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a country's economy grow in harmony with its people and the environment when there are doers? who look at the bigger picture? india, a country that faces many challenges and whose people are striving to create a sustainable future clever projects from europe and india eco, india. d w. now, 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 yeah, continues to stick to a dynamic 0 over policy. despite a surgeon cases, we asked if there is a scientific basis to this class as year of corporate policies in place on the chinese mainland as well. it resulted in mos testing and basis. like trying to hide and cautious re openings in cities. electron jen,

and revisiting india's cove and heroes. we meet one man who is generosity, save thousands during india deadly 2nd wave of infections. lafayette, 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 corporate 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, omi, cranberry and hospitals are reeling 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 lamb did announce limited relaxations in the rules. i'm yadda. you pronounce, i don't home, all i get safe. 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 measures would be relax, a law dive over 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 death rate here is even the highest in the world due to the low fascination right among elderly hong kong government has mobile as always, local and patient's resources to pull up plenty of containment facilities. what a number of staff swimming high when seen the flight,

the client and daily impressions in recent days, but as the health care system, riches as limit. so the public tolerance, the hotline they will 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 week? many welcome to shoot and see list 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. if a p d. me ology of is going to public health at the university of hong kong. ben, you're part of the team of epidemiology. 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 to sticking to it? what in the 1st 2 years of the panoramic, it made a lot of sense to follow 0. kobe, we're waiting for faxing 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 would be really the best approach to plan an exit from the carbon social distance. they measures the carbon cobra policy. you know, we had to carry lamb speaking earlier and she was talking but the loosening of some restrictions primarily to do with their 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 divide 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 a viable airline, and that route will be banned for 14 days. so it's not a complete relaxation. and domestically, there's a timeline over the next 3 months to gradually relax one measure off to another. but that's conditional on case numbers staying low. and actually we already know that the case numbers will go up again when schools reopen and when somebody other masons 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'll correspondent was reporting that some 15 percent of our colleagues population has been infected in the current 5th wave of the band damage. 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 cove it 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 conversation we'll be having about covered in hong kong. unfortunately, it's been calling all as a pleasure talking to you. thank you so much. thank you. hon. cons 0. corporate policy reflects the one on the chinese mainland. yeah, 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 filmed by chinese state t. v. a. she arrived 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 from your home and you get out to local parts of china. a seeing a surge in cases is all micron hits the country. the optic is small compared with the west, but beijing is determined to eliminate the outbreak in line with its 0 cove. its strategy it's carrying out must testing. and in places such as g lyn in the north east is looking down millions of people for days. and sometimes a 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. the pandemic is still showing an upward trend, particularly in some countries in regions around china. and the pressure for

china's prevention efforts against virus inflow remains. but signs of a new narrative also starting to emerge as phase grow of the impact of such lockdown. paging is beginning to talk about balancing the health crisis with the needs of the economy. in the southern city of shins, n much was made of the return to work earlier this week. and the reopening 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 screened. 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 a central tenet of citizen service to the community. that includes distributing free food, also known as london. 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 packing longer here to send to the homes of people who are well this is what grew knocked out of the la last year. this commitment to service meet the difference between life and death for thousands of people. india 2nd,

viva corona vidas cases driven by the delta variant over vend hospitals and exhausted oxygen supplied. we visited the camp, set up by cancer, help international to distribute free oxygen with them on it for the need. a 100 oxygen cylinders every 2nd bill and they get it all over and we have each truck scoring supplies all away directly to other chandler. we pay for the oxygen in full and be distributed for free here liver, loving avenue road. 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 delta live given the risks at the oxygen camp. but then to cause a help saved her uncle who read you. my uncle searched everywhere in the state and he couldn't find medical oxygen and 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 out for doors whose lives were saved during this difficult time. drew me is a heal, but he says serving the community is integra to his faith. the temple off was free medical treatment and checkups as well as corona virus, vaccinations and tests that also providing support to families and financial difficulty due to the ban demik warranty by one families wanna go. you've adopted 6 to families who have lost able to administer the kronos on russia, vp their children, school fees, up to be send them food rations and groceries all got very bad. their cost onto one of them can start owning. suddenly rebuttal will things i found right now who are they do there? roger, 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 wireless,

don't scare him. he says he's just trying to live up to his duty to help and that's it for to david of course, more on the court on about a situation in the region on our website. debra dot com forward slash is sharon. of course, you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well be to europe tomorrow for by to the point. strong opinions, so clear position. he says international perspectives. no and insight to proteins. war in ukraine, a civilian casualties. mount nato is doing all it can to avoid being drawn into the fighting. you members are divided over how far to go on to the point where, asking who can help you crane men template with delivered to ukraine.

well, i d, w. yeah. poland. ah, what people have to say matters to us. i am. that's why we listened to their stories. reporter every weekend upon d. w. as proteins war on ukraine continues. there is no end to the bombing, nor the blood shed as civilian casualties. mount europeans look out in frustration at the western inability to hold the fighting. nato is doing all it can to avoid being drawn in the you members are divided over how far to go with weapons deliveries and sanctions. today, we ask, as nato weighs, its options. who can help you crane.