more secure. because no one should have to. make up your own mind. w. . for mines. one of the world's largest container ships is literally stopping traffic the ever get it has turned sideways and run aground in egypt was going to blocking one of the world's most crucial waterways. it's the latest an escalating tensions over vaccine supply in the e.u. the blank wants to make stopping the vaccine exports to britain easier. and outlaw chain technology is helping one company's sustainability at ferd's we'll take you to portugal. this is d.w.

business i'm joined now the one in berlin have to you can join us one of the world's largest container ships has turned sideways and locked all traffic in egypt was going out threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic tugboats are trying to free the m.v. every day event which sails under the flag of panama it was carrying cargo between asia and europe when it ran aground in the narrow waterway it wasn't immediately clear what caused the every given to turn sideways several tug boats have been trying to free the ship and open up the canal where 12 percent of world trade passes through. a short while ago i spoke to lars martin greiner an associate partner at hamburg part consultancy a maritime advisory firm and asked asked him just how much of the hit to global trade the every given slice canal incident represents it's the major trading route especially between europe and the end asia this is the key lifeline it's where 80

percent of the cargo container is cargo moving between the $2.00 to $2.00 areas is it's it's very very important and it couldn't have come at a worse time. coverts had a major effect on shipping like everything else we've got major disruption in contain a flows around the world in some ports we've got major major deficits of containers you can't get the containers and other quote in other places containers are piling up because they just can't get them out of the port fast enough because of covert so this is just going to add to that. so it really should couldn't come at all at a worse time for us right definitely already a troubled time for the shipping industry but say you are sick and you're blocked from your plan passed by the ever given what to do. what i think you know it it's it's something you need to look at and react very quickly to. the cause of it is that obviously the high winds at this time of year in the area. i haven't seen away the full cost but i would the 1st thing i would do would be looking at where the full cost and seeing how if those winds are going to continue time is of the

urgency now because those winds are going to continue to push this a lot more and more horizontal we need to get tug tug it tugs there is quick it's possible to strike and start pulling off try straightening europe i believe they're looking at if they can't do it quickly bringing dredges to start dredging the sand around everything to try and get it off your fighting against nature at the moment the with the that with the position she's in the streaming is in the. the streaming of the water in the in the canal will be pushing her against pushing a more and more horizontal that together with the wind you have to remember that these vessels are essentially big wind catches because they're so big and so square the wind catches them very hard and as long as that wind's blowing it's going to be a very big mission to try and pull off looking out of it later into the chain or to industries do you think would be most affected by the lead container ships i think you'll find that most industries are be affected for it i wouldn't necessarily say

to rush out and go and stock up of products in your in your supermarket but if you look at the trade between europe and asia it is a major lifeline and so many of our products come from there. everything from hard way to furniture to vehicles. and they'll be a little bit of everything on board so it's just generally going to delay the delivery of things to the manufacturers too and to the end client it depends very much very heavily on how long they take together to get her off but you have to remember at the moment you've got 50 ships a day stock stacking up behind her and looking at the on the charts a short while ago you can already see ship starting to to pull up there so it's going to cause congestion and at a lot of ports coming in in the couple of in the next couple of weeks which would have to have a flow down if impact on general goods thank you very much lars reiner he's an associate partner at hamburg part consulting thank you very much for your insights today. thank you for having me. the european commission is expecting to

expected to tighten export rules today making it easier for the block to stop cold and dine 1000 vaccine exports to britain and other countries that uses a move is meant to make the flu vaccine fair and stronger for the e.u. isn't sending supplies the block itself needs to other nations less inclined to share and vaccinating faster as a result like the u.k. . rapid fire jabs are the order of the day in the u.k. even churches like they're in and westminster abbey have been commandeered in the battle against the corona virus the strategy has seen some 30000000 u.k. residents vaccinated so far just under 50 percent of the population all $27.00 e.q. member countries together have only managed $57000000.00 here doses are in short supply and deliveries are irregular yet the e.u. had ordered out of what supplies from producers care of that will supply 405000000 shots as soon as its vaccine is licensed for e.u. distribution roughly the same quantities are on order from astra zeneca along with

the recently licensed johnson and johnson vaccine the e.u. wants 300000000 doses from sanofi as soon as the european medicines agency gives the go ahead the same number is coming from by on tech is expected to supply 116000000 shots all of those pharma companies have production lines in the e.u. their most important locations are in germany france spain belgium italy and austria and production is being ramped up over the coming months. the european commission has been angered by the sight of vaccines from e.u. production being exported while they're in short supply here this year between the beginning of february to mid march 41500100 shots were exported from the e.u. to the u.k. the americas asia south africa and australia the u.k. alone got 10000000 of those doses yet the european commission says british swedish

producer astra zeneca has barely supplied the e.u. with 30 percent of the quantities agreed what europe's vaccination program needs is a shot in the arm now despite vaccine struggles and lockdowns a new survey shows the euro zone economy returned to growth for the 1st time in 6 months our financial correspondent chelsea delineate has the story chelsea how is this group even possible well that is the big question the news here and europe over the past couple of weeks has been very much dominated by concerns over a 3rd wave of infections as well as countries going back into lockdown so really not optimistic at all that this survey is showing strong growth for the european economy for the 1st time in several months and there are 2 things i note there 1st is that the euro zone really started march in a much different position than it's going to be ending at the beginning of this month we saw economies like here in germany actually starting to ease restrictions

so there was some activity at the beginning of this month that did help boost act overall growth levels that is unlikely to be repeated in the coming months the 2nd big thing that is more positive for europe is that the manufacturing sector here is still doing very very well it was actually the record for european manufacturing in this data that goes back to 1907 so that is something that is likely to continue even if europe is going to see more lock downs and more crowded virus restrictions a positive for growth here in europe. our financial correspondent shows you don't need any talking us talking to us from frankfurt about the eurozone economy returning to growth for the 1st time in half a year thank you very much. now to some of the other global business stories making news. china's top ride healing firm d.d. shushing is eyeing the new york stock exchange for its i.p.o. instead of hong kong according to reuters the ride sharing company is said to be

targeting a valuation of 100000000000 dollars didn't they opt 1st 2nd listing in hong kong. chief ilan musk says the vehicles of the company can now be bought resent bitcoin the option will be available outside the united states later this year last month tesla revealed it had purchased large amounts of bitcoin sending the price of the crypto currency soaring. now speaking of bitcoin it gets a bad rap at least from an environmental perspective mining cryptocurrency it uses vast amounts of energy but the tax underpinning because block chain of course is turning out to be a valuable tool for renewable energy companies this next story takes us to portugal . portuguese company of bare toes supplies textile companies worldwide the industry is not exactly known for its environmental friendliness the fabric printer not far from the city of portal aims to improve on that one reason managing director susana

said hanaud wanted to run her huge printing machines with renewable electricity. we've changed our strategy very much to one of sustainability it involves 3 pillars innovation sustainability and social responsibility. their tours sought out a power company that could guarantee of purely renewable energy supply spanish utility acciona only generates wind and hydroelectric power to enable the moderate based companies new portuguese customer to keep track of its own consumption. but their us uses blocked same technology just as bitcoin records each transaction in a data chain letter x. you know swindon hydro power output is recorded and talent with out there to consumption in portugal. if we end up on our platform a customer can see where the electricity they're using is coming from that's

interesting because it allows us to trace the power from production to consumption and consume. even with blocked change the clean energy can't exactly be transferred to other better in portugal but the textile producer at least knows that the renewable energy it's using is actually booked with x. and can't be booked more than once and that company's overall output. and with us that's something we want to achieve green electricity complete transparency in the entire value added chain we don't only do that with energy we have other projects as well and this one is a great success. it's use of block chain technology in mexico and chile in particular because companies there have no legally enforceable guarantees regarding the energy sources yet want to become more sustainable blocks in makes it easy there as it does with other bear too in portugal. and finally

a new record sale for banksy and for a good cause the piece game changer sold for $19400000.00 euros choose days auction at christie's in london with the proceeds going to britain's national health service the picture pays tribute to frontline health workers during the pandemic showing verses as the real superheroes elusive street artist gave the piece to universal university hospital in southampton last may with a note saying thanks for all you're doing. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. tug boats are working to free a giant container ship blocking the swas canal gusts of wind reportedly flew the 224000 ton ever given all of course causing it to run aground cutting off one of the world's most important waterways. and

that's it for me and the business team for more you can go to our website d.w. dot com slash business are all of us on social media thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus up to. 19. on t.w. . passion drama competition horrible marketing numbers atmosphere by the time and childish love hate you.

millionaires fans. because we were. on you tube joining us. the race to vaccinate nations against covert is well underway. have delivered 447000000 doses to date every 4th to the u.s. many other countries are still waiting and the global figure is not that good on the 1.3 percent of the world population has been fully immunized. israel was the country that was vaccinating the quickest we've been reporting on them quite a bit now chile is administrating more doses as a percentage of the population the urgency is their case numbers have gone through

the roof we'll talk to a doctor about that in a moment 1st this report. the 6 plane from china carrying 2000000 doses of sign of back vaccinations against kovac 19 taxis on the runway in chile's capital santiago every 3rd chilean has had their 1st job already that's the kind of vaccination rate that other countries can only dream of. we are very happy not only because we fulfill the needs of the country but because we cannot continue with a higher objective to have vaccines for 15000000 people during the 1st semester of this year. chile is the world's kovac 19 vaccination champion while the e.u. makes sluggish progress on inoculation the country of 19000000 on south america's pacific coast has already caught up with overtaken vaccine heavyweights like the u.s. and britain chile was quick to get its orders for vaccines in early from astra zeneca

johnson and jones. unfun is a bio tech but also from signs of attack on the sputnik vaccine presidents have been yet overseas the vaccination campaign personally vaccination centers they're everywhere from parking lots to football stadiums nobody has to make an appointment and anyone who's up for the 2nd shot is also free to walk in and get it officials want 80 percent of the country fully vaccinated mind june that means herd immunity however the successful vaccination campaign has yet to translate into a reduction in numbers infected daily infections reaching record highs health officials fear the campaign may have inadvertently encouraged people to become complacent about prevention measures and take increased risks alexis colleges is director of the millennium institute on immunology and if you know therapy and joins us from the catholic university of chile how has chile managed to get so quick vaccinated. hi ben thank you for the interview.

my question is that we have a really great connection between the size and idea with the government and the private sector as well as. the citizenship together with the fact that you know a long history a long provision of like nations so we have a very well organized for several decades back to nation programs here for all the boxes on what is going to reach all the way from the north of the country to the south to every small town so we have a very strong network of health care system and provide support for the clinician campaign so you reckon that's one of the reasons behind this that having regular vaccine campaigns for other diseases. is behind the success it is something

is missing in some countries and is said to have led to so much public skepticism about vaccines in general. right so that's one reason and also. i think in all the many recent based on this size the research that we do here we're a long stout established. collaboration scientific and clinical collaborations with some of the developers of our community back say we want them especially were able to starvation supply agreement that was transfer from the academia from the couple of university to the government so they normally was able to secure a sufficient in boxing those of us to get this strong and massive campaign wallen that together with a very active in addition negative about the nation the country i think has allowed to move for a very efficiently time sulfide button it in but i think the most important point

is that the syrian society is very willing to just talk sense. so they have been very and their vision then the cooperation from the people to the docs who complain that in great we have already sort of the population by today what about the fact that case numbers are still rising despite the vaccine drive being so successful. well they kind of all the luck so the vaccine companies started really massively. separate and the numbers were rising or any paper e also holiday effect was seen also europe and the us. we have our summer break from january and february early march so there rise of the numbers. are probably due to the holy period the

same the holy see some kind of the same situation there was a spring of serving euro buying in the u.s. . let me just start leaders by that have anything to do with reports that the chinese vaccine is less effective. well there is data from our survey the studies showing that this final was like saying 5 patients see. harry a percent for their. c b my own cases and i are one percent for the severe cases and 50 percent for kerry my case and so with respect in the fact since 1st to start showing the facts on their hospitalization rates and their rate their studies in turkey and in the region the efficacy data showed $91.00 savory

and 65 percent of the thickness of the truck seen based on the clinical studies between 50 and 100 percent depending on the time of the case so it was back to see that they merely. say were to keep the cease fire very near with use an hour when doing also here than to the study just to check the box fail and we have observed so far that about 90 percent of people show the bodies after 2 weeks after the 2nd dose so to mix up a 2nd those we had no issue with to about 90 percent of them for them tears they were dull antibodies and those aren't life in the slightest ok we'll have to leave it there lexis college just director of the millennium institute on immunology and if you know therapy thank you very much for being on the show today think about it you're from own doing. well the question of vaccine advocacy is

a hot button issue right now chile was part of a large trial the bastard senate is vaccine along with peru and the united states astra zeneca says its vaccine is 79 percent effective out to the trial of 30000 people which looked to clear the way for the jap to get us approval but american health officials now say they're worried astra zeneca may have used outdated information in the trial and may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data the pharma firm is still crunching the latest numbers and says it intends to issue. and it's that part of the show where derek williams and says your questions on the coronavirus. to the different vaccines protect people from the long term effects of covert 19. many patients who contract covert 19 become what are known as the long haul or or people who have long covert there's currently no

way to predict who that might affect although there isn't really an accepted definition for it having long cove it basically means you don't return to your previous levels of health even months after sars kopi to falls below detectable levels in your body it's affected millions of people who have a wide spectrum of longer term symptoms with with chronic fatigue for example a really regular complaint there are 2 big theories for for what might be causing it one is that long it happens when the body can't clear out all of the virus or viral fragments left after infection that basically the virus is able to hide in some people somehow and then the body goes into a kind of of of trench warfare mode the 2nd hypothesis is that. lone tobit

is an unchecked auto immune response so so an off the rails immune system in some patients experts say it could be a combination of both but there's no doubt that for people suffering long coated symptoms the prospect of getting vaccinated must be pretty terrifying i mean could getting the shot actually make you feel morse well although i emphasize that we still can't say anything for certain there are a growing number of anecdotal reports that getting vaccinated appears to be actually helping at least some people with long overdue we don't know why. one small study and peer review also at least indicates that more long haul worse feel better then feel worse after being vaccinated the problem is to find out more we would have to conduct trials where some long haul words get covert 19 vaccines

and and others get placebos masquerading as covert 19 back scenes i don't think that's going to happen to be honest in the current climate right now i can only say that the general consensus seems to be that long haul ors should also be vaccinated and some anecdotal reports say it might help with some things. and because we're all in this for the long haul and not just humans scientists are racing to protect the animals from the coronavirus they often use the same playbook as for people like social distancing and health checks and now back say it's this month the 70 acres or you know they had several aides with an experimental covert vaccine intended for pets in the animals the 1st known human primates to be vaccinated. the veterinary pharmaceutical company so weight is develops the vaccine

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