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good little people are seeking. a elitist life because no one should have to sleep make up your own mind please w.d. . lead for minds. this is the. infectious 2nd wave of the. its health infrastructure is stretched to breaking point and it has this warning from the prime minister. our nation is once again fighting a great battle against coronavirus. few weeks ago the situation was under control. but this 2nd
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pandemic wave came in like a storm. that you could join us just over. government thought. but now the country is one of the west in the wild it's experiencing a devastating resurgence of the pandemic but the number of new cases breaking records almost daily. also means more. and more families have to cope with the loss of loved ones. some states like. to control the rise in cases thousands of migrant. to flee to cities for their homes. and the country's vaccine roll out. many vaccinations are
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reporting a shortage of stocks. from minister and other political leaders have been accused of allowing the virus to spread out of control they permitted huge political rallies and the hindu festival to go ahead when it was clear infections was. calling on the public to abide by destructions to save the country from an economically devastating nationwide. i mean. we have to save our country from going into a complete lockdown and i'd. urge the state governments to consider lockdowns only as a last resort. our nation is once again fighting a great battle against coronavirus. few weeks ago the situation was under control but then this 2nd
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pandemic wave came in like a storm on. that's being a. hospital with infrastructure on the verge of collapse the city government has announced. deserted roads. looks just like it did in 2020 at the beginning of india's harsh. except now. the daily beast mode is much worse. the national capital has been put on a 6 day lock down and silence reigns again. but delhi's largest over the hospital is a different story even while it is stretched to capacity patients continue to be.
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many relatives of those admitted here choose to camp out right outside the hospital they prefer to be close to their loved ones instead of travelling the few these firemen have spent the last few days together they met on saturday when both their husbands were admitted with symptoms. pretty dubious set out at 9 am looking for help after being turned away from 3 hospitals she finally found a bed for her husband here 18 hours later. told he's only $33.00 and even someone like him developed such severe symptoms so suddenly that we thought he'd stop breathing so someone with preexisting conditions will be much worse off. her husband could not get the dialysis he needed because he had called the symptoms. she struggled to find a hospital which could treat him. as he ran out of bread. women are busy i'm not
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worried about myself i just want my husband to be well like he was i don't want anything more i have nobody other than him and my 2 children doing. what men are doing better now getting admission to a hospital is all the deal with tree during this. in here is patently reporting over 200000 here for every day several states are reporting a shortage in hospital beds oxygen and even medicine it's probably the worst hit 50 in the country. the delhi government is now converting stadiums and schools like this one into covert facilities to combat the shortage of beds each of the $125.00 beds in this government school will be supplied with oxygen $1500.00 more beds are planned doctors here tell us that these are not for intensive care the hope is that if patients who are stable can be shifted off for observation and monitoring
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critical care beds in hospitals can be freed up struggling to believe still is trying very hard to maintain the pace with the infection is the speed of the spirit and by this lockdown i think the plan is to control the speed of it so that the infrastructure of the health care facility can match up with the law and the lord is clearly immense this 1500 bed hospital is full yet this man suffering from that listeners needs help he's asked to wait. in delhi's fight to help people like him the next few days off lockdown. may be critical. for more i'm joined now by dr raja trademark he was the president of the indian medical association recently and joins me from near delhi in yemen and dr shah my breath come on now you've seen the impact of the coronavirus in india up close why
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are we seeing this surge in cases. first of all we follow 'd you know we've got one of the writers and fanatically the lead guard on people parked at a false sense of security that exist on something and elections happening and big big rallies and religious gatherings. and mouth were being led to the surge and we have. been for developing. and also indications of a lot of situation we're just waiting to talk a bit about these mutations we've heard about these double mutations that are being detected in india are these more infectious then earlier versions of this virus we had this team who would want to be very people you know especially when they use the term the super spreaders last year they were told not
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much affected but this time we have seen you have a more diluted in the younger people mostly and in fantasy even in children. and their dog wouldn't have been detected to be that about. one meter didn't island. and later the 40 foot be able to detect or. will it be they chose to state elections as 12 were dating again bigwig. you were talking earlier about people letting their guard down are wondering if the government to let its god down given that you were talking about these various elections also and religious gatherings that were allowed to progress my 1st it was we let our guard down we thought the whole political. and. we were not renewed meeting and we're seeing sharply the bugs oxygen.
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and. again the government doesn't want to do more dangerous makeshift hospitals but what is the reason you think that the government did not take the last time if i can call it that between some time last year and this year in march when the cases were not so much as now why didn't the government take this time to prepare i think some of the overall sense of confidence that they didn't manage nevertheless that. strains it does put benaud families it's a huge community spirit. people are getting on. but a lot of people are quoting off like this and actually realty to. give me your
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honest opinion doctor and this is something i ask of you because you've worked in india for so many years and you also are headed it's a body of doctors can india fight this current wave. a definite theme. in just a 3rd of india is. other villages and now in the private sector a lot of them did last year it will disappear take with this and only going to go through this this time but i would take a moment to play on that i mean bed and not only working overtime and picking covered. so ultimately i think it will be 2 to 6 weeks we should stability and then the leaders decontrol of medicines and vaccines. because that everything was delayed now actually you need to before yesterday in
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a meeting the plan was to the ladies that seemed relevant to the spirits allowing more spirits to help or to be bought and believe that it is available off the shelf at a cost. but then a lot of the vaccine supply the stocks are running out and many vaccinations. or they're given no okies eminence you can reset all of it. in the derby and then come to company that even under good candidates of the. sole. mission of the divine or you don't even need to group has been the word we. what would you say is needed most at this time in india to fight the 2nd bridge. what is most needed is whatever you my guru you must or project or do one might not do. and people have to relate that mocking and hand hygiene
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is still the best medicine. or. prevention is better than cure what sort of further do we leave it there for the time being thank you so much for speaking to a doctor or other past president of the indian medical association. and that's. even though with some images from. a lot of. the soldiers on the. show i'm struck. by.
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remains true. solutions are out there. join me for a deep dark green transformation for me. for the months. the crisis in brazil is going from bad to worse but unlike other countries the virus is killing many children. some doctors blame an extreme immune response to the virus multisystem inflammatory syndrome. critics point to government mismanagement for the 2nd highest covert death toll in the world. doctors without borders calls it
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a humanitarian catastrophe it says authorities refusal to adopt evidence based public health measures has sent far too many to an early grave failure gomez starts a day early she gets up at around 4 am worried about having enough food for her 4 children to have breakfast. i wake up with the feeling of being in agony i jump out of bed in the 1st thing i do is thank god i'm alive i look at my children i think to myself today i'll bring home some food for them i leave the house early to fetch bread there are days when i can't manage to bring them anything but they run out of the night. lives enough for valor of around 100000 people in south paolo here and across brazil unemployment hit a record high last year this community association helps people living in
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marginalized areas to find work. we had an 84 percent increase in demand for employment after the government's imagine c. 8 ended and the number of people seeking our help tripled because so many people didn't have any support anymore and. in december government aid of around $84.00 euros a month was cut making an already difficult situation for many much worse the number of people living on less than 36 years more than doubled many families stopped cooking with gas and started using firewood 27000000 brazilians live in extreme poverty renate tardelli has been researching the favelas for 20 years. no outdoor pull the data shows that the poorer you are the higher the rates of infection. the more on the periphery the person finds themselves in the higher the
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death rate from coronavirus more brazil has added $2000000.00 more people to the marginalised areas in the past year it's not ethical the brazilians have to choose between going hungry or getting the virus it's an ethical. when. 4 adults live in the home of sylvia to his own house she's a cook and the only one still to have a job but it's just one day a week she used to cook in other people's homes but they let her go for fear of infection. that this pandemic is difficult that's going to leave all of us starving and that's apart from all the damage it does to your health look at this q we're all in the same boat. with a shortage of vaccines and hospitals overwhelmed it's hard to see a way forward for people in the lowest social groups who are trapped by both
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poverty and disease so life's become even more of a struggle for many brazilians money nicholai is from doctors without borders just how catastrophic is the situation in brazil. yeah the situation is really bad and so in the end is if teams are working will hide in 70 countries we have supported health facilities in the response to kuwait and in the beginning it was difficult everywhere what we see now a year after that the situation is still very very constricted in brazil and our teams together with the staff on the ground is overloaded they don't have for instance the drugs to into bits to give them the right and cynthia so we we have images where nurses are sitting on the ground next to people dying because they don't have the best they don't have an oxygen they don't have enough medicines to treat the people properly so it puts immense pressure on the who health care
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system but especially on the stuff as well and people are dying the numbers that we have this every day is unprecedented especially in trees or some of those numbers might be as out of a population of 211000000 there are about 14000000 official cases close 266000 confirmed infections every day and to put it into perspective the death toll globally has passed 3000000 of the hof a 1000000 of those in the u.s. and brazil about 375000 why such a poor record. yeah well this is the right question if you put the numbers on the screen so this is exactly why we have taken the microphone to speak out about this because there's no court immune response we don't most of this pandemic in the intensive care units you have to have actions in the population as we all know are
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in europe and elsewhere and if we have to do things not only vaccinate but we have to go measures like wearing masks keeping physical distance. work reduce nonessential mobility. do testing and contact tracing all these things are not done in accordance with in brazil and the health authorities are not behind this and it's scientific it's knowledge that we have constructed over the last year and it's not being implemented in news is brazil's leader at fault here in this case well we we are 20 and one individual it's notoriety it's defend our government and it's the health authorities local governments we work very well look level and the people there are overloaded is well they're crying out for help we need a plan we need a good plan that is implemented and we're not asking for very complicated issues it is common knowledge now does it you need a package of elements to implement. those to try to stop the transmission
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look at the numbers you put on the screen every day the number of people that are getting infected in the health structures cannot go in a country as brazil because you do there is not one of the poorest countries in the world that has a very good system in place normally let's call it. what's your explanation then for cover killing so many young brazilians including babies. yeah we don't have a good explanation for that so we're also looking into this we get together with with that with other scientists what exactly is it that makes it of course they are mere forms of the virus in brazil as well so we have numerous mutants of the virus if you don't have a collective response that we're asking for burial we see the funeral there is a good. place to to bury people. it's horrible if you speak to brazilians everybody has has somebody that has died or are is is being interviewed but the point of that
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you're really cannot get completely explained there are new mutants if you don't have a collective response you get the virus also ability to create to escape the system into some right but the new mutants do not just explain the situation if we compare it to southern africa for instance where we also have new mutants they have facts and make it less people proportionally then in brazil but they are reducing their peak because they put other measures in place so they're really tins don't explain the situation in brazil and we need a public health plan really briefly this multisystem inflammatory syndrome all m.i.a.'s which is being blamed for some of these. deaths amongst children is that what could be the main cause. yeah this is something of this is not for us to comment on it is doctors without borders this is very technical the right
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research is have to look into this i would like to make any you know a hypothesis and estimations on it is it's dreadful the job children drive the disease when brazil the whole population suffering all families are and but we are calling for is stop the disease in the communities by doing the right things and we know what we need to do. have to live in my new life from doctors without borders what have you on the show today thank you. of the 2 outsides correspondent eric williams who has a real question about the european union's vaccination if it. why is the behind their backs and. this isn't really a science question but people here in europe have asked it so often in the last few months that that i wanted to talk about it for a minute 1st of all i think it's important to say that compared with
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a lot of the rest of the world e.u. member states aren't lagging behind at the moment it's countries have on average injected over 20 doses per 100 people and are currently inoculating over 2000000 people a day the global vaccination campaign has certainly certainly chug along faster in some places notably israel and the u.s. and the u.k. but even so in many many other places the numbers of vaccinated are growing at a much slower pace still there's no question the e.u. stumbled pretty badly out of the blocks and it's vaccine campaign and that mistakes were made that will cost a lot of european lives critics say $1.00 of the biggest is what at the time last summer was viewed as a strength which is that the e.u.
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negotiating as a block drove hard bargains with manufacturers but then neglected to get the iron clad agreements on delivery and the result was that in the 1st quarter of 2021 only a little over half of the contract of doses were delivered the e m a has also been slower to authorize some vaccines than its counterparts elsewhere and end vaccine destroyed. you showed has proven problematic in different ways both at the e.u. level and in individual member states but there are hopes that the block is now turning a corner of sorts and and many leaders say they still expect to meet the goal of vaccinating 70 percent of the adults in europe by the summer.
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