is 30 percent of the world population. very simple. that facility that's very convenient for the chinese after in the port will be for very exclusive, but a. the mediterranean is become a kind of great sarcophagus. if anything he was proud of, it was to be a steal worker, like his grand parents and his parents. this is his business didn't come here for life. who had the winners and losers. globalization, where do we stand? starts january 5th on d, w. i did up in years, asia coming up to date china, us corona, of iris outbreak forces india to sit up and take action. the country will start using nasal vaccines as opposed to shot. in addition to other measures, we ask an expert how, what it should india really be. already the indian population is very well protected to a combination of un only con infection. earlier in the,

even up to the middle of the yet, is that his vaccinations. so the most indian at this time to have some level of high video community to with, with the chinese lack of ah, i, british manager, welcome to d, w. news asia. glad you could join us. increasing numbers of cobra. cases in china have foot india on a lot. the government has now approved the use of nasal vaccines as a booster shot. it is set to be available from friday. go developed by indian company, bought a biotech. it will initially only be available in private hospitals, meaning people will have to pay for it. but india is also implementing other measures. here as india has helped me to stay dressing parliament on thursday. good

night didn't get ready. and with the emergence of changing the variance of covered 19, the government is taking suitable steps to face the challenges. the states have been advised to step up surveillance and they are being advised to take appropriate steps to control the spread of the states have also been advised to increase the genome sequencing of positive cases. so that in case there is a new variant, if it is a den, a fide and suitable steps are taken to control, let's spread bottles and exhaust the kelly tired. also good. that's not all people have been advised to must come and maintain social distance thing. also, the government says it could make a negative call, the test report mandatory for international passengers arriving from countries with a high case load. already, it has started random testing of international arrival at airport. the plan is to test 2 percent of incoming passengers. for more,

i'm joined from anybody double corresponding money chaudhry, when the government appears to be on point a number of quick decisions in the past few days. well yes, the board, the government and the people are concerned when it comes to the new set of rapid inspection coming from china for the prime minister. and because minister have been conducting several meetings to assess the call with the tuition in the country, the prime minister has to ramp up. so we measure the health minutes to have told me that they will be conducting random testing or national travelers. i'd be, i'd be able to see if there's any fictional, any data coming in the decisions are definitely being taken. how prepared other countries bought a try's to quickly sequence genomes and for the health system to respond to any new potential outbreak. but, but it was the 2nd several divisions what they beheld in the country because they

were allegation of the government not doing enough on doing anything work, even including the decisions regarding the laboratory. so all of the feel 6 private liberality were given the who was the conduct glenn thing and that has been they haven't given the approval. so definitely we do have one way to do that. or the prime minister. the husband have been asked to see it that other wishes to rob, of their capacity of frequency, but a lot of exposure in you support the thing that india has capacity to do that. you said earlier that the people are concerned and you also reported quite a bit through india is very deadly. second wave last year when hundreds of thousands of people died. is this a trauma that is seared into people's minds? definitely trauma was better and perhaps the memory of that is the reason that people are concerned. many people who are concerned about the new coming in from the infectious reading that back having said that, india uplifted it. the i'm calling in the list that it's called the 60 long back.

the live normal lives have review. people are not the last people are not means any closer to. even though awareness campaign by the government has lost. and so a lot now depends on how the government can be side. this can be off for a very mosque or meeting hygiene, looking at the right number of many relieve that thanks so much for joining us. many other from telly now let's get the scientific view on this from got the men and he's a professor of biology showcasing diversity in northern india and works on disease modeling as well. professor men and you've monitored in years, colbert outbreaks since the beginning. should india be worried about the increasing cases we are seeing in china? it should be what is for one reason or not, but it for another. it should be what it, because any raising cases anywhere in the world is important because it's just more opportunities for the vidas to change, to mutate into

a more transmissible form. it should be less what it, because already india has been through 3 leaves of the pandemic. including that all the currently earlier in this year in which many people have already been instructed, probably the bulk of our population, much of our population is vaccinated and boosted. so overall, i would think that the risks of something runaway happening in india, i really relatively low. ok, let's pick about some are some of those points one by one beginning with the or micron. very and to rather the only current sub gradient b, f 7, which is apparently driving the surge in china and this will sequence to india back in july itself. is it a very deadly some variant? it doesn't seem to be very different from the regular one micron bed. and remember that china has not seen any level of cases and infections that ended. for example, already the indian population is very well protected to a combination of un only con infection. earlier in the or even after the middle of

the year as well as vaccinations. so we, most indians at the stain have some level of hybrid immunity to where the disease with the chinese lack completely. so what could happen in china could be very different. our histories in terms of the disease are very different. are you talking about the vaccinations? i think the figure is about more than 90 percent of the population has at least received 2 shots, but there's only about 27 percent of in the us population that has received a 3rd booster shot. you do not think that that is a cause of concern. that is indeed a cause of concern. so one thing that the government should do is to increase boosted availability. and in fact, optic in the over 60 population, because it's known that the elderly are often most danger of adverse consequences over 1000 infection that they should do. they should also explore new quoting sub unit vaccine that are now available to see if there might be alternative boosted that might provide better protection. so certainly increasing both to cover it

should be a priority of the government, but otherwise i don't think we should necessarily panic at the stage. after those 2 shots were given initially there was take up of the booster shot, but then it's sort of beater the way. once it became clear. as you said, indians have some sort of an immunity having gone to so many waves of the virus and people sort of slackened off if i can. so you're trying to get that booster shot. do you think that hesitancy, if i can call that, that hesitancy is going to change now that the population sees what's happening in china and other places. i think it will change, but i think the messaging around there should be more positive than negative. think here's an additional means of protection, not that this is going to take over. word is going to be back to the, to, to the early part of 2021. when we underwent the devastating dest away, i don't think the situation is as good as that, because if you said they've been put rounds of all mc on infection, most people have had to vaccine those. but it is, i think, very sensible for the government at this point to press for uptake of an increased

uptake of the booster. those. the government also asked people to mask up and maintain social distancing. this didn't really work previously, and we have festival season. we are in fact in festival season right now. any reason to believe these instructions, directive requests will work this time around? that's a very good question. i think people are fairly exhausted up about 2 years of, of listening to the government carefully on instructions about masking that long period of lockdown, et cetera. so i think central people will be sensible and they will recognize that this is the time to be cautious with the increase in cases. so also a time in the rest when the flu season takes over cross much of india. so from multiple point of view, not just call it 19, it doesn't make sense to avoid children spaces to boss got that cetera. i would prefer that enforcement is non punitive, rather than punitive. regarding this, what we need is more public awareness in many ways as possible. regarding the sense

of actually masking when you're in a public place, avoiding public speaking in general, avoiding large crowds, especially at this time. and we talked last year when india 1st it's definitely 2nd wave of infections. that driven of course, by the delta very. and in there was completely over on medical facilities and, and swamped is india better prepared now we're better prepared in some way that the opposite. availability will no longer be a concern at the moment, and we do have some experience now in dealing with rapidly fading infectious disease like all the need to refer to disease like over 1000. but i don't really think at the moment there's nothing really that, that leads us to believe that people have anything like that as to leave. as a consequence of the chinese infections, i think we are substantially protected. now the situation is not the same as it was a year ago or so the situation has changed for the better in a sense. and that we are substantially protected against it, worse consequences of another variant. hopefully very,

very different from what we think so far. right, 30 drop to there. i wonder if i can ask a specific question about genome sequencing because this what the government wants, the government wants or lee genome sequencing. and it's also the states of india to ensure that this happens. where is india with genome sequencing? now all facilities there is good any baby and dangerous sub marion to be detected in time. i think it could be, but i think that the issue there is more correlating the variant with the disease. and then what should watch out for is, symptoms is sort of more serious versions of the disease in the try to coldly that the data that might be causing it. that's really the concern. it doesn't really matter if you have a mild infection that you don't detect matter much less. what matters is, is it like you to send you to hospital when i see you to make require oxygen and so on. that's bad connection between looking at the patient's clinical aspects with the sequence of the,

of the virus that infecting them is important. we had roughly at the level of sequencing where we should be able to make this connection. what we need is more transparency, more available to the data on a real type basis, so that there are no delays in making these connections. or do want to talk to you about what you think about the government's performance or because in the past 48 hours we've seen a number of high level meetings. you have the health minister taking meeting. we've had the prime minister taking meetings. who do you think looking at all of those that the government has learned from its performance during past waves of the virus when it was heavily criticized for him action or each time action and the government is acting better now? i think it certainly had made a difference and i do like to in fact, i'm pleasantly surprised to see this level of concern and attention being given there is a lot of it is also media hyper on this. i think the intense attention of the media on china and potential consequences of it is also leading, in some sense to this government response. and very happy to know that they have

been measured and what they have done. they're not shut down flights, which as we know doesn't really make much of a difference. they've been sensitive or they're not ordered lucky lockdown to really think they have been measured in what they are contemplating. i think this is the right way to proceed. i'm very appreciative of the fact that they considering this carefully, they're meeting at regular intervals so that they can update and, and act in a quick manner should have been acquired any later point. we leave it there for the timing, but thank you so much for joining us to wake up and menan from michelle can invest a fundraiser. that's it for this week and see you soon. bye. ah sh. i'm just kinda, i think that's hard. and in the end is a me, you are not a lot us to you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar with this? with the smudges were lions of the what's your story. ready

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