who successes in a weekly coven, 19 special. next on d. w. a thought they will grade a b . o. o, at the height of the cove at 19 pandemic, many countries imposed tough restrictions to protect their populations from the potentially deadly disease. at times with little regard to the collateral economic and social fall out in this week show we're talking about cov 19 and human rights.

welcome to talk a bit 19 special. in south africa, unemployment has sort job lesson destitute people everywhere on the streets of johanna's back. crime is rampant. does science of a new prospects for the african country? in cape town, scientists succeeded in developing their own m. r n a vaccine in just one year. but fast to china, since november, protests have broken out against strict locked down d. w reports that hang showing li, explains why. 6 0, no, i don't. the communist party cheating things step down. it's video which reported the shows protested in shanghai has been watched over 2000000 times online. it's

been decades since so many people in china wrist repercussions by public key voicing their anger on the streets and on social media. i never thought that there would be a day where we could raise our voices like this. you're all so brave, please protect yourselves. for 3 years people have suppressed their emotions. now they've reached their limit. your test is moon, the victims of fire that broke out in a rim chee, they're also demanding a relaxation of cov, it restrictions. many locals suspect that the lockdown measures on the reason the 10 victims couldn't escape, does not us dignity. and these are all things that people know from their everyday lives by cotton oscar bolt. the other, when there are positive cases and a residential building, one barricades are erected in the front and the building stores are blocked or locked. but even apart from that, people have come to feel that these policies have gotten out of hand. we know that

they've become irrational, wrong, that it's no longer about protecting lives and to some extent achieves exactly the opposite in co washed. they ching has been scrambling to contain major outbreaks since the omicron variant emerged which led to a seemingly never ending cycle of locked downs and mass testing. public descent has continued to grow despite censorship efforts. some videos are still circulating online like this one about harsh lot downs in shanghai. in april. personal tragedies were shared online, including stories about children being separated from their parents in quarantine. for this one from a father for he says that delays in treatment caused by coping restrictions lead to his child's death or for the to conversica that's locked on to aside from the other problems of the lock downs. or, of course, a massive burden on the economy. china had originally forecast 5.5 percent g d p growth for this year,

but it's not likely to meet that for also. now mr. allies can come on, doesn't understand the statistics, aren't just numbers in there. are people behind the statistics mentioned to you the thought table who run restaurants or were can tourism in when i do them and they're all in a terrible economic situation. shim accomplishing drugs on 0. hi, there is president cheating pings signature policy that he has championed personally after he secured his historic 3rd term. china did loosen some measures in early november, but bating insisted it was not a return to business. as usual. china can't afford to drop all measures. that's because paging decided to stick with his own less effective covert vaccines. and vaccination rates in the most vulnerable group are relatively low, only around 2 thirds of people over 60 of had 3 shots. again of holes. it's, we estimate that there are about a 190000000, older people in china with chronic diseases like diabetes or high blood pressure

doesn't out. so those are additional risk factors. bannister, what i'm the china will have to address this problem if they want to avoid an exit wave that would result in extremely high death tolls. fine, mrs. clinton wouldn't pay. jane has now announced a vaccination drive for the elderly and move that could be the 1st step towards lifting pandemic controls. china has eased some kobe restrictions following the recent wave of protests. but this isn't a sign that the authorities are completely backing down on the country. beijing has vowed to crack down on what it calls hostile forces. a warning that dissident voices could pay a high price. in china is not an isolated case. according to a un report covey 19 restriction measures have violated human rights around the world, uganda also imposed strict locked down. d w reporter julius mcgann,

well spoke with the victims of police violence that twice harker. baker shows us the scars on his body. he's accused the compiler police of a sato are bowling during the pandemic and security officers and forced to lock downs and restrictions on movement by any means necessary will duty. our in our sink. i had a border border. is alice, he got it. would i would, i was stopped by 3 police officers writing on motorcycles, a bona bordeaux was campbell apple vocal around while violently dragged me off my motorcycle in and started beating me up a vessel in about what i and grover. i was wounded by a bayonet for chum loan. i still have a scar and is in guy. fingers were beaten and you can still see what they did to me or does it does in canal canadian rad you. quinn are now co nayika

for journalists, reporting on such human rights abuses was also difficult and even dangerous. david callian colo filmed security officers enforcing the nightly curfew in his neighbourhood. as he says, the police later came to his home and assaulted him outside on his verandah, beating him until he lost consciousness. cut the nobody'd on them, and gum city out of your home. i suddenly felt a sharp pain in my head before i lost consciousness, nothing ada nazena quiz. maybe i regained it 2 days later at the hospital, but couldn't wanting it out. why the doctors told me that i almost died oh, wrung, i'm bound. what got o quality? a rumble gandy. according to the uganda human rights commission, such abuses rose sharply during the pandemic security agencies, including the local defence units or l. d. u,

often acted arbitrarily and without oversight, the ugandan army says these violations were punished. the big issue is if m l o d u violated rates of the pollution whether or not you saw a quote to set and they were taken to meet the truck, whoops. and they were charged dance in test and some of them up to now and still solving their sentences. but many victims including 12 haka bega, were reluctant to report cases involving the security forces. sour . no, no, i didn't bother to report the case to the police. i just told my parents about it and got treatment for the injuries that, as you may know, sometimes people report an incident, but no action is taken in his book, quarantined ugandan academic and cartoonist. jimmy spire sentato recounts his own ordeal in the ugandan isolation center. at the outset of the pandemic. he insists

that the ugandan state needs to be held accountable for violations of basic rights, even during times of crisis. the cartoons, which depicted injustices and human rights violations during the pandemic, are a powerful indictment of these abuses of power, new food. the modern documents are experiences, then we dont have reference point internet points may be in future when a want to make a reflection on how to handle them bitter. it's like everything easily gets forgotten because that was a period of z as though of darkness where people on freely daughter when they failed to equal to ah, when everyone was in panic. in late september, you gone to declared a new outbreak of ebola caused by the sudan strain of the virus or which no vaccine is available. once again, locked downs and quarantines are being opposed to contain a virus. the ugandan military says it's now working more closely with human rights

groups to put basic rights at the forefront of managing the health emergency la got on the president, although they are claiming they were trained to mil to we have a much, much finer. a local defense unit, we have a thinking about if any other challenge comes in late, we are senior bullock, i'm in good order. these agencies will come on board and we are able to walk to wheeler, more harmonious li value before. on december 2nd, the last known bowl a patient left the hospital, but the lockdown and the 2 high risk districts was extended. another $21.00 days the incubation period of the abolla virus. oh, pandemic restrictions were also imposed in south africa for a long time to prevent the further spread if the coven 19 virus. the subsequent economic downturn has exacerbated social inequalities. their many south africans have lost their jobs and are now doing everything they can to make ends meet

electrician steven moya, gets up at 5 every morning and pounds the pavement of johannesburg in search of work. even if he finds it, he earns 30 euros at most. but those good days are now few and far between. the economic impact of the coven 19 pandemic continues to be felt here, especially in disarray, managed communities. this is, listen is ways nobody's coming to i us and i'm leaving water dog and i get money for food in the money to pay the rent. says this lawyer boy made says uncovered, have gone in south africa. the economic decline is catastrophic. in the wake of what were some of the strictest locked downs in the world? an estimated 10000000 people are out of work. many have been left with nothing but the generosity of strangers to rely on

now there's no work and i've given up looking. now i try to make money by dancing and begging, coven made things even worse. crime 2 is on the rice ramp and infrastructure theft is putting even more strain on an economy that's expected to grow. fight is 2 point one percent and 2022 in shall. 10 province, south africa, economic heartland, railway services have nearly come to a standstill. thieves and vandals, a remarking tracks and stripping railway stations, bare in johannesburg, local authorities are struggling to cope with the rise and cable theft, which has been leaving residents and businesses in the dark

mid day of the supply is still been eliza because of the number of people who are unemployed and sitting at home with nothing to do fast, and vandalism are increasing called me to school for the main. so we're trying very hard to keep up until about and people are often left without power for hours on end, middle, with a stall in teams like this one are working day in and day out repairing outages caused by cable theft or not i ali, but analysts are concerned that the current economic slump could be hard to turn around, and that the coven pandemic may have tipped the country into a downward spiral. you since april 2020, when the locked downs began, uncovered really hit hard was one of the highest mortality rates. we've saw the amplification, the acceleration of our contradictions, unemployment soaring 10 percent to about 45 percent. you know, you can compare that to early thirty's, germany,

which was part of the problems that created naziism and then austerity. and i fear that the right wing tendencies when you have these explosions, rioting, and looting and xenophobic attacks. these will get even worse in the coming years. large scale civil unrest already swept through parts of south africa in 2021. poverty is also at least in part to blame for the rise and aggression and violence against the estimated 2900000 immigrants who live in the country. ah, local vigilante groups have been carrying out checks on shops owned by foreigners. yeah, that is done. it's only for it though they have no legal authority. they've been making unofficial visits to foreign own businesses to check for expired goods and for owners immigration status. yeah, but you're not allowed to be, isn't it?

so now that is going to be a problem. so let's go to your papers. south africa is teetering on the edge of a social and economic precipice. and the pandemic is only partly to blame. south africa kept extending its locked down period because there were tears you, vaccines available in the country to enable low and middle income countries to produce their own vaccines. in the future, the world health organization is promoting the transfer of knowledge with an m r. renee hub in cape town, sheesh, how is an m r in a vaccine produced south african scientists explain the role dna plays in the process to visitors from an indian pharmaceutical company. with all the links that you are a non degree. that's exciting part of the general perceptions

and the building of capacity. so don't forget contribute to the knowledge base of exist um and training the rest of the world and not just a receiver. this program will allow companies that have the capacity to actually start to produce various vaccines. that means if they say an outbreak next time of a, of a different kind of virus or bacterial, but it's happened in pandemic. nevertheless, the companies will have the capacity to actually respond quickly to that condemning because they will have in house capacity to produce vaccines. the training takes place at the m r in a vaccine hub in cape town, run by the company average in, in just one year. scientists here developed a candidate m r in a cove vaccine based on publicly available data on the modern vaccine. the world health organization is supporting the hub to transfer this expertise to other low and middle income countries,

before covey. and the postcolonial things has changed. the people are helping each other, they want help each other to make her the. so citing the back of it. that's why we are here with our flat vision is the have the technology, we have the facility we have infrastructure, we can make took a biological e is a leading vaccine manufacturer in india. it also plans to go into m r and a vaccine production scientist arvin, to whom our jane researched him, are in a technology at oxford university until 2018. then he gave that up, believing it would be at least 30 years before the technology would be ready. but the pandemic changed all that. now he's responsible for developing an m r and a platform for his indian employer. once you had the technology in your hand, you know how to handle them. i mean, it's very easy to switch from one vaccine, another exit. so obviously the 1st written is going to be costly for you as of landing as of manufacturing setting of everything. but once you have it, do you have it?

you can make vixen of almost anything you want. researchers have already started using m r n a technology to produce t b, e, bola and cancer. vaccines house by this name, cook has to pay attention to build. do to die this c 5, the global vaccine manufacturing landscape. and i think that is the beauty of that . you cannot have pandemic prepaid miss if you have centralized vaccine manufacturing. we've all said neighborhood. never again. can you find the continent not having access to vaccines? because he doesn't have the ability to produce it's its own vaccine. so we're going to keep them a maintenance, some civil society organizations, fear that could be conflicts with big pharma, for example, over patent infringement. why? but not every one is worried that this could affect vaccine production in south africa. walk be we can either license from them or we can invent around it. and that's what, that's actually what i farm accompanies do. because in any area,

generally somebody else is doing something in that area. so they go look at the patterns and go and see if they can invent around them. and you know, some of the patents that are relevant because we don't need to use our particular process. so no, i don't think it's, it's going to be an issue. the bio pharmaceutical company bio vac in cape town has already made a technology transfer deal with pfizer. the state back companies, freezer farm with a 130 refrigerators is ready. they could produce up to 100000000 doses the year. i don't think what we have seen in terms of export bands that we've seen in other countries, supply material shortages. i don't think that threats has gone away. each has maybe subsided because the pandemic, you know, and infectious right is not that high. but we haven't solved those issues to say what will actually happen next time. countries have him come out and said, okay,

i did an export ban, but next time i won't, nobody has actually said that. so the thought is actually really alive. and, you know, again, you know, nationalistic interests are likely to take this the next on both bio back and african, the major partners of the m. r. n. a hub, are urging their government to maintain support for the industry. amid fading global interest in the pandemic, the u. s. and the unit of manufacturing entities were pulled on uncivilized structures of suffix subsidizing and suppose from governance. la mil income countries are asking for exactly the same. we ask our li dish to have a loan. dempsey t v and not to shorten beer. so we've done analysis in south africa, one a $1.00 investment in local manufacturing in certain sectors. and of course, vaccine would be video i multiplied effectively, can give $13.00 of economic value back into the country to, excuse development, stimulating already direct foreign investment. as the scientists from india wrap up

their training, they're optimistic about starting to produce m r n a vaccines back home next year. and in cape town, the next scientists from synagogue and tunisia are ready and waiting here here. ah, one african country that seems to have whether the pandemic relatively well is nigeria . dr. ag i book and has been a practicing physician in the west african country for decades. he became infected with cove at 19, at work. as a medical professional, he closely observed the effects the disease had on his body or m. y checked my stuart. i noticed that still he didn't decrease any such risha. as i determined go to about 85 percent oxygen saturation. i had to call them dr. acora in charge of the could

be sent and i told him, i'm bringing myself in for admission and do my stay in the, in the cold war. them i, well, many of the date i had seen was cases until yes, my harmony was afraid. my wife was my mother, i was the was found when i left my bed to have my back. oh, use the toilet is indicia what's the step breathlessness and you understand the need for oxygen gain of this. the oxygen, honda, though, as we call it, would appreciate it more efficient. who tells you i cannot brief as a help walk to vote country after you've governed, conical it will prove, gradually, and day was discharged. if we did the test, the coffee,

the p. c. r. test on discharge about 2 weeks after the 1st 2 tish and i was doing a cleaning of hilton king built. so im back home with my daughter. so my wife of m dash do you have questions about cov, at 19 d. w signs reported derek williams is on cit, hundreds, a few questions. this time cats about wanted to know how do the average symptoms from i'm a concept variant infections can pass when i'm a chron hit last year, experts everywhere worried about a couple of questions. first was how infectious the new variant would prove to be compared to its 4 runner delta. and of course, it quickly became clear that alma pon was a lot more infectious. the 2nd question that had every one holding their breaths

was whether alma cron symptoms would prove more severe than delta symptoms were and, and there was this kind of huge collective sigh of relief when the opposite proved true. now there are, of course, plenty of exceptions, but in general, an infection with an om across sub arrogant is less likely to send you to the hospital or intensive care station than one with delta or, or earlier versions of the virus. the big reason why experts think is because sub variance in the army chron family as a rule, are less likely to penetrate deep into your lungs and, and lead to life threatening pneumonia. they're more likely to remain in the upper respiratory tract. some studies have shown that i'm a crohn is

a lot less effective at infecting lot, sells then delta and earlier variance of sars covey to war. another off sided belief among healthcare authorities is that by this point in the pandemic wide spread previous exposure and or vaccination, are unlikely ramping up. immune defense is much faster when people are freshly infected, and that helps keep their symptoms from spiraling out of control researchers. so far are detecting any major differences and the symptoms caused by different i'm a chron sub variance. though they vary from patient to patient. of course. the list often includes having a runny nose, a sore throat, fatigue, headache and sneezing. so, so ones that you'd associate more with a bad cold or, or bronchitis,

doctors are also reporting that patients are much less likely to complain of a loss of smell and taste or, or of breathlessness which were frequent symptoms caused by earlier arrogance. ah, that's it for today's program. next week. among other things, we'll look at how uganda managed to get the burleigh outbreak under control until then good by and take care. and with, with,

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