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of pakistan are still under water after last years. devastating floods will 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 did 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 will have more on that with an epidemiologist in a moment. but 1st this report from south korea so young don't district one

so. so with chinese torres, 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. see 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 in terms of what i want. you know, i'm not afraid of getting coven. 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 sore in china. we told we

2 more above remains enhanced quarantine measures on travelers from china to to that are based on scientific and objective evidence. you've 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. shot record album, 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 is taking reciprocal measures. despite the end of its 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 arrivals to show

a negative cove at 19 test. but as its handling of the corona virus gradually comes into sync with other parts of the world. the dispute with south 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 dw 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 bailing travel does make sense if it's a sort of comprehensive surveillance from all regions to keep an eye on what

radiance 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, there 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 variable. 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 low down, so

a spread within the community within the country. china, of course, is saying, i'm just picking up on what you saying. china is sort of saying that countries are singling it out rather than applying these measures across the board countries door and the wi chaw 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, he now 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 taste. 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 the 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 a 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 am. i mean, vaccinations that show the is that a monet, vaccines have not been widely accessible or available to many lower middle income countries. and it's not just a minute vaccines altered drugs, lay facts, fluid which are quite expensive. and these could have been made much, much cheaper, had paid in. we was being put in place technology transfer agreements and put in place to that this could be domestic domestically manufactured supply could be much, much higher, and also manufactured at much, much lower cost. andrew minded, widely in the one mid income countries, which have largely deployed either their own home room vaccines, are vaccines like astrazeneca that we know are less effective. so i think there is a huge responsibility that lies with the countries that have opposed pete and beaver's in the middle of a pandemic, which is no doubt lead 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 all not just the richest countries in the world that was epidemiologist. dr. deep to go san e. thank you so much for your time today and your insights and give ah, will a u. n. join a conference has raised over $9000000000.00 to help pakistan recover from last year's catastrophic flooding. dozens of countries and international institutions pledge to die night money at the gathering in geneva. pakistani officials said the result was a court resounding success and could help other countries in distress fundraising. a similar way in the future will last year's floods killed over 1700 people and left millions without harms months on from the disaster. those affected still face huge 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, if 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. but 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 named. 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 cash. many international community request to the international community and other partners there is a dire need for people on the people. here are homeless, they are in desperate need of clean drinking water and household items and household items retain. what he got here is not enough that 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 to day in that seat for to day. be sure to check out are the stories on d, w dot com, forward slash either on or on facebook and twitter at dw news. i'm jared read in berlin. thanks so much for watching dw news asia see tomorrow. for the christian with questions about life, the universe and everything. do you know the answer? well then david, here for the to the answer to almost everything our

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