened there people got to give us the ship and well we did it and that's it and it is because of the law and order to public and it be at that it really has been that big problem for people coming forward and there is a lot of things now will get back to their extended will they get the problem is still a greater part of it why don't you and i'll create system that will be job part at work i still might have worked as well as to be able who are i. don't fear much more are. explored your blindness so i think that is

a big problem not that inmarsat also better be glad to do this by does that mean ability to solve the lloyd i don't get it and it sort of other way to be should have been see it all a growing in that accent that it needs to seem to accept that only means that. but it all had to be out of that i mean. even in the heart if a lot of my ideas he said that is the need to expand will audience book but if you let me dollars to do it we have been. managing other. the indian government has announced that all adult indians will be eligible for the cover 19 vaccine from may do you foresee that this will significantly change the course of things in india will this really change how things are going right now well as much as i feel the need of the r. i will not agree that it will significantly change the course of the past the

vaccination once again i would like to see doubt on international television about getting a shot so full that vaccine will not meet a superhero you can stow contract the virus you can still transmitted and in a place like india where the vaccine coverage is going to be very limited in the beginning irrespective of the populations out there re outreach programs need to be really really vibrant and rampant in order to cover the entire population so even let's say for example a person is vaccinated and then he gets that isn't dramatic infin section all the more likely that he can transmit it to other non that's in need people and considering the level of law awareness that is prevailing in the country right now more than half of the population is believing that once again they're 2 shots of call that x. and they are you know superheroes so until unless this awareness is spread voices variously and of greed greed vaccination drive is conducted covering all the strata economic strata of the population i do not see me making any significant changes

but yes in the lives of people who are vaccinated the will be saved from contracting the serious manifestations of the illness yes but if i talk about. the entire expanse and realm of the disease on a very huge level no it will not die is the government in india taking steps to expand local production capacity and if so what are they doing. i think that you know one of the panelists mentioned the law and order approach and that you see it but the lock downs are partial lockdowns of differing points the focus of the but that meant now is to leave issues of production to the private sector or to all multinational corporations like pfizer and medina and so the government yes is video has created this vaccine and it wants to work with the private sector but it is not in some ways the made clear when it comes to production it is also unclear how much money it is would make available to the serum institute for example and

what is feasible given the economic situation in india beacon on the impact of coal but so i think there are a lot of unknowns at this time and i think the government has really been after saying for several weeks of it's not going to lower the age acquirements it's suddenly decide that of a couple of weeks anyone who wants a vaccine would get it regardless of the age so it seems that the government is kind of making policy on the few lie and not based on any demand and supply calculations and not necessarily based on on actual kind of a plan with sorts which is the grounded in scientific realities be face would i let me just ask you one quick follow up question we only have a just about a minute left what are some of the other big challenges facing you know the government when it comes to the vaccine shortages. i think the real issue rick is that production in the next 3 months is probably going to be ramped

up but as a number of the panelists have mentioned what's going to happen is by then we would have been there the 2nd wave would kind of have come to an end and then we would enter another phase of the of the pandemic in india but india's aciphex and demick would then take shape where perhaps. the question now is can we prevent a 3rd rate i think that is the realistic simulation at this point and of course at the same time try to mitigate the 2nd wave much as possible who aggressive vaccinations including those groups from outside all right we've run out of times we're going to have to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all of our guests t. . he cut the tree and would die. and thank you too for watching you can see this and all of our previous programs again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j.

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