let's get some perspective on the story with howard catton he is the c.e.o. of the international council of nurses which recently held a weapon are with african health workers howard thank you very much for joining us we mentioned earlier that the johnson and johnson vaccine has been suspended and that that is having a big impact on the roll out of course in south africa how concerned are you about the situation there. the situation with johnson and johnson as your report said the precautionary we're being ultra cautious about this we know people were worried about the speed of the rollout of vaccines this is the scrutiny in the checks really really working so we need to stay calm on this and we need to give the scientists the time to look at the information and advise us and also nurses driven by the evidence on this that there are 6 cases out of i think 6000000 so far whether there's a causal link hasn't been determined as well so we need to see what the scientists have to say but when vaccines are approved as being safe and effective i would say that health

and we are now joined by howard catton he is the c.e.o.of the international council of nurses which recently how they women are with their african health workers thank you so much for your time sir can you tell us what the situation is right now in the hospitals in south africa. they are close to being overwhelmed to start off are exhausted some are some of scared as well there are issues with numbers of beds scarcity of of i.c.u. beds and of oxygen supplies as well the suspension of the jane just a vaccine it's it's a temporary and it's a precautionary measure people worried about vaccines being developed quickly and actually this shows us the detail the scrutiny that's been given to these vaccines we just need to let the scientists in the experts look at the evidence the numbers from the u.s. i think it was 6 cases where they've been close out of something like 66000000 and it's not clear whether there's a causal link all or not but the key issue here is to make sure that health care workers and nurses do get a vaccine as quickly as poss

and we are now joined by howard catton he is the c.e.o. of the international council of nurses which recently how they were with the african health workers thank you so much for your time sir can you tell us what the situation is right now in the hospitals in south africa. they are close to being overwhelmed to start off are exhausted some are some of scared as well there are issues with numbers of beds scarcity of of i.c.u. beds and of oxygen supplies as well this is of the jane j. vaccine it's it's a temporary and it's a precautionary measure people worried about vaccines being developed quickly and actually this shows us the detail the scrutiny that's being given to these vaccines we just need to let the scientists and the experts look at the evidence the numbers from the u.s. i think there was 6 cases where there'd been clots out of something like 66000000 and it's not clear whether there's a causal link or or not but the key issue here is to make sure that health care workers and nurses do get a vaccine as quickly as possible for for

let's get some perspective on the story with howard catton he's the c.e.o. of the international council of nurses which recently held a weapon are with african health workers howard thank you very much for joining us you're on we mentioned earlier that the johnson and johnson vaccine has been suspended and that that is having a big impact on the roll out of course in south africa how concerned are you about the situation there. the situation with johnson and johnson as your report said the precautionary we're being ultra cautious about this we know people were worried about the speed of the rollout of vaccines this is the scrutiny and the checks really really working so we need to stay calm on this and we need to give the scientists the time to look at the information and advise us and also nurses driven by the evidence on this that there are 6 cases out of i think 6000000 so far whether there's a causal link hasn't been determined as well so we need to see what the scientists have to say but when vaccines are approved as being safe and effective i would say

but they are prioritized and get the vaccine as quickly as possible howard catton the c.e.o. of the international council of nurses in geneva i thank you for your time. now to some of the other developments in the pandemic biotech pfizer says it will provide the e.u. with an extra $50000000.00 doses in the 2nd quarter of this year this is on top of the 200000000 already earmarked for the block and denmark will stop using the astra zeneca vaccine entirely because of its possible link to rare cases of blood clots well this could delay denmark's vaccine roll out by up to a month and south korea has reported its highest daily jump in new infections in 3 months now the experts are blaming increased travel which they say shows public vigilance is falling. now to research from the field of physics that scientists say could be a major breakthrough in our understanding of the universe it all has to do with the behavior of some atomic particles called neurons experts said at a lab near the u.s. city of chicago have shown that they move at a rate that's faster than expected potentially