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fatalities. now, infections in brazil have plummeted to do to high vaccination rates. nearly 80 percent of adults have been vaccinated at least once, but fear remains, particularly as the country prepares for the impact of the new omicron variant. welcome to your coven, 19 special. i'm daniel winter. brazil is ending the year on a high not have covered cases like some countries, but vaccinations. let's take a look now at how the country face down mounting deaths and the president who down played the impact of the virus to become one of the walls most vaccinated populations against coven. hardly any one in the world thought it possible. a year ago. the corridor, this hospital in the brazilian city of toledo is deserted. a lot of the emergency equipment has been put away in the storage room. this is the result of what my b,

brazil's most successful vaccination drive against corbett 19. she goes with us. we used to have 40 intubated patient, c, a u. now we don't have any. and it's very rare for us these days to have to provide that level of intensive care. cases are also much less severe than before. so we can think more carefully about how best to treat those who are sick and to give them a better prognosis. my think would be processing major with oversee it is a far cry from the 1st half of 2021. copied casualties peaked in april, reaching more than $4000.00 deaths in the 24 hour period, brazil's mega city. so paolo was averaging between 70800 deaths a day to day. it is the country's poster child for corona virus. vaccinations with 99 percent of adults here having received at least one shot by november. i

asked, is this the course i think people should get vaccinated, and that means every one of the set up with a loaner as it is their minds me that the me how many brazilians are afraid of the virus and get vaccinated so as not to be contagious as soon as i am at home in record started, brazilians believe in vaccines. after all, we have been getting vaccinated against tropical diseases for a long time. we like it. but while brazil may have turned a corner in fighting the pandemic for now, there is one persistent problem. poverty has been exacerbated. ordinary brazilians are struggling earlier in the year, we met sylvia dale seems a cook, who was supporting 3 other adults as the only one in her family to still have work, albeit just one day a week. she used to work other jobs too,

but her other employers let her go for fear of infection that want to get us up. and the me a, you live on that, that this pandemic is difficult. it's going on out of her starving, non, okay. that's apart from alcohol damage, it does to your health, but look at this cannot be met. we're all on the same boat back. the modern mental back every afternoon. sylvia was chewing up the food donations since the beginning of the pandemic in brazil, in march last year. the residents association has been distributing rations. the latest figures show the economy stagnating, and inflation rising. food prices increasing, while jobs remain few and far between. while the worst may be over, the pandemic is still ravaging brazil, bringing poverty and hunger to more and more people. unless get more now, is fabiola al, a research doctor specializing in infectious diseases. thank you very much for joining us, our fabio. and what's your opinion on why brazil has been so quick to take up the

vaccines? thank you for having me here, daniel. well, i think that, and we've known we've known that for sure for decades that the main reason for the success in brazil with vaccination is the public health system that is universal in brazil. so free for every brazilian. and within this system, there has been for decades, very complex and efficient vaccination system that has worked to get even to very remote areas in the country. so we created a culture of vaccination as well as the for structured, needed to get to every brazilian as quick as possible. and so it was that infrastructure which already existed that overcame the resistance from the top of the national government. would you say? yes, especially because this health care system that we have in brazil that is similar to what has been reference in the u. k. provides institutional

structure. so it's very solid. so our institutions are stronger than any previous already or and temporary government who will not. that might not be supporting this system as much as needed. so obviously there were several and major limitations because it's been under funded chronically. but still it's in place and working and it has the population more to 75 percent of the population actually uses the system regularly and it is structured in a way that locals. our agents are community agents that knock on people's doors and follow the health situation. of the entire family, so they rely on this system. the brazilians rely on this public health system. and that's why vaccination was not such a new idea or challenging idea. despite all the difficulties that we had with

communication. and just goes to show how important that kind of long term investment in education around vaccines, especially around infrastructure and how that re pays off. but when we look to the short term, is it time for brazil now to open up a new year, open up the carnival? is some politicians are suggesting or is that just too early? well, we are going through a new moment. we're learning as time goes by how to deal with the demick and not only from the perspective of the virus and disease, but also as a community, as a global society. so after 2 years of going back and forth with luck, downs, and strict measures, we have to learn how to better handle the situation because it's a much different situation from what we had 2 years ago. as was mentioned in brazil,

we have the majority of the population in major cities like sound polar and rio over 90 percent of the adult population is fully immunized. so even if we have a surge of cases which is likely to happen is already starting at this point, like we see in europe and north america, we expect that hospitalizations and the death toll will be very different and a lot smaller than we had in previous waves, so hopefully and we are preparing for that situation. we will deal with mild disease that will actually create pressure on the health care system, but not in hospital, is it hospitalizations and decimals. ok. and your mentioning in that the will factoring in the, on the cron variant and the new wave which could come from that. so that flexibility is important that as well with dealing with new variance. but i want to move on to, as we saw in the report, the fact that poverty has wasn't in brazil. what's the connection in brazil between

poverty and cove? it well, it's a direct connection as it is, i think, world wide. because as we have to slow down the economy and all the activities, the social activity is those who are more vulnerable, i have less opportunity to earn dear basic needs. and that creates an even bigger difference between dos who have more of the funds and, and the money from, from the country and those who have less access. so this is creating, increasing this difference in brazil and in many other parts of the world. right, well it's a plenty of lessons to learn from brazil. it seems fabulous. thank you very much for that. thank you. and now it's time for you to ask and for us to unzip his if you a question for our signs correspondent derek williams. oh,

can vaccines into pandemic? oh, it's interesting to look on nearly 2 years of reporting on this pandemic and, and realize how much our ways of thinking about some things have changed over that period of time. remember, for instance, when we all more or less thought that if we could just manage to vaccinate 60 to 70 percent of the world, then we'd had heard immunity and, and sars covey to would be conquered and would just sort of magically go away. well, along with vaccine hesitancy in many places, the arrival of new, more highly transmissible variance and waning vaccine induced immunity, of gonna put paid to that idea. experts don't talk about heard immunity much

anymore. and i think that's because it's always been pretty closely associated with the thought that we'd be able to eradicate coven 19. and, and most scientists no longer believed that we'll be able to do that. in fact, most think now that the declaration that the pandemic is finally over when it comes, that it'll be a less of a bang and kind of much more of a whimper. for most experts, the goal has start being to wipe out the disease entirely, but instead to manage it as we do others. and that's where vaccines will play a really major role. though the evidence indicates that vaccines don't do as much as we'd like to hinder the transmission of stars copy to or to stop infection with the virus entirely. they do generally prevent the development of severe symptoms

that can lead to hospitalization and death. so, in that sense, vaccines pan and the pandemic. um not by helping us to wipe out, sorry covey do completely, like. the smallpox vaccine wiped out that pathogen. but instead, by protecting enough people well enough that one day we'll be able to live with coven 19 ike. we already live with the flu boon. and that's it for ya covered 19 special. i'm daniel winter from me and the whole team stay healthy. stay safe and see you again soon. ah, how long does a moment a war and eternity?

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turkey, the street duck brady is an internet star that we start in indonesia, whose beautiful landscape usually attracts visitors from all over the world. the district curve at 19 requirements at a tearing tourist, even on the island of bali. it's a magical way to start your day. hike up to 1700 meters and mount patuto body will reward you. hundreds of tourists from across the world used to make this trek every morning ronald, but who do you go before the pandemic? it was so crowded here that i had no seats left, but now people rarely go up to the volcano. it's tough to deborah the indonesian island is technically open to foreign visitors, but only from certain countries. and a long list of covered 19 restrictions upon arrival has cost international

travelers to stay away. its domestic visitors that have kept struggling hotels alive. well, domestic is definitely has the strongest help for us because we know that international border is not happening any time soon or yet, maybe a few months after. ah, it is actually, we believe that even though later on when the international board is open, the domestic, it will go stronger than before. 60 percent of bonnie's g d. p is attributed to tourism alone. in the past, the rapid growth of the sector led many young people to abandon farming. but that put the island on a weak footing about us. like we put all the eggs in one basket. if something goes wrong, everything will collapse. so bali should develop other sectors to when i say we need at least 3 pillars, a tourism sector, agriculture and

a small industrial sector on the end picked out on district cios back at mount, but tour. there are finally some customers. students from the capital jakarta. i don't feel like it's a good change for the local area. they could explain something new. they contributed that to the situation because there took the pendant through the thirds of industry. right. so they won't, they won't go. they're not trying to grow from their comfort zone, for body to diversify, residency farmers access to markets, capital and technology will have to improve throttle. it's a long term project on an island where everybody's just waiting for the return of foreign tourists. ah, following germany is general election, the country not only has a new government, but many new members of parliament to including our test by as, as the fast black women to represent the interests of her constituency in the

german capital berlin. that there is a lot to do and no time to lose. so i'll wait is for yes. who's has been working a round the clock since the general election that secured her a spot in germany's history books. the eritrea born lawyer had been involved in local politics for years, and then a racist killing spree in her home state, shook her to the court. whitish boy, i don't know why, but the terror attack in her now pushed me over the edge. i thought something has to change. i can't stand this many longer. mishma owls, 10 people were killed in the terror attack. 9 of them 1st and 2nd generation immigrants overcome by the feeling that germany was no longer a safe place for her and her family. she considered leaving the country so wide cut off nurses we are in love, but frankly, it's hard to find

a country that's free of racism from dia, by the next, the old. so the next option was staying all and doing everything possible to fight against discrimination. and racism on so camp here in a rural area of the state of hesser, a woman of color on the ballot is a novelty. but the lack of footsteps to follow was all the more encouragement for the 47 year old to her. it's very clear. you can't be what you can't see. then on slash. well, 3rd or a quarter of else or children have an immigration background. why are we not saying that proportion among taishan was as we should mission, as a school go. i want to see myself reflected in my agency on that same goes for the authorities and now parliament and also knowns on parliament. but as german society grows, more and more diverse statistics revealed that institutions are only catching up very slowly from her small town constituency, straight into berlin,

center of power to her. the reason it took until 2021 for a black woman to get a seat in the bonus tag is clear. unfortunately, because as a structural racism in our country, we miss agnes. and if we say it doesn't matter that i'm blacks, we're ignoring the structural problems him than that means we're not ready to acknowledge that as a black woman, i'm presented with different circumstances and obstacles than a woman who is not allow denise, not a how qualified i am fits yet ish been good, know the new m p has many plans, but the biggest of them all is to serve to others as the role model she herself never had it's an experiment, but it might catch on the spanish city of barcelona is making his streets car free every friday morning. this enables children to safely right to school on their bicycles. liam grand is

focused, it's a special morning on friday's going to school is different. he won't be on the back of his mom's bicycle like on the other days. the 4 year old is riding his own bike, along with dozens of other children here in barcelona. they're taking the bc bush, an organized bike tour to school the little some which of the children love it. it gives them autonomy, noise. and it's something different, something new i would if i didn't, they went over that. ah, it's a party on wheels with music and applause. while the little once they've got the whole street to themselves, normally there would be many cars that would scared, and now they don't need to be afraid. every friday, the way to school is blocked from cars for around an hour. so the kids can cycle, the bc was, is a project organized by parents who want

a change to lay there. that is the idea to make this street more peaceful and other street in the city. even if there are bi claim, be for children like them who are 5 or 6 years old, it is still a little difficult to maintain the direction and the bank like mind there are lots of scooters and bicycles or to people pass by very quickly. and that's sometimes a bit dangerous for the youngest ones, isn't book or barely get also brought up, but i love my spectacular district counsellor pow gonzales supports the initiative . he has just given permission for another route of the bc bush left. you that will . yes, it is very hostile for the boys and girls. this is a way to gain space for them so they can cycle on the streets and go to school. full scale. yes, gordon chose we think liberty, sweet, alkaline. he hopes that soon families can operate the route on their own without the help of the local police. the kiss a loving it because we're all together and we like going by by guiding me. is that

way when it's really good that the children can now cycle without fearing the cause? us glitches the parents also want less cars in the streets to reduce you to emissions. barcelona is in the midst of extending and improving its bike lanes. but the city council needs to take into account all road uses be pedestrians, motorists, or cyclists. the yet those gay that garza oliver routes from home to the school are perfectly walkable is and the bicycle is just another way. that's why we need to treated as another element for this. and this is why we are working and making the school surroundings less busy and also increasing the bike lane and see i feel they lost got elizabeth wida and family friendly bike lanes that us separate from call traffic may pop up in the future. but sick as theater. okay. on kate, i applied even if there are plans that go in that direction and if the city council supports this view, the changes are very slow rescue. yes. some winter until then the party on wheels

continues, and with more and more children joining the beefy was this here to stay. ah, though g the street doug from is stumble, became famous. last summer, he regularly travels through the tuck, his metropolis by train and bus. and now has tens of thousands of fans on social media, people on their way to work. and well g, a completely normal day on public transport in istanbul, ah boise as a stray dog. but he loves travelling around the city to day. we meet him on the european side in the historic ballot district, revoke though he loves it's temple, he sees more of the city them we do, and he doesn't have to buy tickets. that's

a bit unfair. let you meet him in the metro on the bus. he is always relaxed and in a good mood ready to her, go to. i saw him for the 1st time today, but of course i knew him before at in south on so course tre. animals are part of a stumble, but we share our streets and parks with them or that so why not our transfer? we knew about it. no one really knows how long body has been making his way around istanbul. about 3 months ago, more and more people began posting photos of their encounters with him. the dog now even has his own social media accounts and tens of thousands of followers. big city workers are now regularly taking bashi for health checks. they also gave him a collar with a g p s tracker clinical that up to some thought we are tracking his route and

always know where he is. even at night, he travels 30 to 40 kilometers every day, but he also takes brakes along in m into new for example. that's one of his favorite stations. and then sometimes he takes a ferry to cover touch and watches the sea for a while, like in say to do so it's easy to find out where body is running to catch a fairy. but to this day, no one can really say why he's on the go so much. he doesn't seem to be looking for anything specific. never has a be a destination. he one does throw a stumble like a tourist. and if he just barely misses the train, bocce patiently wait for the next one.

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