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hammer its health care system a shortage of oxygen is making matters worse in delhi hospitals are taking to twitter to ask for help and turning away patients because of low supplies as. reports volunteer groups are now having to step in to help. the nation house has spent the last 2 days right here on the road in front of a sikh temple 50 kilometers from home. his son passed the clue nobody. has also developed a $60.00 lung infection. he gently needs to be hospitalized but his father says even this week shipped enjoyment is a blessing. but these people are working 24 hours providing oxygen cylinders otherwise it's very difficult to get oxygen for them to get a bed in a hospital awful that morning this morning i visited 15 or 20 hospitals to look for

a bed for him but there isn't a single bed all of them refused us. for the last 2 weeks. that has been d.c. a stiff your shortage of medical oxygen. this isn't life saving the last resort a free oxygen service run by cars to help a sikh group volunteers who are considered the just the arctic king to be secondary to the central tenet of service and it's a cause and several of them have already been infected. but dogs here tell us they aren't afraid these see they must do something to save these slaves. gergen david and i go home to see what was there be the time right over by by pass never stop putting on the door but it's the even support we are getting that is allowing us to see each story many legs and this is a time that people are even afraid to have i don't respect religiously. every family member. i'm going to. the group has 9 trucks starting

nearby plants person in. the oxygen here is provided for free as patients continue all to be rushed to help many hospitals in delhi have stopped taking in your patients because of the often cry for their putting out f o f messages on twitter or begging for help as they only have are some basic minutes of oxygen left. this hospital is one of the previous night was aglow she after reading thought was that oxygen plants diving authorities on twitter and even reducing extra inflows to subsistence levels to make it last longer the hospital got supplies in the nick of time doctors here tell us that supplies that used to last them to wreak now evaporate in 36 starts they cannot predict if the next round will reach them one day turning over followed just to good reasons is heartbreaking

for dr wendy to feel those many of these places hopelessly in this profession because it is because they wanted to help other people through their sickness an illness. if they're not really. bad by itself is a big thing and it was. all done very few do get lucky. back at the oxygen so simha has finally managed to arrange a bed for his son immediately his cylinder is cool 2 words are not to be shipped. to leeds into the oxygen crisis here of. every live good bread is a gift. joining us and we should just as well who filed that report and mischa on monday an official from the federal government insisted there was no shortage of oxygen anywhere in the country well we just saw your report why on earth would he say the opposite. so be ironic if that technically he

is not dr humes of a large quantity of oxygen more stuff but it is useful in doctor to book as it's but given the crisis point one of the country right now it has been busy directed for medical use there's a huge challenge for what has been transporting the stock citizens because most of these guns are next located next to the innocuous misuse them now most of the insurgent produced in india is still is the east of the country as the health ministry points out but the crisis as i could think in the center and west of the country transporting oxygen is not simple if you cannot apply it out so the indian air force has been engaged to fly out in deep down close to the splines and then express trains have been engaged to deep these docks and off such a deck those that have been down spirited to the hospital but this process is of course slow because the still aren't enough tankers this do not enough to lend us

and this is causing the bottlenecks that is exacerbating the crisis that they're seeing in the country it's really fascinating that logistics has been something that people have had to think about a public health officials have been warning of for months both about a covert search and an oxygen supply issue which they could have clearly planned for so why were they seated and what have they been saying about fixing the problem . well yes melissa say it destroyed it many experts are not pointing out that it was just on an earlier even when it comes to addressing some sport issues even if my production issue was this move then have at least abandoned you once even if not a way to build this kind of a massive surge was not predicted even though it never looked into a new one that we should be but it eased a slight uptick perhaps even was a significant uptick in q for example it took many almost 6 months for the government to slaughter standards for the establishment of someone 60 lots and got

attached to a hospital that's now imagine oxygen but that's right beside a hospital that the transport issue would be sought however most of these are not up at least over it yet now going forward the government has said they will be transporting nitrogen johnson do lots of lines they will be using microbes and 1st transport oxygen bottle imported ied from different countries have sent out each even in the form of cylinders to implement this kind of transport but of course at this point let me just speak to believe that it already is for many people who have lost their livestock to refer to a lack of oxygen well other than the oxygen supply issue what are the other challenges facing a health care system right now. to help get. us the country is very tense and almost crumbling in many parts even from the very source diagnostic tests of a hard to come across all of the government has put out a mandate seeing those who have left positive would not have symptoms do not need

to be just to test negative do diagnostic tests in the december got g.'s dining out of bed it's running out of medicines so in general there is a problem even finding care for most patients in addition cities like mumbai have done a very bad coming up the border who wants these are missing in cities like delhi need help patients find beds find care find appropriate hospitals and the lack of this is causing good or in big cities as well as relieve it lots of challenges facing the country and. always thank you for joining us and as her report showed many people have stepped forward to volunteer during this crisis spoke to one health activist who described how she and her colleagues are coping. i mean i think it's extremely distressing you know a lot of fuss and not getting enough sleep we usually working around the clock that have been. you know some of us have been sleeping once in 48 hours. data is

a sense of you know despair when you're not able to help patients. you know we were having to help patients get oxygen at home but now we also get s.o.s. calls from patients when admitted in hospitals and that's a complicated because when somebody's just out the you for an i.c.u. bed you also have to ensure that the hospital has adequate oxygen and you know we're not we don't have access to system resources to be able to go all of that and i think i don't think a lot of us actually processing the emotional at all that this is taking you know a lot of young volunteers are dealing with cases great patients are not surviving i think that is this you know gendered healing of guilt for not being able to do everything could really save the patient and i think that all very very aware of the limitations that we're facing. you know out for number as a public we get constant calls for help be able to respond to some people who are not able to respond to some people. but but yes we're trying to set up a more organized form of you know providing support and psychosocial support to

each other. and in fact yesterday i spoke to. him and asking her if she can do some group sessions online for a while and deals. so that we can deal with this collective trauma that all he sing and i also and he and i also feel for the you know for the for what's going to happen once all of this you know until goes down. being stateless without documents saying you're a citizen of one country or the other can't happen if you become a refugee or migrate across borders where government doesn't accommodate you comers the u.n. estimates there are about 4200000 stateless people in the world but that figure is likely much much higher and the impact of not having official identity plays out in the most unexpected ways here's one story from pakistan. sagna is one of pakistan's best young gymnast. as is her sister. but behind their smiles

lies a life of invisibility. many difficulties we have no citizenship i can't take part in international competitions i'm trying my best to get my pakistani citizenship. the girls are part of the country's bengali minority and although both were born in pakistan they remain state less the pakistani government considers some bengalis illegal immigrants they have no legal documents from either pakistan or bangladesh . according to the united nations there are millions of people like them across the world they have no nationality and no country recognizes them as citizens even if they have lived in a place for generations. 65 percent of the population of this community which is a community of $800000.00 people is. and it's a vicious cycle without citizenship the girls are stuck unable to reach their full

potential. we are at this point the best gymnastics team probably in the country we have been winning into school regularly every year for the past 4 years rerack this stage where we can go for into nice new training where we can have access to internet through trina's which it is not possible for us to go do today some of the identity of the girls have put a lot of effort into their gymnastics stream and there's been no shortage of athletic recognition. now you have people i have been training here for 5 years down the back one for want and 2 for best gymnast and my age category. but trust tony and it's more than athletic recognition that's needed as long as you deny the right to a nationality and they still consider it invisible in the eyes of many. that set for wednesday there's always more on our website www dot com for slash asia

check us out on social media as well we leave you with pictures of india's health care workers and volunteers thank you for watching until next time and good bye. to. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19. on t.w. . are you ready to go to extrude. places in europe or smashing the records stand.

just don't you try. this. the treasure map for globe trotters discover some of europe's workers' rights. to also in book form. it's already a reality for seasonal flu the couple of sprays of your nose and you get strong protection against a potentially deadly virus because it worked the corona virus would put the vaccine right where the virus reproduces in the responder a tree system a nasal spray vaccine against coverage 19 could feed the answer the country struggling to contain. robots in berlin welcome to data we use covered 19 special now one country that spending hopes on nasal spray vaccines is mexico

the country with the world's 3rd highest covered 19 death toll trying to speed up its immunization program only one in 10 mexicans has had at least one dose of vaccine and the government there is appealing for more shots from abroad as president address manuel lopez obrador he received the astra zeneca shot last month . but mexico is also hoping to start producing its own vaccines and administer them through. mexico one of the country's worst affected by the corona virus pandemic and dependent on imported vaccines in short supply globally. to help reduce the country's future dependency mexico is developing its own vaccine named pottery or spanish for homeland the company spearheading the drive has already eyeing clinical trials. the mexican government hopes the vaccine can be

approved for emergency use by the end of the year authorities say it has several advantages. if. this is a vaccine that can be administered as a nasal spray. and we've been laying the groundwork for mass production that will help keep costs low. and this in turn will make the vaccine more accessible to people in countries such as ours which are not as wealthy. as little. that's things in large part to drawing on u.s. technology already used in other vaccines which the mexican developer such as proven safe and effective the mexican government has contributed to the funding. but if it were not i think it's good i don't know when it will come out the problem here has been the lack of support for research so it will take

a long time. mexico's a country that should be a leader in the americas. and should help supply other countries in central america . mexico's president has condemned vaccine hoarding by rich countries in the past he says his nation will share its vaccine with others. well dr peter pan lazy is the chairman of the department of microbiology at icann school of medicine at mount sinai in new york he and his team developed the key ingredients for the nasal spray vaccine that mexico is developing has the snuffy name n t v h x p s explain to me what that means. let me 1st explain the name n.p.v. stands for a pixel disease virus newcastle disease was which essentially an avian virus and we're using

a vaccine strain for it brain. which is director to cheat me against newcastle were using this one and introducing in this new castle disease last and be the instrument thing the surface pro thing off saws cost of r.'s $2.00 and so on and we give that vaccine to people or to animals then we could use the s.t.l. thing is selfish caca public to know if you. saw scan of us 2 and then we may give you any new one of the sponsors against theirs surface chemical problem in which he's ok steve so. thanks p. stands for x. up rolling 6 pollens in the protein which stabilize supposed to make it experienced much more. and it makes it to be stable rich is really

important because the other vaccines which are what you spend what they're on and i don't think they can only be stored in minus 40 degree minus 80 degrees celsius our next scene which is the end he picks up pro it's vaccine is actually very very stable and and can be transported in store. although if we generate the temperatures 2 to 4 degrees centigrade so it is much much cheaper to produce this vaccine is compere through the m.r. in a vaccine supply side. and it is very very cheaply made because it can be done in this same way that in france of us what seems up. used all over the world can just inoculate imprinted exits the way of. regular influence of her sex scenes are made we just enjoy and use our and d v

h x p. strain into x. and we can make millions and millions of doses it is a very very low cost thing the fact that it's produced in eggs will really surprise people because it does make a very different turn to what we've been hearing about the research so far but as i mentioned before about the fact that this can actually be. i missed it through a nasal spray i mean what's the advantage of that. so so far the only talking about the u.s. really so far in the united states we do have vaccines against school at 19 but they are all injected they are all injected so they are not going to using a would require new cold slim unit even you many administered through the nose we don't use in the operates but the intellect in there is between 28 and immunity which is printing of the 1000 virus to replicate so. you

can use both platforms meaning you mated one which gets injected and also the one which is used is a spray through the nose and we believe the real make a very good action in the expert do a trick that can scoop 19 it works beautifully in animals we have fantastic home paling studies in amsterdam and in my eyes but obviously mice are not men hamsters are not humans so we have to really find out how these different platforms life through the nose or kill injected how that works out in people. yes and that could take some time when we're looking at you know vaccine actually being administered to people's noses so i was always told if a gel used to ask me how long it will take is not to answer that question however

we are 105 pounds so it's now out of. reach you see and we reach are doing phase one slash 2 trials in the past you made a phrase wound and you made it phrase 2 and we rated face 3 but because of the urgency of court 19 many of us are doing phase one slash 2 in parallel and in those 5 countries as i said hundreds of people have been. made it into phase one slash rates 2 and we hope we get the 1st data by june july of this year and then it really depends how much if of these being proven to be rituals told that in that in brazil in a 1000000 doses have been. we've used some of it we believe that there phase 2 in phase 3 could be done fairly rapidly but they gain relief and how.

these studies can be done these human trials can be executed and the plans on the contrary quite simply will take some more time in the us because we wholly of them with our f.d.a. . thank you very much dr peter for lazy joining us on the call in 1000 special. i was trying to answer more of your questions is. an answer from our science correspondent diagrams. the astra zeneca vaccine is around 70 percent effective is that really enough for it to be any good. i've received several different versions of this questions so the issue is obviously one that's causing some confusion i think what's driving it is a similarity between 2 very different factors that are expressed as

a similar percentage of 70 percent the 1st of those factors is an epidemiological prediction that comes up a lot it's what's now considered to be kind of low ball estimate of the number of people needed to achieve what we call herd immunity that that very theoretical moment when enough people are immune to covert 19 through vaccination or having had the disease to allow us to get on top of transmission that 70 percent however is different from the 2nd factor the roughly 70 percent effectiveness claimed by the astra zeneca vaccine that 70 percent basically tells you that if a large number of people receive the vaccine and an equally large number don't and then you wait a few months to see who comes down with symptomatic who had 19 more than 2 thirds of them will be from the unvaccinated group gauging effectiveness is as as you can

see quite tricky because you're basically trying to put a number on how many vaccinated people didn't get infected but the astra zeneca vaccines 70 plus percent effectiveness is actually quite high compared to many other vaccines and will help us a lot and our attempts. to reach that other 70 plus percent goal when when herd immunity dynamics should begin kicking him. eric williams just before we leave you to take care lympics less than 3 months away and given the pandemic organizers are planning obey a very unusual games and actually just held a marathon russell in the northern city of sapporo and usually people were told to stay away from the streets where the marathon was passing by by people holding signs but there were

a few scattered or look as he managed to make their way along the route in facemasks take your hopes the games could mark a turning point in a pandemic but the city is still under a state of emergency. and that's all from man the team from order check out the qur'an of our section at dot com by.

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