jonah jenna, how live in london china's president has promised to african nations. 1000000000 corona virus vaccines and increased economic assistance. and today, summit is underway in synagogue. china is africa, the largest trading partner with nearly $1900000000000.00 in tribes. the meeting takes place after a recent visit to by us secretary of state to boost cooperation. nicholas hark is following the summons. it's something that's very important, not just for china, but for african country is also present virtually as the president of south africa, the head of the african union. and obviously the host present, mikey south and on everybody's mind. but not mentioned by name was the new variant of the coven. 19 ami kron and shooting pain address to head on very quickly. and is address said that a 1000000000 doses would be delivered of the farm vaccine to africa. and 600000000 of that will be donation. we also mentioned that there will be a creation of a chinese african research centers and manufacturing centers so that people here can have better access to, to vaccines and achieve th

jonah: the rules so that it cues at vaccination centers. ukraine is just really trying to catch up as the beds filled up and the number of covid deaths mount. jennaws, kia. -- kiev. ross: the first country to go back in the lockdown is latvia. the spike in cases from just over a week ago isarked. cases remain higher than any other point during the pandemic. the lockdown will last until the 15th of november. it includes curfew between 8:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m., and the closure of non-essential shops. many hospitals are operating at 80% of capacity. here is the head of the latvian medical association. >> we have a great challenge for our health system. the problem is that health care system has been underfinanced for many, many years. we, before this covid-19 crisis, we already had big problems with capacity of our health care system due to lack of nurses and physicians. we are fighting with covid and now we have restrictions, very serious restrictions that affect -- until the 15th of november. we should focus. the vaccination is very important. there is no discussion about this. even vaccinated people have not so severe cases of covid. we should thi