for the. if you're watching a show coming up in our program a country completely overwhelmed by the pandemic india faces another day of crisis as more people turn up at hospitals only to be turned down with even the dead waiting their turn for cremation and burial. will also examine the mental health toll this national tragedy is taking on many indians as they struggle with the present all facing a bleak and uncertain future. and with international aid trickling in we take

a look at how the indian diaspora is responding to what's happening back home as they follow developments from afar. i'm melissa chan welcome to the program the big story out of asia continues to be exponential growth in coburn 1000 cases and deaths in india officially the country has had 18000000 infections and more than 200000 deaths with medical experts there saying the actual numbers are likely much much higher everything from the health care system to the mortuary have been overwhelmed. the fires burn day and night. but morticians are barely able to keep up

these makeshift crematoriums have become a symbol of india's coated 1000 catastrophe. if you will be just quoting good grew out of boredom and this was a parking lot but we got permission to set up an extra $24.00 crematorium sides with javascript and now there are so many corpses were running out of firewood aboard the critical boilers overloaded with. coated 19 has taken an enormous toll on india many die. because there was no one to take care of them. for days there have been lines of patients in front of hospitals no one lets the men because there aren't enough beds or oxygen tanks people feel abandoned. and therefore very very very good to going to them getting normal number were given there but nobody's disappointing numbers or not me believe me. my brother is going again

order and their laws were yesterday law. my father mother. my father beg me to help him but i couldn't do you know how that feels when your own father cries and all you can do is put him in an auto rickshaw without an oxygen tank for the. first 3 days i've been walking from one hospital to the next i've never seen anything like this in my life. the doctors are aware of these catastrophic circumstances but they can't do anything about it one hospital director told d.w. news the situation is out of control. used to making decisions and getting them implemented by i feel so helpless now i get more than 500. beds asking what oxygen asking for help. many people are scared and want to get back to needed but there isn't enough vaccine to go around even though india is the

world's largest vaccine producer there's not enough for its own citizens. there was. we don't have any more vaccines please leave please cooperate with the police. prime minister narendra modi has promised help to overburden hospitals. but many say he is to blame. he held election rallies despite rising infection numbers. and he allowed huge religious festivals like the cool mailer to go ahead this is now seen as a super spreader event on a. message that it does not matter whether you keep it in the beach or. your dorm where all of that. backfired. the consequences are catastrophic india urgently needs help.

international assistance effort is underway but for many it's already too late. such an overwhelming crisis in the country has not only impacted those who've directly contract it covidien are struggling at home and at hospitals scenes of death plus a government that many believe is failing the people have caused massive mental distress. has the story. breakdowns in. these other words 29 year old uses when asked about how she's coping with the 2nd week of school with 90. water parents are cool because the. and her father has been in the hospital 4 days a person who leaves when an emotionally happens in this 2nd leave my dad became a victim and a very serious one and it just made me realize how crazy things are at the

clinic or runs an online mental health platform mind. which connects people to terrorists. and the statistics are enough to tell her that she is not alone. about feelings id depression and grief that many are already experiencing she says a lot of young people with me end up suffering with p.t.s.d. or stress disorder last year there were about $50.00 to $60.00 penalties that were coming in in one day and right now from the last 3 to 4 weeks at least that has started to 50 or d. the 2nd wave has been catastrophic images of people gasping for breath and collapsing in front of hospitals when no beds or oxygen are available have impacted the mental wellbeing of many some experts are convinced this we've had a mental health epidemic of its own. therapist in us and says many young people who

come to her feel hopeless and anxious over an uncertain future we're all. going to. be saying no. on. anxiety. we all know where and which means that none of us has to have any of us from her as difficult business. she gave us and adds that being constantly connected with the world online and accessing new information why healthful is also impacting the country's youth by going secondly to. make the recording and of these very very generating very distressing in regions. people who are sick and dead and leaving some nice and. i don't think it's an experience that any of us will ever recover from just we need help as we recover

from this yes he or more. rigorous there are. increased conversations about both. have been doing what they can to help my applet find requests for emergency aid on social media this say that while there is an overpowering feeling of helplessness there's also some optimism in the way young people have been mobilizing help in these times. it is a work at mine thius that has been helping her cope plan i come back from the hospital in the evening i'm just working because i know if i'm not going to distract myself and just. as she struggles to maintain a positive mindset she's doing everything she can to bring her father back home soon. many a charger who filed that report joins us on air for health care system already struggling under the weight of the pandemic how much of a priority has mental health then for medical providers when it comes to care. well

you could talk about gravity of the situation which is unfolding right now where the dining large one was every day because the health care system has to be clearly collapsed the gravity like not just somehow so why the pandemic and again we need to remember that india is a country where mental health is still not very openly spoken about but yes the people especially those who are living in urban areas who are connected with each other on social media they have been coming for what we have been talking about how and and it hasn't back to them until the people are often the support system but if exploits are seeing that after the dust settles find a me me me have mentioned have my limit blowing up especially people's genetics just as the older people and. i put this in context your report mainly focused on the stress people feel now given this deadly wave of kovac about of course there's been a lockdown social distancing on and off for more than

a year so talk about the other issues fueling this anxiety for a lot of people. is it just you know use the weddings i know my own station the tariff as they have been saying that the number of cases of anxiety disorders and attacks have increased in the past one year especially since the 2nd it started in about one month more and more people have the government but in the last while we are live you have so many of us was fear of the as i do you had what to do with lockdown being confined in their own homes setting or jobs and layoffs this year that is ideal is the actually if you like and sense of why bill goes i saw arranging that it's a deal like oxygen and medical supplies for themselves or their loved ones that is a lie at ya be able to type a story that young people are going to be specially daws they're becoming very haggled vigilant they add willing to help things like this to those who are living with orders initially people who are in the areas that parents and these health things they do you know are also physically manifesting themselves into their bodies which is leading to more concerns of therapists at dorney that they have

been people getting seen that say the depression being very law and on and on what dilution of young people who are just in the beginning of their carrier who have just added with polish there are actually actions that most of them the future looks very uncertain mayor cadre thank you so much for joining us. more humanitarian aid has been arriving in india as international assistance efforts gather pace and planes from the u.s. including military transporters have landed in delhi with much needed oxygen equipment thailand and the united arab emirates have also sent medical supplies meanwhile people of india's global diaspora are also organizing and contributing what they can but many express a feeling that whatever they do it's not enough but what about this what we are distressed and we all feel helpless because we can do much sitting 10 years away and i called the hospital in charge the principal of the hospital is

a medical college and i call him by the north of me and he said i will try to help but nor bad in i.c.u. and hospital later you can survive but the 80 percent of his them who died. this is . i knew her personally. generally what we used to do was financially contribute and we used to think our work is done but this is something you know unprecedented kind of a situation it's not both kind of campaigns there you can just contribute somebody on the ground or dick get off it and do that you know you could call your parents call your lover on this to see how they're doing but there's only so much you can do right now. go to hospital go this and that but if so if they get sick and have beds are not available of this actually it is not available what can you do right now so that's always on the back of your mind right now that's it for the show there's always more on our website t w dot com for slash we leave you with more pictures out of india and the

devastation of the pandemic as always thank you for watching and see you next week goodbye. the funny against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts. virus update 19. on t.w. . 26 thing that's a good bunch of the queen because i want to see

a gemini with the make the last few years have been quite o'brien early. on learned on the home but when it comes to gemma because and of course i always look in the eyes virgin is perhaps the biggest on the new hobby of mine i'm going to work for it i'd love to be in the news there are pros and there are a punk but when you find him altogether there realize it cope with the noble way of never they are you ready to meet the dr and then joined me right just through it. the shot that makes all the difference indian celebrities like filmmaker come out haasan getting an ocular a tip for all to see to encourage a country of over a 1000000000 people to follow his example. if only there were enough jobs available for everyone instead the country that's making vaccines for the rest of the world is faced with a massive shortage how could this happen. india's vaccination rollout to all adults

is hampered by a creaking infrastructure and a new aggressive variant that spreads faster than anywhere else in india fails what does this mean for the global pandemic right. welcome talk of united special good to have you with us especially if you're joining us from india i hope that you and your families are well and safe because the figures we get from india are absolutely shocking almost 390000 new cases of infection and more than 3 and a half 1000 deaths within the last 24 hours international help is getting underway with the 1st emergency aid supplies arriving from the u.s. but in the end it's all about getting millions of shots in arms s. a.s.a.p. . prime minister narendra modi seen here getting his vaccination generally likes promote india as the world's pharmacy but now the chief of the

world's biggest vaccine producer has slammed the indian government because they didn't order enough jobs in the last few months suddenly the government is left standing empty handed. we don't have enough vaccines right now we let you know as soon as we receive the vaccines. compared to other countries india trails the u.s. with just over 42 percent of the population. having received at least one vaccination in india 157000000 people have been vaccinated at least once that's a lot of people which is 9 percent of the population. the most popular vaccine in india is astra zeneca under the name covert shield. after 3 weeks she would offer 76 percent efficacy. after the 2nd job at 12 weeks this rises to nearly 83 percent.

over shield is manufactured in india with a license from the european pharmaceutical company astra zeneca until recently the production went from here to destinations all over the world. but because of the steep rise in the number of cases a home the indian government to stop exporting. this also applies to the 2nd vaccine produced in india kovacs in it currently can also only be used in india. kovacs and has to be administered in 2 doses 6 weeks after the 1st vaccination it offers protection of 78 percent. a 3rd indian vaccine is awaiting approval psycho vigil come onto the market from mid may. bush will this be enough to vaccinate against the pandemic in india. the big question. is chairperson of the center of social medicine and community health and john howard are in there a university in new delhi he joins us now so good to have you that's

a nation obviously seen as the only way out of the pandemic is it also the only way out of the crisis in india. no the current crisis is really of providing clinical care of providing intensive care to very large numbers of being able to maintain infrastructure and supply chains that really is the cut in prices also a very large requirement of human resources. that clearly is is what's the burning problem now that's initial of course is crucial but next the nation is not going to address this problem in the short run which is a few weeks that we're talking of now but surely you're trying to still get as many shots in arms as possible how does this actually work in terms of distribution do hospitals or divac scenes themselves are who is who is deciding who gets the vaccine well the indian government's prioritization strategy had mean by risk

categories which meant health workers and other. care responders bust which is a which was shed over the 1st 3 months and then age group 60 and then the age group $45.00 in the above that's what the prior days asians had to do was and from a 1st which is tomorrow it will be open for all the doubts about the age of 18 years but several states are facing a shortage in vaccine supplies and therefore realistically it's not going to begin for the 18 plus group from tomorrow they will certainly have to wait till the supply situation stabilizes how is it possible that there is this shortage given that india is actually providing the rest of the world with vaccines. what's understood at this point is that this rapid expansion to 45 year age group it was

earlier the 50 year plus who it co-morbidities this meant an additional demand of 202250 1000000 those as rich was not so readily available and add to the fact that now that it's 18 years plus it's a lot more those of vaccines that you were talking off so this put me in that scene from russia has been approved. got the emergency authorization the 1st batches are expected perhaps in a few days in the 1st week of may as a direct import from russia before being being manufactured in india by one of the indian companies so even if this were to make arrives on this show deal it's still going to be several weeks before actually months can be met and therefore several states have certainly postponed this is 18 plus age group. till a few weeks down the line and given the fact that there are already 2 indigenous

let's call them maxine's eco exene we had in the report ready approved and then there's another one psycho d. which is due to get emergency approval inmate will those vaccines be for indians only in order to hopefully as soon as possible turn things around. the current emphasis certainly is to be able to minimize as much as possible again going by these by these private eyes ation principle. as we understand it will take still a few weeks for at the grid vaccines to be back into the supply system to be able to at least clear the depending those as particularly up to age 45 so all of these are certainly going to add to the kitty but the next few weeks things are going to be slow and i don't want to i don't want to even imagine what this delay means for

the situation that you're already in at the moment. nevertheless this may sound heartless but what is this crisis in india what does it mean for weald wide vaccine supply will there be a knock on effect for example when it comes to the kovacs program is it's very likely at least by current projections the contributions from india are certainly going to be delayed if not actually less so i'm sure the kovacs group would be worried about it. i think i think what sort of got misconstrued initially was that india produces 60 percent of the global vaccines which is true in the aggregate of childhood vaccines but in this category of influenza vaccines and so on this contribution is actually to the tune of 20 percent that experts say so that 60 percent figure is is not entirely applicable here just very

briefly what lessons can the rest of the world learn from what's happening in india right now i mean we're talking about a pandemic we have to overcome it together. shelby have to overcome it coming together we have to learn from each other i think the issue of variance of the of the militant forms is very crucial in the responded to it in a certainly the u.k. strain which as we know then spread or nearly a 100 countries worldwide became a dominant strain that at several in several countries similarly the indian strain the b 1617 is also considered to be playing a very crucial role right and i think reasonably need to learn from each other particularly out variance that we managed a wretched desk there from. the java harlan near university in new delhi thank you so much and to do stay safe thank you thank you you took time to answer more of your questions now over to derek. how

congested engineering be helpful in fighting upcoming pandemics. genetic engineering is one of those phrases that get thrown around a lot but i found a surprising number of people don't actually know what it means so so let's define it before moving forward when you genetically engineer something you use tools from fields that are usually mell grouped under the label biotechnology to manipulate and modify an organisms gene out of the goal is to make it do things the organism wouldn't do otherwise for example produce a highly specific medicinal product or produce it in faster ways or produce event larger amounts genetic engineering methods are now common in areas from from crop science to waste mitigation to sustainable fuel development but when it comes to

modern medicine genetically modified microorganisms play a really central role nowadays for instance microbes have been engineered to churn out much of the insulin that people with diabetes need to survive and and gene editing methods are also key to designing new medications they use not only to manufacture a complex biologics like monoclonal antibodies but but also vaccines viral vector vaccines like those made by astra zeneca are like like poster child examples of products made with genetic engineering they work because the designers were able to splice genes from sars kovi to into a harmless ad no virus there that when injected can help make you immune to cope at 19 so genetic engineering is much more than helpful in the fight against pandemics

it'll continue to be a crucial facet of our. reacting to them and containing in the future. before we go buy and take pfizer have asked european regulators to authorize take over $9000.00 vaccine for 12 to 15 year olds and they also plan to seek authorization with other regulatory authorities worldwide thanks for watching.

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