however it is struggling to keep up with the demands the support is from india correspondent elizabeth piron i'm in new delhi. a group of friends celebrate receiving their coronavirus vaccinations in new delhi there some of the lucky ones who managed to get an appointment signs at many vaccine centers around the country read their outward. doses despite having a population of $20000000.00 people india's financial capital only has $20000.00 says for those between the ages of $18.00 to $45.00. we were told that it would be a 1st come 1st serve thing year but the vaccination center years dysart it we will see what we're going to do whether we'll get it or not. the government said everyone above the age of 18 would be eligible for a vaccine from saturday but most regional leaders say they don't have enough doses to expand the program the sign reads welcome to the world's largest vaccination drive but despite india being the world's largest vaccine manufacturer and concept why enough doses to its people this is one of just a handful of private hospitals in new delhi that were able to procure vacc

didn't impose restrictions and allowed people to gather at large political and religious events elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. is the founder of the helping hand sound ation which is a charity working in the most vulnerable people in the city of hyderabad he says hospitals everywhere are at breaking point. out of our fight to 6 that it should be more to send in the seed event i live in heaven about these lost because odds on going to before you get back to the day out of managing to get the oxidants up lies from other states and from you know different sources they're managing to beat the patients in whatever capacity they have by the moment these hospitals are all sort of on and put the boot od in need of oxygen on or getting offices in the home. they're developing the symptoms of be such a great thing and in the hospital too likely said mark to me and learn but also in but i would toss with the long queue was that a long waiting list people are getting bad and in the process boards who are out of could take the gun dish and. so you're finding people being brought into had too many h

boost vaccine stocks around the world any time soon and india has been pushing for that waiver elizabeth piron has more from a vaccination center in new delhi. this is good news but the trade organization has to reach a consensus and even if and when that is achieved india and other countries will have to set up the technology to manufacture some of these vaccines like pfizer for instance uses more advanced technology the messenger technology and this is why people here say that this. pushed for it before the situation became so out of control allowing more. and more contagious variants thousands of french fishing boats have ended their protest in the waters around the british islands of jersey in an escalating dispute over postbox that fishing rights french fishermen say new licensing rules imposed by the island prevent them from operating in the year. the international criminal court has sentenced a former ugandan militia leader to 25 years in jail for 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity. and became a commander of the lord's resistance army after being abducted himself as a child's pol

1000000 deaths but it's widely suspected that the actual figures are likely to be much higher elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi the us has coronavirus vaccination campaign has expanded to include all young people aged $12.00 to $15.00 it comes as the world health organization calls on wealthy countries to donate vaccines for children to its kovach scheme which is helping low income countries acquire jobs at a spot equal henry force the biden administration doesn't seem likely to hate that call. it's not often that you see kids actually excited to get a vaccination shot but that was before covet and the confidence that comes with a vaccine i was glad because now i can be like safer and soon will be able to like be out soon and do normal things i think it's cool that it's at school because i can see like all my fellow classmates getting it and that i know that like people around me all have it and my whole like district has it so it makes me feel safer for their parents finally some relief from what has been constant stress and fear having been through 3 cases of cove it in my household o

didn't impose restrictions and allowed people to gather at large political and religious events elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. dr karl is the chairman of the hospital which we mentioned earlier this is where 12 people died because the hospital ran out of oxygen his wife is one of the patients undergoing treatment he says the situation is critical. the situation has again been stipulated but in the morning it was terrible well we were told it is only 30 minutes of 45 minutes of oxygen left the hospital has more than 250 patients in the pool we did begin and out of then at least to 70 patients equating i wish it oxygen in the i.c.u. and in the in the agreement wards and during my wife is also one of the rules here and so we thought she was that it is not sit in there for more than 30 minutes now and all sorts of frantic efforts by the hospital management the oxygen supply in companies 2 of them which have been struggling for the last 2030 years all went you know on deaf ears because there is no oxygen the problem is that we don't see and if it comes to the pancreas to simulate the hospi

opposition party the congress is the latest to urge the government to impose a nationwide lockdown elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi canada meanwhile has become the 1st country to approve fines as coronavirus vaccines for children above the age of 12 the pharmaceutical giant says is trials on 12 to 15 year olds show the job is safe any fact against covered 19 canada has seen a surge in cases in recent weeks the u.s. is also considering approving the vaccine for teenage is chris of a thompson is an associate professor at loyola university of maryland he says more countries should be looking to vaccinate a wider range of the population. it's incredibly important we need to vaccinate as many people as possible in order to prevent the spread of this deadly disease and you know at least in the united states about 23 percent of the population is under the age of 18 so this is a next major step for trying to protect our community canada's trying to protect their community we're all trying to work together as part of the global community so this is a really important step all the data suggests that

while hospital struggle to deal with the world's biggest in coronavirus cases india correspondent elizabeth piron i'm now reports from new delhi. supporters of west bengal's governing trinamool congress party the t.n.c. celebrating victory in the capital kolkata that's despite the election commission banning all celebrations because of n.d.s. high number of cars on a virus cases. but supporters said they wanted to mark a month about a g.'s reelection for a 3rd term as chief minister. from a hard we have good wishes from above energy and that is why of us celebrating we already knew that the mc would have been because the development has been done by d.n.c. and he went out on the other left wasn't bottle but they did not think. 175000000 people were eligible to vote in the states off west bengal. and put a cherry politicians including prime minister met in the modi had been criticised for holding large election rallies during a 2nd wave of coronavirus the world health organization said such gatherings are one of the reasons for india's surge in cases for candidates died in west bengal after contra

didn't impose restrictions and allowed people to gather at large political and religious events elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi which star scar is the founder of the helping hand foundation the charity working with the most vulnerable people the city of homs about he says hospitals everywhere at breaking point. they are about 5 to 6 that it should be more to send in the city where i live in had about these hospitals od running to deflate to get past it deep they are managing to get the oxidants up lives from other states and from you know different sources they are managing to beat the patients with whatever capacity they have. the moment these hospitals are all sort of running full of people who od in need of oxygen they are getting oxygen in the form. they are developing the symptoms of a beyond besides your dating and in the hospitals to date he said to him being born but also in but i would hospitals the long queues that are the long waiting lists people are not getting beds and in the process those who are in critical condition abbasi know so you're finding people being brought the

organization say those risking their lives to do their jobs should be protected by the government elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. now the world's largest televised music event is back thousands of people are attending the euro vision song contest in the netherlands off it was counseled last year it's been dominated by covert $900.00 testing and social distancing but it's not just the pandemic playing a big role politics is to stop reports. said. was. not i. guess. with her song born russian singer money shot brings domestic violence to the european stage it's a sensitive issue in our country and has led to her facing many threats and protest including from church leaders and politicians. the ever vision song contest is of biggest stage. music stage in our planet i don't want to stop whatever if someone dalek's me doesn't mean that i need to stop my art and i need to stop my message but with repression going on in russia right now are you not worried that it will backfire against you when you go i don't know i don't know i'm trying to not think about it officially politics is off limits f

still facing severe criticism over how it is handling the pandemic and indeed the vaccine rollout elizabeth piron i'm with this update from new delhi . we know the numbers aren't reliable because throughout this pandemic india has never conducted enough tests to know the real number of infections but what we are seeing is the numbers are coming down considerably enough and some of the previously worst affected places like maharashtra are also here in delhi to visibly ease the pressure on the health care system but where they are coming down in some places they are going up warning me and others the entire south southern india is badly affected right now 13 not 13 sorry 11 call the 19 patients died in the southern city off with the today oxygen supply ran out not to put these in the state of entrepreneurs and neighboring thailand ghana is stopping ambulances carrying coded 19 patients from coming into telling god i'm going to the hospitals in the capital which is. unless they have a hospital booking and that's because hospitals and high the body even though it's a very developed very well off city

opposition party the congress is the latest to urge the government to impose a nationwide lockdown elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi or as it is struggles to contain the outbreak even as top diplomats are falling ill with the virus and his entire delegation in london for the g. 7 summit has been forced to isolate after 2 members tested positive it's the 1st time in 2 years the representatives of the world's richest countries are meeting in person and is not part of the group of 7 but it was invited to attend as a guest of reports of london. the return of face to face diplomacy after a long hiatus albeit behind masks and shakes swapped for elbow bumps the family photo requiring the widest of wide lenses but despite tight protocols for all attendees including daily tasks for delegates the indian team confirmed 2 of its diplomats have tested positive for seeing the entire mission including the country's foreign minister enjoy shanker seen here with the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken on monday into self isolation speaking in northern england before arriving at the g. 7 in person later i

announce a nationwide lockdown like he did jury india's 1st wave well let's get more now from elizabeth piron him she joins us live from new delhi let's let's start with the vaccines 1st of all they are supposed to be the way out of this crisis but the indian vaccination campaign has been hit with control for say walky tellers. that's right the vaccination policies of the government are in fact going to be heard in the indian supreme court the top court and the country which is going to be hearing everything from why the government is allowing that scene manufacturers the 2 in the country to sell at completely different prices to the central government to states and also to private hospitals and also why the vaccine rollout is going so very slowly the indian government expanded its vets nation program to include all adults everyone above the age of 18 from the start of may but there aren't enough doses it states to make their own arrangements with vaccine manufacturers which have not been sending states doses dudley's health minister a health minister said on monday morning that they only hav

opposition party the congress is the latest to urge the government to impose a nationwide lockdown elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. australia's prime minister is resisting pressure to lift a temporary ban on flights from india saying that it will continue for at least another 10 days scott morrison says that australia has begun delivering humanitarian aid to india but he's not concerned about the travel ban damaging relations between the 2 countries to die the humanitarian support the very significant humanitarian support for india has already departed city. you know the 100 oxygen concentrator as we we're going to deliver for them the the mosques the risk is the humanitarian support canada has become the 1st country in the world to approve pfizer's coronavirus vaccines for use on children above the age of 12 the pharmaceutical giant says that its trials on 12 to 15 year olds show that the jab is 100 percent effective against covert 19 canada has seen a surge in cases in recent weeks and it's infection rates are supposed to us for the 1st time since the pandemic began the u.s. is also cons

for supplies to reach their hospitals let's get more this from our correspondent in new delhi elizabeth piron liz it does seem that the much needed aid is finally getting through to the people and states that need it most but after much angst. yes absolutely so the government has been forced to release 2 statements this week the 1st on tuesday and the 2nd on thursday night about the say it said that it was allocating and dispatching it and that this was an ongoing process the reason it's had to release these statements is because early on in the week a local investigation showed that 6 days including delhi which has been one of the worst affected and whether aid as landing head of the cvs any of the foreign aid now that has since been rectified in delhi but later another blow the best a geisha show that the government had informed the standard operating procedures for distribution this aid to states to the 2nd of may when the aid had been arriving since the 25th of april again the government has said that they were dispatching the aid even before forming these procedures that they are working

3700 people died in the past day there were 392000 new infections down slightly from saturday elizabeth piron has the latest from new delhi. we are outside a hospital in new delhi which tweeted on sunday morning saying they only had enough oxygen to last them just a few hours.

that she doesn't know what she'll tell her 8 year old son if she goes home without his father elizabeth piron an al-jazeera new delhi that surge has prompted bin us to impose restrictions on most travelers from india starting on trees they only u.s. citizens on permanent residents will be allowed in gabriel is also has more from washington d.c. . the white house says that they gave very close consideration to this very important decision they say that they consulted with c.d.c. with other health officials and with national security officials as well but ultimately made the decision to ban all indian citizens from entering the united states we don't know how long this ban will be in place but it does go into effect next tuesday on may 4th now white house officials were quick to point out to see that this does not affect u.s. citizens at all there are about 4000000 indian americans in the united states these are u.s. passport holders u.s. citizens but they can't get self identify as either being born in indian descent they will not be affected by this nevertheless this is still a very strong mo

people died in the past 24 hours and they were 390000 new infections down slightly from saturday elizabeth piron i'm has more on the crisis in india india is seeing not just a shortage of vaccines but everything from health care workers to oxygen equipment and medicines international aid continues to arrive the latest from france and belgium on sunday and promising that in the morning is holding a review me saying on sunday morning. about these shortages and as he's doing that i mean that follows what happened on saturday more than 10 days after the delhi government 1st raised the alarm about the critical shortage of oxygen but he starred as expected soon receive 1000000 vaccines from china on sunday it's purchased a total of 13000000 doses from 3 chinese companies but the stan has not kill a should slightly more than 2000000 people the lowest number in south asia. a large fire in iran has caused extensive damage in an industrial time it broke out in a chemical factory near the northwestern city of comb it's known as a factory home crews stop the far from reaching tanks for industrial alcohol or

facing a backlash over its the situation to push ahead with a controversial infrastructure project elizabeth piron them has this report from new delhi. for the past few weeks in the indian capital funeral pyres have been burning day and night and around the country mass cremations have become the norm for 5 going to have a raid going to give out that. have to be put at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to cremate the bodies the bodies on the would be implemented properly because there are only $45.00 police who are performing the rituals even though the bodies are being cremated quickly there's a still a long queue of ambulances carrying bodies of over 19 victims outside the crematorium and he is recent surge of the virus has seen the official death toll climb above 200000 though the actual number is thought to be much higher the government has faced criticism for not preparing for a 2nd wave and allowing large political and religious gatherings to go ahead ignoring the basic precautions of looting mosques and social distancing and as people die from a lack of hospital beds and oxygen the

well i'll speak live now to elizabeth piron and he joins us from new delhi as the situation in india remains critical what is the government doing to get the country out of this crisis. hello situation rary much critical karnataka the southern state of karnataka is the latest state that 19 patients and other patients actually who were on oxygen supply have died after the shortage ran out so the shortage of oxygen that we're seeing is not just limited to the surrounding states it is a nationwide problem international aid is arriving the government is using it the indian air force to airlift cryo genic tankers from germany bring them here deliver them around the country but the cases are going up so much so fast that it is a mammoth task and it is not reaching people in time to save many lives now we are outside a vaccination center and when it comes to vaccinations which india is also seeing a massive shortage of the government has very much left states to fend for themselves after announcing that all adults will be eligible for vaccines from saturday they're told states to make their

facing a backlash over its decision to push ahead with a controversial infrastructure project elizabeth piron them as our report from new delhi. for the past few weeks in the indian capital funeral pyres have been burning day and night and around the country mass cremations have become the norm for 5 going to have a raid going to give out that have to be put at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to cremate the bodies the bodies on the would be implemented properly because there are only $45.00 police who are performing the rituals even though the bodies are being cremated quickly there's a still a long queue of ambulances guarding bodies of over 19 victims outside the crematorium and he is recent surge of the virus has seen the official death toll climb above 200000 though the actual number is thought to be much higher the government has faced criticism for not preparing for a 2nd wave and allowing large political and religious gatherings to go ahead ignoring the basic precautions of looting mosques and social distancing and as people die from a lack of hospital beds and oxygen there'

in the past 24 hours india has now counted more than 23000000 cases since the pandemic began elizabeth piron and reports from new delhi. all my photo looks it from his mother's grave as it's been prepared he's not yet ready to say goodbye his story of mourning is one of thousands around the country every day. as india streets empty because of localized lockdowns burial grounds and predatory and continue to work day and night. and in india's poorest states what over there and be hard $100.00 bodies of suspected car the 19 victims have been found floating in the ganges river. are officials at the scene and investigating we are trying to find out where did these with dead bodies come from how did they get here and their numbers. with kramatorsk around the country struggling to deal with a huge increase in bodies residents of gaza report an author they say they informed the local administration about a shortage of what for cremations. we told the administration that the dead are being thrown in the water because of the shortage of water orders from around the world about 13 villages have been tr

facing a lot of criticism about how it's handling this pandemic and that same rollouts more with elizabeth piron i'm in new delhi on the face of it elizabeth you would say great numbers are coming down even though they are still very very high but there's a bit more nuanced than that. and that is because india has never conducted enough tests to know the real number of infections most public health experts put the number of infections as being around for torrens what the official tally is but what we do see is numbers have come down enough in some of the worst affected states like maharashtra and delhi for long enough that we know we can see the pressure being eased on the health care system but where they're going up in some places going down rather than some places they are certainly going up and others the entire south india is really badly affected we had 11 people die in the southern city of. that's in the state of andhra pradesh and ambulances carrying clothing 19 patients from neighboring telling ghana being stopped not being allowed to go to its capital hi there which has a lot of hospit

opposition party the congress is the latest to urge the government to impose a nationwide lockdown elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi this is the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program keeping up the pressure the protests in colombia against the government and why isn't public t.v. made worse by the pandemic. people in scotland head to the polls but will of vote for independence be on the ballot paper. and will it be chelsea all real madrid to face matches the city in the champions league final look ahead to that match a little later in sports. canada has become the 1st country in the world to approve pfizer's corona virus vaccine for children above the age of 12 the pharmaceutical giant says that its trials on 12 to 15 year olds show that the jab is 100 percent effective against covert 19 canada has seen a surge in cases in recent weeks and its infection rate as a pos the u.s. for the 1st time since the pandemic began the u.s. is also considering approving the vaccine for teenagers all white house correspondent kimberly hell could reports from washington. the peers health can

not likely to resume major exports of vaccines until at least october let's get lisa snow from elizabeth piron and joins us now from new delhi let's just talk through the general situation here will be read into these latest figures being released by the government. hello hala we're not going to make too much of the exact numbers of the fact that india has reported less than 300000 cases for the past 2 days and it recorded less than 300000 cases for the 1st time in a month on sunday but the over all trend is that the numbers are coming down and that there is less pressure on the health care system on hospitals in the worst affected states bot these are still very high numbers and that means that people are still dying from things like a lack of oxygen 5 people died in the district of salem in the southern state of the mullard that's just so far this week and so prominent in that in the morty has held a meeting with state leaders to discuss the situation in the country the shortages of oxygen how to put the systems in place put the health care infrastructure in place and rural areas which are r

only one doctor for every 28000 people and a warning the strip or from or india correspondent elizabeth piron i'm contains images some people may find distress and. the fires continue to burn in one of the many cremation grounds on the banks of the ganges river considered the holiest source of water by hindus many want to be cremated near it and have the ashes scattered in the water work a say in recent times they've never had to deal with so many bodies. the daily concretes changing some days we cremate 4050 or even 70 bodies it's even reach 145 in one day but over the past week around a 100 bodies suspected to be of covert 19 victims have been found floating in the ganges in the states of be hard and author pretty in bihar they have been reports of a shortage of wood for funeral pyres because of the unprecedented number of cremations that's denied by the local administration but be hard is also india's poorest state with only line to community health care centers for 120000000 people. bob and i've been there pandey traveled from his home town to the capital partner to find a hospital for hi

the reaction from the government in a moment but we'll start things off with this report from elizabeth piron in new delhi. for the past few weeks in the indian capital funeral pyres have been burning day and night and around the country mass cremations have become the norm for 5 going to have a raid going to get out that. have to be put at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to cremate the bodies the bodies aren't even being cremated properly because there are only 45 police were performing the rituals even though the bodies are being cremated quickly there's a still a long queue of ambulances carrying bodies of cord 19 big tents outside the crematorium and he is recent surge of the virus has seen the official death toll climb above 200000 though the actual number is thought to be much higher the government has faced criticism for not preparing for a 2nd wave and allowing large political and religious gatherings to go ahead ignoring the basic precautions including mosques and social distancing and as people die from a lack of hospital beds and oxygen there is anger at the government f

didn't impose restrictions and allowed people to gather at large political and religious events elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. here's some of my conversation with dr eric frankel thing from a little bit earlier an epidemiologist senior fellow at the federation of american scientists he talked about the steps that india can take to bring the situation under control. india right now has reached so out of control that a certain group is definitely what is needed now i want to emphasize lockdowns article this is why not be combined with government assistance to help people stay home because when they don't know how to help people won't be able to stay home so this is really key to a lot of must be combined with governments but that obviously we need more than just that we need to actually have rapid testing i know p.c.r. testing is limited but rapid indigent testing are very inexpensive and can easily be purchased in the hundreds of millions and so those new really need to be deployed and of course the oxygen crisis you know there's because i was also in shipments you can also we need oxy

didn't impose restrictions and allowed people to gather at large political and religious events elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi always a pleasure to have doctorate final thing with us on al-jazeera never to me ologist senior fellow at the federation of american scientists and former health economists at the harvard chan school of public health lovely to have you with us dr i mentioned earlier john if you heard what dr anthony felt she was one of the people saying actually we need a nationwide lockdown and we need it now and we need it for a few weeks would you agree with that that could act as i think they call it almost a circuit breaker. yok india right now has reached so out of control that a certain group is definitely what is needed now i want to emphasize lockdowns are difficult this is why a lot to be combined with government assistance to help people stay at home because when they don't know how to help people won't be able to stay at home so this is really key to lock and must be combined with governments but that obviously we need more than just that we need to actually have r

opposition party the congress is the latest to urge the government to impose a nationwide lockdown elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi. is free to talk to a new take up and pie who is an associate professor of medicine at mcgill university she joins us live via skype from montreal thank you very much for being with us or talk about situation in india in a moment but but i want to ask you 1st of all about your reaction to the move by the u.s. to bachata riccio waiver for intellectual property on cave in 1900 it's almost like a fish that i sent out to the universe 2 days ago we've been advocating for it for the past 2 weeks and news so so happy that president biden is considering this. we also are hope that g 7 countries can also push for that. they should join us in pushing for these favors it's extremely important because india and south africa and a host of other countries had applied for it and and were wondering whether state what the status of that application was india in particular they're less than i mean less than 5 percent of the population has received you know collation so has you s

criticism on how it's handling the pandemic and vaccine rollout lizabeth piron i'm keeping an eye on things from new delhi elizabeth the numbers are often all we have what i want to get from you is the perspective i mean the amount of actual testing that is going on or not known fact isn't going on. we know the numbers aren't reliable because throughout this pandemic india has never conducted enough tests to know the real number of infections but what we are seeing is the numbers are coming down considerably enough in some of the previously worst affected places like maharashtra also here in delhi to visibly ease the pressure on the health care system but where they are coming down in some places they are going up warring li and others the entire south southern india is badly affected right now 13 not 13 sorry 11 code 19 patients died in the southern city off with the after they oxygen supply route not to put these in the state of entrepreneur and neighbor intel and go on a stopping ambulances carrying coded 19 patients from coming into telling god i'm going to the hospitals and the capital which is hard to mess th