young people have the same mission. this is. coming up today looking out for each other through a crisis. start to social media to show a quick information on beds and medical supplies as the number of dead from covert 19 continues to rise. plus infections are also soaring in neighboring problem and with supplies of vaccines drying up the country is increasingly on able to protect

its population. glad you could join us more than $3000.00 people have died of covert 19 in india in the last 24 hours a new record for the country this makes india only the 4th country in the world after the united states brazil and mexico to cross 200000 deaths during the coronavirus pandemic this at a time that india added more than 1000000 cases in just the past week alone the reality of these deadly numbers plays out in india's hospitals and medical facilities every day stretched to the limit they are running out of supplies primarily oxygen people desperate for assistance have done to social media pleas for help are being posted and those who can are responding with information on platforms like facebook instagram and twitter. such as this he was in mumbai who

saying that oxygen is available for those in delhi and the sikh temple in gaza about city in northern india this user in the southern city of bangalore posting verified information about someone who can help deliver medicines to elderly patients staying alone. and this group of covert volunteers in western india with again very fide information about beds and oxygen being available in the city of not poor in western india. and joining me now the possum responsible for that last tweet you saw in it they are saying from team india he joins me from putting in western india and we also have a young who is working in the city of bhopal in central india to help those battling the current covert crisis welcome to both a few new things i'd like to come to you for just how are you collecting information and being able to verify what you are posting. so

basically. what it is. across the nation and boarded with the information they. get any information social media. they call. me that if i really did reading all the way down it because it didn't and even if i did and then people's information on. how would you as i understand you are doing much the same thing as they should in bhopal but you're also helping out with the community kitchen in your city. yeah viet up to 451 and then some of them are to help they know we're getting ventilate those and beds for people but get out a large number of attendants what's the big thing outside the hospital gown or below the bore him and their family members that inside and it's a long endless wait and since it's still down and out on more shops open so restock

the side of the stock a community kitchen for them it's at that outsourced i think and people have generously donated and get stuck in the kitchen baby can give them food water. all of these things so that you know bait becomes a debate about it. is on the standard you set top team as source india last year as the 1st wave of corporate infections was hitting india and i need to mention here that you want and in maharashtra state which is possibly the was to affected states in terms of corporate infections in india did you ever imagine that things would ever get these bad. legs in defoe's to the lake and it would like they were not had about 'd this go it again lay into the nation was it people are getting less needed he never taller did the that is he defended

it let alone does. this much impact it was not we had imagined it is something that hits me hard as well because i would never have imagined like unit is potentially that things would ever. become as bad as they are in india and therefore pooja i wonder if you think it is essentially left to citizens such as yourself and need to organize help because the system is not being able to cope. it's a huge crisis and the government is doing what it can and to the best up its ability and i feel that everybody has storm will join hands and you know somehow that the situation and sitting at home via deceiving callers and sometimes people are just bad making also so be they go squads and get paid to give them some emotional support because it's not family also so many people article but positive

and everybody has gone through a similar. thing so we can you know counsel them help them and the impact on to you has to unite then everybody has to stand together the government is going what did you also have to nice to the occasion i think the. bus to live for you i mean as buddha was saying i think nearly every indian or somebody has been affected by this crisis what is it like for you to be able to run this network of volunteers and to provide information to other people knowing full well that people in your circle might be affected so take the thing to leave my fiance got to take serious you're going to pull him last month it was like i've never talked like that in my family haven't seen if somebody how they'd be thinking if the question of getting sold this is something of an icon i cannot see that that is

something i don't do that you cannot imagine what that what is happening i don't have the facing new problems. do you think india could have been better prepared for a potential 2nd wave. i am actually the fausto we have that tape as it was a lot of the migrant labor but you know it came as a do we. know what. the bear. was but he didn't know about the situation this bad because the frost it wasn't so severe so i didn't i don't think anybody expected this like i know my mother to school because if i know i am going through the same thing and that of so many others also and it's happening in every house so the magnet you would all of this thing and nobody could have imagined you know. one last question to you do you think the work that you're doing through team

india so as when only keep expanding and the what that you would have to show him on a daily basis will only become more and more as we go along into the next few weeks . i can tell you that because of the expanding of what he did and it looks like we're going to be have a decade of we're going to be willing to take beam of 20 people. and it takes the most great people in the time to mine bloody best so we have a late night knowing accordance in the 62770 won't be but i joining in to do so and he even have this much tend to be a not too late yes didn't see flake the whole give more and we have left people in the us we'll leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us it's interesting and foods are younger thank you very much for fuel for the work

that you're doing for fellow citizens thank you. when they are struggling countries around the globe have been lining up to provide help oxygen for funds and other supplies have and i've communicated with more on the way from australia germany and other countries. also the worldwide indian diaspora is contributing what it can hear some london based volunteers sharing their experience the temple was very quick in setting up a fund raising campaign. and you know it was overwhelming support our online websites the telephones here at the temple ringing hard and fast i have phone calls coming from our pakistani friends and muslim friends they want to help us they say look look listeners please advise with charity we can do it we want to do it because it's not it's. your problem it's the united states humanity problems

whatever we can do we should out it is so so yes they are coming together and we had reached over $100000.00 pounds of donations which we transferred quickly to india. got translated into medical provisions non-medical provisions therapeutics people. in india were able to benefit from the donations of the british asians and while those donations make their way into india the virus a begins its spread outside there's concern in neighboring nepal after a rapid rise in corona virus cases attributed to the strain of the virus causing havoc in india the nepalese capital caught on is already struggling with increased hospital admissions and resources stretched same. nippon bracing for another wave of corona virus infections. citizens in kathmandu are lining up to get their tests hoping to be negative as cases surge in

a rapid speed. the shop arise feud by the more infectious mutant strains from neighboring india. cities have already become hotspots and doctors fear that the capital soon follow. the situation at a border town of reflects what's happening in india and i call it many india. if the same thing replicates in a densely populated city like come on do the situation would become much more difficult. than the. vaccine efforts in the himalayan state are complicating the situation about 7 percent of the pulse population have so far received a shot. of a country struggling to procure more doses as it relies on supplies from india. their authorities have prioritized their own needs as the situation runs out of

control. that could soon be the case in nepal if the trend continues in kathmandu the health system is already stretched people are struggling to find hospital beds for their sick family members. that. were brought into the hospital in a number once as he was facing briefing difficulties the doctors haven't attended to him. everyone's busy. busy and worried as the more infectious variants also hit young people and children harder than before. it's a crisis that's set to become worse here before any improvements. and last week former king and his queen deciples a difficult all of us off to. the more than 2 month long hindu festival saw millions take ritual dips in the river again just floating social distancing rules

and covert precautions and despite appeals to stop the last devotees took a holy dip yesterday we leave you with those images and see you tomorrow over. the fate of 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. o many pushed old loves us right now kind of right now

climate change the current top story. basis much less leeway for just one week. how much worse can really get. we still have time to an ongoing. success. that subscribes like this. seen fit the profile of the patient that we have at the moment is a young patient between. 30 and 50 years old with a period to stay and i see you have been longer this is the only. disease knows no age it is very sad unfortunately from one day to another it can take you away it is so sad. we are more scared this time and there

are many young victims so to me this way looks more dangerous than the last one. indeed our feeling is that the patients are younger than they were during the 2 previous waves a year ago in october and november. welcome to our not in special jones in berlin and all of a sudden i'm also in that age group that's at risk remember when we were told to protect the elderly because the virus is especially dangerous for them and that was right of course but it lulled many younger people into a false sense of security the result even though all the people are mostly vaccinated by no hospitals continue to work at the limit like here in berlin. we're at the intensive care unit in the lynn scully test hospital half of the patients here suffer from culvert 19 dr thomas kuhn and his team have their hands

full and the beds are filling up. on the. puzzles and streets slowly you can see that there is an increase at the moment we're not yet in a situation that brings us to the edge of what we can do with your crown but we know that if the numbers continue to rise because certainly have problems go through the hellish agreement. in recent weeks the number of covered patients in germany's i.c. use has been rising sharply again by now at the peak of the 2nd wave of the pandemic has almost been reached intensive care beds are becoming scarse and the workload of stuff continues to grow. intensive care nurse tim cook has also noticed that. well of now in this 3rd wave it is particularly noticeable that the patients are getting more seriously ill and they are ill for

longer and also they need a lot of care that means the situation is very challenging and very stressful for us you really need time to relax when you're off work. but it is not just the sheer increase uncovered patients that worries the teeth that patients health is deteriorating fast and this 3rd wave of the pandemic they are also an effort to get them before probably also because most people over 80 years old have already been vaccinated. the average age is now much younger compared to the 1st or 2nd waves and we see that very clearly we don't really have any patients who are over 80 years old anymore they are almost non-existent. to what extent german hospital capacities average varies greatly from region to region some are already completely full others are still coping one thing would help more vaccinations one in forgiveness we won't get out of this without vaccines they are very important

but it is also important to stick to hygiene measures to keep that distance and observe current carpet for structure each and everyone must take this been demick seriously and can do their part to make get out of this is quickly as possible the truth will come if the number of patients continues to rise other important treatments would have to be postponed in some areas in germany that is already the case the situation many doctors agree is serious. the patients are getting more seriously ill their health deteriorating faster and they younger on average than in the 1st 2 waves let's talk about that now with ravindra gupta he's a professor of clinical microbiology at cambridge university good to have you with us so let's let's start 1st of all with the average age in this report we heard that it's mainly down to the fact that the older generations are vaccinated by now is that all there is to it. yes i certainly think that there will be an element of

the fact that the bill to be protected with vaccines of course in the 1st wave the old to leave also very vulnerable so said proportion of the most vulnerable may have been affected diet so that leaves a small fraction of susceptible elderly individuals and and therefore. that is probably part of the explanation but we can't speak the whole truth because we know that this is a phenomenon that we see in many parts of the world even in pots where the vaccination rate is much higher so there has to be something else to it. yes but of course a priority is of course it is based but said she had an extra leg factor because. in previous waves there may have been a disproportionate impact on certain age groups in terms of who is infected. and and also what we call the survivor affairs or some people who are infected with diet and some of survive. you know the epidemiologist very difficult to

tease apart here because a lot of this is about transmission patterns circulation of virus within certain age groups behaviors of course because. all the older individuals and certainly people of a certain ages and those with conditions. in shielding themselves and so minimizing their social contacts whereas younger people have been continuing. social contacts to a greater extent so there are many different factors that could get translates could get there that could feed into this observation and what would explain that those patients that we're talking about are not only younger but they're also getting more seriously ill does this have anything to do with the new variance. there's nothing conclusive at the moment in terms of the sort of analysis of this but these are very difficult studies to. conduct properly and robustly so i'm not confident

that we will get a good answer to this the you know there are there are changes happening in viruses the variants do have mutations in them it is possible that they increase fictive at sea and therefore generate more more virus particles that may. cause great it does ease and people who previously would have been less impacted it may induce different types of antibody or so responses which may contribute to damaging inflammation as a result of the infection there are many possibilities as to why. younger individuals on now observed to become to be getting sick and and potentially more sick than they used to and of course i mean you hinted at it it also has to do with behavior and the 1st symptoms of an infection very often they can easily be mistaken for a common cold and people younger people and i'm talking about people who opt to 40 and 50 who go to where. they're at in such an age you don't expect to get that ill

do you think that they simply wait too long before they get help. well it's possible. that certain individuals who are younger feel that they are not going to get worse and they've been when that is the problem part of the part of the sort of rhetoric or the sort of narrative around it 19 was that young people don't get ill they don't die that that's fairly broken we knew that in the 1st wave . last year even that young people do get ill they do to young children can get sick and they have severe disease so there's not salutes and the other problem is of course you need to know what the denominator is how many people are infected in that age group and that's really quite difficult to understand because many people don't have testing so to actually accurately understand what the percentage of infection is in that age group is extremely difficult. and finally man what are the implications. the health sector because younger people tend to be physically

stronger which means they stay longer in intensive care in order to hopefully get well again and what does it mean for society because we're talking about people who are largely making up the workforce. yes again i think that we do need to remember the percentage of people who get severe disease in across age groups is still very small so most people who get infected will be fine you are seeing of course increasing cases of severe disease in young people but that's probably a reflection on the fact that there is a lot of transmission going on in that age group and the fact that they're not bucks and it's so i do believe that extending vaccination to younger age groups is a priority. i think that's clear because of course the number of productive years life lost potentially from young people dying is very significant and these things need to be taken into consideration now a professor from cambridge university thank you so much. time for your questions

now and it's over to our science correspondent. why should people who've already had covert 19 also be vaccinated aren't they protected as your body fights off a pathogen that forms what's known as an immunological memory of the disease various vaccines on the other hand deceive the immune system into forming this memory by faking an infection using a range of different tricks to do it in fact some vaccines trick the body so effectively they cause an even more powerful and lasting immunity to a pathogen then a naturally acquired infection does but several studies including one from january that's been cited quite a lot they indicate that naturally acquired immunity in most people who caught

covert 19 appears pretty strong even months after recoveries so isn't that enough well there's a big if involved we still don't really know how long immune memory to sars kovi to will on average last and that goes for both back scene induced and disease induced immunity both currently look good for at least 6 months and counting but but based on what we know about other coronaviruses there's a good chance immune memory will lapse over time which is why health care authorities recommend getting vaccinated even if you've recovered from carpet 19 because it's a safe way to refresh your immune memory and will hopefully lengthen the window of time you'll remain immune in fact

a few. studies have shown that in people who recovered from cope with 19 even a single dose of vaccine all thing boosts antibody response beyond what the 2 doze taxing regime causes in people who've never had it so it should make you even less prone to get the disease again at least in the short to medium term. and that's it for today thanks for watching stay safe.

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