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the indian vaccine is is an inactivated vaccine it's co-developed along with the indian council of medical research and about it which is based at had about for the production. its in its face straight trials which is nearing completion the beta has been reviewed for safety and that's why this emergency approval has been given by the ra controller general of in the other it's likely that in the initial stages . in the sarah minister of india a vaccine would be available in larger quantities than the bad by the vaccine we are certainly optimistic india's immunization fundamentals are strong there has been a period of preparation particularly for this campaign in terms of logistics training and so on however this is a very big country very diverse conditions multicultural and therefore we do expect that there could be problems whether it's logistics whether it's delivery whether it's communications related and therefore a white set of measures are also being taken to address vaccine concerns concerns around vaccine confidence and safety but we expect that vaccine demand will continue to be h

vaccine is a domestically researched rat seen quad core axiom from biotech but they didn't council of medical research and this is a vaccine which has been entirely develop within the country and has currently faced the it because the studies ongoing but has received special permission to be allowed to be allowed to be marketed or for pandemic response this special permission is interesting tell us about the regulatory body charged with making these approvals they must be under tremendous pressure to greenlight the drugs. you know well i think there's a lot of expectation about vaccines obviously being a key part of the response and i think almost in all countries you've seen this that there is a great expectation about the vaccine the same here in india as well our drug addict later is called the siddhis called the center drug standards control organization and the person heading it is called the drug control general of india and they are the body which are in charge of drug issues and roxanne's as well and you know so they had a subject expert committee which met on the 1st and 2nd of janua

dr chaand nagpaul is a gp and the chair of the british medical association council.spread is this? this is not a widespread phenomenon. - how widespread is this? this is not a widespread phenomenon. in - how widespread is this? this is not | a widespread phenomenon. in most vaccination sites, not only are the staff working 12 hours a day at the end of the day many are staying behind precisely so that no vaccine is wasted. the difficulty here is that once the vaccine is taken out of the fridge, and the vial is made up, you cannot actually keep it overnight. therefore, by the end of the day, if some patients have not attended. remember, these sites are vaccinating hundreds, some in the excess of 1000 patients, if some do not attend you may find at the end of the day you've got some vaccines left over. if they aren't used they will be wasted. what our own site does at that point is to try and contact patients. the problem is, many are very old because we are targeting those over 80. they may not be able to attend at short notice even if they are on a back—up list. no va

and unsafe abortions were still smaller budgets meant scaling back on distribution of hiv medication as well as council screenings because these services also depend on us. so we stay in kenya which is seeing more green turtles hatch on its southern shores it's welcome news because a green turtle is listed as endangered on the list of 3 species now a local conservation group is one of many trying to protect the turtles and their head from a wave of. making a break for the ocean a newly hatched green turtle leaves its nest on t.v. beach on kenya south coast its journey monitored by fishermen from a local organization the t.v. turtle police they're happy that the green turtle numbers are bouncing back what. humans were the biggest threat the turtles faced because people used to eat them. we mobilized ourselves here in. turtles and turtle eggs are no longer being eaten. witi returned all police monitor and protect eggs that are laid here now more eggs are hatching them before the fisherman also receive training on turtle ecology and they pass this knowledge on to their communities. a lot of benefits for t

and unsafe abortions were still smaller budgets meant scaling back on distribution of hiv medication as well as council screenings because these services also depend on us. so we stay in kenya which is seeing more green turtles hatch on its southern shores it's welcome news because the green turtle is listed as endangered on the list of threatened species now a local conservation group is one of many trying to protect the turtles and their head from a wave of. making a break for the ocean in newly hatched green turtle leaves its nest on t.v. beach on kenya's south coast its journey monitored by fishermen from a local organization the t.v. turtle police they're happy that the green turtle numbers are bouncing back what. with humans were the biggest threat the turtles faced because people used to eat them. up to what we mobilised ourselves here in t. we and turtles and total eggs are no longer being eaten. long before. the t.v. turned up police monitor and protect eggs that are laid here now more eggs are hatching them before the fishermen also receive training on turtle ecology and they pass this knowle

of seven mass vaccination centres. but doctors say that more needs to be done to make sure all frontline healthcare workers get vaccinated as soon as possible. dr chaand nagpaul chairs the british medical councild me he thought the pace of vaccinations needs to increase. it is taking too long because at the moment we have about 16,000 reports of nhs staff who are off work due to covid sickness, or being positive. we know that this is impacting on the ability of the nhs to serve patients. the bma hasjust done a survey that says that about half of doctors are saying that shortages of staff due to illness of their collea g u es staff due to illness of their colleagues is affecting their ability to treat patients effectively and adequately. so we have a problem as we speak and the only way to really address that is to make sure that all health and ca re to make sure that all health and care staff immediately are prioritised to be protected against this virus with vaccination so we are saying that all high—risk help and care staff should get the vaccine in the next few weeks and eve ryo ne vaccine in the next few weeks and everyone else by the end of january. when you are looking at the figures, th

and unsafe abortions were still small the budgets meant scaling back on distribution of hiv medication as well as council screenings because these services also depend on us. so we stay in kenya which is seeing more green turtles hatch on its southern shores it's welcome news because the green turtle is listed as endangered on the list all 3 species now a local conservation group is one of many trying to protect the turtles and their head from a wave off the. making a break for the ocean in newly hatched green turtle leaves its nest on t.v. beach on kenya's south coast its journey monitored by fishermen from a local organization the t.v. turtle police they're happy that the green turtle numbers are bouncing back what. humans were the biggest threat the turtles faced because people used to eat them. but we mobilised ourselves here in t. we and turtles and turtle eggs are no longer being eaten. before. they t. we turtle police monitor and protect eggs that are laid here now more eggs are hatching them before the fishermen also receive training on turtle ecology and they pass this knowledge on to their comm

degrees, the czech republic, denmark, saying to the council, why haven't the european medical regulator, the ema, given to not allow the regulation ofca drug? that decision is expected on friday. that's going on in the midst of all of this. pressure from the countries onto the eu, pressure from the eu onto the drugs companies and the drugs companies trying to balance worldwide demand. on top of that, the dark reality that while countries are waiting for vaccines, more people are dying. ros: outside the year paying union, there is concern about who is getting there vaccine orders delivered. have a listen to the south african president who is not mincing his words. >> we need those who have hoarded the vaccines to release the vaccines, so that other countries can have it. ros: for more on that, here is the africa health correspondent on how the distribution of vaccine across africa is inconsistent and how many countries are relying on donations. >> what we are seeing in many african countries is there is still a lot of man countries who are relying on the support that they will be getting from kovacs and getting this public good. we a

dosages but not all of the cancer cells but he was told by chief and national research council it's not the job of the edgewood arsenal there's not enough time or money to pursue medicallines of investigation. and then to put the project aside and had to return on mustard casualty management contamination and miracle cures would have to wait until after the war. and then 6000 miles away not even two years later alexander held in his hands and convertible evidence that mustard gas did selectively destroy blood cells and blood forming organs. had taken in a freak accident and a massive exposure to that phenomenon demonstrated relative to the same conditions that blood cells disappeared and what you do for a person with leukemia alexander could not save the worst of the mustard gas casualties it was one in a million chance hearing of the potential and it was the unthinkably rare chance with those effects of the human body and he ran down the hall calling for more blood test and then to be sure to take special care hoping they would make it across the long journey to america. and as much data as possible in the short time he had left he wanted insight into the systemic ef

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of germany's most high profile politicians this is but variant state premier marcus soda who wants to make the vaccinations mandatory for medical staff he said it would be useful for the german council to suggest whether compulsory vaccination would be complicity and for which groups simon young what sort of reaction has that had. the broadly pretty negative reaction i mean both the chance langley medical and the health ministry and spawn have said before now that there will be no mandatory vaccination program during the corona pandemic but a lot of politicians on marcus his own conservative side have said well it's probably better to rely on recommend day sions rather than rules and others from parties sort of opposed to marcus to c.s.u. they say well you know the 1st problem is not requiring people to get vaccinated it's having enough vaccine because the conservative run health ministry has so far been slow to get the vaccines distributed around the country there's been a little bit of support the president of the world medical association which is a body representing doctors said it was sensible to have medical personnel vaccinated if they're treating vulnerable people but others

additional set of experiments he was told by his chief and the national research council that it was not the job of edgewood arsenal. there was not enough time or money to pursue medicals of investigation. they were in the business of national defense. he was ordered to put the project aside in return to his work on mustard casualty management treatment and decontamination. miracle cures would have to wait until after the war. but now sitting in a bari military hospital 6000 miles away not even two years later alexander held in convertible evidence, mustard gas did selectively destroy blood cells and blood forming organs he wrote. it had taken a freak accident and the massive exposure of wartime to verify the phenomenon demonstrated in laboratory rabbits. it all added up to the same conditions i had seen in my prewar work he wrote. blood cells disappear, lymph nodes melted away. i remembered thinking if mustard could do this what could it do for a person with leukemia could not save the worst of the mustard gas casualties. he knew perhaps they could make their death count for something. he was the one in million chance with a few doctors in the world who ruled mustard

of speech that we have -- it's a presidential speech. joining me now, our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, dr. jonathan reiner and austin goolsbee who is the council of the economic advisers under president obama. gloria borger is also still with me. sanjay, let me start with you. the president elect obviously giving his overall picture of what he wants to accomplish here when he takes office. it's a very ambitious plan. but at its core, it's about the vaccinations, the virus, the economic damage from the virus. he says the very health of our nation is at stake. what's your first rea to what we just heard? >> well, you know, it hits on all the notes that we've been talking about for sometime from a public health standpoint within the direct, most direct covid sort of part of the speech, he sort of focused on the vaccines as you mentioned. we heard this goal of 100 million doses in 100 days. he laid out some plans for that. there are some specifics that are still going to be necessary. for example, actually the personnel to actually inoculate people has been one of the rate limiting steps. how do you address the manpower issues. nevertheless, there

of more i did do you know our. western countries donated buses and jeeps that were converted into mobile medical units documents show that their task was not health promotion the population council an american foundation expressed a clear cut mission to the korean ministry of health. these vehicles are given to help improve living standards in korea for bigger is attack on the problem of excessive population growth. peers or tree. trunk the one you got your dog i.e. modern car. that can only. cause a. secure them all if you will. instead of letting citizens plan their own families family planners made having fewer children a citizen's duty they were not interested in fighting poverty but only in preventing the poor from having babies. mobile clinics in india went to secluded villages as early as 956 because indians were also supposed to have fewer children. western family planners flooded the country one of the pioneers was the american dr sheldon siegel he founded apartment for reproductive medicine in one of the largest state hospitals in new delhi and trained indian medical students. although early versions of i.e. d.s. had fallen into disrepute in the west siegel smuggled th

council. and one back in 2018. we're getting an exclusive look inside san francisco's and medical examiner's office after the city's had a disturbing record of to overdoses last year, but is three times more than the number of people who died from the coronavirus. interviews evan sernoffsky tells us how city officials are working to keep that death toll from rising that words coming from sophisticated equipment, identifying whether drugs are in the bodily fluids of people who died, ktvu toured the state of the art laboratory at the san francisco medical examiner's office were staffer inundated with overdose cases. these individuals they days of someone's loved ones. dr luke rata is chief toxicologist here, and he's often the first to know and drug death, si increasing it's important to see the extent of what's happening on a cd basis, and even a month to month basis he spoke is the office issued a year into report marking a record 699 overdose deaths in 2020. he hopes getting the data out quickly will help other city agencies in the response. anything that can be done to help any individual not. you should come to a drug overdose is obviousl

council to discuss and debate on a bill in a calm and rational manner i hope that some of the appeal of gold school on eyes ations in society which may be planning. actions including perhaps some medical actions that i. being a political reporter and gives you plenty of action and things to call pessimistic . all right that's the all the things i read. what's even more worrying than encroachment by the chinese government is the fact that increasingly apps or things are being taken as a new norm. oh oh oh. oh. oh oh i like a. lot of it's very hard to tell whether it's considered to be safe to be walking it home. the public are of course certain fright the monitor but when it translates into some kind of physical threat against by. loved ones families i don't know yet ordering by looking for work. almost always are they don't come. and it's our trying to do was always our kewl have already got requests that people would like something was missing. i don't want to see. things anymore. it's been you know it is hard to watch freedom of expression the kind in hong kong but if anything that's all the more reason to document. but do you think people have lost confidence in civil disobedience

mandatory for medical staff he says that it would be useful for the german ethics council to suggest whether compulsory vaccination could be considered and for which groups simon what sort of reaction has this suggestion received. pretty negative reaction brands across the board both chancellor merkel and the health ministry and spawn have said before now very clearly several times there will be no mandatory vaccinations during the corona pandemic and a lot of. fellow conservative politicians have said probably better to rely on people's sense of responsibility rather than introducing new rules and there is a bit of political packed in the in this debate as well brant because you've got opposition politicians and those who are not sympathetic to serve as a conservative party saying well you know really the problem is not acceptance of vaccines so much is rolling out and distributing the vaccines they've been criticisms of the conservative run health ministry that it hasn't done that quickly enough so far so you know there has been some support saying that medical staff should get vaccinated if they're treating vulnerable people but there's also been a lot of pushback right

of those working in hospitals and other frontline medical services in look sumburgh well they commute in from other states france or germany or elsewhere what we've also heard is from the european council president sharma shell he said on thursday night as he wrapped up the summit that was taking place that the borders would stay open for now at least. we have to keep borders open to keep the internal market functioning but at the same time the need to be restrictions on non-essential travel. or closing borders is being viewed as a last resort by european leaders but a resort that they're willing to go to should they feel it be needed artie's peter are reporting live from berlin thank you. the french president has promised extra support for students after an outcry over campus closures due to the pandemic and i know micron said they'll be able to return to class part time younger students should have the same rights and the same needs is an employee and if he or she needs it it's a student should have the possibility to return to university in person once a week this fellow student unrest in paris over the brutal impact of month long restrictions aside from being confined to their acco

mandatory for medical staff he says that it would be useful for the german ethics council to suggest whether compulsory vaccination could be considered and for which groups simon what sort of reaction has this suggestion received. pretty negative reaction brands across the board both chancellor merkel and the health ministry and spawn have said before now very clearly several times there will be no mandatory vaccinations cheering the corona pandemic and a lot of. good as fellow conservative politicians have said probably better to rely on people's sense of responsibility rather than introducing new rules and there is a bit of political packed in the in this debate as well brant because you've got opposition politicians and those who are not sympathetic to his conservative party saying well you know really the problem is not acceptance of vaccines so much is rolling out and distributing the vaccines they've been criticisms of the conservative run health ministry that it hasn't done that quickly enough so far so you know there has been some support saying that medical stuff should get vaccinated if they're treating vulnerable people but there's also been a lot of pushback al

medical directorfor london. and by martin hewitt, chair of the national police chiefs council.s and we are now grappling with the emergence of a new and more infectious strain. we are therefore asking you to stay at home, to protect the nhs, and save lives, while we work hard to roll out the back seat as quickly as possible. as of today, 2,000,430 people have been vaccinated across the uk. today 45,533 people have tested positive for coronavirus. as of the 10th of january, 35,075 for coronavirus. as of the 10th of january, 35, 075 people for coronavirus. as of the 10th of january, 35,075 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus. that is an increase of 22% from this time last week. and sadly, of those who have tested positive for coronavirus, across all settings, 83,203 people have died. 1243 fatalities were reported yesterday. my fatalities were reported yesterday. my thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who have lost their loved ones to coronavirus. these numbers are horrifying. and they underlined why it is absolutely critical that everyone plays their

council's public health team is working with westminster drug project providing swab testing and using spare vaccination slots at ilford town hall and some medical centres. london is lagging behind the rest of up 10% compared to last year, london was the only major region which saw a year—on—year drop. let's take a look at the travel situation now. the circle line has minor delays anti clockwise, it's because some trains have been cancelled this morning apparently. there's been an accident on the m1, one lane is blocked atjunction 10 for luton. and remember the rotherhithe tunnel is still closed for repairs. and lambeth bridge is closed eastbound for works too. time for the weather with kate kinsella. good morning. a cold start but a dry start this morning. the met office has a yellow warning in place for ice. after yesterday's rain and the temperature overnight in one or two spots just below zero, we could see some slippery surfaces this morning. any low cloud will lift and we will see sunny spells developing. it is going to be a dry day today. the temperature cold — between 3 and 5 celsius. a cold night to come as well. under clear skies, the temperature drops in the early hours as the ne

that's 5pm this afternoon, along with the chair of the national police chiefs' council and also nhs england's regional medicaln a mosque in birmingham and a cinema in buckinghamshire. in some parts of the country, people over the age of 70 are now getting the jab but in others, people in their 80s and older are still waiting. it comes as a study from imperial college london suggests infection levels in the community didn't fall at the start of the latest lockdown, and may in fact have risen. we'll have more on that in a moment, but first, our health correspondent dominic hughes reports on the uneven roll—out of vaccines. at the al—abbas mosque in birmingham, vaccinations are well under way. this is one of more than 60 new venues that have opened up today, run by local pharmacies. it's an important way to get the vaccine to communities that are especially vulnerable to covid—19 and sometimes hard to reach. is there any other way of tackling this pandemic than the vaccine? i don't see any other way. that is the most sensible thing for each and every one of us to do. so i personally believe i have a role to play

like a lot of retired doctors, when the pandemic started, the general medical council gave me back myat if you had to go to and what do you know about the work you will be doing? i to go to and what do you know about the work you will be doing?- the work you will be doing? i went to a face-to-face _ the work you will be doing? i went to a face-to-face training - the work you will be doing? i went. to a face-to-face training programme to a face—to—face training programme held in brighton, which is the nearest centre to me, with a lot of other retired doctors, which was very well done. they showed us basic things like giving injections and doing resuscitation. iam pleased things like giving injections and doing resuscitation. i am pleased to say i could still remember all of them. i have been doing endless modules on the internet since then, some of which have been very good about the vaccine, learning a lot about the vaccine, learning a lot about it. others were slightly rests —— less relevant, i felt. about it. others were slightly rests —— less relevant, ifelt. i have done them all a

medical component of these high-volume sites. and part of the dph contribution is what we're calling the health systems vaccine collaboraive. that's a partnership between h and the san francisco hospital council, where each of the members of the council are working collaboraively with dh in terms of maximizing vaccine not only at their local sites at c pm c or at any of their campuses, but also offering up personnel to operate these high-volume sites. so the participating hospitals are ther -- kaiser, u c, sutter, our own network and dignity. again, i mentioned chinese hospital is also participating, and they are focusing on the community-based pods, particularly in chinatown, so that's their contribution. next slide. and you will see collaboraors on the right side. you see chinese hospital, and our own network. and again, so these are those community-based sites that will be partnering with community-based organizations and again providers who have expertise in underserved communities like chinese hospital and like our own health network. and we will be really relying upon those community-based organizations to help us figure out where to go and where to set up, similar to the way that they

medical component of these high-volume sites. and part of the dph contribution is what we're calling the health systems vaccine collaboraive. that's a partnership between h and the san francisco hospital councilthe members of the council are working collaboraively with dh in terms of maximizing vaccine not only at their local sites at c pm c or at any of their campuses, but also offering up personnel to operate these high-volume sites. so the participating hospitals are ther -- kaiser, u c, sutter, our own network and dignity. again, i mentioned chinese hospital is also participating, and they are focusing on the community-based pods, particularly in chinatown, so that's their contribution. next slide. and you will see collaboraors on the right side. you see chinese hospital, and our own network. and again, so these are those community-based sites that will be partnering with community-based organizations and again providers who have expertise in underserved communities like chinese hospital and like our own health network. and we will be really relying upon those community-based organizations to help us figure out where to go and where to set up, similar to the way that they helped us with o

medical component of these high-volume sites. and part of the dph contribution is what we're calling the health systems vaccine collaboraive. that's a partnership between h and the san francisco hospital council, where each of the members of the council are working collaboraively with dh in terms of maximizing vaccine not only at their local sites at c pm c or at any of their campuses, but also offering up personnel to operate these high-volume sites. so the participating hospitals are ther -- kaiser, u c, sutter, our own network and dignity. again, i mentioned chinese hospital is also participating, and they are focusing on the community-based pods, particularly in chinatown, so that's their contribution. next slide. and you will see collaboraors on the right side. you see chinese hospital, and our own network. and again, so these are those community-based sites that will be partnering with community-based organizations and again providers who have expertise in underserved communities like chinese hospital and like our own health network. and we will be really relying upon those community-based organizations to help us figure out where to go and where to set up, similar to the way that they

councils, the armed forces, and british scientific and medical opinion as well which has helped us out magnificently now with the vaccine and the oxford astrazeneca project which is giving hope and optimism to all of yesterday about lessons learned, for example, over masks, over asymptomatic transmission. you talked about lessons learned, the prime minister has talked about lessons learned. so what changes because you have learned lessons? i because you have learned lessons? i think that what you heard last night from chris whitty was to my point is that scientific opinion has evolved, because it is an unprecedented situation. the value of masks, i think, was not appreciated fully at the beginning of the pandemic. the significant role of asymptomatic transmission was not, was underestimated in the early days. those things have changed. in my own job in local government, we have tried to ensure for example the vaccine roll—out that we are working hand in glove between central government, the nhs and local authorities, recognising the very important role that local councils will have two ensure that the harder to reach members of the community get the vaccine and the bme communities, migrant communi