thing to to find out and really anybody with the sort of oversight multi-national oversight like the a.m.a. can do that the european metal medicines agency has to take the sort of questions and concerns of each member state into account when it when it gives gives or thora the i don't think that one can say the a.m.a. is being slipshod or careless you know that they're there questions that they are sui slightly different from regulators in the u.k. or in other countries so overall one gets quite a broad picture of the safety of this drug what it is. in many different countries. the head of the american data privacy has questioned whether the passed on health information in covert passports can be held securely the e.u. is among those mulling introducing the documents but at rob civil war and they will lead to discrimination. and i have seen the efforts from the european union and the green time you know the green initiative and while this idea that they can guarantee. that the data is is safe and anonymized is just wrong it's incorrect and and i think it's a real problem when governments a

deputy chair just released a statement reiterating its confidence in the astra zeneca vaccine the a.m.a. yesterday did the same thing they said listen it is safe to take can you explain to us in terms of you know the regulators and the national health authorities the bind that they are in at the moment because they have to sing ultra cautious dot every i turn over every stone but in the meantime we're seeing this uptick in cases in countries like germany. yes but even the high uptake of cases in germany does allow our store to stop and think for 2 days and then continue i personally am convinced that we will continue vaccinating with us doesn't it but i can understand public regulators especially in a very sort of argument it if the situation because of the press officials have been behind the cases so we have to be certain that the of the risk the chance balance of the of the vaccine is still safe to the complications cerebral bose's is a very rare disease it normally happens in about 3 cases in $1000000.00 inhabitants in a year so that means we have about $250.00 cases in germany put

a meeting then between the world health organization and the european medicines agency it was the a.m.a. that 1st gave astra zeneca its vaccine the green light for use in europe and they've been carrying out an investigation since last week when suggestions of a potential link between the the vaccine and blood clots 1st emerged astra zeneca themselves say that there's no evidence of an increased risk while the world health organization says that vaccination outweighs any potential risk that could be there but public perception of the vaccine is crucial to convincing people to well to take the vaccine in the 1st place we took the temperature of people here in germany and how they feel about the recent issues. toys and he seems to be the right decision to pause it spurts maybe it's the 1st step to getting rid of astra zeneca completely it is disappointing i don't know what the reasons are if they are justified or unjustified but they make this whole vaccination campaign so bureaucratic. now without it is not that easy but when there is so much criticism then it should be considered too wh

european countries pasta backs nations with astra zeneca shot after some recipients developed clots the a.m.a. says that the benefits of the shot outweighed the risks but added that it would continue to investigate reports of rare clotting disorders. based on the evidence available and after days of in-depth analysis of lot of clinical reports autopsy reports and present information from the clinical trials we still cannot. definitively link between these cases and the vaccine but you give me a corresponding very good is on this story that the a.m.a. has spoken did they provide that much needed clarity to reassure countries who have suspended the use of the shot that it is indeed safe to use but the verdict was that's a crystal clear the vaccine is safe of course you can never rule out a connection with anything but there is no evidence that in these cases the clouds very caused by the vaccine so the. u.s. said please continue this vaccination because the benefits. way out the risk or maybe there are no risk at all we don't know we haven't wanted to add further and this is also a normal proce

as we heard the a.m.a. has a valid just for the safety of astra zeneca shot now but added it wouldn't it would continue to monitor rick cases of blood clotting a team of german scientists now say they've found out more about the clots and how to possibly treat them. so now joins me now from date of new science so here what did this team of german scientists find out about the blood clots so scientists from the university of cairo which is in northern germany got 6 blood samples from the polish institute which is the german federal agency for the approval fix scenes and they say that they studied these but samples in great detail and that they were able to connect the vaccine that shows any comic scene to a special form of immune response which leads to the formation of the blood clots that have been observed in these patients we have to keep in mind that they only looked at a very small number of samples only 6 thoughts armfuls and that there is all to have not been approved by other scientists and they hav

deputy chair just released a statement reiterating its confidence in the astra zeneca vaccine the a.m.a. yesterday did the same thing they said listen it is safe to take can you explain to us in terms of you know the regulators and the national health authorities the bind that they are in at the moment because they have to seen ultra cautious dot every i turn over every stone but in the meantime we're seeing this uptick in cases in countries like germany. yes but even the high uptake of cases in germany does allow our store to stop and think for 2 days and then continue i personally am convinced that we will continue vaccinating with us doesn't it but i can understand public regulators especially in a very sort of argumentative situation because the press officials have been behind the cases so we have to be certain that the of the risk the chance balance of the of the vaccine is still safe to the complications cerebral bose's is a very rare disease it normally happens in about 3 cases in $1000000.00 inhabitants in a year so that means we have about $250.00 cases in germany play here bu

certain income once the a.m.a. has spoken is that the final work and then inoculation with the aesthetic of vaccine restart you know that's not the final vote because the european medicines authority only gives recommendations the member states of the 12 of them have suspended as the senate as of now not obliged to follow this recommendation they can all decide on their own but a number of ministries already said they will follow for example island that we don't know about any of them they can decide otherwise and in no way the authorities a little bit more skeptical because they had 3 death cases in norway which they cannot explain as of now and in conclusion should the astra zeneca shot get the green light again from the a.m.a. has the damage been done. but of course many said many experts say that the trust into the vaccine and also the vaccination in general has been undermined by this where they can actually say by this drama over the last week denmark started it last thursday and then all the other countries

the european union for vaccines and already being approved but we know that there are calls for the a.m.a. to speed up its approval of other vaccines particularly this but nick v. the russian vaccine calls from. regional leaders saying that they want that back seemed to be used for them to be able to speed up the process and also that call coming from the austrian chancellor sebastian kurtz. concerning sputnik v. and other vaccines i strongly insist that the relevant e.u. bodies issue an authorization for c. . vaccines as soon as possible the more vaccines we have the better. well e.u. countries are now facing us the wave of the covert 19 pandemic with the restrictions being put in place also hearing on thursday that there will be new restrictions here in france the 16 departments including here in paris that will see a 4 week long confinement so this is an issue that is still going it's no since the pandemic hit the shores here and it really feels as if the e.u. is still nowhere near from being out of the woods live from the french capital charlotte to bring us right up to date thank cha

who got this job to make sure that they could mitigate any impacts if they see them this is what the a.m.a. had to say after days of in-depth analysis of last screening could reports the reports and further information from the clinical trials we still cannot. definitively link between these cases and the taxi. we have seen some very rare case people describing specific usually. and. so we'll continue to get information these conditions including additional studies and will keep them very close. well that decision by the mayor was enough for more than a handful of european countries to say that they will restart the vaccination program and we go with the french prime minister going on television on thursday evening saying that he will have the vaccine on friday to show that he trusts in that trust is the astra zeneca now faces the already query's about its efficacy for own the persons at the present michael discussed that several weeks ago and here in paris. there is still a lot of trust and. i don't trust the spanx an adult i don't know if it's really true what they say with the media wou

our correspondent baird richard he's been following the story for us good evening to you barents the a.m.a. has spoken i'm wondering though is this the final word can inoculations with the astra zeneca vaccine can they restart. the european medicines agency can only recommend to restart the vaccination the decision has to be taken by the national authorities in every single member state of the european union and around the world and actually the intercalation of a stopped actually because of the 60 plus customer services and it does so to speak only 15 in europe. to stop the vaccination and it's quite sure that they will restart italy's spain and france already announced this step and in the next days to the rest of the follow suit you know some astra zeneca gets the green light again from the european union but hasn't the damage already been done. some experts say that the democrat is there because now the trust into this special vaccine from a seneca and in vaccination as such might be undermined there's some snap pose from germany although that say the vaccination efforts will not suffe

i say there is a suggestion a suggestion at least that some sort of statement might come from the a.m.a. in amsterdam to more lunchtime. dominico what will all of this do to the vaccine of all out schedule across europe and i guess also to public trust in their axing. well there are 2 questions there which are of fundamental importance aren't there the 1st one the effect on the vaccine strategies will certainly here in germany we know that the astra zeneca the capacity of astra zeneca doses that can physically be administered to people is smaller than that of the other vaccines that had been approved for use in this country before the astra zeneca vaccine if you if you follow me so we know that the pfizer biotech vaccine and the modern of vaccine will that will carry on clearly because the efficacy of those 2 vaccines is not in question but clearly also we know that astra zeneca has vaccine the dosages were part of the strategy here and so for example just in the city of berlin one of the centers 6 centers for vaccination mass vaccination in berlin is dedicated solely to the use of astr

european countries who have suspended the use of the astra zeneca jabber over safety concerns but the a.m.a. the european medicines agency says it is firmly convinced the benefits of the vaccine outweigh any risks 18 countries have now temporarily suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine because of reports of blood clots in some recipients the w h o n d u health regulators are investigating any link between the 2 there is no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions they have not come up in the clinical trials and they're not lifted as known ours are expected side effects with this vaccine in clinical trials both the vaccinated people on the people who are thieves the 1st people who have shown small or some very small numbers of plot talked about months the number of thromboembolism bends overall in the vaccinated people seems not to be higher than that seen in the camera population good news from another company madonna which has begun testing its covert 19 vaccine on children between the ages of 6 months and 12 years as part of a study to assess the safety in the effica

before a vaccine is approved and includes production but i think as massive pressure from are on the a.m.a.'s or prove those bikes because they are very are african and they are in millions of people now and they're showing great safety profiles as well so i suspect they will catch up mention in from those like now as i met him you know alleges do you think beast of european approach is a good idea how quest i mean could and should one try to use sensually regulate. this vaccination campaign over such a huge territorial rights. such a large population of people with very different demographic you know metabolic economic and other profiles is it such a good idea to do that well that's why the health of the national carrier for the a remember each country has a small national agency for safety for example the m.h.r. in the u.k. b one example anonymous a call 8 figure right for the national competency health but not for any reason because the regional differences use them up brussels then tries to coordinate european activities to the e m a for example and remember all the national the agenci

it's a strange one we're trying to encourage governments to follow science follow the science and the a.m.a.'s problems and i don't know if you know and they've said keep using this vaccine when we look at these cases and them and the am i may well say there is a risk you say and then let's see what they say next you know well as you suggested be an email address controlling the signs but. if we look at the end of accidents and it has improved so far they haven't through the the russian or the chinese specs and despite the fact that they scientifically have adequately strong efficacy do you think this slow process of certification of the flooring vaccines has anything to do with politics it might mean there's more to approving a box in the published data they got on business a factory that makes if they're going to sign off on the production process you know and that would be in china or russia or anywhere maybe they haven't done not even a doing about how the car was a machine without one you got to take several boxes remember before a vaccine is approved and it includes production but i t

assuming us percentage of those get the green light from the a.m.a. as expected on thursday do you think that will be enough to restore public confidence in the vaccine. i truly hope so i mean i have had several of conversations in the last day with people who said before you leave that sitting on the shelf i'll take it because a lot of people really want to get vaccinated as soon as possible but it's not their turn yet because we take the risk based approach which it's perfectly fine but i don't think that we have problems of really getting astra zeneca into people's arms polish thank you very much for talking with us this morning that was you to publish an m.e.p. with the green party thank you. see a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today new shares government says gunmen have killed at least 58 people near the border with mali and the attacks targeted a convoy returning from a market and a nearby village no group has claimed responsibility but several armed groups are active in the region linked to the so-called islamic

suing us or seneca does get the green light from the a.m.a. as expected on thursday do you think that will be enough to restore public confidence in the vaccine. i truly hope so i mean i have had several of conversations in the last day with people who said before you leave it sitting on the shelf i'll take it because a lot of people really want to get vaccinated as soon as possible but it's not their turn yet because we take the risk based approach which it's perfectly fine but i don't think that we have problems of really getting astra zeneca into people's arms it's published thank you very much for talking with this is morning that was you depart us an m.e.p. with the green party thank you. say look at some other stories making headlines around the world today pro-democracy protesters have defied a curfew in myanmar to hold a vigil for those killed by security forces the u.n. says 149 demonstrators have been killed since the military seized power last month many have been detained or gone missing the ruling military junta declared martial l

correspondent barrett record he's been following the story for us good evening to you barron's the a.m.a. has spoken i'm wondering is this the final word can inoculations with the astra zeneca vaccine can they restart. the european in the medicines agency can only recommend to restart the vaccination the decision has to be taken by the national authorities in every single member state of the european union and around the world and actually the intercalation never stopped actually because of the 60 plus customer services and it does so to speak only 15 in europe to stop the vaccination and it's quite sure that they will restart it least spain and france already announced this step and in the next days to the rest of the follow suit yeah astra zeneca gets the green light again from the european union but hasn't the damage already been done. some experts say that the democrat is there because now the trust into this special vaccine from a seneca and in vaccination as such might be undermined there's some snap pose from germany although that say the vaccination efforts will not suffer becaus

division because in the netherlands where the e m a is based you have the government saying no the a.m.a. needs to look at it its neighboring country belgium or all of the belgians say no we're going to carry on using it and then of course across the channel you have the united kingdom which says that it's whose prime minister says that there is no evidence that they've seen he's seen which suggests anything other than this is the way out of the covert 19 pandemic so lots of difference of opinion crucially all those governments who have decided to suspend use of astra zeneca as a vaccine for their populations and they have to make up the shortfall in other ways so we know that here in germany at least excuse me here in germany at least one city has said ok well we're not going to cancel the appointments that our citizens have for us or seneca instead we will replace the shortfall with the other vaccines you know that the other vaccines bill that's the moderna. maxine and that's the phone tech for the biotech pfizer of excellence use me so we have clear evidence that countries are going a

is review has actually produced and this is how the head of the a.m.a. introduced their findings a little earlier the committee has come to a clear scientific conclusion this is a safe and effective vaccine its benefits in protecting people from covert 19 with the associated risks of death and hospitalized patients outweigh the possible risks the committee also concluded that the vaccine is not associated with an increase in the overall risk of throwing a baloch event our blood clots don another that decisions being taken by the mayor what happens with the astra zeneca vaccine in the in u. . well the interesting thing here is to delineate those countries who are already using astra zeneca and did not suspend its use for example belgium which carried on using astra zeneca and then some of the other bigger member states such as france and germany who were determined to suspend the use of it temporarily now we have not heard excuse me we've not heard from the german government since that ruling from the e m a but there is a great deal of pressure building u

you have rare or serious incidences of in the cyst that occur after vaccination and all wrote the a.m.a. is to evaluate these to make sure that any suspected birth reactions are rapidly investigated so we can figure out is this a real side effect to the bike scene or is it a coincidence now if you do this we have mobilized our pharmacovigilance and risk assessment committee which is a safety committee made up of mainly from experts from the national competence authorities from across the e.u. 'd but we also have haitian referee sensitives on health care professional representatives on this committee and in this case we've also put an expert from some of our international partners to help us with the about you ation we put in experts. who have expertise in trumbo and balak events. events being cut some with very unusual features such as low number of play to that have occurred in a very small number of people who have received the vaccine and these reports have been received through you vigilance the european database for suspected struggle reaction reports but of course we know that man

now the a.m.a. of course did carry out extensive investigations into these possible side effects and what they said at the press conference on thursday is that the vaccines benefit in protecting people from coronavirus related deaths or hospitalisations continued to outweigh the possible links as a result of taking the astra zeneca vaccine and that's why. they reapproved to rubber stamp it once again for use but it's not just countries nordic countries who are still querying the use of astra zeneca here in france the country's health authority has now given new advice about the job saying that can only be used for those over the age of 55 now you might wonder why that seems so odd but if i go back just a couple weeks ago being told by authorities here in france that astra zeneca shouldn't be used with those in older age groups so it does feel for many is if the new advice is a complete u. turn and it is leaving many people questioning why well the reason is because the may also on thursday suggested

so how is all of this likely to play out given we're still waiting on this ruling from the a.m.a. over the safety of the astra zeneca vaccine. well like i said i mean i think contacts need to be respected but i think we need a new agreement that says when the most vulnerable populations in a country where the elderly the health care workers have been vaccinated that countries agree to to exploit that seems to to other countries because of variance of concern and developed in other countries largely back to where we were a few months ago needing to be vaccinated with a new vaccine or needing boosters jeff and that's what's got to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to autism thank you kate. well tanzania's opposition is calling for a new chapter to begin to the death of president john mica funy officials say the 61 year old suffered a heart failure but opposition leaders suspect he was sick with code 19 the vice president's son who has done is set to become tanzania's 1st female president out of schapelle ripples. thank you for that would go the last time john

recession pair if you gentles which is the goals on that in science one thing i would add is that the a.m.a. has been advised countries should post on the vaccine on the astra zeneca vaccine ok so it's a country by country choice and the yes yeah because they've been thank you very much for coming in today. williams time now to answer your questions on the coronavirus keep sending them in just leave message on our you tube channel. how to the spanish flu pandemic and even without treatment or a vaccine the influenza pandemic the began hammering the world in 1918 is this thought to have infected around a 3rd of the global population in the space of a couple of years though it's impossible to pin down exact numbers most calculations estimate that claimed between 50 and 100000000 victims now that's as many or more as those later killed in the 2nd world war then by 920 the spanish flu seemed to fade away the pandemic just trailed off and nobody at the time could really explain why epidemiologists and historians no believe the beginning of the end of the flu pandemic occurred ben because in the

suing us percentage of those get the green light from the a.m.a. as expected on thursday do you think that will be enough to restore public confidence in the vaccine. i truly hope so i mean i have had several of conversations in the last day with people who said before you leave that sitting on the shelf i'll take it because a lot of people really want to get vaccinated as soon as possible but it's not their turn yet because we take a risk based approach which it's perfectly fine but i don't think that we have problems of really getting astra zeneca into people's arms as promised thank you very much for talking with us this morning that was you to publish an m.e.p. with the green party thank you. with spring holidays just weeks away european union officials are meeting today to discuss how to get people traveling again because it 19 restrictions mean non-essential travel is still limited for many the e.u. looking at introducing a so-called green pass a digital document showing a traveler's covert status but critics fear any kind of vaccine passport

causes blood clots on this after several european countries suspended vaccinations with the shot the a.m.a. says it's firmly convinced of the vaccines benefits and is urging the public to continue to get the job and we'd like to get more now professor beverly hunt is an international expert and john bose's and the formation of blood clots in blood vessels we're so happy to have you here with us you are like i said an international expert you just heard the e m a moments ago say we endorse basically the astra zeneca vaccine yet is still in a suspended in several dozens of countries here in the european union what exactly is the risk here with these blood clots. ok well i think people don't realize just how common blood coat clots are so every year if you look at a 1000 people one to 2 of them will have a deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism all boats and so few think about that and think that risk means that in the week if you got a 1000000 people about 20 people in a week will be having a clot and if you look at the u.k. vaccine data we have facts in 8817000000 people with either the

and as we heard the a.m.a. has vouched for the safety of astra zeneca has shot but added it couldn't continue it would continue to monitor rare cases of blood clotting a team of german scientists now say they have found out more about the clots and how to possibly treat them so joins me now from date of the science sophia what did this team of german scientists find out about the blood clots. so scientists from the university of kind of side which is in northern germany got 6 blood samples from the polish institute which is the german federal agency for their prove a vaccine and they say that they studied these but samples in great detail and that they were able to connect the vaccine that shows any comic scene to a special form of immune response which leads to the formation of the blood clots that have been observed in these patients we have to keep in mind that they only looked at a very small number of samples only 6 not samples and that there is all to have not been approved by other scientists and they ha

very good vaccine i mean while the johnson and johnson vaccine has just received approval from the a.m.a. this sounds like good news how do you think this american company can now avoid the sort of production problems that have so beset astra zeneca in europe. this is the biggest single problem in a way we've raced in to the development and testing of these vaccines but if we knew that because these are biological vaccines manufacture was always going to be a bottleneck so the hope is that johnson and johnson can scale up their manufacturing capacity as quickly as possible but they also have a vaccine that only requires one jab and can be stored for up to 3 months in a refrigerator so it's going to make life a lot more easier in terms of the rollout of vaccination and the fact that you don't have to give too jabs and other still more to come i think that's that's that's the 3 or 4 that europe has now. has now given the green light to other still more in the pipeline there certainly are i mean there are different platforms of course the novak's vaccine has been very successful which is a

in in real time rather than waiting for final trial data to be released despite the review by the a.m.a. e.u. officials say they have no current plans to add the russian vaccine to its rollout while clarifying the regulators decision would only be based on health related criteria currently no talks are only going to integrate discipline exacts in the portfolio i would like to stress however that strategy is a joint strategy that needs a strategy which has been designed and implemented with as the member states commission and member states together and so member states and commission may decide at any time to integrate all those vaccines into the vaccine politics have nothing to do with the fact that you consider that would consider a vaccine safe and if you cases were not it's based on the assessment of the vaccine. in january hungry was the 1st member state to give sputnik emergency use approval. so with this in mind let's take a look at the state of the vaccine rollout with our 2 correspondents it's our before we get to the vaccine numbers let's take a look at global cases well outsid

job is currently undergoing a.m.a. the european medicines agency review once it gets not green light which is expected to come soon the vaccine will be used in a number of european nations. foreign affairs analyst atrial consultant believes the pandemic has exposed the disunity within the e.u. . i do believe even though the. european union is broke and is perceived or aims to be perceived as a abortion as we know that the pandemic took out the words demons from all of us all all the governments around the world we know about the vaccine nationalism and we know that in this race for our citizens' lives no one is really taking into account what the e.u. is saying i do agree with the. saying certain countries. just pushing. for securing more vaccines and there's a backlash but since nationalism is well documented. artists and employees are staging a unique performance in 3 of france's national theatres by occupying the venue in a protest over covert lockdown they claim the restrictions have brought the industry to its kne