the crew, the best rate to increase it has to produce more welfare. the government will delay the retirement age and offer support to families who have more children, but to avert a living demographic crisis. some say it may be too little, too late. katrina, you all to 0 paging. ah, so without you there are, these are top stories a 2 week nationwide. lockdown have come into effect in malaysia as it struggles with the surgeon current of virus infections. and he's 17 essential service sectors are allowed to operate and all shopping malls. a shots for employee has more from calling them for the government says this is necessary to prevent collapse of health care system that's already under the very severe strain. so in this total lockdown, only manufacturing and service sectors are allowed to operate, but at reduced capacity and even then you need

a letter from the relevant ministry to show you coming to one of the sectors and my colleagues. and i have been waiting for hours before we can head into the bureau. now schools and universities also shut and only 2 persons, but household are allowed to go out to buy essential items and within a 10 kilometer radius from the health. and government in peru has more than doubled its current of virus. death. told 218-0000 of officials admit the number of fatalities has been under reported fronting them to change the criteria for coven 19 related deaths. only brazil and mexico have a higher death toll across latin america. israel's opposition need it says many obstacles remain before coalition. government can be formed pages and talks with ultra national stuff. tony ballot to replace benjamin netanyahu as well. the longest serving prime minister apiece deadline to secure a deal is wednesday. shank and authorities have begun a criminal investigation into a cargo ship 5. it's crazy. one of the countries worth ecological disasters find

find to the battling the blades. for 12 day the vessel was carrying large amounts of toxic material. much of it has spilled into the sea and is damaging the coastline. demonstrators have confronted police and ball guitar as colombia entered that 2nd month of anti government protests. if we return to the streets as talks between the government and protest, organizers resumed the military as on an after at least 13 people were killed in demonstrations on friday, the nation wide rallies began in response to tax reforms. china, the government is relaxing, family planning restrictions to allow 3 children per capital. it's a major policy shift on the existing limit of to china is facing and demographic crisis with a dramatic decline and birth in recent years. you up to date now with all the headlines, i'll be back with another news bullet filled out to 0. that's after the stream award winning programming from international. so make it one quick. so it's

straight on the back side of the global discussion. what guarantee that the right typically life giving voice to the voice here in california, almost everybody's a paycheck away from being on how's program that open your eyes to view. well today this is what the picture looks like. the, the world from a different perspective on our nearest ah, i am sorry. ok to down the street. we're going to bring you the latest on covered 19 in india. of course the story about india 2nd wife made headlines for many weeks . we are not leaving this story behind. so if you're on youtube right now, you've got comments, you've got questions. we have experts in the house today. you can also than anything, and i'm sure they will be out to respond to you. so be part of that conversation.

meanwhile, earlier this week at the beginning of the week, prime minister modi in india acknowledge the india have multiple challenges right now. tropical slide close to deal with and also a global pandemic catalyst. regarding food they should be, we are witnessing how our nation is fighting, covered 19 with full strength. it is the worst pandemic in the past 100 years. and during this, pandemic, india also boldly face several natural disaster live, but i will be up about so multiple challenges for india. and how is india feeling? we've covered 900 will politics get in the way? is politics getting in the way? let me introduce you to add gas. we have a new we have thought to thought i lee, and hopefully we'll be joined by dr. joe you to as well. but festival, a new welcome back to the stream. nice to see you. remind everybody. see you on what you do. hi sammy, i'm, i know i'm a health care reporter. i work at

a data journalism i'll call in and get to have you talk to somebody, walk into the stream, tell everybody who you are and what you do. thank you for me. it was a pleasure to join you today. i'm a medical doctor by background, and i work in public health. i specifically work in be aerial. how do we make health systems stronger and more resilient? get to have you thought to join you to welcome to the stream. introduce yourself to our international audience. thank you for having me on the show for me. i'm dr. jerico, i'm a physician and i look off to patients who have wid and other diseases, but i don't treat the i see patients, they treat the money to margaret back home care. i guess i am so good to happy because you all have by virtue of being in india, you have point line experience. as the 2nd wave of covert, i knew if we were looking for the current headline, what have you, and would you tell our audience is important?

pay attention to what's going on. now. i think the big story was, i think the last time when i was on your show, it was about oxygen and the lack of oxygen logistically, the government has figure that out. but right now, it really is this vaccine crisis because in does vaccine crisis is a global vaccine crisis. the w 2 s t scientists has just said that there are 91 countries in africa waiting for back scenes because india had committed to supply those acts in for the w. h will. so we're not getting the vaccines here, but the, what the world is not getting affecting the the, i think this is the big, big idea. thank you for sharing that with us. so if it's only looking at the numbers for the number of new infections, they appear to be going down in an area right now. what are you most concerned about? i think even though the numbers are going down and that is good zeros, we have to be careful because the numbers are still much higher than the highest we saw during the 1st rate on 900000 at its peak and we're still seeing about

150000 a day. so we're still not out of the woods. we still don't know what is happening in a lot of places outside of the metro's. so we really, really need to be on a lower status. i've got this huge comment coming freshman. hello james. nice to have you part of the program today. james said it was about the amount of cases india is reporting. is that the true amount? i bet there are many cases that are reported and people who have died. and then the not sure that they died are covered because they haven't been test but phone any want to pick up on that? you know, i think you know, that registration is generally and reporting is generally an issue in countries like india. so from that angle there is under counting, there is a lack of testing facilities and who delirious. so there are stories of, you know, 3040 deaths in the village out of which may be one or 2 people managed to get

a test. so of course there is definitely on the counting whether it is deliberate or it is just a function also has system that was not adequately prepared. that is debatable, but definitely better is under counting those ones. you get a little sense of what your covert 19 2nd wave life is like in india right now. what story would you tell us to give us some insight? so this time round as supposed to what we had during the 1st wave night was a little easier. we didn't. we haven't seen these numbers ever. i have not seen these numbers in my life. i've been practicing for a long, long time. this is what we do. this is what we're supposed to be doing. this is what we've signed up for. but i don't think we ever thought that we would sign up for where we were making calls for oxygen. maybe we're making cars to get medicines

. essentially medicines that maybe were making cause to ask for beds, begging for beds or christian beds. i assume it's, i mean the medicine thought of it is easy for us. we know what we do, what we have to do. we know what we right. we know what we have to prescribe, but it was heartbreaking to make calls for oxygen because 4 beds. and then having to think, having to tell the families that you know, you're not on your own. i can tell them that you're on your own, but i pretty much had to, you know, say that, that they would have to look around for beds and for oxygen. and it was just not me because there was just so many patients who were completely overwhelmed. i knew you're not in your family, you're not induct. finally. yeah, it was just, it was a nightmare. or, you know, and i use an analogy for this. it was like for a patient to get care during the crisis during the beak was almost like being in

a storm. and the only way to get shelter is a pile of microscopic lego bricks. and you have to piece together your shelter using those lego bricks. and that's the only way you can be the only way you can be saved from the storm. so it was pretty much unlike anything any, all 5 was ever prepared for the entire health system. sort of came apart. every little piece had to be stitched together by the family. from, you know, getting oxygen to medicines, to getting transport better. the ambulance has oxygen does not have oxygen. some people was even a case that i was familiar with, where the woman spent 2 days in an ambulance because that was the only way for her to get oxygen. we're running out of oxygen. so even going to a hospital was not a guarantee that you know, you would get an steady supply of oxygen. so which is quite, quite

a does awesome. do you still in delhi to that time tell you been in states like, oh yeah, that sounds like the worst moment the worst time, and we saw those pictures of people. oh, my sewing, gasping for air was, as we were covering those stories, but i knew right now the oxygen crisis appears to a past. you update us? yeah, i just wanted to reply to that because i think, you know, a lot of people are now referring to this in the past and that we did do these kind of things and we did have these problems. the ministers just released the statement that's a lot of his way. you've kind of bragging about this. now as the success, you know that he and that's all the oxygen problem. but then the question to me really is if this was a solvable problem, if this was something that man could handle, man did not handle, you know, there was a, there's a natural calamity that we're dealing with in terms of the panoramic. but this was a logistical issue that we should have hand carried. so we're able to talk about it

now in boston, but it means that they needed to have been who went intervention to have not got after that place in the 1st place. but the only, i will, i, i totally agree with, you know, i totally agree with on all, much of the crisis that we saw was actually not caused by the virus. it was caused by a lack of foresight, lack of preparedness. last year there was a sort of hubris that was prevailing that somehow indians are somehow naturally immune to the virus which happened in the start, which has happened after the 1st. we've never even declarations that by our leaders that india has gotten through the was to fit so you know, so there was a certain narrative which was really not scientific and public health experts. india has excellent public health expertise. india has the resources as we are speaking, india spending about i believe, $140000000.00 on developing on redeveloping the central historical part of delhi.

you know, so we have sufficient resources, we have suction to expertise, but we somehow failed to deploy it adequately to ensure adequate preparedness. we help we help feeling to also added have adequate vaccination ramp up. so there is a certain failure of leadership and i would say it is a little bit came to what is being witnessed in brazil also the solely your so nuance that anyone outside of india, main dot of call, what you were saying there. and that is where the p j p decides to put their money . that money is available for certain things and attention, certain things and not others like critical health care for india. i'm just making that very clear because that is what you're saying. let me just bring in to check who is concerned about what is happening in rural areas of india. have a listen get. so the why does know started spreading to be part of the country and

it's what it's on for 2 reasons. as i see it. number one, that a death of 15 facilities, a number to the gender identity among the population that will india to get tested . the only solution to this problems i see it is if you need an image actually ramping up the number of facilities and as many individuals as possible, isolated the cases and vaccinate to the potential population. i don't think there's any other way a problem and solution there for me to add a shack. what do you think? thoughts on, on any start 1st and then dot story. you can go 2nd. absolutely. in agreement. we should all, as you know, people of india as the public, we should all keep an eye on the testing rates of cities and states. and if you see them falling down, we have to raise the hue and cry. it's the only way to detect a surge early and avoid crude measures like a lockdown,

which really hurt the war. and i think i'm totally totally agreement with what was said. but juanita, i completely agree with what what was said. in fact, letting when the, when the peak of the 2nd wave, the testing facilities were not adequate enough, we didn't have enough, as many people who are not get to tested. so the numbers would, whatever number you see what the numbers that have been projected. i would say the least it would say 30 percent more than what was projected. we had families with patients. the families had, you know, one of them had symptoms, but only one or 2 people got tested. those will just all assume that the work was punitive. and they were just given treatment according because there was no testing available. so they have to ramp up testing. they have to get the vaccination and please, and they have to continue to isolate the patient. education is. so korea

is so important, not just for india and covered 1902nd way, but for all of us around the world. and there's been some very tricky moments for india regarding information education and misinformation. let us start with something i'm going to call black fungus doctor jeter. for then you're going to tell me the medical name for it and why it's coming. a big problem. go ahead. so it's, let's mean, give it the proper name that's going to call my siblings and of this fungus i of, you know, she'll be a little bit of a cross through the boat where it's coming from because in the previous leave or to we give that many states that many patients had uncontrolled sugar. so we are not sure whether it's the stream which is causing the fungus to come up. so you should be what receive this has been this time around because of adrian has been particularly virulent and has caused indiscriminate use of the roads.

and we've been seeing that patients have been giving high do those theories, and they've been given it for a longer period of time. so this was caused and india is that there, but the capital of the one, the lot of people who sugars have gone undiagnosed richard played up because of the stated that have been given. also took all the courses the immune system to did it . and this also allows the fungus to grow. so this is one of the reasons why this is coming up. so new to me, i think that's critical. yeah, go, go, go ahead, go ahead. i was just doing some reporting for a story on this and i think one of the terms that you use is very key. we're talking about missing information. and i think he has had a problem with irrationality and medicine even before this pandemic, there's been 3 full dr to, i mean, some doctors to all the prescribe or patients good demand for medicine. they may not need for the irrationality. and i think we've seen that happen

a lot in the 2nd we've especially on this issue of the lloyd's, which is directly linked to this, to the size of life on this. and a lot of it from what i understand from the doctors who i've spoken to, they said that you know, from the prescription order that they've done. and i think our doctor and then we just spoke with also one of the doctors i had spoken to last week. he was saying that you know, the bulk of the prescriptions a b s seeing people who were come to them after already having been on steroids for a very long time and been put on very early on in the course of the diagnosis. so this is a rational and this is miss inflammation, really because it's patients who are rationalizing doctors who put them on some fetus treatment or dr. feeling like they need to do something. and it's some sort of compensation that they, you know, kind of feel like they need to adjust for. but all of this is bottom if information and, you know, you've got anywhere. that's why i'm not like, i'm sorry i'm, yeah, i'm going to jump in over that. go ahead. yeah. so what happens is, what do you do when there is no bed available?

what do you do when there's no oxygen available? what do you do when there's no ice? you bet available. what the doctor's doing is he's ramped up the street. i do it, you know, visit w h o cbc, all doctors there are guidelines when you have, they've given exact recovery trying to show that this is the exact them g milligram of cd that is needed. we don't need any more. you don't need any less. and this is the duration of time that it's to be given. but when you don't have oxygen, when you don't have to of, and you don't have beta when you don't have a doctor's good desperate and i have, i myself, have seen prescriptions from other doctors where they have given double the doors of just to ensure that the oxygen comes out the they don't need a bed, the fever drop, the c p level go down. so yes, they have been indiscriminate use and i understand why it's there, but i can control that. i can come to a point he was able to join those saying, i think the owner social responsibility lies where the power is the greatest,

right? so who was the power is that the individual doctor was already in a situation of extreme trauma dealing with patients in a system that's fallen apart or does it, is it with our or, you know, scientific institution and are, you know, political leadership guidelines were not updated in a timely manner, which reduces trust in what the government is putting out both the public trust and the medical community trust our state guidelines not so it's not just one political party said guidelines an interim guidelines they still can contain drugs like it will mention as it's from my son which are no longer recommended for regular patients. so suddenly you cannot just say does drugs without telling us what they do go at. so it will make, i think, dr. joyce, would it be better place to do this? if i'm acting as an antivirus or take drugs, what role does it have for my to my sen?

yeah, yeah. as it's real nice. and then doctors, i've seen the antibiotics. they have moved to play and cheating a virus unless it is a secondary infection, which comes up after the 6th or 7th day, the 1st $56.00 days don't you don't see any. we don't see any of an antibiotic in treatment of the virus. and the 1st $5.00 to $6.00 providers, the effect of the infection after 7 days to be that when they pneumonia and they could be detroit infection. that can happen that when you need an antibiotic not before, that's all right i. so this is a p s k, i don't have it in d, i or you're watching me as we can talk to you to is telling you when you should be prescribing anti virus and you should be if alright, a doctor's hope. i hope time from my book so many how tight for me because there's more things i want to show you from our audience who are watching with you and i was trying to squeeze the morning. so interesting question here from with 0. could you discuss the misinformation spread?

yes, absolutely. so important, i want to do that by chris nash, christian as he's also concerned about the misinformation, a new come off the back of christmas video comment. let's play the document submission is going to be was accurate. information publicly misinformation, however, we have seen the government use misinformation called speech critical, although also the government should accuse this information. so it's got a little dark with a new as right now, but new, i'm still gonna ask you for your, for your take on this because i understand that you were told that you were not allowed to report on. i'm going to use the, the, the public term for this black fungus and the information that is not being shared because authorities do not want that information to be shad, doing

a 2nd wave of covert 19. what's the problem? is that a new go ahead? looks like a new has a black out right now because you still hear us. i think so there's a little bit of a thunderstorm, i'll say. alright. delta sonali, you can you pick up because i know you understand the issues here with the management of a narrative about cove it 19 and then getting out good information to people. it feels like there's some tension between those, those 2 missions. go ahead finally. so, you know, i, i seem to understand how signs and evidence based medicine and prescribing the correcting, according to latest medical science is a partisan issue. it should be a non partisan issue. but however, i think governments are struggling to offer some remedy to people. so we still see certain drugs in guidelines response, you know,

do not be very precise. clear information coming out. for example, we knew last year how important good ventilation is. but that was not really amplified by the media or by the government. but this here, there is talk of animation, had me spoken about the importance of, you know, fresh air flow, open windows, you know, i, i do believe we could have reduced a certain number of cases. we only focused on distance. and i think it's really, really important not to copy paste things from a more developed context into countries like india. you know, so we copy pasted social discipline saying we copy based on the idea of locked downs without an understanding of the social economic context of developing countries. and we had a very medicalized response to was offend damage, which is not a purely medical issue. so so i think the government needs to really

allow the community and the public health community, the medical community to become a voice or for lines for correct information and not clam down. notices are being issued with say that nobody can speak about, say, the fungal infection we were talking about without prior permission of the government. this does not make sense at a time when the government alone cannot manage everything. it is an unprecedented situation. they need to collaborate with citizens, they need to engage people. they need to engage exports to, you know, to reach to the public. so, you know, very crude measures to control some sources of information. misinformation are not useful that we fit a one more question. this one comes from avo, jasa, and apple jasa is on youtube and is wondering if the politics from the b j. p is impacting how well corona virus is being managed in india or after

that. so the question, i'm going to get that to talk to joe ye to speaking as a medical professional, how is politics either helping or hindering you don't to join into so i find that is a lot of mixed messaging that is happening by the government. and that hinders of that hinders out of. busy treatment protocol, number one, number 2. let's start with the vaccination. let's start with the resignation. dr. lead all out. we were supposed to be the largest producer vaccines and lead, although we started off with the health care workers that the started over the above 60 and about $45.00, the co morbidities, et cetera, the prime minister himself to the scene. and that was that i think addressed vaccine hesitancy in a huge rate here. so many followers here,

he addressed the last thing is offensive, but then he lost the plot somewhere in between. because of because of signing a data. recall that's weird because the vaccine could be here to send back scenes all over the world. so the friend shot for fascinating our own country, our own countrymen, and that's with the 2nd we've been, we should've vaccinated people quickly process and we should have ordered more pre ordered models. as all the board has ordered, pre ordered, we didn't pre ordered any vaccine doses. so that's when of visual mixed messaging. they can me, oh, they can be they to when the government penzault good to patient holmes, who have tested positive and the did contain a lot of course they do contain. busy more tablets they contain a bunch talk to me to but they also contain something on

a scholar and i thought to join you she can. she can give us a lecture on medicine and cove in 1900 medicine for over an hour. thank you said 25 minutes of your time. we really appreciate you talk to joey to new is back and also talk to san ally and you and you too. thank you for your questions with the next time. take care. bye frank assessments. but the government in $11.00 exactly have and what made of that taking situation might not be just again informed opinions is the us with thinking military positioning in the middle east. was it just simply a reorganizing military? this is a message to the reason that the united states is rethinking its military cluster. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on our jazeera is a very bleak picture for a lot of americans out there. why supremacy?

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