discrimination, inequality, or part of everyday life. for many, we ask why? because life is diversity. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah, the pandemic has caused a lot of suffering and claimed many lives. but it's also cost a lot of money to maintain the current economic system and mitigate the consequences. our focus on this edition of the coven 19 special. what impact as the pandemic had on world wide poverty? and what are its economic and social costs? what lies ahead. we report from uganda and mexico. but 1st, we take a look at the situation in ukraine. millions of people are fleeing the war,

families, women and children are seeking shelter in neighboring countries. and people in many places are pitching in to help. but what does that look like in the middle of a pandemic? will the infection rates and ukraine spin out of control again and in other countries where people are finding shelter? we speak with epidemiologist, be of atlanta of the home health center for infection research in branch by germany . she's taken stock of the medical situation ukraine and in surrounding countries. duncan does is to tighten him. thank you for joining us. could you briefly outline the code 19 situation in ukraine before the russian invasion? devlinson daughter talk, hello. hello. i'm about the data we have from ukraine, shows that the country did experience a very big wave of the army con variance in january and february. it hits perhaps

a little earlier than it did here in germany. the hops be similar to many other countries. it didn't lead to an overly heavy burden on the health care system or to high death rate or to find out about natalie sworn. oh i'm, i'm sure. but obviously there was an increase in the number of hospital cases and death rate. this in that was before the war started, yet mcmann gotten guns. right now of course, we don't have any up to date figures from ukraine because of the war. and now going forward, it's very difficult to predict how the situation will develop our country. it's was thus loosened and yet famous kind of measures need to be taken now to prevent infection rates from spinning out of control in as an unplugged, not just in ukraine but also in other countries that ukrainians have fled to. and also con holligan lit. and i get, this is natalie, it's important to ensure as far as possible, that the situation of those have decided to leave isn't made even more difficult by

infectious disease done well, i think the decisive factor is to ensure that the refugees have access to medical care generally, that applies to the neighboring countries that are taking in refugees and we here in germany can certainly help with that. we have 8 organizations that can go there . we can support those organizations financially that and then we also need to ensure that the refugees have come to us directly, get proper medical care to the flu that can give you like so once korman, i'm the flight them actually finally, are you worried that this mass exodus of refugees, and we don't know how many people it will be yet, and i could give rise to another wave of infections in europe, pine mccoy and clinton disorder. i really don't think that needs to be our concern right now. in germany we have all the tools we need to deal with cove it. we don't need to worry that refugees will cause surges in infections on i certainly don't expect that on the 100 and she and our thank you. bear that lung it epidemiologist

from the hem hud center for infection reset. the war in ukraine could unleash a hunger crisis in africa. the country has one of the main suppliers of wheat and corn, and the african continent is already suffering from the economic effects of the pandemic. but in most countries, there are far too few vaccines available and a shortage of medications. hospital bills are another burden. as a result, many people in uganda risk falling into poverty. when i run some by was diagnosed with co vig 19. he could not be admitted to a private hospital in compiler. he failed to raise the required up front payment of about $2000.00 until a friend convinced his more private clinic to treat him on credit. you ended up in

the post or upfront payment before even to conduct argument. you full full gap, which i did not have that, but shot i am. if you didn't, i will. if i am am, was 17 m may be deposed 8. hm. title. like as like as security should do for, for them to to g. like in victor gets your veil to pay, they take the land data less than $1.00 in 10 ugandans have any health insurance at all. and when the public health care system was overwhelmed by raising current virus rates, many people could not afford private hospitals. some are forced to mortgage their property to afford treatment. the private hospital is had to make a keel out of the pandemic. so it is, it's appraising when he of the defense tories off holding 12 bodies,

people having to a sure that they 1st have to given that kind of books or house taters or things like that seasick ago or sees, she spent more than $50000.00 on medical bills for her parents, she lost both of them in a spine of just 2 weeks. you got paid 20, medium to day. then 2 days later they're bringing another bill. now you've paid 20 to days it had there being another bill that has 14000000 and you're thinking no, maybe my mathematics is wrong. 3 days that had given you never know 7 then 4 days later getting and ever and of 18. so it was just crazy. you woke bank reports that the pandemic has pushed over 40000000 africans into extreme poverty. economists warned that this, the sure economy came button developing countries like uganda even be more severe over the long term. it's, i don't know if it, we're not only going to struggle equipment because we are going to struggle in each

and every sector. the service providers who are not picking their money, we are going to have our own on both of our cases. so people going to sell off, all they had, people meant going to prison. people are going to, people are going to be stressed. we shall have so sight the people who are meeting so say we shall have depression, we shall have none communicable diseases. so unless all health healthcare expense reports that mental illness rates owned arise, new families and individuals are struggling to cope with their loss. is viv suffered for mr. psychological torture, which was whenever, i think about because i or i think i was, they had to say the thought because it thinking if but my playing so gordon and but am i doing here? so i'll close stuff in a room screen, but it still doesn't really make sales c m,

and eventually i good boy able to cuss at me back it's, it just doesn't go our way. it's one of the things that continuously comes very sorry. official figures show that around 20 percent of ugandans have been vaccinated, covered 19 cases and dropped significantly and economy as reopened. to ours, the slowly returning and the nighttime cuff you have been meeting who's of reopened now that you gained as ended, what was the wo, longest closure, but just the worried. some students may not return to class with their big impact as opposed to pause these children. as of said, though, somewhat bruce, somewhere my that so mild are cutting. you can,

there's no restructuring policies to support home grown solutions, including supporting local re, such as into health care system. ah, building your own research facilities isn't easy. from the moment that coven vaccines became available, many have been urging a global patent waiver, along with the transfer of know how and technology then developing countries could produce their own vaccines. but critics say that many pharmaceutical companies are putting profit over human lives, leading to vaccine shortages in many countries, and making it harder to get the pandemic under control. ah, the gym and president funk that a stein maya was in senegal last month. here he visited the construction site for a vaccine factory. in year 3 of the pandemic. the majority of kevin 19 vaccines

still come from western industrialized countries carrying a high price tag. many in africa believe that needs to change. if the battle against coven 19 is to succeed. robin boss on the honey, we have probably never realised as strongly as we do these day. a seal is that you can't successfully battle a virus law if you don't battle it everywhere. does his lunch, bag of fun. we've struggled with that. and so during the time of greatest need, the countries were vaccines were being produced, of course, provided 1st for their own populations and for neighboring countries, which meant very little vaccine. went to africa as is vin, himself in are they gonna come in some african countries, less than 10 percent of the population is fully vaccinated against the crown of ours. and most people can only dream of boost of vaccinations. even medical personnel struggle to get the vaccine. that's because many african countries still

rely on donations from the world health organizations. vaccine program kovacs dodson pot understood on the one hand germany as providing support in the form of vaccine nazarov garret off down the amazon. and on the other hand, we provided money is in a got it hot also to african countries, including senegal, the fertile longest ne, nevertheless, the distribution is not fair. there's argon nikita not every african state has been able to get fair access to vaccines. are become and gun and the challenge is to produce large quantities of vaccine quickly wherever they needed. gym and manufacturer by on tech recently unveiled one possible solution. the bio taina is a complete mini vaccine lat, at short notice it could be transported to africa, south america, or elsewhere with you. they don't take founders as lem today,

etc. and organ. shaheen invited several presidents of african countries to germany for the official launch. far from viewing the pandemic as a disaster, before which we are powerless, we must embrace fully the lessons. it teaches us, as well as the direction to which it is pointing us. in particular, for us in africa and has given us a good sense of how important it is to strengthen our unity and solidarity. and has provided us with the motivation if any, were needed to be self reliant, a complete vaccine laboratory with all the know how might sound good. but elizabeth must sooty from the enjo doctors without borders, says it will at best provide short term mitigation of the problem. but it will not change the unequal distribution of vaccines and the world. because the knowledge of

how exactly an m r in a vaccine is produced, remains in the containers, meaning at by, on tech. so, africa remains dependent on western pharmaceutical firms. can of any of them in the medium and long term it can't go on like this as madonna and vine tech can't cover the huge global demand alone. um yes. now increased by the booster vaccination i needed for the army con variant task. so technologies have to be transferred, mustn't there must be legal certainty for manufacturers. so that more can enter the market and more shots be produced from apple. it's anchor technology and knowledge are the key as researchers here agree, african is africa's only vaccine technology center. it's based in south africa and was set up with the help of the world health organization to address the vaccine shortage, serving as a local platform for sharing technology. it was supposed to be in partnership with us vaccine manufacturer, madonna, but that didn't work out. the model was that we will receive

a technology transfer to in key technology transferred. but that didn't happen. that's because madonna not only wanted to put a time limit on the license to produce its vaccine. the south african scientists would also have been barred from using any of the findings from the joint project in the future. he would like to have the voluntary license to be able to trans of this technology, to other learn middle income countries, to use the platform for other vaccines. h i v t v a bo law flew this hub and, and the capacity capability building here is, is, is beyond cove it. so this, this in fact is part of a strategy from, from africa to produce 60 percent will vaccines by 2040. so this is part of building an industry the argument that free licenses or lifting of patent restrictions makes companies intellectual property worthless is nonsense, says elizabeth,

must sooty of doctors without borders. at least when it comes to cove. it to happen to have the public sector massively helped fund these vaccines had to have it was thanks to taxpayers money that we had them so quickly for the public world. why should benefit to in cynical, the new vaccine plant is due to open early next year and is working with biotech. in the meantime, south africa has managed to make its own am or in a vaccine without the pharmaceutical trials. but it's likely to be several years before it's ready for use in around the world. the pandemic has caused many lives. and along with the social cost, the economic cost is also immense. many people have lost their jobs due to lock downs. some have lost their homes. poverty has increased sharply in many parts of the world. we take a look at the can amik fall out?

he, the coven, 19 pandemic will cost the global economy $12.00 trillion us dollars through 2024. that's according to the international monetary fund. the rapid spread of the virus in 2020 prompted shut downs around the world. but the collapse was short lived when business is reopened, consumer demand is searched, that led to shortages of manufacturing components, such as computer chips. as a result, many carmakers, mobile phone manufacturers and home appliance companies have been forced to shut down factories around 462000000 jobs will be lost by 2023 according to an estimate by the international labor organization or i l. o, all as a direct consequence of the pandemic. for many people around the world, less income translates directly to less food on the table, before the pandemic,

673000000 people were undernourished worldwide. last year that number increased to 811000000 according to the german and g o val toga children's suffered the most globally schools were fully or partially closed for an average of 224 days. that's one and a half academic years. many children have lost basic numeracy and literacy skills. the pandemic has led to the worst education crisis on record. unicef warns the ultimate price tag of the pandemic could be irreversible harm caused to children's education nutrition, and while big resulting in a lost generation sch . oh, the pandemic is wiped out millions of jobs around the globe in mexico. more than

2000000 people lost their jobs during the past 2 years. 7 out of 10 are women. many women who did find a new job or started a business have seen their earnings drum. mm. women already earned less on average than men. and the pandemic has only made that worse. ah, alene gonzalez, works from home, she's an expert on digital marketing. last year she lost her job and was forced to explore other options. so she set up her own agency, but she faces huge competition. many mexicans who were laid off during the pandemic, never got their jobs bag, or could only find lower paid work. eileen gonzales is former employer said she could have a job back. but for half the pay. the reason due to the pandemic, she had to care for her children alongside her work,

says so my ill is get the innocent. they argue that if you have kids at home, you can't concentrate on your job as well. and you can't come to the workplace or choose the hybrid option of working half in the office and half at home until cisco . so the boss says, i'm a good bossy. i'll let you work from home. but for just half your full salary, bali salary of no one, no limit that's allowed. 2 years into the pandemic, women's participation in the mexican workforce is at its lowest level since 2006. gonzalez is talking to her friend ideas and bronner in some 5 years ago. she set up the platform, mama go dean, to help women, re enter the workforce and balance work life with family. zambrano thinks the slow reintegration of women into the labor market is due to lack of support from the government and private companies. oh, she notes how much leave new mothers get compared to new fathers? if that is for the thunder, when it reinforces the gender stereotype that women stay home and take care of

others like what? so women get 84 days leave to take care of their new baby. whereas men only get 5 days off. the think of the as a iep was yeah, the pandemic has disproportionately affected women since they largely careful children who spent lots of time at home while schools were shut. for many, the only solution was to start their own business. but most of mexico's 5000000 women entrepreneurs work informally. they're not officially registered, they pay no taxes and also earn less researcher ingrid chavez has noticed this trend. elderly loaded built, we see their earning less unimed for will entrepreneur owns around 2 and a half times less than one with a registered business. and so while an official entrepreneur might me 9000 pesos a month, and in official one gets just 3500 milking impulse pretzels, women wanting to register a formal company face many hurdles,

along with considerable costs and time consuming bureaucracy. there's the challenge of getting a loan less than 30 percent of mexican women who apply receive funding to invest in a business. allen gonzalez is one of the few who wanted to register an official company. but even though she is financially secure, no bank would give a business loan to this single mother of 2 bill. you don't grade though. when you apply for a loan, while they always ask about your marital status healthy, then they want to know if you have children and how much you earn the whole and not i have male friends who are single and they get lonely. so he can get at the thought a clear lack of equal opportunities that the pandemic has only made worse. many countries were already swamped by trash. before the pandemic it

now covered 19 related waste is making the situation worse. discarded, syringes and protective equipment used masks. and tests kids have piled up to fiji amounts of additional medical wished posing a threat to human health and the environment. our correspondent tuleya on took a look at how the turkish city of the stumble is coping with the challenge. 6 6 6 6 ah, dozens of bags of medical waste. and that's just what's been piling up here at this is stumble hospital for the last 2 days. savings card in his and her team while making sure that everything is wrapped safely. when the garbage truck arrives, us that angel and hi fi, almost everything that comes into contact with the patients is disposed of as

medical waste. even if we throw away gloves and mosques and the protective suits, we were chosen that all this waste has, of course, increased during the pandemic. listen to the copy of the artifact mood. there has always been a lot of trash and east ambles hospitals. the city has $16000000.00 inhabitants, but according to official figures, the amount of medical waste here has increased by several 1000 tons per year since the pandemic began. and this is where it all ends up in a facility of the stumble municipality specially equipped for health care waste. long room was them. we worked, james sterilization heroes. her wilson's waste is heated, under high pressure to a $140.00 degrees celsius in the effort for this kills all viruses and eliminates the risk of infection after that, the waste and miss safely disposed of at a regular landfill. her mother got a bertha robin pandemic related garbage is

a global problem. the world health organization estimates that 3400000000 single use masks with thrown away every day in 2020, according to the w h. o. even before the pandemic around a 3rd of healthcare facilities were not able to safely manage their waste. the result in many countries, masks, syringes and positive coal. the tests end up unsecured in landfills. and that's a huge problem for health experts, one low. when you're mixing all your waste together, so this means you have your non infectious mixed. the are infectious, all of it could be coming infectious, covert 19 has created an enormous amount of extra waste. we have to start addressing it and we can no longer ignore the fact that there are human health and

our environment house is being negatively impacted by, by this extra waste. here in turkey, the pandemic may lead to the whole garbage challenge being taken more seriously. most household waste is collected in a single bin with hardly any separation. only about 12 percent are being recycled. the government has promised to significantly improve that rate. nevertheless, the waste will probably not decrease in the foreseeable future. and not here in the hospital either. we're 7, she counted in his and her team and sure that the remnants of the pandemic, a correctly disposed of her. oh, that's all for this edition of our coven. 19 special, with a focus on the social and economic costs of the pandemic. on our

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