a impact with because change doesn't happen on its own. make up your room, mind w. need for mines. this is did up the news asia coming up today. i look at the corporate situation across the region, beginning with hong kong. the government jack continues to stick to a dynamic 0 over policy. despite a certain cases, we asked if there is a scientific basis to this class 0 corporate policies in place on the chinese mainland as well. it's resulted in mass testing and bases like shanghai and cautious re openings in cities, lecture and john and revisiting in yes, covey. tito's we meet one man whose generosity saved thousands during india deadly

secondary infections. last yeah, ah i'm british energy, welcome to the dublin news asia. glad you could join us. a leading scientist in hong kong has asked the government to consider moving away from the cities 0 over strategy. stringent travel and quarantine cubs are currently in place in the city. despite them. hong kong has seen a surgeon covered cases driven largely by the highly transmissible omicron barrier and hospitals are reading under the pressure. and the city also has one of the highest vitality rates from the virus in the developed world. the hong kong government is following b. genes lead when it comes to it's 0 corporate strategy. but earlier in the week, chief executive carrying them did announce a limited relaxations in the rules. i'm ya, they go, you pronounce,

i don't home go, i get chief, there's no sign of a rebound. and the trajectory of cove it outbreaks showing signs of going down, starting from april the 21st. we will be relaxing, most of the social distancing measures in 3 phases over 3 mummy, which means most of the meshes would be relax a la di both and the way for when the law and the deborah correspondent, phoebe kong is in hong kong and filed this report on the current situation in the city. over 1000000 people about 15 percent of hong kong population have been infected in the latest wave. that deaf right here is even the highest in the world due to the low fascination right among elderly hong kong government has mobile is always local and patient's resources to pull up plenty of containment facilities. what a number of staff swimming high with seeing the flight, the client and daily impressions in recent days. but as the health care system,

riches as the limit. so the public tolerance, the hotline to cover the pros has check a mosque collapse of businesses and extra. those of a battery is prompting authorities to change of handling up the backlash. flight ban will be live to city. why mass testing is put on hold social distance and measures, maybe relaxing, coming weeks? many welcome to shoot and see this as a potential roadmap to no multi. although the 5th is company, they carry them tonight at hong kong. we're going to live with a fires before her. this is a political and economic dilemma. the hong kong has become the hardest part of china. but now it seems in feasible to adopt a chinese way of containment here on the ground. and joining me now for more is professor ben calling his chat of every day. me ology that's going to public health at the university of hong kong. ben, you're part of the team of a p. d. me ologist. gabriel. learn at your university, which is suggesting that the government should consider moving away from the 0

corporate policy. is there any scientific basis just sticking to it? what in the 1st 2 years of the panoramic, it made a lot of sense to follow 0, kobe were waiting for vaccine coverage to go up until then we're protecting public health. now, in hong kong, more than 60 percent of the population have been infected. we have a very high level of vaccine coverage in elderly. it is not that high, but it's going up. i don't think there's really any need to continue with 0 cove it in the medium to long term. in a very short time, we got to be careful. we got to buy a little bit more time for banking companies to go up in the elderly. but i think it will be really the best approach to plan an exit from the current social distance. they measures the common cobra policy, you know, we had to carry lamb speaking earlier and she was talking about the loosening of some restrictions primarily to do with the travel restrictions and also social distancing measures. does that help in the medium term?

well, although there's an announcement that some of these measures are going to be relaxed, the degree of relaxation at the moment is actually not that much. for example, for the travel restrictions, there's still a 7 day quarantine for, for liveing travelers. i'm only maybe a 1000 people per day can arrive into hong kong because of the limitations on the rooms and airlines, we still have the pos possibility of 14 day moot band. although they can in theory fly in. if there's 3 or more people on a flight, the test positive on arrival, that airline and that route will be banned for 14 days. so it's not a complete relaxation. and domestically as a timeline over the next 3 months to gradually relax one measure after another. but that's conditional on case number staying low. and actually we already know that the case numbers will go up again when schools reopen and when somebody other missions relax and i'm not sure in that sense, i'm not sure how much relaxation they will be in the next 3 months. and talk to us a bit about those case numbers because i got one that was reporting that some 15

percent of hong kong population has been infected in the current 5th wave of the band demik. how much was going to get? well, what we know is there's more than a 1000000 confirmed cases, that's 15 percent, but we know many people were infected without being confirmed. that's the same everywhere in the world. we estimate that more than 60 percent 60 percent of the population were infected. within the last 2 months, we had a lot of severe cases of coven in the elderly who would not vaccinated for now, actually, because of the level of immunity we have from 60 percent of the population attracted 80 percent of the population vaccinated as well. really doesn't pose as much of a threat now and into the future as it had in the past. but still, as i said, the vaccine coverage and elderly is not that height is increasing, but it's not that high. so we still have to be a little bit careful at right now at the moment. bent, holding,

we'll leave it there for the time being, but i suspect this is not the last on the session you'll be hearing about covered in hong kong. unfortunately, been calling all as a pleasure talking to you. thank you so much. thank you. on kong, a 0 corporate policy reflects the one on the chinese mainland sher local locked towns and mos testing have been the norm. but lately greater attention has been paid to minimizing the economic impact of these measures. a pregnant woman infected with cov 19 is film by chinese state t. v. a. she arrives at the hospital. she's about to have an emergency sarian. the birth goes well, we're told the baby boy is healthy and test negative for covert but the scene shows the lens. china is going to to stop the spread of the omicron variant. all involved are wearing triple personal protective equipment mojo single. and this

health expert explains how mother and baby will now be separated for at least 10 days or so to make sure the newborn does not catch the disease. who's from your home and you get out to local parts of china, a seeing a surgeon cases is on the con, hits the country. the optic is small compared with the west, but beijing is determined to eliminate the outbreak in line with its 0 cobit strategy. it's carrying out must testing. and in places such as g, lynn in the north east, is looking down millions of people for days. and sometimes weeks on end to change, you will occur from a global perspective. coven 19 is still in the pandemic period. on it is still a public health emergency of global concern use. the pandemic is still showing an upward trend, particularly in some countries in regions around china. and the pressure for china's prevention effort against virus inflow remains. but signs of

a new narrative are also starting to emerge as fears grow of the impact of such locked downs. paging is beginning to talk about balancing the health crisis with the needs of the economy in the southern city of tion. then much was made of the return to work earlier this week and the re opening of most businesses with talk of beijing, taking a more customized approach to closures to ensure a stable supply chain. and in shanghai where cases have reached an all time high authorities were quick to try to staunch rumors. that's another city wide, lockdown was coming. they said neighborhoods, there will be closed and screamed one by one. in india, daily covered infections have fallen to their lowest level in more than a year. at least 60 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated. booster shots have been given to the elderly and most covered restrictions have been lifted

. a very different situation to last year, when a deadly 2nd wave of the virus was sweeping across the country at the time, many stepped forward to help those in need. did others nameesha jess while caught up with one such individual these men were volunteering their time to practice essential tenet of sexism, service to the community. that includes distributing free food, also known as lung that no longer good breathed thing to me. the head of this temper says that these meals will go out to the homes of good on our spacious way. there is no discrimination quarter to got members of every community sit together to ag number of your even backing longer. here to send to the homes of people who are well, this is what grew knocked out of last year. this commitment to service meet the difference between life and death for thousands of people. india 2nd wave of corona

vidas cases driven by the delta variant over vend hospitals and exhausted oxygen supplied. we visited the camp set up by call to help international to distribute free oxygen with them on it for vivian benito, 100 oxygen cylinders every 2nd building. really all or if we have a truck scoring supplies all away india regular to order a trailer, we pay for the oxygen in full and be distributed for free here. liberated loving over here. in 6 weeks, the camp helped over 14000 people. deeper was one of the warranty years at the medical center. her family didn't want her to walk during the belt of if given the risks at the oxygen camp. but then of course, a help saved her uncle. already you. my uncle searched everywhere in the state and he couldn't find medical oxygen, atom. he finally got help here or say, now my family completely supports my decision to work here. i feel proud of being

part of this crowd of 4 doors whose lives were saved during this difficult time. drew me is a heal, but he says serving the community is integrity to his feet. the damping off was free medical treatment and checkups as well as corona, vitus vaccinations and tests. they're also providing support to families and financial difficulty due to the pandemic, wendy by confirmed his mom, negative adopted 6 to families who have lost able to administer the kronos on russia, vp the children's school fees up to be send them food rations and groceries all got very bad, they're costing onto one of them against our own in chattanooga about. oh well things are tom right now. we are going into the room. but drew me says his team is already speaking to medical experts to find out how to prepare for the next wave. his own bouts with the good on, our riders don't scare him. he says,

he's just trying to live up to his duty to help. and that's it for today will of course more on the court on about a situation in the region on our website. the devil dot com. forward slash is sharon. of course you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well. me to europe tomorrow for bye. ah, she's up to date. don't miss our highlights. the d w program on mine, d, w dot com highlights. ah, hello guys, this is the 77 percent. the platform for africa is you to defeat issues and share ideas. ah, you know, or this channel, we are not afraid to happen. delicate. the topic, african population is growing fast.

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a major supplier of grains cooking oil than other food items to the rest of the world for both producing food and getting it to the rest of the world is becoming increasingly difficult for ukraine. some farmers fear it will soon be impossible. ah, farmer said he. vann york helps with the birth of a calf and animal that will need to be fed. despite the war, this farm west of keith is still operational and to ensure the supply of food. farmers are now allowed to continue working on their farms and don't have to fight in the war. but one of the main problems for farmers is that they can't export most of their harvest as they usually do. that means no money coming in to sewing new crops. well the numbers look bad is almost 500 tons of grain behind me where you have a lot of.