long this is the 1st time zookeepers in latin america have managed to successfully breed this type of endangered crocodile after artificial incubation a crocodile hatchlings were born in mid january and all the only ones to survive of the 24 eggs laid by them although. watching the news from coming up is auspex full edition on the coronavirus crisis i'm told me a lot of well there's more on our website. thanks for joining. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update coming. on t w. how does

a virus spread. through the top. and weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the prong of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get your podcast you can also find us and. science. the last mile of code vaccine delivery from state capital to india's hinterlands. india aims to vaccinate 300000000 people by july. mammoth logistical challenge. poor infrastructure roads and traffic chaos stand between delivery drivers. and

patients. but supplying vaccines is one thing. convincing people to take them is another. 3rd someone told me that people are fainting they're developing a fever and some are dying after taking b. injection that's why i was frightened. it was. a survey indicates as many as 62 percent of indians are reluctant to get the vaccine. or count on that in a moment with dr randy the author of the bestseller so we win india's fight against the covered 900 pandemic 1st though this report from the men who were chattering. put 37 years old. it's a big day today she's going to get her 4th tour of the 1000 vaccine. giteau has been working as a nurse at a private hospital in delhi for 3 years and has been a health worker for over 20 years now as

a head worker during the pandemic she has been worried about the safety off her family against the virus. i have to take care tony that there are little children in our family and i was concerned about their health i had to stay in a separate room keep my clothes and shoes separately maintain proper hygiene constantly use sanitizers i had to take care of the smallest pains. guitar 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 covered 19 immunization program. in the 1st round of the vaccine rollout the government aims to vaccinate about 30000000 health workers and other frontline workers. to a vaccine for far have been given images the use approved by the country's 3 authority the oxford astra zeneca hauled in india and vaccine and 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 core vaccine getting approval from indian authorities 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 a best trust among people who however there's no clear consensus on this issue in the medical community dr verrinder extra high on a leading back to knowledge it says the approval to go vaccine has been given relying on the data of immunogenicity and safety. he says such emergencies government approvals are not uncommon in unusual circumstances. the only way it works here producing is to communicate better transport of

communication then communication. and communication no should not be confusing to people even though their actual voice is regarding the image and the approval many working in the healthcare sector confident that that the nation is the right step to take. this is a highly contagious disease so it was important for the vaccination to start. he does now almost through the man bt 30 minute observation period also acts in nation she said she has started feeling more secure against the corona virus and is eagerly awaiting the 2nd dose i'm now joined by dr randy canario he's the director of all india institute of medical sciences a member of the country's covered 19 task force we heard earlier that 62 percent of indians are hesitant to get the vaccine can you explain that skepticism so i think i've seen his didn't seize there which is a global phenomenon and it's there in india also

a lot of or indians want to see others get the vaccine and get confident that it is safe it's picked up now and now it's crossed even 70 percent so i think the 1st week of 2 wipes in rollout in india had a lot of his utility especially among health care workers but now it has build up and i'm confident that it will continue to increase over the next few weeks but it was the health care workers and the elderly who had to get vaccinated 1st as opposed to younger working people who are usually more mo bile and i know half the population in india is under $25.00 with that of being a better strategy for india. so this was looked at and this is also as per the literal guidelines the frontline workers and the elderly who don't want ality is high for me i would be vaccinated 1st and this is basically to basically do 2 things one is to decrease the mortality and mortality was hired in the elderly and those with commodities and therefore they became productivity and secondly is to

really motivate our health care workers and they are getting exposed because of the type of work that it will in the final care workers a frontline workers and if we do actually need them 1st after that we would move on to the younger age group what about the spread of the virus there were in parts of the country that are so densely populated so we had multiple spikes in the last last year to me just by x. and another one but guardedly our cases are down we are actually seeing a very low number of cases in our country are now and it seems as if the worst is over also our mortality is less and if you actually look at the cases per 1000000. then our numbers are very very low and i think india has actually done really read both in terms of number of cases per 1000000 and arc is fertility rate which is also the lowest in the world what about the speed of this actual vaccine campaign

i.v. infrastructure and in india can be quite challenging. so we have a universal munition program which we learn a new lease of where we vaccinate young children and pregnant women and that has been the backbone of the program that now is being done for actually i think over 19 a number of dryden's have been done to make sure that the courtship has been done in the vaccination vaccinating sites are appropriate vaccinators have been trained to acts and individuals and of all women has been created so that individuals can be sent a message that you're due for recognition they can come on that particular did you have a huge task even in the 1st of. us that we were in to do we are actually having to rights need 300000000 people so that is a huge number of people that we need to actually even just in the 1st please and that is equal to the population of many countries combined but we're rolling it out

and we are hopeful that we should be able to achieve it in the coming few months how is india managing to do this i know some people have to travel 2 days to get to a hospital for example considering those challenges how is india managing to do such a good job in your opinion at least from what you're saying so we like as told you we have a universal english and programmer we also have hired a possible your program which we've had over the last few years and we've eliminated all year from india we've also though do a very aggressive election campaign lectionary every 5 years and state elections are also held every 5 years so using the same model the 2 are like the election modern we will have the vaccination sites in different areas both open and rule in the us colonies itself and vaccinators will be treated there so that it's close to people's house and they can come and get themselves like senator briefly finally can you tell us when india will be fully vaccinated. that's

a tough question we have a huge number of for people we have more than 1300000000 people so it's going to take a huge time but i'm quite confident that at least a sufficient mass of people would be vaccinated in the next 7 to 8 months of by the end of the year so that we see that we have something in a good immunity in our population the height of his group is protective so that the mortality is low and combined with the degree of pieces that we have in the immunity up going because of natural infection i think we will have achieved some degree of herd immunity by then by the middle of this year but around the canary i thank you very much thank you. sam part of the show where our science correspondent eric williams answers your questions on the crown of arts. 95 percent vaccine effectiveness what does that mean on the other 5 percent of recipients pashley

protected or not protected at all i agree that this statistic can be confusing so let's look for a minute at exactly how pfizer and by on tech arrived at it based on their data the companies and rolled over 40000 subjects in what's called a double blinded trial which means neither the participants nor the vaccine administrators knew who was getting the vaccine and who was getting a placebo subjects had a 5050 chance of getting one or the other they were of various ages from various countries and they were racially and ethnically diverse after administration it was a waiting game the trial coordinators basically had to wait for participants to begin getting sick when statistically relevant numbers of people got all the results were evaluated coordinators looked to see how many people got sick in each

of the 2 groups when the initial results from the trial were published it reported 170 symptomatic cases of covert 19 among all trial participants and 162 of them were in the placebo group so some 95 percent of them among the vaccinated only 8 people had symptomatic over $1000.00 so you could also say that for every one vaccinated person who got it around 20 unvaccinated people dead and pretty much every group and age appeared for all intents and purposes to be protected pretty much equally on to the 2nd question now when they experienced symptoms of covert 19 despite having received the vaccine just. well sick did those 8 trial subjects get well only one of them got it badly enough to require

hospitalization in the placebo group 9 people ended up in the hospital so so there was a dramatic impact there as well indicating a pretty strongly that if you're vaccinated there's a small chance that you might still get cove at 19 in spite of that but also an extremely good chance that if you do it will be a mild case. eric williams there i'm been physical and thanks for watching stay safe as you can sit there on detail to. go for a cup. young. modern and made of plastic. the canadian fashion label for you in the bill is committed to up cycling. and making sustainable garments. it's

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co-presenting a major area priest and it is nice to have you with us on the show please oh think sundra of delighted to be part of the t.v. all this weekly african program for cross and also stability of environmental protection here's a look at what's coming up on today's program. we'll report on the fossil 18 grabbed his zebras in kenya and how the women's celt of the somber people protect them. we'll take a look at how scientists are trying to solve a plastic problem. i will tell the story of one german company that wants to save insects rather than kill that. it's impreza known for the a beautiful striking stripes and tourists enough to watch dogs grazing in africa's grasslands what people realize is that this course between a wild horse and a don't keep is becoming increasingly rare the grooviest zebra easily rapidly

disappearing from each of them you already have it and climate change and coveted flows due to increased farming up to tease how pushed the creatures to the brink of extinction but the women from the some community kenya and trying to live them. oh oh. only shortly after dawn affaires claims of previous zebras the presence of genitalia and her troupe doesn't seem to border the animals who are normally shy here into some original central kenya the so-called women scouts are on patrol to determine how far does their breasts range the organization zebra trust has trained more than 20 young women to monitor the world's most threatened species.

when i leave home i felt it a sheet to show where my patrol is start and then every 30 minutes i fill in the g.p.s. data to show where i am and if i've seen zebras at the end of the day the organization uses that data to track the routes where i have patrolled. did i say that none of them like. 40 years ago there were 15000 greivis zebras in kenya a lot there are fewer than 3000 they live in one of the driest parts of the country busy breast cancer vie for up to 5 days without water city florida in these conditions where there was no competition from other animals but now humans have begun to settle here and the ahead animals eat in the grass. the youth of turning from the norm understand where come with us to make their for one place to another giving of their land follow pleaded for cover where with medical men with more fed

it over the past rural communities rely mainly on goods and cows due to the presence of the nearby river. occupying the same areas and food is growing scarce longer dry periods caused by global warming are destroying more and more pasture land increasing the pressure on the zebras and the eco system for yes peter lumper has been working with local cattle farmers he believes they can co-exist peacefully with as the press release. about their boats they've got some media stuff placed on the grass and with all those leaders they've got as the growth and grazing areas you know about you. but of the very few that got off buster and so it's a way of rationing posture it's a war for making the weak system between lifestyle and wildly eroded areas are being replanted to benefit all parties they remain in their communities play a key role in this influence can ensure that the next generation will continue to

value that quick cisterns. herd animals loose in the soil on the arid pasture lands then semicircular embankment are constructed around areas where. grass could start growing again they cut to the little available rain water and directed onto the fields this some were women out invasive i kiss your trees to use for firewood grass and other plants grow india please this way in $600.00 hectares of pasture land i reclaimed each year. the area of the earth in a mere thing response where there are no glasses that up with over a year how come. that's still an indication that the if it's working. tradition so important to some people either regions only or brave the women gave thanks for the water and passed us into the ceremony. and.

central today into the ceremony is the message of respect. it also communicates to rest of the community portals of our conservation work and planned grazing never mind that i think yesterday that. the scouts said yeah efforts have led to greater acceptance of the zebra and that has been a fix for all. the movement of livestock and they can eat together with the zebras so the zebras don't wander off in search of pasture this are trucks tourists to the region tourism creates jobs and bass response children who. are generations of local people provided with education and training could build up a nature reserve where they zebra population could recover and thrive. informal settlements have become cool many many places in africa facing

a route to auburn migration this is especially true in big cities the growing populations an opportunity to walk and lead better lives but the development of infrastructure can barely keep pace. we can see it every day here in nigeria sandra the pressure on the housing market and the difficulties providing utilities . are in prison. one of the biggest cities in africa is no exception state and private organizations here are working together to build and expand. the stuff. reka is an area of nigeria's commercial capital lake us but here cooking tends to be done over an open wood fire. and since this informal settlement is not on the grid people use diesel powered generators to get electricity burning these fossil

fuels releases greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change the authorities had no clear idea about the fuel usage here so they started to gather information. on the song we are quoting here used to know the type of image they use in lighting and cooking i mean not activity it was important we should get this data i don't use it to fit into our climate action plan to ignore how we. you know. our options. before march before us at the missing levels. see foresee is a network of almost 100 cities around the world including lagos that promotes climate action this energy usage survey is being carried out under its guidance the team go door to door they've already uncovered the main reasons why solar energy is not used more widely in such informal settlements where people were not going for

summa is because one they don't have the adequate knowledge about it and finance is actually good. but a local mini power grid is coming to. the government wants 10000 solar powered mini grid set up across the country by 2023. and environmental n.g.o.s teaches neighborhood residents how to set up solar panels and how to turn daytime sunlight into nighttime street lamps to make life here safer. and when it is night everywhere will be getting dark you can see even. without these so but where we are these you can see from here far these things so that the reason why we are doing this in the communities and the other problem here is poor sanitation this is

a public toilet the waste goes straight into the river and contaminates the water used for washing and cooking another indio called justice and empowerment initiatives recently built this toilet facility which uses a kind of composting system called a buyer for digester to break down the waste. artist with tyler gani taiwo is contributing to the project. some other do come around sit down. with storms oh my mechanism beautiful like this and i said well it's attracted to deter it's a common use it no. she is interested in the community about it. the facility cost $1800.00 us dollars to use it you have to pay the equivalent of just under $1.00 send. the money goes towards maintenance and cleaning. it goes out of the people in argo eikenberry girl also happy about the new solar powered

streetlights that are going up they're looking forward to having light during the long evenings and doing away with diesel generators also reduce the areas carbon emissions. just. one problem and we knew it in no need to see the picture you. mean by i mean anything legal features include any feeling i'm feeling. how will the climate change affect us and our children. w dot com slash water why is the plastic in off food in our rivers the oceans isn't the issue that comes up a lot here on eco offered. if plastic is so bad for our planet we should clearly get rid of fits our well a couple of young scientists have developed an interest in solution take

a look at how they plan to overcome the plastic problem. what if nature had a way of reaching the wealth of a major environmental hedging. and at the same time creating something that improves the soil. sound impossible here it is this cheap contains microorganisms that love to feast on plastic and those minor us scientists and i mean some of the co-founders of poly hungering biotech company . called the loops a bacterial cocktail can digest and host of disposable plastic the degradation process is very similar to how those 2 lives disappear. from. autumn and so on springtime. a consortium of microbes biodegrades them

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