and there are many stories. make up your own. made for minds. this is the end of the news a shock coming up today concerns over it's the world's largest covert dieties vaccination drive. questions arise in india about the efficacy of a locally developed vaccine as the country goes ahead but immunize in frontline health care workers was not a concern and what is the government doing about them plus. i guess it's the world's 1st coronavirus lockdown china that should be cut off from the rest of the

world for 11 weeks what impact has that had on its president's. ibish commentary welcome to did up to news asia tragical join us it's been 7 days since india launched what's been called the world's biggest corporate 19 immunization drive a drive that aims to target some 13000000 frontline health care workers in its 1st phase so far even though we're looking over $1000000.00 have already been vaccinated it is below expected targets a key reason for that is set to be vaccine hesitancy now that's being excuse scribed primarily to the lack of efficacy data about to know can you develop a vaccine called vaccine despite the concerns many. the workers are relieved that

there is a feast some light of the end of the. 37 year old. it's a big day today she is going to get her 4th tour of the corps with 1000 vaccine. giteau has been working as a nurse at a private hospital in delhi put 3 years and has been a health worker for over 20 years now as a health worker during the pandemic she has been worried about the safety of her family against the virus. i had to take care there are little children in our family and i was concerned about the help i had to stay in a separate room keep my clothes and shoes separately maintain proper hygiene constantly used sanitizers i had to take care of the smallest. detail is one of the 1st in line in the country to receive the vaccine for the widest. india is in the middle of what is being called the world's largest 1000 immunization program. in

the 1st round of the vaccine rollout the government aims to vaccinate about 30000000 health workers and other frontline workers. to vaccine so far have been given emergency use approval by the countries of the oxford astra zeneca hold in india and vaccine an indigenous vaccine developed by part of biotech. but as the country takes a crucial step towards battling the pandemic many concerns loom large there are questions being raised on call vaccine getting approval from india to targeting without its efficacy data in place as its 50 trials are still underway some experts say that this is a break from established protocol and could lead to at best just among people who however there's no clear consensus on this issue in the medical community doctor that in there it's john a leading that's knowledge it says the approval to call vaccine has been given to

lying on the date of immunogenicity and safety he says such image and see government approvals are not uncommon in unusual circumstances. masses and masses have. to accept. to come in the transporter community should there. and communication. using 2 people even though there are actual voices regarding the image and see approval many working in the health care sector are confident that vaccination is the right step to take we are in that time frame where the numbers are going down so it be very imperative that if we can vaccinate as many people as possible it would be able to be cold be if i'm feeling good after getting the vaccine. everybody read for their tone and definitely get vaccinated. this is

a highly contagious disease so it was important for the vaccination to start. is now almost through the man be treated the minute observation period backs anation she said she has started feeling more secure against the corona virus and is eagerly awaiting the 2nd dose. for more i'm joined now by molly i saw she's a public health professional i'm sure also works with the all india drug action network welcome as i so know it's been a week now since india rolled out its vaccination program how has it gone so far. so it's certainly been a beautiful muted start to the backs of the nation because of the has it been seen sean by the health care workers who as you know are supposed to receive the vaccine in the 1st phase reports are coming in from all parts of the country about the what don't we want and what they expected and one of the 2 aqim part of biotech school vaccine was approved before the efficacy data would have been

a bit and this may be one of the fact it was affecting the willingness of people to get vaccinated but india has big dawg it's nonetheless something like 30000000 health care workers in phase one of this rollout what is the government doing to try and relieve these concerns. so we understand the government is doing its they best in terms of public messaging to encourage the hope that will cause to take the vaccines but there are some limitations so for example the messaging has focused on the scene of the vaccines rather than on that if you can see now with any vaccination that are going to be some adverse events for did following immunization in india they have been around i've danced in an hour of individuals to be received a vaccine. you know where the government can improve its messaging is to put out of the procedure through which any adverse event or any of the day it is investigated

and also sharing information transparently regarding each of the cases that have happened so far and of leaving this would be important not only people with building confidence but also countering any sort of misinformation that may be so keen to just help us understand how exactly are people getting vaccinated i mean i was going to parents of the government is deciding who gets to jobs is it possible the people who want to get vaccinated can just walk into a vaccination center and get the job. no soul vaccination in staking place in a phased manner of the government has identified try ordered to groups and they are being offered the vaccine in a certain ordeal so right now we are starting with 0 at the end of the in his get well good who will get the vaccine followed following that there will be a vaccine all for 20000000 frontline and then off they will be about 270000000 people even above the age of 50 your those who have comorbidity use of

the plan in the initial fees the vaccination is to inoculate approximately 300000000 people which as we know is a huge task but that's what the government has embarked upon is there any arab plan to make this vaccine available in the private medical sector given that india has a huge private medical sector people who can afford to pay for medicines or vaccines they can get themselves vaccinated to gender. so the government has not granted any such permission for private seen. and there are good reasons for it the supplies of the vaccine are currently limited and the government is following the principle of vaccinating the priority populations and by then or foote's so at this stage it's really not an unreasonable that the government is controlling the supply and the distribution of vaccine there is of course one company the sort of institute which is very keen on selling go back scene for putting it up for private sale at a premium price and this so far has not been agreed upon of course this

could also create equity issuance so we're not it's not available and i would. relieve it there for the time if under so much for joining us minding our sauna. saturday is the anniversary of the world's 1st. in china authorities lock down the city. where the virus is thought to have originated and the home province as the death toll skyrocketed. profit 11000000 people remained in lockdown for nearly 11 weeks in what the number of cases dropped significantly since then china has continued to fight localized outbreaks of mosse testing and lock downs just fall on how. a city of more than 10000000 people locked down

main thoroughfares shut traffic diverted except for a bare essential oils nothing and no one allowed out or in the market believed to be ground 0 for more the virus spread was closed to customers testing samples taken then fenced off. to heinz hospitals became swamped with patients people began seeing the images of sickness and mortality the death toll climbing from single to double to triple digits and higher people on the street teeter between optimism and fatalism. of us i'm not too worried i take precautions when i go out anyway masks and so on must be worn by out the other. finds us there's just nothing we can do. as officials work to contain a virus they also worked to contain information about it this way dr lee when yang was reprimanded by police for sounding the alarm about of then unknown disease he

died weeks later from the virus but his whistleblowing forced more transparency about china's efforts to contain the outbreak lockdown lasted $76.00 days. and today is a very different place back to a new normal with people out on the streets and going about their businesses we asked 400 and how life has changed since some octo teenager to. show how a whole country has put a lot of effort into fighting the pandemic another look especially here in the world talks like shutting down a whole city affects people's lives a lot and who handed it that's great to deal with because. it's fantastic that will happen has recovered from the penn demick people keep wearing masks even when it was hot in the summer people were wearing them but it's great that the people who are so cooperative. you have

a high like you had to look at you don't feel that this is a happy place. am wondering how you feel now it's very good look how lively the city is everything is ok now i just hope we can take our masks off soon. correspondent mathias berlingo was in one last july after the lockdown was lifted chair he describes the measures china took in the city and since then not only did china at that time shut off one and the neighboring regions from the rest of the country it also locked up the citizens off one inside their homes for several months they were only allowed to leave their home with special permission eventually these harsh measures paid off and the virus was eliminated in one and in most of china however a year later the chinese government is still alert about the virus there are occasional flare ups and whenever this happens china reacts with equally harsh measures a recent outbreak around beijing shows how china is reacting

a few 100 cases were enough to shut off and tire regions with more than 20000000 people of the rest of the country. bulling of the reporting from beijing that's it for today it is of course our website. and you can always follow us on twitter and facebook we'll see you back out on monday at the same time have a good weekend miss you that. the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection in developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update 19 special. on d w. what's going on here. because house of your

very own printer. computer games that are healing. my dog needs electricity. shift explains delivers facts and shows what the future holds yet living in the digital world shift. on g.w. . experts hailed the coronavirus vaccines as one of humanity's greatest achievements. it took a matter of moms as opposed to years or decades but we're still in uncharted territory . we know way 33 seniors died after being an okie later begins coated 19

authorities are investigating whether there was a link. and there's been the audi's you in the past with other vaccines that's why the world in setting up monitoring. systems watching out for side effects that may not have been seen in big clinical trials. still hopes are high that this is the best vaccine in history. it's a race between injections and infections and israel is winning it's a quarter of its population scientists are closely watching to see how effective the vaccine is when given to an entire population and checking to see if it's safe . this basketball stadium in tel aviv is now a vaccination center people under the age of 35 are already being immunized here. are getting their 2nd jam. the vaccines are being administered in record time by

untucked pfizer is delivering millions of doses in return the pharma companies are receiving valuable data that allows them to measure the efficacy of their product. i mean i don't have a problem with the data agreement and i don't feel like i'm part of an experiment. we're leading the world on vaccinations and israel offers the right kind of infrastructure. it's israel's health care system with its universal insurance that makes the country so interesting to buy into pfizer insurance companies allocate doctors to patients streamlining the vaccination program. the digitalized and centralized nature of data collection has created a treasure trove of readily available information. if one wants to understand how a real world rollout of the vaccine program impacts public health then israel with the digital health repositories and it's very strong with the logical capabilities and it's very good outreach of public health and clinical health to all of the

citizens is probably an ideal place to do that. the main objective is to find out at what stage the vaccination drive achieves herd immunity and to figure out ways to get there fast the data used in the research has been made anonymous but that hasn't stopped critics from sounding the alarm people are saying what's the problem with animal anonymized data and the problem is that anonymized data medical data today can be transferred to be non anonymized if you have the right tools and the right technology we want to have a kind of an offer sides experts that will make sure that this data is that going to be exploited later by 3rd party. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has the sized that the findings will benefit the rest of the world. but his prime focus is the impact that the vaccination program is having in israel itself. you

know we will be the 1st country to defeat the pandemic the deal i obstruct with pfizer allows us to vaccinate everyone above 16 by the end of march. minutes. the ambitious target coincides with parliamentary elections which netanyahu is hoping to win but while the number of vaccinations are shooting up so too are infections a race against time that israel is determined to win. still we don't know how long immunity lasts and if there are long term effects let's look at the immediate effects with all of heaven from the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies i asked him what i should do if i get a headache fatigue or other symptoms after the injection well it's absolutely normal to have some transients mild reaction to a vaccination like the ones you've mentioned all raised and vote for

a while it's awful thing so if you experience that your brother really don't have to do anything but just wait for a moment if it's a long of all thing or if it's small severe the best thing all the important thing to do is really report it to the doctor and make sure that you all possible side effects get reported to the authorities what would be more severe or serious side effects that and force are regulated to say that. well if they are. if they are more prolonged really they don't go away and of coals they really have to react to reports when they're. when the symptoms need of little treatment or if they are in in some way really thought i mean i say this is all being monitored but what about in countries where there's no reliable

safety monitoring going on. this used to be a pretty huge problem but that's been progress in recent years. you add show the world health organisation has work. to do to create so-called mad safety app that's a nap can be used on mobile phones. this enables everyone to recall the side effects and so because many even who are countries now days have mobile phone networks this is really a way to spread. reporting system even results pool settings mr can you tell me the people being monitored who got the vaccine being given the vaccine are they also being checked to see that they don't get sick and pos on the wires. this is checked this is part of the

clinical trials to find out but it's not as easy to find this out as it is to see people get some dramatic of it 19 almost so it takes longer to find out and part of finding out is of course to see if when you vaccinate people in the search and region. does. decrease they've pandemic more than is just explained from having people for themselves immune to the virus in the meantime some of us are going to have to wait a long time to get there is that saying i mean shouldn't i just wait and see how it goes with other people. well the diseases than. the virus spreading keeps spreading keeps mutating and we see new

versions of the virus which are probably even more easy to contract so for everyone who has the opportunity to get a vaccination this is certainly a much better option than having the risk of getting infected and not having to pay for. well in germany. european union. the governments pay all the vaccination. and various countries all side e.u. this is also the case of calls that doesn't apply to every country in the world. they're from the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies let's take a quick look at what is the 1st photo of sars cofee too until now images of the microscopic menace that's plagued the world being computer generated models but not

the technicians at night a graphics a spinoff from b. as technical university of use 3 d. technology to scan the virus and then color it it gives us the most detailed view yet researchers hope it will help them fight the disease more effectively as the actual shapes of the particles and now clearer than before credible something so little and pretty can cause so much trouble. and if that's not enough to fascinate you maybe derrick williams will is his daddy segment answering your questions on the coronavirus. how does the pfizer buy on tech vaccine work. i've answered this before but the question is posed it again and again so i guess it's maybe time to go over the details again 2 of the vaccines that have now been widely approved one developed by biotech and pfizer and one produced by my dear no

are what are called a messenger r.n.a. or already a vaccine now the technology behind them has been at the focus of a lot of research for decades but but this is the 1st time they've received widespread approval from health care authorities unlike vaccines based on traditional platforms ones that for example used in a. evaded versions of the virus the biotech pfizer vaccine leads to an immune response of the body by delivering information in the form of a special molecule messenger r.n.a. m.r. a name molecules are our single stranded chains of what are called nucleotides that fulfill a very important function in cells they're kind of the blueprints for making proteins and act as messengers between cells headquarters in the nucleus and it's protein building factories out in the side of plaza and hence the name but the protein

these new m.r. in a vaccines in code for it isn't a human one it's a protein made by the corona virus and when that m r n a is injected it causes your cells to begin making that viral protein and that viral protein provokes an immune response just as if you caught covert 19 sending in the pretty simple quick to produce m.r.i. and a code molecules to make these complicated proteins and getting the body to do the work is a great solution to a complex problem and and there are high hopes that m.r. any vaccines which seemed to have finally come into the road are now set to revolutionize a range of fields in medicine. finally even in a pandemic is romance a british couple who were critically ill with the virus has married on the code

ward elizabeth and fiance simon of brian her adieux and strive was so sick doctors told them it might be there any chance to tie the knot both a source even oxygen and they'll have to wait a few days for their 1st kiss the bride says she's content to wait. all right great . good luck to both of them i'll see you next week about.

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