michael head senior research fellow in global health at the university of southampton and in doha patrick tang division chief of microbiology at syndrome medicine a warm welcome to you all let me start with you today we are seeing these horrific reports out of india hospitals across the country are reporting a shortage of medical oxygen and a shortage of beds crematoriums are running out of space funerals are being held in parking lots bodies are being burned in car parks how dire is the situation and how much worse could it get. the situation is already very low us and the scene have not seen this type of situation evident in my lifetime that people who are struggling full speed and i have i have not seen that people are standing on their old sense showing their oxygen saturation that sea docked at a little casinos educationists old will be is provided us back then the hospital a lot of these are a way that some help but the u.s. will help less that all to help get infrastructure is all about and all the bad stuff will leo obeid even inside the hospital when i am inside my blog i have to meet

let's bring in our guests in doha is patrick tang who is the division chief of microbiology at sidra medicine in johannesburg regina osi who is the medical doctor and infectious diseases specialist at the arom institute and in barcelona is geoffrey lazarus who's the head of health systems research group at barcelona institute for global health welcome to the program thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera regina so this is a rare admission of weakness by china what do you read into it. well i think it's very difficult to understand exactly what it is that they're talking about because we haven't actually seen the data are i think the data has been submitted to the w h o's. expert a group. called states and we're waiting for a decision to be pending but we also don't know what post a post where a lot of information that someone has that more part of the initial clinical trial so it's really difficult to understand when they say you know it's may not be as if acacias all we know is that we've given more for gore when given a favor the government 71 percent efficacy at the time a while