into liver into eat into the arms in the us so i think abundance of caution in the risk is much lower than what you seem regressions on this so what does this mean for the mass vaccination plan underway in the us i mean will the impact be minimal yeah i think the impact will be very minimal 1st on its own for a few days we go eat and apprise mcgurn are we rolling out 25000000 doses in the united states a week of parliament are not going to get johnson and johnson's only a small 5 percent of all those diligente jars so the very minimal of the possibly very short the risk is much lower than where we seem and it's of abundance of caution the main reason i think he said he did this is because it's a very unique type of clotting there is very rarely seen beating it's an audi new perhaps and the drug heparin it normally treat clots doesn't help this so we want to just bring this out as a warning ok to my students you know not for us about the rollout in any way now

obviously we are trying to keep this in perspective and you're doing that as well for us but this is not going to help with that same confidence how worried are you that the pause of yet another vaccine could stoke global skepticism about 1000 occupations. right i think in certain ways obviously it's very frustrating for russians going to go out in johnson and johnson you know some say it's maybe a cost approach because it's the same no virus some class different background of ours but i don't think you should affect. them are in fact scenes of the underground scenes novak's group there are completely different cars and different worlds in terms of how they were built. but i think this is again extremely low risk in jones and johnson they're actually testing another booster shots they haven't paused the trial yet to my knowledge so i personally think this will be a temporary azam once we clear it out that it's not related or that it is perhaps

incredibly incredibly low compared to the actual known benefits of 1st rock scene against very few endemic i think overall we're not me that much attention as events and that was dr eric fake holding an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the federation of american section speaking to me earlier from washington d.c. well meanwhile here in germany has unlimitedly is keen to leave behind that what has been a very fragmented and largely unsuccessful pandemic response divided along state lines well in the midst of what is now a full blown covert 1000 crisis the german chancellor has won political control of the situation has revealed the details of a strict nationwide response to the pen demick should the situation continue to escalate. she wants more clarity and a more uniform approach to coronavirus measures in germany frustration had been mounting over the last few weeks as it became increasingly difficult for the

federal government and germany's 16 states to agree on common shared rules to tackle the growing cold 1000 cases. the order to improve the situation and to slow down the 3rd wave to break it and turn it around the measures implemented thus far by the federal government and the states don't go far enough our response of the pandemic must be more stringent than consequential. the response includes changing germany's infection protection act in order to grant the federal government more power to enforce coronavirus restrictions health matters are normally under the jurisdiction of the states but this has led to a patchwork of sometimes contradictory rules the new law would force any state with the high incidence of covert 1000 cases to implement the same regulations including limiting gatherings introducing a nighttime curfew and shutting down non-essential shops leisure activities and restaurants people in berlin think stricter measures should have come sooner.

i don't think they are the right measures but it's basically too late for the right measures as. they should have been introduced in the here and go. i think there are too many people involved and it is very difficult to reach an agreement it would be more efficient if fewer people were making decisions if more power lay with the chancellor. health experts have been warning that the situation in germany is serious the number of covert 1000 patients currently being treated in intensive care units is rising and risks reaching higher occupancy levels than at the peak of the 2nd wave of the pandemic. if you don't take st michel this number goes higher and therefore really concerned and actually we have to act as soon as possible to prove and people from going on.

because i am not treated in the right way the new legislation still needs to be approved by the german parliament angela merkel has said she hopes the buddhists will implement the changes swiftly the chancellor speaking our early get there i'm now joined by professor andrew ohman he is the health spokesperson for the opposition democrats in the german parliament a very warm welcome sir and dr 1st of all i want to ask you the details there can the chance or rather count on you and your party to support her proposal of amending the law to introduce nationwide restrictions. well 1st of all our party is welcome any uniformed rules. would count for every city every country in germany however the law that we saw is not appropriate and we cannot actually approve this law she probably will not receive the full. support from our

party we had our meeting this afternoon and it's not surprising that we actually will not agree with this line that we have the 1st for we had the 1st reading this week there are possibly the possibilities of amendments are are given we're going to probably bring in some amendments to this law and we still think that this law is an appropriate why do we think it's not appropriate we're talking about how to. cut off line of $100.00 pro 100000 inhabitants per week 1st of all this could be very variable from region to region depending of a city as large or small or this could happen very quickly we also have to appreciate if there's a cluster outbreak or diffuse outbreak we also have no possibilities of. of opening for him stores like a click and collect possibilities beyond a 100 threshold and of course the curfew we do not understand the racial behind the

curfew between 9 pm and 5 am in the morning since the most of the context do not take place at night time and this curfew didn't work in bavaria before for example . this failure didn't have a curfew and the numbers of a very are a lot higher than not honest so those differences with this practice are not really considered credit chancellor says should be consequential but i would like to see more profession measures prevention measures but this is of course the issue isn't it professor because this whole patchwork of measures is just not working the curve is just going up and up in this country and it's a very worrying trend isn't it time to have one unified strict lockdown across the nation. this sounds very easy proposition that you're talking about but if you go out of the streets your talk with the people you talk with your

friends with your relatives they are exhausted they have no perspective anymore they have they are tired of another curfew they're tired of not possibility going out mothers fathers are tired with home schooling home office the possibility of digitalisation isn't working as it should there is a big frustration in the population here in germany and i think putting us all into a lockdown situation was like a repression won't help we need to work it out a different way of course there's no question to spend demick is dangerous this virus is dangerous but what we have to face is a situation is. said before that to be smarter protection it's just keep your distance where your mouth do the testing on a regular basis make sure that the vaccine is working and everybody gets the vaccine on a quick pace these are the issues that have to be done and not go into a curfew for example which doesn't work anyhow and probably will be taken away by

any kind of lawsuits very quickly because the evidence is missing and just for accuracy's sake it's not just curfews that she said proposing but for now thank you so very much professor andrew allman from the opposition f.t.p. in the parliamentary health committee as well we appreciate your time thank you well as i know about some of the other developments in the pandemic india will fast track emergency approvals for covert 1000 vaccines that have been authorized by western countries and japan the country is ramping up its vaccine rollout efforts as it battles soaring infection rates and the director general of the world health organization says confusion and complacency is the pen demick is a long way from over but proven public health measures could bring it under control with in months. and some of breaking developments for you a u.s. officials say president joe biden plans to withdraw all american troops from afghanistan by september 11th of disuse president biden is due to officially

announce the plans tomorrow the decision will keep thousands of u.s. troops in the country beyond the may 1st would draw a deadline set by trump administration and there are currently about $3000.00 american soldiers in afghanistan serving alongside some $7000.00 additional nato forces the taliban has certain to renew attacks if foreign forces aren't out by may 1st. football news for you now and buy in munich are preparing for a champions league quarter final clash with a pretty sound the variance basically need a win with a 2 goal margin to keep them in the competition but beijing is impressive display in munich last week shows buyers are facing a tough challenge by in a rarely custer's underdogs but that's how they see themselves as they had to paris in need of at least 2 goals to qualify for the champions league semifinals after

p.s.g. smash and grab 3 to win in munich is us in a tough go before it's a tough task but we're all looking forward to it for this i think games like these are why you play football and why you're here by a munich we want to try to cause a mini upset in paris or impose mom can buy and chances of upset in the odds look slim there with a key players chief among the injured robert leave and. his team mates will miss the potent pull he has rattled in an incredible 42 goals in 36 much as the season. one ray of hope for byron has been p.s. g.'s in different home form the parisians latest disappointment was a one nil loss to leo in the league as i look at them. it's something that we'll have to look at again at the end of the season. but let's hope that performances start to turn around against. vengeance for last season's painful defeat in the

final should be motivation enough for the argentines players to find their feet again on home turf. are you watching the news or from up next our 19 a special i will have the world headlines for you again at the top the out see that . 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 update 19 special. on t w. w's crime fighters are back africa's most successful radio drama series continues. this season the stories focus on hate

speech prevention and sustainable charcoal production. all of a sow's are available online and of course you can share and discuss songs africa's facebook page and other social media platforms. crime fighters tune in now. the u.s. is vaccine program is the envy of much of the world but there are 3000000 people getting the job every day. but the virus continues to spread quickly. states like michigan are especially hard hit causing some to call for tough medicine. the answer to that really down to go back to our basics to go back to where we were last spring last summer to shut down with 70000 new

infections. each day vaccines alone might not be enough to turn the tide in the final against covert 19. no other country in the world has been hit harder by the corona virus the united states has had the most confirmed cases and deaths in the world and despite its unprecedented back the nation program those numbers are still rising many people have grown weary of lockdown and with warming weather many states have lifted restrictions facing the threat of a 4th wave president joe biden's administration is doubling down on back the nation as the key to ending the pandemic but local outbreaks threaten to do that strategy . john brooks joins us from the c.d.c. the centers for disease control and prevention how would you say the u.s. is coming along as there's been a change in leadership a change in the weather but has there been progress in the fight against covert. well i think there has been steady progress in the fight against covert even since

we began and this is despite 3 waves including a really unprecedented 3rd wave over the holiday season but we're coming down off the back of that wave right now and really getting the numbers down quickly we're not succeeding yet i mean we're making incredible progress but the number of new infections we're seeing in this country remains about what it was during our 2nd wave last summer so what about 50000 new infections a day and 525021000 deaths a day by the numbers of murder. promising when you take a look at who's been inoculated a 3rd of the population has got at least one jap that's over 120000000 americans but with the focus on getting people back in a good what about you restrictions on the economy because there's a new wave of coronavirus cases as you mentioned and hospitals are getting crowded . that's right and this you know we want to reserve using those really most

difficult decisions of shutting down the economy to when we have to apply them but it's becoming apparent that we may be at a place where in some jurisdictions certain states it may be time to sort of shut down a little bit to gain control over this virus i mean we're in a big race right now all right we are racing against the virus with vaccine and we've got to get the vaccine out as soon as possible we're asking people to hold on a little bit longer we know it's frustrating it's been a rough year people want to get back to the normal life they enjoyed before but we're not done with this race we're not done with the battle we're going to have to hang on to we can really get vaccination but joan is that message getting through to state officials because in michigan state health director says the government's focusing on getting more people back to native rather than imposing new restrictions on the economy. well it would be wonderful if vaccination took effect immediately but you know it takes a couple of weeks for you to be to benefit from vaccination with the beyond tech

vaccine is $21.00 days between doses plus another 14 days until you're fully covered but they're seeing a problem right now and to deal with the problem right now you need to cut off the chains of transmission with whatever you have at your disposal and unfortunately at this time the best means for that would be slowing down on the reopening of society there so which states would you say are getting it right which are getting it wrong because again despite all those vaccinations the 7 day case 48100000 people is it 515 in michigan california is only 50. that's right and it's interesting it's also very low in i believe states like texas and florida where one might have expected you know that it would be higher so where we don't understand exactly why the rates are different in different states it's probably some combination of the fact that some states have got more vaccine out they have more social distancing measures still in place the government and political opinion

is aligned with public health so we're all singing from the same songbook we say right that we're all working together and not against each other what about a 3rd immunity is there going to be a stage where the u.s. will reach that. yeah i mean i have an infectious disease doctor i've been working in this area for 30 years and i'm certain that we will reach herd immunity i just don't know what that number is we'll know it when we get there because there will be a sustained decline and then leveling off of new infections and that will be the point when there's been enough people vaccinated as well unfortunately as people who've recovered from illness that the virus can't find anywhere else to go and that also depends upon whether or not the virus manages to mutate in a direction that's absolutely right we're watching that very carefully i mean these mutations concert these variants they're called really concern us a lot and vigilance really matters when viruses vary so we've put in

i'm sorry go ahead though that what we're going to say. i think we put into place a very very. large national effort to routinely screen a large number of these viruses not a model sure for variants and to identify those mutations which either make the virus more trance this will be increased the severity or undercuts some of the activity of drugs that we use against the virus ok on on that very topic i wanted to just mention some americans are already getting a 3rd dose which will be used to some people around the world that they're taking part in a study of updated versions of the ct of virus vaccines and they've been tweaked to tackle mutations of the virus a variant this covered in britain just months ago is already the most common version of the corona virus circulating in the united states current back things off a strong protection against these mutations but researches want to be ready to respond to new threats that emerge of course that study is being run by the national

institute of health and emory university in atlanta i believe john which is where you'll based these sorts of. can be achieved in a matter of weeks it's the regulators that hold back the process by months can and should that be changed. well i think they'll be a lot of urgency to find a pathway forward where we can make these changes these and adopt these regulatory changes as rapidly as we possibly can while of course maintaining the safety of the public will be receiving these vaccines you know we have annual flu vaccination now in that case every year the world health organization and other public health organizations around the world look ahead as to what may be coming but we have a different situation now we have these m.r. and a vaccine is from beyond ecan moderna and other companies that you can custom create

the vaccine with m r n a relatively quickly and then it takes probably weeks to a few months to get that into production i believe that given the experience of this pandemic we're going to hopefully see regulators moving just as quickly with us. that would be nice john. to getting to you from the is there is there anything else that you can leave us with they give us some sort of hope in this private. well i'll just say this i mean our food and drug administration is the organization in charge of these regulations and they say they have experienced this pandemic just like we have in our agency which is in charge of things related to prevention and i think that there is a strong desire to move forward into this future in a way that we can keep the public safe but respond more fleetly we've had some bad experiences where we weren't able to respond as quickly as we'd like and is clear that that's going to be an important thing in the future both for the city thank

you very much for joining us today. it's my pleasure. in another setback the united states has recommended putting the johnson and johnson vaccine on hope it's investigating a potential link between the jab and blood clots nearly 7000000 people have received the single dose vaccine in the u.s. clotting was reported in 6 women in the days of the vaccination several countries have also restricted the astra zeneca short of a closing fee is. over to our sides correspondent there who has an interesting view a question about the vaccine and hospitalizations. how can people hospitalized with covered 1000 don't get the vaccine couldn't it save their lives no although ongoing research into what are called therapeutic back scenes is fascinating the approved prove it vaccines are traditional and in the sense that they aren't therapies if you already have coated 19 there are

a measure to prevent you from contracting it in the 1st place or at least ensuring that if you do get the disease it will be a milder case and you won't end up in the hospital the reason the pandemic went global so fast and spun so quickly out of control is because sars could be too was a novel pathogen that no one had been exposed to before a state that experts call being immunologically naïve the vaccines now in use basically teach your body that there's a bad bug out there that looks like this so that if it shows up in your nose or throat your immune system is is forewarned and can jump on it quickly but just like it takes time for your immune system to respond if you're infected for real it also takes time to ramp up in a munich response to the fake infection that a vaccine simulates a couple of weeks give or take

a few days depending on the vaccine so so giving someone who has a severe case of the disease a vaccine won't help and could likely do harm that's why trusted health care authorities like the centers for disease control recommend that if you have covert 19 you need to wait a while after your symptoms have completely subside. before you even begin to consider getting vaccinated. finally surging coronavirus cases in many parts of the world are overshadowing the start of ramadan south asia's nations of battling a spiraling outbreak europe has passed a 1000000 deaths the muslim holy month is a time of avoiding food and drink during the day and coming together for feasts at night both a challenge during a pandemic indonesia has the world's biggest muslim population of people have been attending socially distance services the in-laws it's islamic body now says code

vaccinations do not violate the fost in a permissible under the religious law a relief for the government which has been counting on a vaccine drive to tackle the largest number of infections and deaths in southeast asia. thanks for watching stay safe and see you again sir.

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