ah, discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites with d. w world heritage 360. get out now. these places in europe or smashing all the records. step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you will record breaking sites on google maps. you to know also in book form with 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 alcove it. 19 special. in south africa unemployment has sort. jobless and destitute. people are everywhere on the streets of johanna's bag. crime is rampant. does science of a new prospect for the african country? in cape town, scientists succeeded in developing their own m r renee vaccine in just one year. but fast to china, since november protests have broken out against strict lockdown, dw reports out of hang showing li, explains why. oh, there they don't. the common, it's marteen sheeting things step down. this video, which reportedly shows protest is in shanghai has been watched over 2000000 times

online. it's been decades since so many people in china risk repercussions by public key voicing the 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 the pressed their emotions. now they've reached their limit. your test is moon victims at a fire that broke out in or m t. 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 as 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 is that it's no longer about protecting lives and to some extent achieves exactly the opposite. in college. 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 mouth 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 call the cigarettes 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 work and tourism in either them and they're all in a terrible economic situation. shim accomplishing drugs or seawright tow it 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 bathing insisted it was not a return to business. as usual. china can't afford to draw all measures. that's because pages decided to stick with its 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 as we estimate that there are about a 190000000,

older people in china with chronic diseases like diabetes or high blood pressure doesn't was those are additional risk factors. pharmacy will, i mean 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. quinton 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 cobit restrictions following the recent wave of protests. but this isn't a sign that the authorities are completely backing down on the country. badging 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 u. n. report, coven, 19 restriction measures have violated human rights around the world. uganda also

imposed strict lockdown. d. w reporter julius mc gambler spoke with the victims of police violence that twice harker bigger shows us the scars on his bodies. he's accused the compile, a police of a soft taco ob, rolling back during the pandemic on security officers enforced locked downs and restrictions on movement by any means necessary duty. our in our sink, i in 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 lay violently dragged me off my motorcycle in and started beating me up every so in about what i and grover, i was wounded by a bayonet which um mon, i still have a scar nisan, and guy fingers were beaten and you can still see what they did to me or does it does in canal canadian rad you quinn or naco 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. he says the police later came to his home and assaulted him outside on his verandah, beating him until he lost consciousness. hutton was an old. he'd em gum cynically out of your home. i suddenly felt a sharp pain in my head before i lost consciousness that the gator nazena quiz. maybe i regained it 2 days later at the hospital. oh, hold on what to get out. wine. doctors told me that i almost died oh, wrung amount. what cut or oh, quality of 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 you gotten an army says these violations were punished. the big issue is if m l o d u violated rates of the pollution weather was not you. so look, what's the sat and they were taken to muted records and they were charged to dance in test and some of them up to now and still solving their sentences. but many victims, including 12 hock, a beggar, 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 a 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 document such experiences, then we dont have reference point internet points may be in future when want to make reflection on how to handle them better. 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 think will do. ah, when everyone was in panic. in late september, uganda declared a new outbreak of ebola caused by the sudan strain of the virus for which no vaccine is available. once again, locked downs and quarantine 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 leg got on the president order. they are training, they were trained to mer to. we have a much, much finer 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 will more on one yesterday. but before on december, 2nd, the last only 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, condemning restrictions were also imposed in south africa for a long time to prevent the fat, the spread. if the coven 19 virus, the subsequent economic downturn has exacerbated social inequalities. there many south africans have lost their jobs and,

and 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 disadvantaged communities. these vision is ways for nobody's coming to hire us. and i'm leaving water dog and i get money for food in the money to pay . the rent says there's no employ made susie covered 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 those. there's no work and i've given up looking now i try to make money by dancing and begging or cove it made things even worse. crime too 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 and shall ting province. south africa's economic heartland. railway services have nearly come to a stand still. thieves and vandals are 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

may d of otherwise still been eliza because of the number of people who are unemployed in sitting at home with nothing to do it theft and vandalism are increasing called me the school for the main. so we're trying very hard to keep up to about. and people are often left without power for hours on end, middle with a, 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. yet since april 2020, when the lockdown 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 thirties,

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. yaks, madison. 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, yeah, but you're not allowed to be isn't it? so now that is going to be a problem. so grow 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 the material 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 n . a hub in cape town. shush, how is an m r in a vaccine produced south african scientists explained 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 changing of perceptions

and the building of capacity. so don't forget contribute to the knowledge base of exist on entering the rest of the world and not just a receiver. this program will allow companies who have the capacity to actually start to produce various auctions. that means that an outbreak next time of it, of a different virus or bacterial. but it's happened in front of the less the companies will have the capacity to actually respond quickly to the funding make because they will have in house capacity to produce vaccines. the training takes place at the m r n. a vaccine hub in cape town, run by the company average in, in just one year scientist here developed a candidate m r n, a covert 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 cooley and the post school way things have changed. people are helping each other, they want help each other to make the so citing the better. that's why we are here . that option is they have the technology, we have the history, we have infrastructure, we can make together 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, vincent, 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,

you have it, you can make a mixing of on was anything you want. researchers have already started using m r n a technology to produce t b, e, bola, and cancer vaccines by this nate book as to potential 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 preparedness if you have centralized vaccine manufacturing. we've all said, neighbor again, never again, can you find the continent not having access to vaccines because he doesn't have the ability to produce 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. wiley, 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 found the companies 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 patterns that are relevant because we don't need to use up 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. e to has maybe subsided because the pandemic, you know, and the infectious right is not that high. but we haven't solved those issues to say what will actually happen next time. countries haven't come out and said ok,

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, a 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 built on uncivilized structures of suffix, subsidizing, and support from government plan will income countries are asking what exactly the same. we ask our leaders to have a long, dim strategic view and not a shortened be. so we've done analysis in south africa, $11.00 investment in local manufacturing in certain sectors. and of course, vaccine would be very, i multiplied effectively, can give $13.00 of economic value back into the country to, excuse development,

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

in charge of the cookies and then i tell him i'm bringing myself in find machine and do my stay in the in the co it would am i well maybe with a date i had seen was cases oh yes, my harmony was afraid. my wife was my mother, i was the was fine when i left my bed to have my back. oh, use the toilet is indicia what's the stair breathlessness and you understand the need for oxygen gain of this the oxygen honda . and that was a she would call it would appreciate it more efficient. who tells you i cannot brief as a help walk. you need to vote country after you've governed hungry will. after the week they can prove god really and day was discharged

every day the testicle read the p. c r. test on discharge about 2 weeks after the 1st. so theresa and i was doing a claim of help getting billed out. so i am back home with my daughter, so my wife concession. do you have questions about cove at 19 d. w. science report at derrick williams has answered hundred's a few questions. this time gets 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 khan 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 war 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 alma crohn is

a lot less effective at infecting law, 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

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