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devastating floods. we'll visit one community where people say not enough is being done to help them recover. ah, i'm jared raid. thanks for your company today. a growing number of countries have said that they'll start imposing restrictions on travelers from china. now they pointing to the surgeon in fiction, there after the government abandoned it 0 harvard policy. badging has reacted angrily and in its 1st retaliation today, suspended short term visas for visitors from japan and south korea. sol says it's decision is based on science, but how effective are checking test results at borders and other similar measures. we'll have more on that with an epidemiologist in a moment. but 1st, this report from south korea, so from young don district once also with chinese tourists,

an important source of income for many traders. during the pandemic that business completely dried up, but they hope it will soon pick up after china abandoned it 0 covert policy. cars in the area bustling with more. again, there are more chinese tourists. i did the chinese new year holidays, but i'm a bit worried we could end up with a new code 19 outbreak because you're doing well, you know, i'm not afraid of getting covered. we have such a hard time financially, and i would prefer more chinese people to come so i can do business rather than the government restricting their arrivals for over a week, side, korea has required arrivals from china to undergo mandatory testing for the corona virus. it says the measures needed to protect public health, as cases of covert 19 store in china. we took 2 or above remains enhanced quarantine measures on travelers from china. are based

on scientific and objective evidence. you got that into teamed up. south korea is one of several countries worldwide which have imposed new restrictions on travelers from china. beijing says those border controls are discriminatory and it's now delivering on its threat to retaliation by halting short term visa for visitors from south korea. shotuko a job on credibly a handful of countries in disregard of the science. and fact you have insisted on taking discriminatory entry restriction measures. targeting china. china firmly rejects this and has taken reciprocal measures. despite the end of it 0 cove, its strategy, china has not yet completely opened up. its borders remain largely close to foreigners, apart from business or family visits. and it requires all arrival to show a negative cove at 900 test. but as its handling of the corona virus gradually

comes into sync with other parts of the world. the dispute with sad korea shows that disagreements around national policies still persist. dr. dp good assoni is an epidemiologist, an expert on global health. joining us today from perth, australia, welcome to the w news asia. i'd like to start by taking a look at what a growing number of countries are doing, asking travelers from china for a negative test or screening them pre departure. south korea for one says that this is based on science. do you think these requirements make sense from a public health perspective? i think generally, so the link travel does make sense if it's a sort of comprehensive surveillance from all regions to keep an eye on what radians are coming in and to reduce the number of cases of infection coming in. but

it only makes sense if it's done comprehensively across of all because we know, for example, that are really concerning very incident growing. for example, the u. s. canada and across europe. and you know, there are no sort of update about adjusting policies from there. and it also makes sense only if there are domestic measures that also reduce the rate of spread because we know that nobody measure is perfect. so cases will enter, even if it's the cases of a new variant. and once they enter, what happens then if they're no domestic policies to reduce spread, things like, you know, air cleaning, ventilation masking, and testing with isolation, then those cases will spread domestically no matter what you do. so border policies are most effective when they are comprehensive. people just place across all regions because let's face it radiance can come from anywhere. and in tandem with domestic policy, so that if radiant, import is slowed down. so as spread within the community within the country. china,

of course, is saying, just picking up on what you saying, china is sort of saying that countries are singling out rather than applying these measures across the board countries door and the w. white shaw. arguing that china isn't being transparent enough. what information is required from china, and how serious is the need for reliable data from beijing here? so like the chance to see is really concerning. oh, when you look at the number of cases that we're being told about. so we were told, for example, that over 90 percent of the 3rd most populated province of china had been infected . so that's about 88000000 people. when you look at that and you look at the number of deaths being reported, there's a huge discrepancy. you know, it's not really believable, so we need transparency about what's happening within china in terms of number of

cases in terms of number of people with severe disease. we also need transparency in terms of variance surveillance. so very few sequences are being submitted from china. every day, which makes it very difficult to surveil, if the new variance that may arise over time. so we need complete transparency because it's a global pandemic which doesn't appear to be happening currently at least given what interested, what do we know exactly about the state of infections in china and the situation in hospitals? for example. i think we know a little lemming there, of course leaks on social media and you know, it's hard to verify them. but for example, if officials are saying that you know, more than 90000000 people or 8000000 people in a single provence has been infected. it's impossible to think that there isn't a pressure being found on health care and there aren't huge numbers of debts happening. also, given the vaccination rates,

particularly the elderly where uptake has not been that high. so it's hard to imagine that the health care system isn't struggling, and it's hard to imagine that people are dying from us. but we aren't really being told about this, compared with what they're being told about cases. the number of deaths are extremely low, only about more than 5000 deaths has been reported, which even in the highest vaccinated country with millions of cases seems really, really low. by comparison, we've got about a minute left. i just want to lastly, ask you about something you tweeted last week. you wrote, i find the hypocrisy of countries criticising china for not having deployed m r n i vaccines while at the same time having opposed patient wife is quite astounding with the time we've got lift. could you just talk about what about this stuff so frustrates you? i mean, we hear a lot of sort of criticism of china for not vaccinating adequately the elderly,

particularly with highly effective mit vaccinations. the truth is that m, i mean vaccines have not been widely accessible or available to many lower middle income countries. and it's not just a minute. vaccines also drugs like facts, fluid which are quite expensive and these could have been made much, much cheaper, had beaten waiver has been put in place technology transfer agreements been put in place to that this could be domestic domestically. a manufactured supply could be much, much higher, and also manufactured at much, much lower cost and provided widely, lower median come countries which have not actually deployed either their own home room vaccines. our vaccines like astrazeneca that we know are less effective. so i think there is a huge responsibility that lies with the countries that have a paused pete in beaver's in the middle of a pandemic, which is no doubt led to people dying and will continue to lead to people dying. similarly with antiviral drugs, we really need to move in the direction of making these drugs accessible for or not

just the richest countries in the world that was epidemiologist. dr. deep to grow sony. thank you so much for your time today and your insights and give ah, will a un during a conference has raised over 9000000000 dollars to help pakistan recover from last year's catastrophic flooding? dozens of countries and international institutions pledge to donate money at the gathering in geneva. pakistani officials said the result was a court resounding success and cord help other countries in distress, fundraising, a similar way in the future will last years. floods killed over 1700 people and left millions without harms months on from the disaster. those affected still face acute challenges. the water is still standing in the fields of south east pakistan even a half year after the floods. this village became an island in the flood plain mohammad,

whose man lives here with his wife and 6 children. the family home was largely destroyed as were their belongings. now the family is struggling to survive. it though, but good. yeah, i have no other source of income, but to go. my land is on farmable now and i can't plan for the next harvest and the water is receding. only slow me. i've been a lot of goddamn because i don't like everyone else here. his family urgently needs help. the children no longer go to school. the building was also destroyed by the flood. his wife says her husband cannot work in the city because of his disability . that makes the situation even more difficult. we ask the government and institutions to help us. we have nothing at all. the people of the

village must travel by boat to reach the provincial capital. the connecting road was destroyed by the flood mohammed man hopes he'll find help in the city of may and we have not received any assistance from anyone since the initial days of the floods in the army gave me a cart and abrasions on the red crescent of pakistan is trying to help here, distributing blankets, water filters, and cache medi innovation community request to the international community and other partners. there is a dire need for people who are people who are homeless. they are in desperate need of clean drinking water and household items and household items. like what he got here is not enough. it says mohammed who, his mom, family urgently need food and he didn't get in so

he goes to the local market to buy tomatoes, onions and potatoes. this small bags contains all the groceries he can bring for his family today. not seed for to day. be sure to check out our other stories on d. w dot com, forward slash ida on or on facebook and twitter at t w. news i'm tired reading. berlin, thanks so much for watching. dw news asia see to more people than trucks. injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away at the border. families, planes on attacks in syria. for these correct owners, we loaded demonstrate people seeing extreme ground.

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