the production of the vaccine was initially the big issue facing huge up as well as the world was limited production capacity this has now been improved also through the measures like collaboration and licensing are you why did that kinder for a pandemic that we are seeing deepening every day in india with potentially harm india as the supply of vaccines that india can deliver to the rest of the world including the e.u. is that a concern in the e.u. right now. we are concerned because of the situation in india very much 1st of all because of the situation affect the indians themselves but 2nd also because india is one of the biggest if not the biggest producer of acceptance worldwide and until the current crisis india has exported tens and tens of millions of folks since produced in india to other parts of the world these

exports have now stopped and this may have negative impact on the availability of oxys is in large parts of the world so we are concerned and we will fund try to find a way to to make up for that. yanick not just the european commission of a crisis management thank you so much for joining us from brussels. a new w. tertian of the coronavirus in india has been partly blamed for the rapid increase in cases it's said to be more infectious and deadly than. here is what is known so far about. the west indian state of maharashtra is where the b. 1617 far into the coup and a virus was 1st recorded in december 2020 the strain has 2 mutations on a spike preteen that's the bit of the virus that gets into our body cells. both genetic mutations of cut up before around the world in other strains of the current

virus and when they did they willing to the virus passing between people more easily they were also linked to the virus being better able to get past the body's defenses we've seen 1st medic increase in the field across india more with the north and the thing defeating that what might be happening is that something that it was the sort of between people is very rapidly moving through the population of people who are yet to contract infection and therefore spreading faster. but how quickly does this new type spread to get a handle on mat researches need to be able to see when people have it and when they die from it which means sequencing the viruses genes that research has been extremely limited so far in india how does millions of cases in this new wave only around a 1000 sequences have been published meanwhile scientists across the world are working to find out how deadly b.

1617 is as the number of people dying continues to rise they're on says can come quickly enough john enough and more is dr lancelot into a pub monologist an epidemiologist of the renowned hindutva hospital in mumbai dr peter welcome do scientists in india have enough data to be able to understand the b 161 double mutant variant. you know i don't think we have enough data and i think far more sequencing needs to be done than what this country done to really understand the transmission dynamics to understand where that it's been associated with the infections with. questions that aren't unescorted questions that are on video and send questions that aren't transmissibility i think we have very limited information at the moment but dr been to why is that i think the 1st reports of this virus became available in october last year then again in december and then in macho earlier this year the government in fact had

a press release why did not have scientific data as yet i think to a certain extent that's limited by the expense associated with hulu genome sequencing my understanding is that it's not maybe inexpensive to do but yes you know a lot of that is because i think maybe the gravity of knowing these patients is not fully comprehended and understood because it may not necessarily convert to treatment outcomes of implications immediately iran has to be fascinated when it comes to these kinds of things and you want a doctor who is working with covert 1000 patients on a daily basis what instance variant doing to the body that's making it so deadly. so i'm not really sure about that it's more deadly than the 1st time around but we do know for a fact that it appears to be a lot more transmissible than the 1st time it out so the 1st time around when the average rate of infection among close contacts was about 10 to 15 percent which

meant that in a family of fight of or fight for every 5 individuals who were exposed to a patient one would get infected this time and only a few leasing entire families in the world spaces people attending a maggot said to me for example a significant proportion of them turning positive which suggests that it's highly transmissible and i think when that denominator becomes as huge as it is right now even if a small proportion of individuals need hospitalization need intensive get that going let's do a whopping number and i think that's what we're really seeing i don't think they're absolutely convinced that it's him or he didn't at the vegas yet given hope transmissible this is there any actions that people can take to avoid getting infected i think by this is unknown to mutate good or not it's going to keep mutating with time and i think the most efficient way to prevent that is not send rapid vaccination so i think if you racks maxon 8 enough individuals you prevent this constant cycles of transmission and transmission is

eventually associated with mutating so you know this is called selection pressure mutants that that devil up if people have executed enough and that transmission cycle is broken i think i think people succeed in preventing the emergence of new mutants and be against you want to seem awesome drop or vaccinations how hopeful are you. given the vaccine stalking the country. not maybe hopeful at the moment but i think things are changing you know i think there is this aid which is coming from the u.s. the u.s. is sending us all a stock of vaccines which should be optimistic and hopeful about i think of a certain supply cheating hurdles which have kind of it should be at the moment and hopefully that that will allow us to damp up production i think the government has also provided some sort of an incentive in terms of fines to the vaccine manufacture does to scale up if they do it fast enough i think that is open on the

con i think the other vaccines have also been put on a fast track to approval so the more the number of vaccines that end of the country i think greater the probability of being even to rule scale up vaccination what is your honest prognosis doctor do you think or care stumble as we continue to rise in india before they stabilize our research awaiting the peak of infections so i know for a fact that the state of mind as to the state in which i practice is kind of like going out over the last 4 to 5 days it does the other the number of new infections that we have to be going out of course we know that mark ballot the stent into lag by about 2 or 3 weeks so you know unfortunately i think the need for it and beds the need for ventilator has to not be unfortunately in the city of mumbai if you look at the trains from last year the city of the state of modest on the city of mumbai where the worst affected initially and then the rest of the country followed suit but so did the recovery battens so based on the recovery back then is that i'm

seeing in mumbai and in the state of modest ah you know there is reason to be optimistic that within the next 2 or 3 days hopefully the rest of the country going to follow as well dr pinto called a lot of thought that we are seeing currently have been prevented with better preparation. i think mistakes were made all around i think in hindsight lot of people probably if you're good at a lot of things that they did in terms of living there in terms of gatherings that that occurred which which possibly should not have happened given the fact that we know all the. that gatherings of people enclosed spaces and crowded spaces and close contact it's all a bunch of individuals is the most efficient we have spread so in hindsight i do think that we could have done a better job in preventing. spread that the mosque level at an individual level as well i think we got very optimistic and complacent after the numbers went to an all

time low in the month of december and january after we survived through the valley after we submitted to new yes without seeing spikes i think all of us collectively let our guard down and i think betraying the by price for that so yes this could have been prevented to a certain extent. that i mean that's what really amazing in hindsight now unfortunately not to print our icon to magine the stress you were in your core leagues are having to work under on a daily basis how are you and your colleagues coping i think on a stretch in a lot of the us you know i think you don't see light at the end of that which is friday which is a very difficult circumstance to work on though when you know every time you see a glimmer of hope unfortunately that is another wave that that will go down i think i think all if it does. are closed. due to the end of patience to the end the fed has the against i think one of those and a lot more negative been

a lot less patient than we used to be dusty. but that's just the way it is i think talk to lots of open to a public knowledge just an epidemiologist of him to the hospital in mumbai thank you so much for joining us and thank you for the walk through to thank thank you for having. as dr pinto alluded to there india's coronavirus health emergency mosques another medical crisis that's been bubbling away he didn't from view from the last year itself the impact on the mental health of its people repeated lockdowns death illness is taking a toll across all age groups in all settings been andrew of but the size of a population of young people the impact is specially hard on them. breakdowns feel anxiety 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 called positive

and health father has been in the hospital for days bustles only when an emotionally ham's in this 2nd wave my dad became a victim and a very serious one and it just made me realise how crazy things are at the moment but a car runs an online mental health platform mind. which connects people to therapists . and the statistics are enough to tell her that she is not alone. about feelings i-t. depression and grief that many are already experiencing she says a lot of young people may end up suffering with p.t.s.d. post-traumatic stress disorder last year there were about $50.00 to $60.00 parity that were coming in in one day and right now from the last 3 to 4 weeks at least that has started to 50 already the 2nd wave has been catastrophic images of people gasping for breath and collapsing in front of hospitals where no beds or oxygen are

available have a back to the mental wellbeing of many some experts are convinced this wave has triggered a mental health epidemic of its own. service in the us and says many young people who come to her feel hopeless and anxious over an uncertain future would also collectively going to a traumatic. ongoing anxiety. we all know well and which means that none of us had to handle any of us from having her as difficult as. she was in ads that being constantly connected with the world online and accessing new information why healthful is also impacting the country's youth. by the sec in. part because the make the majority and of these very very generating very distressing in regions. of the west

8 and 8 and leaving some nice and obviously affecting us i don't think it's an experience that any of us will ever recover from yes we need help out on this yes he will more. help because there are. plenty of increased conversations about what i. have been doing what they can to help my athlete find the quest for emergency aid on social media they see that while there is an overpowering feeling of helplessness there is also some optimism in the way young people have been mobilizing help in these times. it is a work at might be a start 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 i'm just that as she struggles to maintain a positive mindset. she's doing everything she can to bring her father back home

soon. and joining me from popal in central india is dr one of the on a public health policy expert dr bong welcome now you have been looking of the mental health impact of the coronavirus emergency in india do you think young people are particularly vulnerable. thanks for having me yes absolutely young people are certainly quite vulnerable you know this has been an extended much more than a year of lockdowns in the stoppage of schools colleges just a lack of certain a dui then things will improve they've also seen in lots of cases illicit within family losses within family but ups not being able to reach out to friends and meet them in the way they were able to have support systems earlier they have been increasing gifts of domestic violence and all of that obviously has a toll especially now i think with the increasing number of cases the negativity all around the visual say thing on t.v.

it is adding to the mental health. i'd like to talk a bit about the frontline work because the medical professionals doctors nurses medical attendants were literally at the frontline of this crisis and have been for more than a yeah we were just talking to a doctor from mumbai who was trying to explain to us what they go through on a daily basis what is the impact on medical health professionals such as these. but there is a lot of things id that is a must read as well we have seen many colleagues get infected they know that they are taking great personal risk in offering care obviously but you know given the kind of profession they are in they obviously paradise patient care where their personal well being but it does come at a cost because every day when they go back home they are faithful about taking back the infection to their families many of them live with young ones many of them than with any family members and it is quite stressful you know we have seen many providers unfortunately die during this pandemic and. many of them continue to get

sick and they don't really have a breathing space because there is a shortage of health professionals so every day they have to go and do work in these kind of stressful situations where it's a matter of life and death on most every minute and to have to take decisions that are. saying or doing do a job and there is not a better way to build not enough oxygen available can be incredibly traumatic do people have any vetoes to help or assistance. you know it helps obviously to talk about people out also you know reaching out to other professionals a lot of mental health professionals have stepped up and are trying to be available you know everyone's trying their best to be able to be there these are incredibly tough times for everyone but you know the health provider community the larger community of frontline i think everyone is trying their best to try to help out the fact that you know this is a situation which once this kind of

a sponsor. is unique but also in touch him. india has barely one psychiatric for every 100000 citizens clearly india is undead equipped to deal with mental health i'm wondering if you think that this has not seen a priority for the government in the past but eventually has has been historically declared dead globally not just in india but he went in india that numbers show that the mental health burden is ailing or known very well because it start being studied adequately many of my colleagues have been looking for many ads trying to come up with data to show how important mental health is entitled then come up with a response as you would rightly think part of the issue is that specialists can supply so if you rely on models which only require psychiatric for psychologist to be available it's going to be very difficult to offer mental health care in

a country of india's size and population what might be more useful to look at models for there to start sharing where you can work frontline help train them to offer 1st line mental health care and then been there for making isms that is now a bit of evidence that this kind of can be very useful for mental health if it was an especially the primary care level talk to me a bit about the rural areas of india i mean the navy as cilla please have some sort of mental health facilities that are some psychiatric there what about the rural areas of the country in the villages in the hinterland what is the situ you see it's sort of the situation that. yes so psychologists can be difficult to find you know you'd be lucky if you have a psychiatric center district level if they're usually at the district hospital north though or in the health system there are some medical officers who might have been trained for preliminary care but in most cases patients with mental health

conditions that either not identify and if they're identified they're usually different up there that can be a loss because not every patient was identified when both what district hospital are due care medical center. the models which we have looked at other colleagues have come up with in southeast more training frontline such as data made by such as like that of social activists activists so that frontline has looked at least are able to identify that was with mental health conditions of our care to they to an extent possible and then they put those who need more specialized care this way you don't end up having to spend send everyone who's identified in the mental health condition to a specialist but you are able to get more closer to the community that is not a policy level but just the individual level not. much can people do to tackle their fears and anxieties. lots of things people can do certainly one is just being cognizant of the more different

formation and misinformation which is being shared having support systems are around them having trusted people they can speak to as well as knowing if they are having persistent symptoms of any kind which might indicate that they have a mental health issue if anything that they should go ahead and accept that is a lot of stigma around mental health also which needs to be built going to be in our communities just in the same way of you would access care for a physical ailment we should feel comfortable seeking tell if we have a mental health issue. on the bone believe that for the time being but thank you so much for joining us from. thank you for having. india's 2nd wave is a tragedy that has hit nearly every indian including this one it's a tsunami that overwhelms the country every day in case numbers that's more than 380000 just in the past 24 hours relatives trying to arrange

oxygen for their loved ones trying to arrange beds trying to arrange medical supplies most of the time failing in the process. the fires burn day and night. but delhi's morticians are barely able to keep up these makeshift crematoriums have become a symbol of india's covert 1000 catastrophe. if you will is quite good to our board this was a parking lot but we got permission to set up an extra $24.00 crematorium sites and now there are so many corpses were running out of firewood. you. coded 1000 has taken an enormous toll on india many died 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 go going to them getting nor your number were given there but nobody's disappointing numbers are not me believe me believe my brother it is going to go on board and their laws were yesterday a little bit. father mother. my father begged 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 1st 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 then getting them implemented but i feel so helpless now i get more than. viber. asking for beds asking but oxygen asking for help. many people are scared and want to get vaccinated 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. we don't have any more vaccines please leave please cooperate with the police. the 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 coup to go ahead this is

now seen as a super spreader event on a common message that it does not matter. between the people who are. your door where all of that. have backfired the consequences are catastrophic india urgently needs help. international assistance effort is underway but for many it's already too late. it. is in delhi when you've been reporting through this crisis in fact you just saw your report on mental health just earlier in the program. i wonder how have you through this pandemic. well i like to say that it's obsolete in a sense of i mean in a sense of the dashing it from your you stories when you are and people to

submission be our oil going to this yacht in the middle of this and the kind of images that we have been seeing people desperately struggling to so why are you breaking down in times past those crematorium go overboard and families are talking and struggling to put on the last rites of their loved ones the let down to affect you so obviously i have been having my own share things like issues issues when i know i'm a journalist and over there i understand what the situation is like now i know how difficult it is so that doesn't equal access to my own health or the health of my loved ones and i'd like to say that a lot of people of my generation that were into these missions and including people from when you get the journal and you see a lot of this coming out thing over this incident get that instant that people are mourning their feelings out there and one bullet which has been coming up and across a lot someone lot of people raised speak to them about their mental health even though i mean it's almost it's to me about my mentor and that's right now that it is about things like that what is that lets you do clearly

a very overpowering sense of helplessness in this situation that even though people of my generation youngsters ogden's and socially again time to mobilize help there it's still an all of our own sense of hopelessness of not being able to do as much as any parent because clearly the markets are such as it is we're not even on the brink of collapse which is almost a last strike not so there is a sense of that is i wonder if there's also a sense of abandonment but just disappeared sort of what it's like living in the national capital of the biggest democracy on the planet where the federal government has advised people in delhi to wed a mosque even at home. well it is so why i'm here to talk to anyone your friends or acquaintances. is a sense of i mean there's just a 2nd song right now because we can see that then you get to. not have a lot of the conjugated left and then you can just it's just such and like not

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i'm anthony held welcome to the program india has today posted another global record for corona virus infections more than 385000 new cases have been recorded in a single day countries rising to send oxygen and medical supplies but now another shortage looms several states say they are now running out of vaccines. in the southwest indian state of carolina they wait. and wait for a vaccine that doesn't come. stuff that they send to a ready. but they have nothing to give. them so for now i'll get about doctors in. these records nation but that is no votes in the us it's

a similar problem across india with vaccination centers forced to close just as the government says all adults are allowed to get a jab. we don't have vaccines right now we'll let you know as soon as we get them. to hunt for oxygen also continues across the country refilling centers like this one overwhelmed. i've been waiting for hours for my cylinder. with oxygen supplies make up some of the aid that being delivered to india from across the world. this international relief effort has become a major mission. united states delivering supplies worth more than $100000000.00 in the coming days to provide urgent relief to our partners in india. but there's also frustration india is densely populated and yet mass

gatherings including fist state elections in west bengal have been allowed to go ahead. people have been gathering a lot there's been a lot of gathering in terms of people going out to the markets. there have been some rallies going on and people have been going to different festivals. as are you know for all health workers across india the situation has become a nightmare it's reached a point where crisis is a very mild word for it. but the battle to keep this country breathing must go on. well they are spoke without delhi bureau chief amrita cina and i asked her how people are coping with the steadily rising number of infections people obviously i extremely moderate hospitals are under great pressure and the iranian oxygen is known as hospital beds the prime minister today had

a meeting with this council of ministers and even now in the ami and you can mean india is often used in disaster situations that they have great experience and they have a big reputation so they've not been asked to set up field hospitals set up isolation wards and quarantine still rooms but at you know but the situation is really grim another mike at the grim reality is it's not just essential supplies like oxygen which are running not but also space in commission grounds and burial sites the number of dead being taken there is simply to latch and as part of the india coverage also spoke with epidemiologists go to saudi asked whether a lack of social distancing between infection wives had been part of the problem. so i think we've accepted the predominant mode of transmission of this crisis aerosol transmission and there has been widespread mosque use and enjoy in terms of

social distancing i don't think so on till recently investing all the way election rallies but thousands of people attending we've heard about religious festivals again with thousands hundreds of thousands of people attending and there's been really very little focus on mitigation of spread despite seems exponential rises and very sad to say that even now despite almost all of india being an exponential growth phase of the bad to make their own don't impute imposing by the few places most other places have sort of nighttime curfew is and he can go he was i don't seem to be making much of a difference and rather than take this he doesn't apply in eminence he break the government seems very proud ties in politics of the lives and it doesn't seem to be taking any action at this point in time which is unthinkable given what's happening and we need to remember that the debts we're seeing now are result of cases 3 weeks ago which means that unfortunately debts will continue to rise in the situation terms of hospital shortages oxygen shortages will get worse and there's no sign of seeing the peak of cases yet and the peak of deaths would only be it about

a month after the peak of cases so unless we start this now are really looking at tens of thousands of deaths ahead was the coronavirus raja's in india brazil is also struggling to gain and up ahead of the pandemic brazil is now the 2nd country in the world to have lost more than 400000 lives to cut it not take that's after the united states a group of brazilians took to british and heroes famous couple of on a beach to highlight the bleak maka and laid out body bags across the sand as a way of mourning so stay. now to look at some of the other developments in the pandemic now and the united states has now fully vaccinated 100000000 people against curve it 19 germany's biotech and u.s. company pfizer say they have followed an application with the european medicines agency for use of the vaccine in 12 to 15 year olds and france is to open up x x

nations for all adults. to israel now where a festival as joy has turned into one of the worst tragedies medics who treated the victims of a horrific stampede 45 people were crushed to death after. a crowded event that happened in israel's north where ultra orthodox jews were holding the country's 1st big religious gathering since the end of coronavirus restrictions. wrapped in ecstatic song and dance footage from social media shows the crowd at the annual lag celebration shortly before disaster struck. at around 1 in the morning i witnesses said they could feel a crush beginning to build. there was a terrible load and what happened then was like

a carousel one person pushed another person so everyone was pushed right and left and after 20 minutes people started suffocating so they wanted to get out but no one was able to get out. there were people under me who weren't breathing anymore there were horrible screams of i can't breathe and slowly there were also places where the screams had stopped. my legs were trapped i couldn't move them. face down i could lift my head a little. i tried not to strain too much and keep calm and strengthen my faith god will save us. mayhem unfolded rescue teams rushed to the scene ferrying the injured to ambulances. children separated from their parents were hoisted into the arms of emergency workers desperately trying to reunite them with their families. 5 police closed off road access and the military was called in to assist efforts to clear the area. during the

worst. terrible disaster of. the fortified the. authorities say panic broke out on the steps in this narrow passageway after people slipped and fell and those behind them stumbled. many of the victims were either trampled or suffocated to death. it was the 1st large scale religious gathering to be held legally since israel lifted most coronavirus restrictions. but despite their successful handling of the pandemic health authorities have warned against holding an event of this size. religious festival is particularly popular with israel's ultra-orthodox community police report nearly 100000 people attended the gathering which they say is 4 to 5 times as many as should have been in

a location like this. from jerusalem day doubly correspondent tony kramer has more for us we're learning more about who the victims were what is that. well i can say that israel is certainly still in the middle of this tragedy and over the course of the day you know the focus was and treating the injured in the hospitals bringing people back from the area and of course identifying also the victims now we understand that 12 of the 45 victims who lost people who lost their lives in this incident overnight have been identified and their families have been notified so also the 1st names of course now have been published and then gives people here the faces and the names of the victims that's especially difficult within the ultra orthodox communities now many of those victims are from all over

israel and many are young and particularly the case of 2 young brothers 2 pairs actually of brothers one aged 9 and 14 and the other aged 12 and 18 and that brings of course again you know the scale of this human tragedy much closer to home here for many people. here the funerals have also begun can you give us a sense of the atmosphere in israel now the people are trying to come to terms with just what has happened. well only a few funerals have begun it's very important that people are laid to rest before which will begin shortly that's the weekend here according to jewish tradition but of course the mood is you could describe it as some. prime minister binyamin netanyahu has declared a day of mourning on sunday you know all day we'll probably hear on the radio stations very somber music being played

a lot of activities also in non-religious communities here all over israel's have been canceled at the same time of course an official investigation has been launched a lot of questions are being asked now whether this could not have been prevented because this festival happens every year except for last year when it was almost canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic it's always attracts a large number of people and just it was known that the holy site is not safe for so many people for tens of thousands of people to go there so a lot of tough questions will be asked in the coming days but now these days are of course to focus on the trauma and the shock of what happened overnight. correspondent in jerusalem thank you so much ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. russia's financial monitoring agency has added opposition leader alexei navalny network of campaign offices to the list of terrorist and extremist groups the network

disbanded on thursday in another development one of the family's lawyers has been detained by police. in hong kong for democracy activists have plaited guilty to charges of illegal assembly for bally in june of last year activists just one was among them tens of thousands of people gathered on june 4th to commemorate the 99 crackdown on protesters in beijing's panamint square. south africa's queen she. has died the 65 year old took over as regent just over a month ago following the death of her husband who had been zulu king the monarchy has no formal powers but all poles zulu tradition in south africa's largest ethnic group. for now on the turkey olympics could be held without any spectators at all according to the head of the organizing committee a decision is expected in june tokyo 2020 president psycho how she notices the

games would only be a success if organizers completely protect athletes and the japanese people earlier this week organizers issued olympic playbooks that required daily testing of athletes and restrict big use of public transportation the games are set to start on july 23rd. on german gymnast lived with the sights has told the w. that she hopes more female athletes across other sports will follow her lead and wear full body suits at the tokyo olympics last week she was one of 3 german artistic gymnast who made history as the 1st to wear the full suit or unit in the international competition other than for religious reasons reasons previously she had worn the traditional leotards bearing her legs she said the clothing revolution could help in the sexualization of her school. yes i would love to see much in this wearing. clothes. but not.

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