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the combination of un only con infection 30 at india, even up to the middle of the yet is that his vaccinations? so he most indian at this time have some level of hybrid, even unity 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 covert 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. cor, 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's health minister, addressing parliament on thursday,

or 9 didn't get mother, they're ready. and with the emergence of changing variance of coven 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 along. the states have also been advised to increase the genome sequencing of positive cases. you know, so that in case there is a new variant, it is identified mclinn and suitable steps are taken to control it spread, thornton exhaust legally. adam retired also get. 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 cobra test report mandatory for international passengers arriving from countries with a high case load already. it has started random testing of international arrivals at the 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, yesterday, with the government and the people, all the news of rapid inspection coming from china for the prime minister and the minister have been conducting several meetings to assess the call with the tuition in the country. the problem, the fed up issue to ramp up the will is measure the health minutes to have the main bag they will be conducting random testing or national travelers at the end of the activity of dimensional apples to see if there's any infections any bait in coming in the decisions are definitely being taken. how prepared other countries bought a trees to quickly sequence genomes and for the health system to respond to any new potential outbreak. but, but it was the 2nd, the federal divisions would be held in the country because they were allegation of

the government not doing enough. we're not doing anything worth even including the decisions regarding the laboratory. so all of the private liberality, well given the, who was the conduct glenn thing and that has been they haven't given the approval. so definitely we do have want to do that or the prime minister. the husband have been asked to see it that other wishes to don, their capacity of frequency, but a lot of exposure in you support the thing that india has ample 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 waived, last year when hundreds of thousands of people died. is this a trauma that is seared into people's minds? definitely trauma was there and perhaps the memory of that is the reason that people are concerned. many people are concerned about the new coming in from the infections betting that god. having said that, india uplifted it. the i'm calling in the are listed. it's called the 60 long back

the live normal lives. have the new people or not they mock people are not me any social even though it's campaign by the government has lost. and so a lot now depends on how the government can decide this awareness campaign off or what is a very mosque or meeting hygiene, looking at the right number of pieces many to relieve that, thanks so much for joining us. many other from tele now let's get the scientific view on this from got the man and he's a professor of biology choker university in northern india and works on disease modeling as well. professor min, you've monitor the new years covered outbreaks since the beginning. should india be worried about the increasing cases we are seeing in china? it should be well 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 there'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 the pandemic, including at all because we've 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 running we happening in india are 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 a driving the surge in china and this will sequence to india back in july itself. is it a very deadly sub variant? it doesn't seem to be very different from the regular one micron, very, and remember that china has not seen any level of cases and infections that india did. for example, already the indian population is very well protected to a combination of an only con infection. earlier in the or even after the middle of the year as well as vaccinations. so we most indians at this time 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, 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, was that uptick 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 protein 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 are necessarily panic at the stage. after those 2 shots were given, initially there was take up of the booster shot, but then it sort of be turned away 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 say, 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 or negative. think here's an additional means of protection. not that this is going to take over. our world is going to be back to the, to, to the early part of 2021. when we underwent the devastating digital wave. i don't think the situation is as dad is 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 after about 2 years of, of listening to the government carefully on instructions about masking that long period of lockdown, etc. 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 discovered 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 when we talked last year when india had faced, it's a deadly 2nd wave of infections. that driven of course, by the delta very and there was, can be around medical facilities, owned and swamped. is india better prepared now? were best prepared in some way that the option available to people no longer be a concern at the moment. and we do have some experience now in dealing with a rapidly fitting 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 was consequences of another variant. hopefully not to be very,

very different from what we think so far. right. 30 drop to the i wonder if i can ask you a specific question about genome sequencing, because this is what the government wants. the government wants or lee genome sequencing. and it's asked the states of india to ensure that this happens. where is india with genome sequencing? now, facilities, there is good any baby and dangerous sub variance 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 data could lead that to debated. 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 matters much less. what matters is, is it like you to send you to hospital when i see you to make you 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 availability of the data on a real time basis, so that there are no delays in making these connections. i 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 meeting to have the health minister taking meeting. we've had the prime minister taking meetings. 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 ill timed action and the government is acting better now? i think it certainly has made a difference, and i do like to in fact, i'm pleasantly surprised to see this level of concern attention been given. there's a lot of it is also media hype around 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 note that they have

been measured in 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 anything they have been measured and what they're contemplating. i think this is the right way to proceed. i'm very appreciative of the fact that they considering this carefully the meeting at regular intervals so that they can update and, and act in a quick man. i should have been quite at any way to find we leave it there for the timing, but thank you so much for joining us to the kaufman and from michelle. can invest a fundraiser. that's it for this week and see you soon. bye. ah ah, like fashion, there is so much more than just style for johannesburg based hair stylist, miss, i mean the duma, it is a work of art in her salon. she gives natural hair and empowering expression

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