surprise yourself with what people call me. and. talk to people who follow along the way my critics how is the world's most powerful woman shaping public and telling us. this is deducted news a show coming up today and imagine 2 situation in south korea. that's the assessment from the country's president. recalled its august stating increased. so far this year is the country on the verge of its 1st ever national knocked on. silenced india as slick song productions plus a new generation of do it yourself. at the ready to fill the vacuum and capture a few fans. must.

have been welcome to. join us south korea has ramped up testing facilities amid a 3rd wave of corner virus infections over the weekend the country reported a little over 2000 cases its highest daily increase since january president has called it an emergency situation and has ordered the mobilization of police military personnel and medical doctors to cup the spread of the virus this despite tougher social distancing rules that were implemented last week from tomorrow schools will close in the capital city and further destructions haven't been ruled out and if implemented these would in effect mean

a lockdown for the 1st time during the pandemic. dozens of covert 900 testing sites are opening up in south korea's capital and anyone can turn up and get a free test before people had to pay if they tested negative. seoul and its surrounding districts are coronavirus hotspots more than 2 thirds of the country's new infections have been recorded here and that's making the president anxious. it's a very serious and marriage and see situation. back is against the wall. this is a crucial moment to devote all our virus control capabilities and administrative power to stopping the coronavirus. south korea is no testing 4 times as many people a day than it was in early october sunday saw the country's highest daily number of new infections since the pandemic began and its caseload is expected to surge again

this week there's growing unease and frustration among the public. i have no idea where people are getting infected and they don't even know themselves we all need to do everything we can to prevent this virus from spreading even more. i had to take the subway today although i am worried that i might have been exposed to the risk of infection i think i'm going to head home as soon as possible. but it seems like the virus is active control it'll be a huge problem for the economy if the government imposes the highest level of social distancing this should be handled very quickly before that really happens. to them and. the highest level of social distancing would essentially mean a lot dying for south korea 4th largest economy authorities are hoping to have.

and that there are. head of the current approach to testing who put the country back on track in its fight against 1000. and joining me now from sony is correspondent frank smyth frank south korea was held up our live in the year as a model of a countrywide response to the caught on of us crisis how have things gotten so bad well i think we need to look at how the crew by riskiness of korea and the initial outbreaks here there were large cluster infections that took place at sort of super spreader events that made it a little bit easier i think for contact tracing to take place for them to find the source and and find everybody that had caught the virus from those types of events and then what followed were would arguably now people are considering half measures so they didn't institute and strict

a lot down as perhaps some would have recommended and so now what you see is a cluster outbreaks are much smaller and they're taking place at a variety it's in use like churches elder care centers hospitals private gatherings and schools as well so that makes it more difficult for contact tracing to take place for them to find the source of the virus and and get more under control your sort of contact tracing is proving difficult what is the government's trying to do to buy up of this increased care stored. well it's been talking about what it's going to do next some of these measures are free testing and increased contact tracing i'm getting instant messages throughout the day that are rewarding the way where people have been infected in my neighborhood they're also increasing quarantining and you know again messaging the public there may be more

a lot to measures put in place there or have also been a shortage of it's here in south korea so they're calling on private hospitals and other public facilities to provide potentially more i.c.u. beds if they become required. franken talked about increased messaging for the public care with the condom to bring the cotton thawed where that is in motion across south korea does that mean then that the country is weeks away from a national lockdown well to be honest with you based on what the prime minister said today we're perhaps days away depending on how the testing and the results of that testing go is in the next few days we had cases over a 1000 a day here in south korea for the last couple of days a record on sunday over

a 1000 so the government's looking very carefully at that and messaging that they may have to go to the highest level a lot down called 3.0 here in south korea and warning that there could be an economic impact they have got some support for that particularly in the media with the creator of all advocating for this level 3 large down saying the country will stand a little chance of defeating the virus without radical action so momentum appears to be building but just explain to us frank level of 3 locked on what exactly does this in table. well it's not quite the full stayed home order that we seen in places in europe. but it will result in more closures previously at 2.5 we seeing things like bars and fitness centers having to close churches reduce the number of people that they enable to come to their services of

course everyone is is covered in masks schools will fully be closed under level 3 live down but again it's not the state who orders that we see in places other countries particularly in europe franco across the world to footy go pears to me surfing in an populations teeming with constantly changing rules and restrictions i wonder if that's the case in south korea as well. well i don't think that's quite the case here we had earlier on and when the government was saying to you no it's opposition especially it's sort of radical right wing opposition and they couldn't hold demonstrations in the capital and there was pushback from some groups at that time we're not seeing that now and i think in the general public because there have only been these sort of half measures they were reasonably tolerant people could still go to restaurants people could still go out shopping for example and go about

their day to day lives just not big events like you can go to sporting activities or a large scale church services for example but again you know the public is being prepared to recognise that the 1st half measures haven't being being as effective as they need to be to bring the coronavirus in south korea under control franks may have been several thank you very much for that. the coronavirus pandemic respects disaster for performers and entertainers the world over in india the lockdowns even shut down bollywood but to its resulted in an unexpected boon for independent musicians industry data shows a sea change group to do it yourself performers have found followings on facebook and other online streaming sites and it's just that easy access that makes these

acts popular with young music fans here's why. you need it in the view that the. money would like to. people like just one independent musician finding a new audience. their online videos tackling social issues have struck a chord with millennial looking for him to time and while india's film industry is on pulls. so because of the. music movies we're not saying. that the beach boys are going to. be more open to listening to experimental music when its name is a. big name stars and movie melodies usually dominate the charts in bollywood obsessed india. but during the pandemic non-feeling music is filling the vacuum.

in india more than 75 percent are probably more than that. of the consumption of music happens on the film. so if you can understand out of every 100 songs of even 5 songs then songs and they are not using so that automatically opens up all the independent editions the. musicians like rep a doula rocca form a waiter found sudden fame with viral videos about the plight of migrant workers stranded during india's lockdown. people walking fountains of kilometers to get home i feel terrible watching these scenes. i couldn't go anywhere and i had all my ball fun so i recorded the track and uploaded on.

the cars. after i uploaded my song i received a lot of support many of my friends shared the clip and i got a lot of appreciation was going to. push the likes of out of the spotlight. but for now indie musicians i have. to keep. that's it for today there's of course mall going forward slash if we leave you now with pictures from the farm of protests. the movement has kept up the weeds time to the well it's like life demonstrators have created to feed them housed thousands camped outside the deli thanks for watching we'll see you tomorrow about.

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how much worse can really get. we still have time to a. subset. of subscribers like this. the roll out of the covert 900 x. scene is the moment to millions have been waiting for in the hope it will mean a return to normality. but many factors like some of the vaccines being difficult to store mean there is no guarantee they will be distributed fairly around the world. as people in rich countries such as britain get their 1st shots how can those in less developed areas get theirs as well. as.

the sick overnight especially here on the w. i'm chris cobra welcome african countries have been faring much better in the pandemic then many experts had feared the spot and shoot outs for example about the impossibility of social distancing in communities where large families often share is single room but with the coronavirus vaccines are allowed to developing nations could now run into a logistical financial and cultural roadblocks. the race for a call that 19 vaccine is almost over for me you know accumulation candidates are in the final stages of approval. and former announced of african scientist professor i shall be in my idea the road to a vaccine has been difficult. for us to. be able to achieve this is developed not one of the vaccines shown to be

safe to be effective. in that is a phenomenal achievement in a community included among the 3 vaccines. actually being evaluated in south africa . south africa has bore the brunt of called in 1000 devastation on the african continent. at the beginning of december covering the country had officially recorded over 820000 infections and 22000 deaths. infections are again rising amid worries of an imminent 2nd wave. and south africans taken part in vaccine trials are determined to play their part in fighting the pandemic. but it's one thing for the it seemed kinda numb from getting to want to take part in this trial to prevent myself and others from getting corona that's right. but

not all of the potential vaccines are suitable for the developing world and wealthy nations stand at the front of the queue. for more than a vaccine at the time that this part of operation was free to say i'm likely to go outside the u.s. in the foreseeable future and if the conditions of the u.s. funding if it seems to fry the vaccine which needs to be stored at all for low temperatures minus 70 degrees celsius unfortunate there needs to be unlikely for that scene to be deployed in its current formulation in a country such as south africa so what's left behind is really the best as i think of it here which is if it seems that you're also going to cut it in south africa because being the preferred candidate for immediate deployment in the country even if south africa can secure enough doses for its population of nearly 60000000 community work and still need to convince a skeptical public. the firm i'm scared of the state if it's and stuff i have to know much more because you know all of us we're not there we are seeking in

different ways you want to we all need to you don't need to tell us if maybe i have a choke me how what i say. in the advocacy work is must also compete with the daily realities of one of the world's most unequal societies . with some of it is not one of the major issues they have to worry about they must so the times are worried about bread and butter issues but professor remains resolute that south africa will lead africa's charge for same. sustainable solution to the global pandemic. but he was going to feel that women just today that the food that's being accumulated can if it's intel's a good cup of tea during college already provide evidence to make an informed decision yes to reject scenes so it's good for the thought there for them context probably and that it's really up to government to manage the process to ensure the thought difficult dance access to victims and its effect there for an appointment

of fixin's in the property government inefficiency as may mean mass rollout will only be reached in 12 months time. for more let's bring in ruth faden she's the founder of the berman institute of bioethics at johns hopkins university and a member of the world health organization's kovan 1000 vaccines working group welcome to g.w. where do you see the biggest challenges for a fair distribution of these vaccines the challenges are enormous at a global level and also within countries the global challenges have to do with the fact that for reasons we can. easily understand it's not completely defend wealthy countries in the world have made their primary commitment securing vaccines for their own population this has resulted in a significant lock on supply or some vaccines for the forseeable future

countervailing natch. challenge is the existence of something called the kovacs facility which is a global commitment to provide vaccine to all peoples of the world what kovacs needs is more financial support from wealthy countries more money coming in to kodak's and also we need more wealthy countries who are not currently part of the kodaks collaboration to be at least thinking about and bilateral commitments to low and middle income countries also we need support for the world bank on that note the g. 20 nations recently said they will quote spare no effort in ensuring equitable access to proven vaccines how much is that commitment worth. well let's put it this way it's worth a whole lot more than the countries who are high income who have not yet begun kind

of a pledge and i include in that the united states my own country so while of course we never know until we really see what happens what a pledge like that from a group of wealthy countries is actually worth i have to applaud this collection of countries the european countries for even making that commitment now we see the buy on to pfizer vaccine being rolled out in several countries the latest being the united states we need we know it needs to be stored at extremely low temperatures now doesn't a prerequisite like that in itself hamper a fair and equitable distribution. absolutely this is a better day in the united states very 1st people will be receiving the pfizer back prize or biotech that scene today in the u.s. but it is not a vaccine that is part of the solution to global equity at least not in its current form relations so if you were to grade that scene right now in terms of the

likelihood that it will contribute to global equity it would get at a poor mark reformulations perhaps otherwise but right now we have to look to other bechstein types to address the needs of people living in low and middle income countries as until workers and senior citizens are among the 1st to be vaccinated it from an ethical point of view is that the right thing to do. it's an important framing and it is as defensible as other strategies that we can think of the problem comes with the competing interpretations of equity that are at issue so if you think about countries like the us or britain or south africa or pretty much many countries in the world that there are profound background inequities preexisting in the population with respect to health and wellbeing more broadly and

those inequities are reflecting themselves in disproportionate burden of the pandemic now so the challenge from an equity point of view is to how to use to make sure that your priories nation strategy addresses these gaps. rif adan of the berman institute of bioethics at johns hopkins university and a member of the world health organization's kovan 1000 vaccines working group thank you for your thoughts. my pleasure. and now it is over to our resident corona virus experts t w science correspondent derek williams answering your questions about depend a mic. if the vaccine is not 100 percent effective can you still catch the virus after vaccination 1st of all no vaccine that we've developed for any diseases ever provided perfect protection to

everyone although although a few like those for measles or for polio come very close but because every person's immune system is different in some people exposed to sars cove to the new vaccines will not stop the corona virus in its tracks trials in healthy volunteers indicate however that the candidates now being authorized for use in countries around the world are highly effective at doing so in most people it's kind of complicated but a simplified way of quantifying the efficacy demonstrated in trials would be to say that if you haven't been vaccinated you're around 9 times more likely to contract symptoms of covert 19 after an exposure then you would be if you got the shot so it drastically reduces that possibility. but what's really interesting is that for

a return to something like normal vaccines don't actually have to prevent copd 19 and everyone if they can just stop the disease and in many or most people then that's half the battle especially if they also limit its spread so if they keep most vaccinated people from transmitting the virus to others for every person that can catch the virus and then subsequently give it to someone else one step closer to herd immunity as the virus finds fewer and fewer unprotected hosts that'll slow the speed of the pandemic and eventually stop it and there's another possible upside which is that even if getting a vaccine isn't an ironclad guarantee that you won't get coburn 1000 later there are at least some indicators that if you do the vaccine could limit its severity so you might then very well have milder symptoms.

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