7 percent the platform with, you know, or this channel, we are not afraid to happen. delicate topic, african population is growing. and young people clearly have the solution, the future with 77 percent. every weekend on d. w. with at the height of the coven, 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 everywhere on the streets of johanna's back. crime is rampant. does science offer new prospects for the african country? in cape town, scientists succeeded in developing their own m r renee vaccine in just one year. but 1st to china, since november protests have broken out again, st. lockdown, d, w, reports out hang showing li, explains why well, i don't the common, it's 14 sheeting things step down. this video, which reportedly shows protest is in shanghai has been watched over 2000000 times online jane. it's been decades since so many people in china missed 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 victims at a 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 the cardinal score volt battery. when there are positive cases and a residential building. 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. encouraged, they jing 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 half locked 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 to his or her. that's who called the cigarettes locked also 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 or doesn't understand. the statistics aren't just numbers in there. are people behind the statistics mentioned to you a 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 or seawright tow it is president cheating pings signature policy that he has championed personally after he secured his historic the 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 draw all measures. that's because paging decided to stick with its own less effective cobit vaccines. and vaccination rates in the most vulnerable group are relatively low, only around 2 thirds of people over 60 of had 3 shots. we're again of holes. does it, we estimate that there are about a 190000000 older people in china with chronic diseases like diabetes or high blood

pressure. doesn't us as those are additional risk factors? honest, i'm what i'm 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 would've paging has now announced a vaccination drive for the elderly and moved 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 different voices could pay a high price in china is not an isolated case. according to a un 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 last. twice harker. baker shows us the scars on his bodies. he's accused the compile, a police of a sort of ha, 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 in a border border is alice. he got a would, i would, i was stopped by 3 police officers writing on motorcycles, a bona bordeaux was campbell, apple vocal around. hawaii violently dragged me off my motorcycle in and started beating me up a vessel in a backwards and grover, i was wounded by a bayonet which um mon, i still have a scar and his indian guy fingers were beaten. and you can still see what they did to me or does it does ink anal, canino rad you quinn. and now corny, eager 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 veranda, beating him until he lost consciousness. hutton was an old m gum citicard he 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. oh, hold on one thing it out. why? doctors told me that i almost died oh rung now man to what got or oh, glitchy. oh, 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 population weather was not you. so look what's the sat and they were taken to muted records and they were charged anson 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 are, as you may know, sometimes people report an incident or 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, or a powerful indictment of these abuses of power. and if we do not document such experiences, then we don't have re friends. poor, intimate points may be in future when a want to make reflection on how to handle them better. it's like everything easily gets forgotten because that was a period as if, as though of darkness where people on freely daughter when they failed to think will do. ah, whenever noise in panic, in late september, uganda 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 leg got on the president, although they are claiming they were trained to mer to we have a much, much finer local defense unit we have a thinking about if any other talent comes in late, we are senior bulloch army did. a lot of these agencies will come on board and we are able to walk to wheeler muhammad, easily van before on december 2nd, the last known ebola 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 inequality. 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. the 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 coverage have gone in south africa. the economic decline is catastrophic. in the wake of what were some of the strictest law 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 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 and shall 10 province. south africa's economic heartland. railway services have nearly come to a stand still feeds 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 it fast, and vandalism are increasing called me to school for the main. so we're trying very hard to keep up to about that. 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 locked downs began, uncovered really hit hard with 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, but 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 owned 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 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 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. 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 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. you actually start to produce very lucky that means an outbreak next time of it, of a different virus or material. but it's happened in front of me. 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 n a vaccine hub in cape town, run by the company average in, in just one year scientist here developed the 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 corporate and the post school way things have changed. people are helping each other. they want to help each other to make the so said in the back of a, that's why we are here. that 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 vaccine to another exit. so obviously the fuss, vixen is going to be costly for you as of landing as of manufacturing, as i think 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 supply. this network has to pay attention to build due to dye 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. before we'll sit neighbor again, never again. can you find the continent not having access to vaccines because he doesn't have the ability to produce it? it's an vaccine, so we're going to keep them the main. tim, some civil society organizations, fear that could be conflicts with big pharma, for example, over patent infringement. 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 patterns 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 a 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, eat as maybe subsided because the pandemic, you know, and the infectious right is not that hot. but we haven't solved those issues to say one will actually happened next time. countries haven't 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, a nationalistic interest 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 the entities were built on uncivilized structures of suffolk, subsidizing, and support from government plan will income countries are asking for exactly the same. we ask our leaders to have a loan, dim strategic view and not a shortened beer. so we've done analysis in south africa, one, a $1.00 investment in local manufacturing in sit and seek this. and of course, vaccine would be very, i multiplied it effectively. and d, 13 dollars of economic value back into the country to excuse development,

stimulating aud, andy, direct foreign investment as the scientists from india wrap up their training, their optimistic about starting to produce m r n a vaccines back home next year. and in cape town, the next scientists from senegal and tunisia are ready and waiting. here, here one african country that seems to have whether the pandemic relatively well is nigeria. dr. a, i, because has been a practicing physician in the west african country for decades. he became infected with cove at 19 of work. as a medical professional, he closely observed the effects the disease had on his body. in lab checking my students, i noticed that he did decrease in the saturation as an attachment. go to about 85 percent oxygen saturation. i had to call him dr. are in charge of the could

i tell him i'm bringing myself inside mission and do my stay in the, in the cold war them? well, many date had seen was cases are to yes. my hand was afraid. my wife was model was the worst times when i left my bid to have my buy or use the toilet is in dismiss. what's the step breathlessness? you understand the need for oxygen gain and this the oxygen, honda, though, is still with coven. appreciate it more efficient. who tells you i cannot brief as a help walk to vote. country have you ever encountered good will after the week they proved gradually, and day was discharged. if we did the testicle read p c

r. test on discharge about 2 weeks after the 1st to test and i was doing a clean me to help getting billed out. so im back home with my daughter. so my wife as m dash do you have questions about cov at 19 d w science report at derrick williams has answered hundred's 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 cron 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 palm 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 collect and 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 stars 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 likely 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 and 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. and so then get by and say can and with with

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