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must shoot the world's 1st driving car by decades why that did not hit the road. i'm melissa chana thank you for joining us india has expanded its covert 1000 vaccination drive to include everyone over the age of 45 that's in part because not enough people are showing up to get their jabs they're skeptical and wary and other words they have vaccine hesitancy and for a country of 1300000000 the fact just one percent of the population has been fully vaccinated means it could be a long time before the coronavirus is under control their mission gys wall has more . running this electrical supply shop in delhi once took up all of the time. now he spends some of it on the wall until book helping those affected by the

pandemic while in a bush drink away from covert 19 cases are always keeps a protective gear handy in his car in case a patient needs to be rushed to the hospital. he believes his destiny is in god's hands and his fear of the current of virus shouldn't keep him from helping those in need but so far his fear of infection has not managed to overcome his doubts about the vaccine or i've seen this is a real people have been virtually driven through the really quick. that's really important they were not. actually there might of course. do a bit of positive person but then the explanation involved for extradition is drink over the 1st 2 no i don't know isn't there is the vaccine development typically takes us. and he does not feel comfortable getting

a vaccine them to michele so quickly he believes many others in india also prefer to date in march. and the low turnouts and lack of long queues attacks in mission centers seem to be proving him. india is lagging behind its actually mission targets which could be riot the country has now made the vaccine available to everyone above the age of 45 another reason could be to count all vaccine based in a meeting with state leaders india's prime minister to have a range of more the emphasized the need to stop the least of vaccine doses. we must take the problem of lack seem very serious. every back seem basted it's also a waste of someone's right to vaccination we cannot destroy someone's rights. from me putting it to predation the high rates of vaccines being wasted part of the problem lies in the parish ability of the vaccines each vaccine has then doses and

once opened they must be used up within 4 hours if 10 people do not show up within that period there will be remaining doses must be discarded. on. maximization centers like this one c. there are simply these 2 counter based we only open the bottle when we have been waiting to be vaccinated some people call their friends so we call those who are disturbed but couldn't get a vaccine that we would make sure we have enough. people under $45.00 are not officially in the job but it's not an occupation opinions are divided on whether they would take the job then that the income. people might each can't keep waiting for the vaccine we can also get covered we should all get vaccinated as soon as possible but. we are young very far and i'm going 5 unfit so there's no uneven we got over. one so this comes to do that because there are different good beginning

and has read for now the government is hoping for a big sos in the number of vaccinations and has put its exports on hold a stop raise in daily infections me just cause a shift in due in india's vaccine. joining us is joe t. joshi from the center for disease dynamics economics and policy in delhi as a report shows there's a growing hesitancy to decode vaccines in india and i'm wondering is the government at the several and state levels doing and the public campaigning to encourage people to get vaccinated hi thank you for that question vaccines give to the fifty's and it is definitely a problem but more so in the open areas overall in media i think it is the lack of bad news about the vaccine and the benefits that it gets is the key issue so the government is ramping up their communication can be that has to be beat you know

beaten you see if my media like it was done for social distancing and that would be helpful as vaccine coverage has been expanded to those over 45 years and now. this is fast becoming a problem in many countries and i'm curious do people have a preference over a one vaccine over another in india. well again you know vaccine the badness is more so in albany now and any information or transparency on the data for the vaccine is that he had for it so the least a doubt one of the vaccine has been you know i've given x. but i did a little emergency all today the nation so you know that they go on the old vaccine if it is released and it is good data coming out now will help to build vaccine confidence so although availability of the vaccine is limited in the country and as these data become available the vaccine confidence of the community on these

1000000 cleans and i'm sure more and more people they come forward as they go back to. key give us the latest on the pandemics their cases are going up our the hospitals coping. well any band they make you know is known to have more than a single wave and the subsequent waves their effect the bands on the changes in the vaccine the radiance that are coming as well as the immunological strained off post population the addition of the vaccine to the whole response has definitely been helpful but with the social cultural practices you're in this change of season you know that isn't morning demeaning and the behavior for eat that's at n.p.r.'s senior eyes and unfortunately the vaccines all thought as you know very little only to those with comorbidities dated march up to 45 years of age as the vaccine got it expanded the age group that actually in domingo's and leads to transmission of the virus we will probably be covered and this how this week should come down but

hospitals all over the country are seeing a surge and that's something the government all over the country in different states is the only knoxville i want to pivot to talking about vaccine manufacturing india is one of the world's powerhouses despite some vaccine has a 10 c. that we've talked about are we also hearing calls for some taxi nationalism and for the country to try to many satcher more for its own citizens. i think that i should not be the case that we should be discussing this question because india has donated almost extinct $5000000.00 it's still the go back to the city now with gays is speaking up in the country it's also do you know provided to a logical ward off the population because in a globalised won't india as an emerging economy and as a supplier and use it of the human capital that it has if it if it predicts its population and address is going to now why this band to meet in the country. so i

think we have so far with the kind of limitation on that nation through why did what what is best possible to the world and that's sure to start soon as vaccine supply is many vaccines that lies out available to the manufacturers some of them are needed from the u.s. and the country that i'm set up its production capacity to have supplied not just the country itself but also the global member states off the wound just t.j. oshie thank you so much for joining us thank you to be. a fully self driving cars still a dream for carmakers and consumers alike tech giants are spending billions of dollars to be the 1st to bring out a commercially viable one last year tesla said it was coming close but now a south korean scientist has said that he invented the 1st autonomous vehicle back

in the 1990 s. almost 3 decades later old footage of the road tests has emerged on you tube and it's gone viral. the driver of this vehicle isn't even in it professor heineman hong showcased his new invention at de john expo 1993 that's a decade before he learned musk founded tesla. 2 years later a car using hands technology barreled 300 kilometers down one of south korea's busiest highways its triumphant inventor in the back since february this year one and a half 1000000 people have watched the footage on you tube han now 79 says development was hard work but it was worth it. my students and i had enormous passion as it was something no one else had done yet something that hadn't come out in the

world. john was so convinced of his car safety that he didn't take out life insurance or even wear a seat belt but the professor was a genius ahead of his time in the 1990 s. south korea was not yet a tech powerhouse it was less interested in innovation the government wasn't convinced of the cost potential and it withdrew funding for his research fast forward and today elon musk's electric car firm is worth over 5 $100000000000.00. while 100 velux fear call warning systems that is to person firm neo soul the professor isn't bitter. in fact he has enormous admiration for musk's vision but he thinks his own 1990 s. technology is comparable to what tesla is doing today of course it responds create to create the future. of a horse tesla invested

a lot of money in testing so it might be much better when it comes to sophistication but there shouldn't be much difference when it comes down to basic functionality. tesler is regarded as the best car in the world if possible i'd like to compare our technology today as well so he's challenge the company to do on the roads one of his 990 s. vehicles against a tesla prototype in real world conditions despite his admiration for today's car tech giants professor hahnemann hong admits he does regret one thing there with enough investment his invention could have paved the way for south korea to dominate the autonomous car industry. that's it for today we leave you with pictures from japan where the cherry blossoms have earlier than usual this year thank you for watching have

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a public holiday in many parts of well but soon the struggle starts again trying to keep up with the curriculum despite lockdown. every morning the via royal family has to decide which of their 4 children gets to do online schooling that day the family in the bolivian capital love haas only has one smartphone just like many other families in the country. but then there are also problems with the internet connection. there are so many different apps classroom soon and so on. and most of them only work with the high end phone and decent internet when i go to work at 10 am there's only one suitable phone left here and so 3 children are left with nothing. like the platform for virtual school lessons was set up by the bolivian education ministry

the government insists the system has been set up in a way that ensures everyone can access the online classes. we set up a timetable that regulates who can use the platform when each day is allocated for a different school so it's not like all the children have to use it every day. but obviously the system still needs further optimisation. using the school platform is free of charge but accessing the internet is very expensive in bolivia a problem that christiane leone has long been urging the government to address. he set up an advocacy group to draw attention to the problem. to bolivia only got fiberoptic internet in 2018.

network does dow cover most of the country but almost households are still are not connected to it all. bolivians dashon telecommunications. bernie states that one gigabyte of data costs $5.00 a price not every family can afford your camera. so let me kind of get only those with more money in your afford internet access and so education is no longer free and will be here because right now the more money you have the morning to mern peony math the education ministry has promised to provide 30000 computers to at least to prove the hardware problem but that won't be enough for all many families like the vo as well have to continue finding their own solutions to ensure their children can take part in online schooling until they've actually rolled out advances enough for children to return to the classroom. yet

should schools remain open or should they be closed to stop the spread of the virus let's bring in jonathan silk principal expert in a merchant preparedness at the european center for disease prevention and control in stockholm good to have you with us and i know that you conducted a study into covert 900 schools. when it comes to keeping schools open or not what are your findings thank you very much for having us 1st of all we're constantly updating the literature and viewing of the studies on this we're finding that of course like any what we call pharmaceutical interventions if you close something it's decided that leads to less social mixing so will have an impact on the overall transmission of the 2 so that's a potentially important measure of what we're seeing and what the most recent literature shows is that on the 2nd wave and more recent closures of schools have less of an impact and they did in the 1st wave and this has to do with. schools

have adopted in the way that they've been practicing they're not operating as they did and prepared to make locals but they're doing more measures internally it's here to safety keep students safe to try to keep teachers there and those measures have an impact and so we think it's it may be necessary to close schools there's no question about that with the new parents circulate in but the general concessions that show you know. relates to trying to keep schools open and close in the money as a last resort i mean would you 1st of all were could you define that last i mean who or what determines what to this last resort would be that has to be decision makers in the local context to understand the transmission levels understand the burden on the health care system of the current levels of i.c.u. and so on and who really do a proper assessment of what measures are place in schools if everything has been tried within the schools to really keep transmission or not and then what sorts of

levels of schools that's also not make it a binary thing schools do not need to be just fully open or whole they closed the hybrid models and there are different age groups that are important to consider so it's not just a whole either or situation in most cases either as there are lots of options therefore with already you make is doesn't necessarily make it more easy to come to the right conclusion. do we actually know where children catch the virus in the 1st place is that happening at school do they get from teachers from all the children or do they bring the virus into the school because they catch it at home. that's a fantastic question and we've been trying to understand that better in terms of the school settings themselves so what we've actually found is that there are very few documented instances where you see large braves' in school settings so transitions certainly happens in schools but the literature from many different countries in europe and global it's just that there's not necessarily the need for lots of breaks and in school settings what we wonder and what we need to know learn

more about of course what happens to children not just in the school itself but after school extracurricular activities on the way to school on the way home from school and of course as you mentioned in household settings there's also the possibility of transmission so you don't have precise numbers on that but the information on the schools is that they can actually be operated safely without too many instances of large operators i mean this is the still quite trying a very confusing time so a lot of parents feel safer having their kids around and some in some countries list schools reopened and decided to not send to their kids back to school because they don't trust the situation do they have a point. and it's really hard to assess that without knowing the specific details of the context in which they have made those to decisions like for certainly understand why people are worried there's a lot of research also from from germany a large study just from scotland recently that shows at least for the parents of

younger children there does not appear to be an increased risk for the parents catching the virus from from their children even periods when they've been some back to school we also know that by and large the number of severe outcomes in children is very very low we're we're not seen any change in that even with the new variants we've been following very closely the death of millions of cases and children particularly younger children follow the same version of the age gradient so we know that you continue to be the most risk all the. older adults but children really have very very rare instances of severe outcomes such as possible is that. right but we do know that children can carry that and they can spread the virus so what do you make of the concept of home schooling wouldn't that in this moment in time make most sense. you know it's true that care children can and can transmit the virus and as i mentioned it appears to be the case that they transmit it

somewhat less than adults do and they've also to be less susceptible to the virus than the novels do i am i by no means an expert in education and homeschooling but i will have understood from the vast amount of literature that exists that it is very difficult for children to to be home and we understand as well that there is a gradient so the learning loss from children is less in children from well off backgrounds but from deprived backgrounds vulnerable backgrounds this can be really detrimental submitted to the education and even the health and well being of children so all these things have to be taken into account there's no easy answer for the push it up a but these are the things that decision makers do need to consider indeed a lot of food for thought there for decision makers down a sense from the european center for disease prevention and control in stockholm thank you so much for your time at the step thank you very much thank you well and time for your questions now over to derek. how

long can vaccine side effects last conforte indicate it's working. i want to leave all the speculation about blood clotting and the astra zeneca vaccine behind for a minute and focus on what we know for certain about common minor side the facts reported in connection with covert vaccines pretty much all of the ones approved so far and in various parts of the world appear to be pretty react to genic which means they regularly cause mild side effects like like pain and swelling at the injection site as well as things like like the team headache fever chills or aching joints the single shot johnson and johnson back seen appears to cause those effects somewhat less often in 2 dose m.r.i.

they back scenes they seem to occur more commonly after the 2nd dose while the opposite seems to hold true for the astra zeneca vaccine. another point worth mentioning is that younger people seem to react more often and more powerfully than the elderly it's thought that's because they have more responsive immune systems authorities say the symptoms can last a few days but but in most of the firsthand reports that i read they subsided within 36 hours the good news is that side effects while unpleasant are actually a sign that the vaccine is doing what it's supposed to do which is laying the groundwork for an immune response so that if you are infected with the by risks your body can get to work straight away wiping it out personally and more than

happy to experience a day or 2 of discomfort if i know that i'll be protected afterwards from a potentially life threatening case of tobit 19 that sounds like a really great deal to me. and finally shopping malls are closed to midnight candidate lockdowns a school in the u.s. state of vermont to decided to make use of the empty space students can now take lessons and bus from a macy's mall why not well that's all for now thanks for watching.

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