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similarity of cultures across the world. so no matter what, i'll just bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you, i'll dizzy around are covered 19 measures being lifted to soon. many countries are now ending their travel restrictions mask mandates and testing requirements. so how will scientist stay on top of the pandemic? this is inside stored. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammered, jim, jim, it's been more than 2 years since the global pandemic began. and in that time, an estimated 500000000 people had tested positive and more than 6000000 have died.

but as infection and death rates appear to slow down, many countries are swiftly removing their cobra 19 measures. singapore is the latest to scrap corona virus tests for vaccinated travelers and remove nearly all limits on gatherings in europe. switzerland and greece will follow most of the continent to remove travel restrictions by next month. many countries of also eas rules on wearing masks and self isolation if someone tests positive. so this is mass oh, oh, oh. in the u. s. travellers ripped off their masks in mid air after a federal judge struck down a mandate to wear face coverings on public transport. the judge said the centers for disease control had overstepped its authority. some scientists are concerned by moves like this since the contagious b. a 2 variant is spreading quickly around the world. the white house has launched an appeal in the department of justice. as you note, it had indicated that they would appeal i not just because they think it's entirely

reasonable. of course, to have this additional time to look at it because they think that the current for current and future public health crises. we want to preserve that, that authority for the cdc to have in future as wealthier countries remove their restrictions. developing nations are still struggling to vaccinate their people. the world health organization has called for 70 percent of the global population to be inoculated by june. but so far, just more than 3 percent of people in lower income countries have received at least one dose, compared to 60 percent in wealthier nations and the world's most populous country. china continues to pursue a so called 0 cobit policy to eliminate. busy transmission, it's big city. shanghai has tightened, it's locked down. 25000000 people have been stuck in doors for 5 weeks. videos of people protesting against the measures and being forced into quarantine. have triggered outrage on china's highly centered internet. ah.

all right, let's bring in our guests in oxford, u. k. peter, drawback director of the school center for social entrepreneurship at the university of oxford in boston, missouri say you global south convenor for the people's vaccine alliance, which is dedicated to the equitable distribution of vaccines around the world. and in new delhi, dr. robbie malec, a chairman of radix hospital, a warm welcome to you all, and thank you so much for joining us today on in so story. robert, let me start with you today. many countries are now in the travel restrictions mask mandates and testing requirements. from your perspective is this all happening too soon? i think it is the time to come. we should review the ways that i need to be all the more prevalent and bitch countries that there's less revenue in it. we see the statistics even in large in us, we have that on 60 pounds and it says in india,

we have this 4500 cases. and if you can, we have a nest on 50, says now he's the or depends what is the epidemiology numbers? what is the length piece? so i think the light shouldn't relate at the countries to be or it is very prevalent. there it is more infectious. the me should some kind of restrictions, but in the countries the less length. so we should find, you know, what a strategy we should equally bit of a strategy as is prevalent to begin with because we just prevalent in that country . so we can give a single statement as a book and you, we cannot give us signal by lane or the statement for the whole word on the whole. so what i mean as a professional is that we need to see what is the epidemiology. this should be to be envious, prevalence in a particular doctor for that matter. but having said that, as a professional, i must say that we should all be precautions. it is an extraordinary,

unprecedented type of situation, and it is different and unpredictable to be so we need to take all the questions off, so distancing mosque and peter, what about you from your vantage point? are cobra 1900 measures being lifted too soon? and also, how dangerous might this be rummy said we see quite a bit of transmission in most parts of the world right now. what concerns me is that we seem to sort of be all or nothing. and the so called living with coban approaches that we're seeing really are trying to return to a pre 2020 normal. and the reality of there will be no pre 2020 normal. we're not going back to that cobra to circulating at high levels. it's still far more deadly than the flu, for example. and it causes significant long term effects and 5 to 10 percent of people effects that we don't really understand. you have to remember that it's an airborne virus and therefore i think there's

a middle ground where continued availability on rapid testing use of mask in high risk. crowded, close endorse spaces, investments to improve insulation, and all of these things can save lives. can keep people at work and in school, and help protect us against cobit. nobody's saying we need to go back to lockdown, but to throw everything off, i think is misguided mazda, last year, the world health organization had set a goal. that goal was to ensure that 70 percent of every country's population was fully vaccinated. why are we so short of meeting that goal? well, i think there are a few things, you know, one, the program that was set up the co backs program that was set up to distribute vaccines in an equitable manner was a good idea. but in practice did not work. you know, what happened was that the wealthier countries jumped, the queue went directly to purchase vaccines from producers,

and that meant the vaccines were then not available for low and middle income countries. we still have quite a bit of intellectual property barriers in place that are preventing manufacturers that are available and ready to make these vaccines. the m r n, a vaccines that are more effective against omen, crowd enough protected people all around the world. so manufacturers are ready to make those are being blocked for making them. we have seen quite a bit of courting as well. you know, where rich countries were saying that they weren't share and had not shared in time . so it's a variety of issues. and now that vaccines are somewhat more available, we need to make sure that we keep that system flowing in a way that make sure that it's equitably distributed and mazda, i just want to talk for a moment about the impact that all of this had had on developing countries on, on, middle, and low income countries. i mean, you're talking about hoarding of vaccines by wealth. your countries, you're talking about this barrier about intellectual property not being lifted.

there have been so many calls from so many groups in so many countries over the past year and a half to lift these requirements to lift these restrictions to make sure that hoarding doesn't happen. how dispiriting is it's you that this is still going on and what kind of an impact is it having on these poor countries? it is really, really dispiriting. i mean, to think about the fact that in high come countries, over 70 percent of people have been fully vaccinated and alone come countries, it's about 12 percent of people fully vaccinated, you know, and my own country be care only 19 percent of people fully vaccinated. and there are still 8 countries around the world. the last time i checked that are lower than 5 percent, 5 percent believe vaccinated. so you can imagine what that means when health care workers, you know, grandparents people who are immunocompromised, have not had access to this protection. something that does really worry me and all of us are the people's backs in the lines as well as the fact that the numbers are not accurate. you know,

we've heard stories about the death rate not being as bad in africa as it is elsewhere. and the truth is that when we are in a system, a backseat injustice, we're also in this, in a system of diagnostics and justice and treatment and justice. you know. so there are a lot of cases of cobra that have also gone undetected. the impact low income countries is you know, my husband really hard to, to fathom in terms of the economy in terms of what this has done for other health issues. you know, like to, per kilo says access to a chevy treatment, ante natal care. and also just the impact on women and other marginalized groups. peter, i saw you nodding along to a lot of what maza was saying. i'm going to let you give your reaction and jump in . but i also want to ask you how our scientist going to stay on top of the pandemic . if you know, mandates are being dropped and countries are testing as much. i mean how, how will they be able to actually stay ahead of the curve on this? thank you just to build on the vaccine and equity issue briefly. i think the fundamental flaw here that we're still approaching this with

a charity model rather than the solidarity model that and wealthy countries were taken care of ourselves. first, we're happy to give leftovers to give aid of stuff from support countries rather than understanding that this is a global crisis and therefore the backseat are global good. and if we look at that solid dirty lens that allows us to take the technology and the manufacturing capacity that exists and get out there. understanding that this makes all of us safer. so we really need to shift that and i think that's we face more global crises like climate change. that's the sort of approach that we need to take. now with respect to surveillance, just critically important that we continue to have disease surveillance, not just in one or a few countries, but really all over the world we've seen just in the last couple of months. just to see where we started in about december of last year, several different variants being one be a 2 in particular and then some others as well that have improved, i think, giving it this particular corona virus. mutates

a lot more than we expected or suspected in mind, and that's going to continue to happen. and so we need to stay on top of this. the other thing is that investments in disease surveillance are going to be an important part of protecting us in the future. from other pandemic threats that inevitably will come. so early detection, being able to sequence it, help scientists, they proactive rather than reactive. we need investments really globally in this, robbie. i want to ask you specifically about where things stand currently in india with regard to the numbers of cases and also with regards to ensuring that people in india are vaccinated. as far as in the concert we have vaccinated at around $187.00 per or almost $170000000.00 of the population has been vaccinated. and 61.4 percent of the population has been completely committed. we have given booster those to 1.8 percent. at least one of

those has been given to all was going to get to but sort of the get. this is the latest report from the ministry from india. so india has done an incredible job as far as the speed and speckled vaccination is concerned. so giving 187 back seen and last man in the lane is also getting in the book distribution system as well as the recognition is concerned, we are not from 14 and even in last 24 hours. also we have extra 20 p, but i thought that this thing is going on almost 4.5 black people have been testing, have been tested for any that the other developing nation. and we have sort them reductions as far as over the process to sponsor number. really big deal concern and other men, but health resources are concerned. so we have certain constraints and we appreciate back the fact that is why we are trying to give more attention on the premier aspect. not very important thing, which previous to of my panelists say

b cannot be globally secure unless we vaccine it each end of the person on this. so to get the global security from this monstrous, unless we need to vaccinate even that developing nation each and every individual. so only then we are going to get a policy killer deal because together or human chain. so if, as far as the vaccine got concerned, i think it is very important respect to give back scenes to the developing nations . also those who have not been vaccinated as one of the list as rightly said, that only 5 percent of the population has been vaccinated. in some of the country, so that is a matter of concern as a professional. all right, i just want to take a step back here for a moment. one of the most pressing health issues is what's being called long cove. it. while most people recover quickly some experience symptoms for months or even longer, we spoke to one suffer who can no longer lead an active lifestyle tankless. hi,

i'm maybe for cash. i'm a reporter in washington dc. and i've been dealing with the effects of long coven for more than 2 years now. so i initially about thick with kind of in april of 2020 . and it's been an uphill battle since then. i was knocked out for about 2 months and then had to stop and stop getting back to work crashing, getting back to work crashing. and when i say crashing it really is debilitating. it was extreme fatigue, headache, chest pain, the recurrence of other symptoms for pains and things like that as well. i ended up having a really bad crash in january of 2021 and knocked out for about 7 months, really, very, very debilitating, pretty much bedroom and for a few months i'm lucky in that. in dc, there is one long coated clinic and after a weight of several months, i was able to get an appointment that that's been a lifesaver for me and they know that something that many millions of people don't have access to. so i guess my main concerns right now,

if someone who's gone through this for so long that i don't know that governments are really prepared for the kind of medical and social cost of this. i've also been really lucky that i've had a supportive workplace where i've been able to take the time off that i need to slowly, gradually recover. again, i know many, many people don't have that kind of support and actually are going to rely on disability. the u. s government at least is still grappling with what that means in terms of long home. and is it definitely a disability? what qualifies someone who has long coded as being able to get disability payments? things like that. serious questions that we need to be asking ourselves, in addition to setting up more clinics, we'd better access. so people, mazda, i saw you reacting to the testimonial that we just heard there, from your perspective. has there been enough support offered to those who are suffering from long covered you know, as i was listening to her and it, you know, it sounds devastating. i was,

i was thinking that given the lack of dive diagnostics that we've seen and a lot of low income countries, my concern is the fact that this is going to be an added burden to help systems that are already pressed. you know that we had, she don't have a good idea and a lot of low and middle income countries of how many people have been infected. and what does that mean for them? the people who will be suffering with long coded i'm, you already have these really strained health systems. so, you know, the only data i've seen in africa about long coders from south africa. and it makes me think, you know, what is happening in other countries where we have not diagnosed people enough. so i would say that we're probably not giving enough support. i'm glad to hear that she had some of it's for that she needed. but it sounds really dreadful. robbie: have you seen that governments around the world have taken long coven? seriously or do you think that it's being largely underestimated? insider nicole that you need in my hospital. so what i have seen as lot of patients

that you have right, pointed out a lot of patients who have suffered wrong may be this d shoes may be guardian issues that live kaji and put them even post traumatic stress disorder. and so we need things they have cropped up and i think it does a little under estimated because a lot of patients, especially those what and dudley are those who aren't any had immuno system compromised or those who are diabetes, those who are suffering from that. but back to school they, they have definitely gone to the long or make and i think the end of this long thing is to some extent, by and large i will say that it is ignored by the admin. it's also because they are more focused in saving the life of people. but i think that this issue needs to be stressed even more diligently and we should look into these problems also because a lot of patients are suffering from long and the symptoms that

a student puts his thing for maybe we're in a house for 2 years. and those who have bought but many lung damage, maybe the symptoms are likely to continue farther, much longer. so i think patient program should be structured by all the governments and many of a sudden giving their venture that don't so, but i think this problem needs to be addressed more carefully. mother has rightly pointed out. and you have shown that a picture of that lady on suffering from a post school symptom. so this needs to be addressed. and i like most, you're broking of this issue and i don't know why you seem to be sure they have been suffering from post complications at the need additional. peter maza was speaking a few moments ago about the stress that health systems worldwide have been under. since the beginning of the pandemic, you know, we're talking

a lot about the fact that countries are dropping mask mandates and travel requirements, and many countries are almost acting as though cobra. 1900 didn't exist anymore in some sense. how much your health systems currently being burdened by covered 19 i think it remains significant and of course come, it has always sort of moved in waves. we see waves of cases and infections that sort of come and go right now. we're on the backend of the home across the 2 wave, but each time it hits, even in places where there are high levels of back nation and people are less likely to get real estate can go to hospital just by virtue of the sheer number of infections that absolutely stressing health care systems. on top of that, we have massive backlogs of case and folks who haven't been able to get the attention they need for other conditions. on top of that, we have health care workers who themselves, of course are sick and his mother pointed out in some low and middle income countries, health care workers who themselves have not even been vaccinated yet. so all of

these things are piling up on top of i think the, the final thing is just the burden of exhaustion. the t burn out and trauma, that health care workers have faced by being on the front lines of this now for 2 years. so we really need to address this, the resilience of our systems. and again, smart investment in our health care workers in our health care system will not just help us with cobit, they will help us keep help people healthy. move forward. robin, how concerned are you about potential future variance of covered 1900? as a professional, i'm definitely concerned because right now be one point. one point or 2 again is that it is, it does have they both are wireless. so the new steam. so why does, says mitchell, i mean, we need to be extremely ridgeland on the genome of these why this is the behavior of them, the limits of them, that killing capacity of them. and of course,

the ability of them. and we should also find, be normal vaccines as the stream which is coming as a professional, definitely be out of what we are concerned. the when the wireless is changing its genomes, the be all need to be absolutely concern. but having said that, one thing is clear now on the piece of it, most of the, the dns, which are the, are the videos of concern. the article by the available vaccines actually be, cannot prevent it unless in every vaccinated individual. but we can prevent us tedious disease and we can prevent people going to issues and subsequent debts and those people, those who have been vaccinated come along with the booster goals. so i will like to bring those my clinical opinion that everybody should get the vaccination done. looping nation or in the nations because it was definitely going to offer group fiction against the radians, regenerate, know, the boy that you know,

specialist the ad keeping an eye on the changing the genome of this monstrous widest. and that we need to be extremely care put, and in india, also over there, is that keeping the vigilant young because of the wireless mazda? do you believe that the effort to get people vaccinated has lost momentum around the world? and if so, if you do believe that, what are the implications of that? what does it mean if the world is, in some sense giving up on achieving high vaccination rates? you know, the fact that $5000000000.00 was, was cut from the u. s. is, you know, global support for coverage re, somebody makes me think that, you know, kind of echoes what you've said that the world, some parts of the world seem to think that the pandemic is over and it absolutely is not. and, you know, i think the impact of this obviously is one that we don't know where, you know,

i'll defer to dr. malik here, who's the clinician, but i've heard a lot of people say that there's nothing to indicate that the next variance will be milder. you know that i've heard some people say, you know, i'm a crohn might have been more infectious, but it was milder than, than delta. so this is a trend that we're going in and i hear from expert that they're experts, that there's nothing to say that that is the case. so we do risk the potential of a more deadly variant popping up, you know, something referencing what peter said is also looking to the future. you know what, these intellectual property barriers with the fact that there are manufacturers all over the world that are ready to make these vaccines and have not been given the tech, the tech or the know how to do it. and that, you know, big companies like pfizer, and they're not despite the fact that they've received billions of dollars to produce the vaccines are still refusing to support manufacturers around the world. this will have an impact, not only for this pandemic, but for future pandemic as well. you know, at the moment,

africa produces only one percent of the vaccines that the continent usually produces only one percent and has to import 99 percent. and we need to think about not only now future variance that might pop up for coded, but also for pandemic. we have yet to see. all right, well we have run out of time to we're going to have to leave the conversation there . thank you so much to all of our guest peter, drawback maza. say you me and robin malik. and thank you for watching. you can see the program 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 ha. inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter. our handle is at a jay inside story for me. mm hm. mm hm. jerome, in the whole team here in doha bye for now. ah. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world.

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