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infections, that's up from 12 percent just a week ago. bite and also called on unvaccinated americans to get their shots calling it their patriotic duty bill. here in germany, chancellor, olaf shoulds has announced new restrictions to slow the spread of the o. micron corona virus variant the measures which will come into force after christmas include limiting public and private gatherings even for vaccinated people . short said, germany was facing a huge 5th wave of coven, 1000 cases, due to the new variant. if the opiates government says its forces are re taking territory and the northern to gripe region, after anti government fighters announced they would withdraw from several areas. the central government says it's grand people's liberation front was forced to withdraw because of military setbacks. tens of thousands of people have been killed and fighting over the past year. this is dw news from berlin. you can get lots more

on our website. that's d w dot com. ah, it's like deja vu all over again. an american president talking about doing everything possible to save lives, countries contemplating locked downs and travel bombs. the german leaders going into another house, another hot huddle to decide what to do about the pandemic. and this is with cove it vaccines. so when people say we're going to have to get used to living with a corona virus, what does that actually look like? i'm fil gale in berlin, and this is the day ah, all of us are sick of this bundle. were now threatened by the 5th wave. there's no answer yet on whether we will need an adaptive vaccine. i'm

a chronic advancing and brittany denmark and the u. s. this variant differs significantly from previous ones. if you've got huge numbers of people, in fact, it will have a small percentage to get to the phone. even those with double vaccinations and those who recovered fate, a high risk of infection. and that translates into big numbers. also on the day, poland has had a near total ban on abortion since the start of the year when the supreme court ruled against the termination of pregnancies, because a fatal abnormalities, a move that is triggered protests. this that an abortion means that homeless women are forced to carry pregnancy with fetuses that have no brain that have no call if they are in distance outside of their body with lethal har hart failures. it's just impossible to describe how it feels like to be a woman in poland today. ah,

order forms are seek of this pond on me. all of us want to spend time with friends and family, but uneven cancelled is better than life cancelled. it's better to conceal now and celebrate later than to celebrate to now and grieve later. w h o director general ted trust company is a survey issuing a stock warning end of year festivities can drive infections and lead to more death . he also said that it's not clear evidence that army chrome is more contagious in any other version of the virus so far. that's why the world health organization is calling on people to consider the risk they may be taking. well here in germany, the government is introducing new restrictions intended to curb the spread of home across german chancellor, olaf sholtes announced measures after an online meeting with leaders of the countries federal states. germany center for disease control have been calling for

maximum contact restrictions to be introduced immediately. the planned measures will take effect after christmas. here is the chancellor. is let's development. we're now threatened by the 5th wave. i'm a crohn is advancing in britain, denmark, and the us. this variant differs significantly from previous ones. according to the experts, it's more aggressive and has characteristics which allow it to get past a protection offered by vaccines. even those with a double vaccinations. and those who are covered by face a high risk of infection before the committees above and to stick. more on this with a doctor and a politician, doctor, your 100 wagner is a pediatrician and and pay for the green party, which is part of germany governing coalition. welcome to d, w. dr. will these new restrictions a delay? the only tron wave?

good evening. yes. well, we hope so, and we will do everything which is needed. and on the other hand side, you also do have to prepare a general lockdown. so in case we need one next here, this can be implemented very, very fast. but for now, with this, we are going to be hoping to see a further declining of the numbers. but, and actually the numbers are still declining, but we have heard in just a few seconds ago, it is on the rise. so that's why the combination of those measures and planning are generally locked up, preparing it in or locked on in case you need one. next here is the best. yeah, best option right now. why don't general lock down now where the robert, to call his issue is calling 441. why ignore the experts and pounded to people and say, all right, well, we'll just keep it out for christmas. well, because the federal states did not use every possibility they had until now to

reduce the context, we 1st need to reduce context with the in the, the current in framework. and then see if really the only one numbers are rising as fast as in other countries. the most important thing, of course, is to have a vaccination kind of pain still over to over the holidays as well. and only with a high number of vaccinated people. we can at some point and the pandemic, that's why in our opinion, it was ok for now to to booster to vaccination, can campaign to really strengthen it and to and make people get it is very important to get vaccinated very, very fast to get the booster and also those restrictions which are actually very, very tight restrictions, but we don't need to generally look down right now with the numbers and declining.

bob will have to be prepared. ok for large german medical workers in hospitals and nursing homes will be required to be fax. anything against cove it? should this be extended to the general public? in my opinion, yes, we have to close the gap and people who are not vaccinated because is the only meant to get out of this. and we are always again coming way because of and then the waves of corona viruses. and of course, we also have to have in mind that this global upon them. yeah, it's only over if it's over globally, be helped to also rise numbers of excited people in other parts of the world. we have to support other countries in the world to, to get the population of accident, but also in germany, we need higher numbers of people that need it. and as far as right now, we did not have succeeded with an options we had. so my opinion, yes, need a mandatory explanation next year. and how would that work? what would it would you say you have to get vaccinated or we will find you or we

will put you in jail. what would you do? no, we will not put people in jail, but of course a fine could have possible could be a possible measure. and if people are not vaccinated or to have certain and enter restrictions in place for the whole year, for example, like the restriction to only get into certain stores if you are vaccinated already covered, those are possible measures to, to implement, monitor the nation. but of course you have to discuss this and then the destination campaign and in the, in the buddhist talk and data, you have to exactly define what kind of measures could be, what kind of restrictions could be possible. understood, thanks so much for joining us, dr. johan. to savannah, a lawmaker for the green party, and the german parliament. thank you. meanwhile, u. s. president joe biden has announced new measures to tackle the pandemic. a major part of that will do the purchase of 500000000 rapid tests. they'll be

delivered to americans for free when they order through a new website. it means that they won't have to pay for the test themselves and then hope their health insurer reimburses them. the president also plans to deploy an additional 1000 troops with medical skills to help overstretched hospitals is of some of what he had to say a little earlier. if you're not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned. you're at a high risk of getting sick, and you get sick, you're likely to spread it to others, including friends and family. and young vaccinated have a significantly higher risk of ended up in a hospital, or even dying. almost every one who has died from coven 19 in the past many months has been on vaccinated. all these people who have not been vaccinated. you have an obligation to yourself, to your family, and quite frankly, i normally criticize this to your country. get faxes it now it's free. it's

convenience. i promise you it saves lives and i asked, god, leave it, you patriot duty. patriotic dirty. let's explore that with dr. amersham at dowager, who is a senior scholar and to johns hopkins center for health security. he specializes in infectious diseases and pandemic a policy. a welcome to the day dr. moore, vaccines 500000000 free rapids covey test, but no lockdown. is that enough? i do think it's enough when, when it comes to lock downs, you have to remember that they are very limited in their usefulness because they are very hard to comply with and they have negative cascading impacts. that will have a repercussions on many parts of society. so we want to remember that this isn't march of 2020. this is december of 2021, and we have met much better precision guided tools to be able to limit the impact

of oma khan. and it's particularly on our hospitals than we did back then. so i don't think that we need lock downs. i think what we need to do is more testing more vaccinations, antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, i think that's how we move forward in this new phase. and this latest cluster, if i put of hours this latest cluster of, of, of new measures from governments around the world. this is being driven by only crone. how is this new variant changing this pandemic and the response necessary? well, we always knew that this virus was going to mutate to become able to get around the immunity from prior infection, the immunity from vaccines. and that's what oma con represents. and i think now it's time that we start to focus on what really matters when it comes to coven 19. and that's preventing severe disease, hospitalization, in death, that cases are always going to be there. because this is not a virus that can be eradicated or eliminated, our goal is to tame it, to make it much more manageable. and i think oma crime has accelerated that product process because we're seeing so many breakthrough infections occurring. this is

something we're all going to get. we have to learn how to risk calculate and learn how to differentiate between mild breakthrough cases and what really counts severe disease, hospitalization, and death. so i keep hearing people saying about what we're just going to have to get used to living with calibrate as you've done there. so what does that look like in future? is that just more is not just more mass squaring on more boosters on more social distance thing from here to, to, to death. what it means is that we now have another respiratory virus that we're going to have to contend with every year, just like we contend with flu in our as the a whole host of viruses that cause cold like syndromes. but what will happen with over $1000.00 is it will become tamer as we get more of the population immune as we get more tools like anti virus, which is the one pfizer is developing or monoclonal antibodies and more rapid tests . and we get better at making smart choices and risk calculating. but there are going to be some people that continue to wear masks for some period of time. others

may not, but it's going to be something we have to deal with in a way that i think most people haven't really come to grips with. and i think if you look at the very beginnings of this virus with, with an efficient, efficient spread through the respiratory route in animal host, it was never going to be eliminated are allocated. and i think the world was done a disservice by not people, not being honest about this becoming an endemic virus that was not going to be eradicated. but it's interesting that you talk about this being and demick, which i think a lot of us can say, how about scary to be the case, but you use the word time vis or it's, it's going to be with us. it's going to be around us. but you seem to imply it's not going to be as deadly, whereas it's being the opposite it's, it's become deadly and faster, so you see it taking them and dipping. right. and what's going to make it tamer is probably nothing that the virus does. we're going to make it tamer. we're going to make a team by getting vaccinated. we're going to make it tamer, by having antivirals we make. we're going to make it tamer, by having monoclonal antibodies. medical science is going to what be with what

teams? the virus, it's not the virus itself that gets team, it's our ability to cope with improves to such a degree that it's not something that can kill it. the rate that it could on president biden's message was get vacillated, get vaccinated, get vaccinated. according to the cdc, 61 percent of americans of all ages have been vaccinated. is it possible this fall into a pandemic to, to get identify those who are still reluctant to get vaccinated? do they fall into any particular social ethnical, political groups? well, what we find is, unfortunately, our pandemic response has been very tribal, and people in one tribe particularly have not really been forthcoming with get wanting to get back to needed. so if you can, if you look in the country, these are pockets of places. unfortunately, it's males, it tends to be republicans, that's the problem that we see. we see, and i think it's because politics has been so infused into this pandemic response. but hopefully, you know, the former president trump just a couple of days ago, talked about himself getting a booster vaccine and an advocate for the vaccine. hopefully that starts to move

the needle into people's arms, especially his supporters who are the main hold house. but it is very, very difficult. now it's become something where people are very dug in. and it's hard to see an easy solution. other than talking to people on a one on one basis and trying to persuade them that the vaccine is the right thing for them to do because it will benefit their lives personally fast. thank you. thank you so much for joining us, showing your expertise dr. dr. i, mr. dal jeff from johns hopkins center health security. thank you. i says sites on the con is now the dominant variant by far, according to accounting for 3 quarters of all infections. just a week ago that figure was wanting 8 in new york virus cases are surgeon just ahead of the holiday season. gatherings. one 03. 0, one. happy to her. this is just a test. new year's eve in time square has not come early by the on the chrome wave

has hit the us sooner than many experts expected nearby and new yorkers line up to get tested with christmas just days away and cases surging. many are worried definitely feels like that 1st wave of the pandemic without anxiety, all these long lines are on the city. people getting tested, exams are getting cancelled for people in grad school like myself. so i kind of feel like not really part of that. we didn't, we didn't really know what's happening. i think we've all been affected as a new yorker. we're targeting every single promotion that we can um got double vax boosted regular testing. i am planning to travel for the holidays, but depending on the result of this test, i'll probably say, put in your back. americas took pandemic advisor. anthony found she though, had a hopeful message for those worried about the holidays. yeah. and you can go the extra mile and get tested before you have a family gathering or a group get test the day before or the day of getting together. but vaccinated and

boosted people. one of the family members of vaccinated should feel very comfortable in getting together and enjoying holiday meal or a holiday get together. despite the worsening situation in time square, some people were still in a festive mood. but this might be the last time new york as see these lights in person. the mass still hasn't decided if new year's celebrations here. we'll go ahead now to poland, a country with some of the strictest abortion laws in europe. they ran the procedure in all but a few cases. now the government wants to go even further by creating a legal register of all pregnancies. d w. 's alexandra fawn. nomine reports on an issue that often pits individual women against hospitals and the police. claudia, coastal 26 years old entrepreneur. earlier this year she decided to and an

unwanted pregnancy, using abortion pills. she ordered on the internet for one looked with ela. i went to a hospital just to confirm that i am not pregnant anymore. all tell us, but once they are, i was brutally examined, though on the doctor didn't providing any medical information. instead, she scared me saying the state prosecutor needed to know that she would report me to the authorities about those wall. she, jonathan washing despite poland, sneered total ban on abortion, women who terminate pregnancies cannot be prosecuted under polish law. that however, didn't prevent the police from interrogating her. claudia coast oak tells me, oh sam. okay, says look what we asked and they wanted to know how the pills were delivered out what the package looked like. so i'm open. i had to give them the names of all my friends who knew i had an abortion. not, no idea what that was for help. also. last year, a court ruled that abortion in poland is only permitted in cases of rape or incest,

or when the mother's life is threatened, thousands took to the streets in protest with the intact until nina vandals come with one of them. if the reproductive rights activist says that the results of the new law amounts to torture is found, an abortion means that polish women are forced to carry pregnancy. with fetuses that have no rain that have no call if they are in distance outside of their body. we have legal har hart failures. it's just impossible to describe how it feels like to be a woman enroll into date. as of january, the government also plans to introduce a centralized register were pregnancies and miscarriages are reported for a choice activists fear this data base could be used to cause legal problems for women who use a boy and ecologist in which he says the concerns about the register are unjustified as the data is available anyway, but he also says he is and up with the issue being politicized in poland. is chilly

bush with her. we, as doctors would like to be left alone by politicians. we want them to stop using us for their purposes or both sides of doing it. piazza or chef ski fears. there is strict of abortion rules in poland will half last think consequences. take away the boy who those children. there are women who now are afraid to get pregnant, such as a job day. think, what am i going to do when i find out my thetis has an illness or gene damage just with them? well, that's why they decide not to get pregnant at all, says at the village of mothers against your pre natal examinations because they fear the results of buffy even equal. but the debate in poland continues with pro life activists demanding father restrictions and criminal charges against people selling abortion pills. the activists who sell the pills or any money on that. and this is what we want to stop. we want to stop this business of ah,

business of death. you could say claudia could still cannot come to terms with what's going on in poland. she's hoping for a political change soon. otherwise, she says she is going to leave the country. doctor rebecca gone, pert says an abortion rights campaigner and founder of women on waves, that's a boat that provides abortion services to women in countries with restrictive laws . and also a women on the web. a website where women can order pills to and unwanted pregnancies, and welcome to d, w. doctor. i know you've been following a development in poland. what do you think the government's trying to achieve with this pregnancy register? so the effect of these not is that it really scares people and it will make them it causes self censorship. so people are really scared, they think all the time they will do something wrong. and i think what will be the

impact is that many women who haven't miscarriage, or, and, or an abortion, they will be scared to go to hospitals in when they need care after care. this is extremely rare because an abortion is very said when you do it at medicines, but sometimes it's needed to have some after care and especially also with the miscarriage. this is also the case. so what do you seeing in other countries as well is that some health care providers are really pressuring women to, to see that they use force and fields, or that they had an abortion, or they denounce them to the police. and then women will be interrogated because in poland, it is illegal for anybody to help somebody and their pregnancy. so it's yes. okay, and has your website's seen an increase in demand from poland and faith laws were introduced? well the,

the law which is recently to do is it's only banning abortions with genetic amal formations and these are usually 2nd trimester abortions. so women on web is facilitating access to is the 1st trimester burson. so up till the 13 weeks are see because the world's health organization and older research has shown that it's extremely safe and effective for women using these bills themselves at home. it's safer in a graph for example, but definitely say for them, for example, for us, it's a nurse and, and it's why it's, it's, it's restricted to that, to the 13 weeks. however, we also sometimes help women that have a fetal, an amenity that we work together with doctors info and that we know are supported all of these cases. and so did women have a place where to go?

in case often complication because the longer the pregnancy death is creating and higher risk universe yourself, even though it's still possible and still save. but it's important that at least their doctors that are willing to help the woman if she needs it and they don't let her to die. like what happened a few months ago. and right. and just shifting focus, a slightly access to abortion is also when the threat from united states following the me a bomb in the state of texas. how are you planning on helping women move? well actually i already set up an organization called a texas and i'm working with 10 doctors from united states and we are providing tele, medical abortions in the united states as well. thank you for joining us. i don't to rebecca gone, bertha abortion rights, her company ah.

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