the delivery of vaccines to poor and middle income countries through the kovacs program could be sent back weeks because of delays from a major indian producer international vaccine buyers have been told that more doses will stay in india after it reported its highest number of new cases for the year on friday but nearly 60000 let's get more this more correspondent to the dealers but probably joining me now from the capital new delhi elizabeth i mean india's announcement that it's keeping its sort of homemade vaccines in country will be a huge blow to those poor nations who are really depending on india to supply them through the kovacs scheme. it absolutely will so and that's because the serum institute of india is the world's largest vaccine manufacturer it is the biggest supplier to that international un backed alliance known as kovacs the women stude has already sent 28000000 vaccines to kovacs and it was planning to send a further $48000000.15 in april but the kovacs alliance have said that there are going to be delays because of the situation and via the. increasing demand local

getting the corona virus vaccine to everyone as president becomes the 1st person vaccinated under the kovacs plan it aims to supply poor countries with free coated vaccines also coming up tonight former french president nicolas sarkozy has been found guilty of corruption and influence peddling he is the 1st french president to be convicted of corruption and sentenced to prison and me of more marks one month since the military coup that overthrew its democratically elected government the protesters remain defiant despite of what the weekend crackdown and al student leader aung sun suu kyi faces new charges in court . i'm off it's good to have you with us the president of ghana nona. and his wife have become the world's 1st 3 cypriots of a coronavirus vaccine from kovacs banks is the global plan to procure and distribute free vaccines to poor countries the 76 year old received the astra zeneca vaccine live on television today that is the 1st country to receive vaccines from kovacs and plans to begin vaccinating its population tomorrow nearly 24 other countries will receive supplies next week.

and now nigeria has received its 1st vaccines through the global kovacs sharing scheme close to 4000000 astra zeneca jobs arrived in the capital of bridge on tuesday health care workers and frontline workers will be the 1st to be inoculated it's now the 3rd west african country to benefit from this u.n. sponsored program amnesty international says war crimes are being committed in mozambique more than couple delgado province in a new report the rights group says hundreds of people have been killed there since 2017 it's documented extrajudicial executions human rights violations and indiscriminate attacks hong kong court has adjourned the 2nd hearing of $47.00 pro-democracy activists who are facing subversion charges under a national security law dependence so he defendants have complained of exhaustion during proceedings that on monday went for more than 15 hours so far 5 of them have felt unwell and were taken to hospital they're accused of participating in an unofficial election primary for the territories legislature well those are the headlines they'll be more news here with fully o

more countries gone as president becomes the 1st person to receive a corona virus vaccine under the kovacs scheme it aims to supply poor countries with free vaccines also coming up tonight former french president nicolas sarkozy a sentence to jail after a 10 day trial the paris court has found the 66 year old guilty of corruption and influence peddling and a shortfall in funding to avert famine in yemen as the u.n. a field raises less than half of the $3800000000.00 talk. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome the president of ghana. and his wife have become the world's 1st recipients of a coronavirus vaccine from kovacs now co banks is the global plan to procure and distribute free inoculations to poor countries a 76 year old received the astra zeneca vaccine live on television today is the 1st country to receive vaccines from kovacs and plans to begin vaccinating its population on tuesday nearly 24 other countries will receive supplies next week. as well as battling a 2nd wave of the infection health authorities in guyana are also finding

expecting a shipment of 375000 doses president hassan rouhani criticised india is also accuse the kovacs program of failing to live up to its commitments elizabeth put on and has more from new delhi. india has so far exported more clothes than 19 vexing than any other country to the c.r.m. and student and is the world's largest vaccine manufacturing and it's been the biggest supplier to the international kovacs alliance simmons shooters and india which has been is still manufacturing the oxford astra zeneca vaccine it sent 28000000 doses to call back so far it was planning to deliver 40000000 the smom 50000000 next month and callbacks have said that those will now be delayed and the indian government has stressed that it's not going to ban exports of back same but it's recalibrating how many day export because of the situation in the country with cases rising as they are and they have been criticism in india because as well as being part of the kovacs amman's india has exported vaccines to other countries as a and also because of commercial agreements 60 more than 60000000 vaccines to 76

now the delivery of vaccines to poor and middle income countries through the kovacs program could be set back weeks because of delays from a major indian producer the indian government has told international buyers that will have to keep more of the available doses after a rise in the infections friday saw the highest number for the year at almost $60000.00 let's get more on this war india correspondent elizabeth prodigy joins me now in india and out single it's both that it's keeping its homemade vaccines in the country and that's going to be a real blow to poor nations who are depending on the through the kovacs scheme. if that will be so and that is because. of serum institute of india that is the world's largest manufacturer which has been making the oxford astra zeneca vaccine it is the biggest supplier to the international alliance to the callbacks alliance it's already said $28000000.00 doses it was planning to deliver $14000000.00 and march $50000000.00 and april but a spokesperson for the kovacs alliance said that they will be delays now and that is the situation in india th

sponsored program nigeria expects to receive 60000000 doses eventually through kovacs on the w.h.o. expects the 237000000 doses will be delivered to 142 countries by the end of may through that kovacs facility well that's now speaks of peace of hawkins he is the unicef representative in nigeria and he joins us now from a vision of peace or i magine it's a bit of a day of celebration for you there nigeria vaccines finally in the country but will people take them. absolutely and we are celebrating but it's one small step as you said it has a long way to go. before we get sufficient vaccine in the country to be able to. fulfill our obligations to the people of of nigeria but close to $4000000.00 is a big amount it's a fantastic step forward for nigerian a fantastic step for for the whole of africa and people will take some there's no question about that in the same way as many people said at the beginning people will not wear masks people are starting to wear masks it's very difficult it's a. big change and with the vaccine is the same i remember in 2003 when people were against the po

and some are put these teen clovis is asking about kovacs which he rightly says is the international initiative to vaccinate the globe more equitably and so he's asking about that what about how thanks and vinicius says the same thing do you guys think the u.n. coverts program was actually have a quick and substantial impact on the palestinian cause the crisis that was what it was designed to do yeah exactly for populations in the global south of again this doesn't relieve from oblique implication israel is the one responsible but i think it's part of the kovacs i think here and we may know what information you know about the p.s.a. we'll have to go next. so with kovacs the way it works is that they're supposed to provide 20 percent of the need for vaccinations and that's that would alleviate but it's not coming and quickly enough the 1st step is expected sometime in march but it's going to be a pretty small shipment and there's a larger shipment later on but at the same time what we're seeing in especially yesterday and the day before there had been warnings by the ministry of healt

the east african nation has begun rolling out dozers from the global kovacs program an initiative launched by the world health organization to ensure low and middle income countries have fair access to back scenes it's a crucial resource for the world's poorest continent on thursday kenya's president stressed the importance of global corporation vaccine nationalism is something that we should. we take a life thing. if you ask any expert there is no single country that will be able to be sued unless all of us are safe so we have an obligation to ensure that this vaccine is made a very widely. and as a special to the citizens of the globe this week the 1st batch of more than 1000000 astra zeneca dozes arrived in nairobi kenya hopes to vaccinate 1200000 people by june. nasa's mars rover perseverance has taken its 1st drive since landing on the planet 2 weeks ago take a look at this vehicle covered a 7 metre trail in a trip last in just over half an hour images sent by the probe showed real tracks in the red dust perseverence landed in a deep crater on the washing surface which scientists beli

the east african nation has begun rolling out dozes from the global kovacs program an initiative launched by the walls health organization to ensure low and middle income countries have fair access to vaccines. it's a crucial resource for the world's poorest continent and say kenya's president stressed the importance of global cooperation roxanne nationalism is something that you should. make a nice thing. if you ask and it's just there is no single country that will be able to be safe unless all of us are safe so we have an obligation to ensure that this vaccine is made available. and that's a special to the citizens of the globe this week the 1st batch of more than 1000000 astra zeneca doses summarized in nairobi kenya hopes to vaccinate 1200000 people by june. that's all for now you're watching news up next our technology show scheft don't forget you can get all the latest news headlines on our website that's. also on instagram and twitter at e w news i'm michael okwu in berlin thanks for watching. and forced into an english mass. their bodies your tools. the history of the slave trade

yes over the last few days there has been this reports of this kovacs shipment coming in. you know it's a very very small batch it's only about i think about 64000 doses and we're talking with talking about a population of 5000000 so it's really really minute we've had more reports but there are supposed to be at least another $100000.00 coming across from china but this is just really these are really tied bits for a very very vulnerable population and there is a very stark reality going on that whilst the palestinian population isn't being vaccinated and that the israeli population is now over 50 percent vaccinated will israel backtracked on those plans to sell so close vaccine abroad what are things looking like now what's the way ahead do you think. i think the way ahead the only way ahead is for israel to provide the vaccine to the people they occupies the palestinian people and i think the international community has to place a huge amount of pressure on israel to fulfill those obligations because at the end of the day there isn't any way a border between israel and

jordan says it is not getting enough coronavirus vaccines from kovacs that's the global initiative to get doses to countries in need speaking exclusively to deal with your jordan's foreign minister said the middle eastern nation is reaching out to china and russia to get enough vaccines and warned against politicizing the issue jordan faces the additional task of providing vaccinations to hundreds of thousands of refugees from the war in neighboring syria the foreign minister iman safadi is here in berlin to discuss the crisis as well as other regional issues with his german counterpart i could must use richard walker sat down with iman safadi to discuss jordan's daunting back to nation jail. jordan has been praised for providing refugees with vaccinations but jordan is getting a rather small number of vaccinations from the international community if you look at the kovacs system that has been set up in the 1st allocation from kovacs jordan is getting around 440000 says that's barely more doses than have been administered in just a single city your population is more than 20 times tha

yes over the last few days there has been this reports of this kovacs shipment coming in. but you know it's a very very small batch it's only about i think about 64000 doses and we're talking with talking about a population of 5000000 so it's really really my new we've had more reports there are supposed to be at least another $100000.00 coming across from china but this is just really these are really tied bits for a very very vulnerable population and there is a very stark reality going on that whilst the palestinian population isn't being vaccinated and that the israeli population is now over 50 percent vaccinated will israel backtracked on those plans to sell so it's less vaccine abroad what are things looking like now what's the way ahead do you think. i think the way ahead the only way ahead is for israel to provide the vaccine to the people they occupies the palestinian people and i think the international community has to place a huge amount of pressure on israel to fulfill those obligations because at the end of the day there isn't any way a border between israel

or example the kovacs 1st lot of the 1st shipment of codex that's the global vaccine alliance those that seem to have gone to ghana but now they're having trouble getting it into people's arms because people there don't trust the vaccine and even today was had outside astra zeneca had questions come out around that vaccine around the around the dasa. perhaps that may have been using out to outdated information from its trials giving an incomplete view although everyone still says this vaccine is safe you know even that discussion even that narrative impacts the way that people see these vaccines so are we missing the wood for the trees are we talking too much about getting vaccines to everyone and not enough about making sure people want them. this is certainly has to be part of it and we've just learned from past mistakes time and time again with banks in campaigns that you have to bring the public on board you have to give very clear communication engage with communities and otherwise it just won't work and. we're already seeing that many fronts i think it can't just be about the vacci

back to vaccine sharing scheme known as kovacs many others in africa are being left behind. there is a capacity for mr companies to produce and i stayed in medical school. it is essential that the wealthy states stop blocking or putting in legal barriers and delaying essential kozel ahead. of the world trade organization according to the united nations 3 quarters of all covert 1000 vaccines have been secured by just 10 countries all of them wealthy 130 countries that's about 2500000000 people have not received a single dose this is not the 1st public health emergency that south africa is facing it has one of the highest hiv aids rates in the world in the 1990 s. millions of people in this country and other developing nations died without access to the drugs they needed simply because they were too expensive so africa is once again calling for access to cheaper drugs to save lives with some arguing that despite covert 1000 vaccines been tested in africa many nations on the continent still remain at the back of the queue for me to al-jazeera johannesburg well the head of the i

so our work with kovac to make leading investment in first investment get that moving quickly -- dr. fauci on the first day attending world health organizations meeting, our recent announce that time we're moving the vaccine in this hemisphere to mexico and canada are work with the quad to develop longer term manufacturing capacity around the world. these are efforts that are active and ongoing. and before i turn it over to dr. fauci i would just say we are, in fact, concerned with the situation in brazil. we are having conversations in with the folks in brazil on a regular basis and daily basis about what is going on there and won't give you more details other than to say that we're deeply engaged. let me turn it over to dr. fauci. >> thank you andy yes we will be meeting with brazilian authorities to reiterate what andy said we are quite concerned about difficult situation in brazil. and we will be discussing ways that we might be able to be helpful to brazil i can't go over the details -- i like to wait to see what their presentation and how in the future we might be tiebl help th

the health authority received more than 60000 vaccine doses last month through the international kovacs scheme which helps poor countries without him as the latest this is the moment many palestinians have been waiting for the launch of a public vaccination campaign in the occupied west bank the 1st ones to get the jobs or medical staff people over the age of 75 and those with chronic illnesses. the palestinian authority received a vaster vaccines from the kovacs initiative that helps poorer states get the jobs they contain 60000 doses of pfizer and astra zeneca vaccine when the new year it was very hard for me being in the field in testing people for foreign many of them positive no matter the precautions are very scared i would catch in give it to my family i hope to get the vaccine soon they'll ministry says it's looking to vaccinate $3200000.00 palestinians in the next few months it's a relief for some but most will have to wait another month. the government should have had better measures to provide paper with vaccines and adequate health care after they impose closures they opened

up there the damage here and say we are happily vaccinating all of our population by the way you kovacs not us because you know innovation must be protected in the long run i think it's absolutely morally unsustainable but i think we also have to remember these leaders are self interested and driven by their citizens and it's not just the fact that within moments you know my mother had a vaccine to 3 weeks ago here in the u.k. i feel that the safety the security the freedom from fear that vaccine brings it will only be a few months before someone like my mother gets sick again from covered 19 because the vaccine no longer works and the said we are going to have to leave it there for a time my apologies max max alyson there from oxford oxfam international we appreciate all of you joining us here on inside story a big thank you to for watching that we had some at the baddest lot researcher at oxford that same group thomas pogge a professor of philosophy and of course next olson on time international now you can see the program again any time by visit. no web sites is there a dot com a fur

which is what i want to ask next you think there should be a sort of a a style of kovacs might say for people to protect the poor countries the people within the poor countries that are trying to fight in the same way that they've looking at the kovacs scheme for the vaccine as well. i mean i think it's a really important idea to create about idea and look you know some of the folks who are dealing in space are not traditionally deletes of society i mean they're not the doctors necessarily who may be part of the educated elite but if you're talking about sanitation workers and social workers and folks who are doing the really behind the scenes work in the health care system oftentimes they're not being drawn out of the strata of the wealthy elites of countries and so sometimes there is actually societies look down on folks like that interest instead of prioritizing their well being it's got to be a mind shift here we have to reverse how we're looking at people who are living the frontlines of the standard i mean their report does highlight the fact that it's clean there's auxilary staf

yes over the last few days there has been this reports of this kovacs shipment coming in. but you know it's a very very small batch it's only about i think about 64000 doses and we're talking with talking about a population of 5000000 so it's really really minute we've had more reports there are supposed to be at least another $100000.00 coming across from china but this is just really is a really take bits for a very very vulnerable population and there is a very stark reality going on that whilst the palestinian population isn't being vaccinated and that the israeli population is now over 50 percent vaccinated well israel backtracked on those plans to sell so it was vaccine abroad what are things looking like now what's the way ahead do you think. i think the way ahead the only way ahead is for israel to provide the vaccine to the people they occupies the palestinian people and i think the international community has to place a huge amount of pressure on israel to fulfill those obligations because at the end of the day there isn't any way a border between israel and pale

vile kovacs initiative for a population of about $30000000.00 what sort of effect is it likely to have. while this is very important because as a country like it said about 15000000 citizens and 600000 doses that is just not enough and of cause it is important to start the fight against the pandemic to be able to actually contain the virus and this is very important it comes in handy that countries already make an effort to get vaccine from other saw faces like from russia and i provide are being given for their stepanek already these vaccines from i'm going to really hope to begin the process of protecting the citizens ok so it's a start and present a coup for those obviously very keen to spread the message about vaccines here's a quote from a recent t.v. address they said taking the vaccine will not alter your d.n.a. will not embedded a tracking device in your body neither will it cause infertility and women or men so. how imbedded all these conspiracy theories about the corona vaccines that when they come from. so these plants. make started. but that it was far away from africa even

the east african nation has begun rolling odos us from the global kovacs program an initiative launched by the world health organization to ensure low and middle income countries have fair access to vaccines. it's a crucial resource for the world's poorest continent on thursday kenya's president stressed the importance of global corporation. is something that you should. be very clear and i think. if you ask and expect there is no single country that will be able to be seen unless all of us. so we have an obligation to ensure that this is made a very right. and that's. to citizens of the globe. this week the 1st batch of more than 1000000 astra zeneca though this arrived in nairobi kenya hopes to vaccinate 1200000 people by june. there has been a outpouring of anger and calls for legal reforms in south korea this week after the country's 1st transgender soldier was found dead in her apartment here and we see what was discharged from the military last year after undergoing gender reassignment surgery her death is being treated as suicide. being in the military had been be an issue soused

india's daily kovac 1000 cases have risen to their highest number since december data from the health ministry shows cases there have jumped by nearly 29000 a day india has the world's highest tally of infections after the united states and brazil the federal government has blamed crowding and people not wearing masks and there's also a growing alarm about the increasing number of cases in chile despite a successful vaccine rollout 5000000 people there have now had their 1st jab but new cases are still rising by an average of 5000 a day and some korean teen measures will be reimposed next week at least 8 people have been killed and one injured near the u.s. city of atlanta in 3 separate shootings targeting message pollers police say 6 of the women killed were of asian descent a male suspect has been arrested and well those are the headlines now it's back to al-jazeera while. was. cut. cut. cut us. to our. was. on the 1st of february 2012th most of our song. traveled from cairo to put sayit team and he was away to 3 and she was out in the. local wearing her good only school limbs the f

kovacs is fully funded will vaccinate 20 percent of people. they hope by the end of this year 20 percent of the people in developing countries so looking to see how kovacs is being supplemented by bilateral donations, surplus donations and other contributions i think is really important. >> thank you martin ambassador. >> good morning, welcome. many on the left are horrified at being associated with the neocon foreign policy but it is no small irony the end result of responsibility to protect her in reality little different than the interventionist policies of john bolton and bill kristol. like the neocons the liberal advocates of responsibility to protect advocated for military protection in libya, syria and young yemen. the reasoning might be working humanitarian and geopolitical advocacy for military intervention ends up looking much the same . i remember liking what candidate obama said about military intervention that without congressional approval and was only justified when there was an imminent threat and after president obama began bo

and his wife have become the world's 1st recipients of a corona virus vaccine from kovacs said clo bill scheme to procure and distributing the haitians for free for poor countries the 76 year old said he hoped to encourage others to get vaccinated. and their prime minister in the round remotely has received the 1st dose of the country's home grown coronavirus vaccine as india starts vaccinations beyond frontline workers people over 60 of those over 45 suffering from certain medical conditions are now also eligible for the jobs. thousands of police and soldiers in the czech republic are enforcing a tight new code with 19 restrictions the ban people from nonessential travel to other countries and 500 checkpoints have been set up to help stop the spread of the highly contagious u.k. coronavirus variant the czech republic is currently one of the hardest hit countries. the berlin film festival is always one of the most hotly anticipated events in the german capital's cultural calendar but this year the pandemic as force about a dollar into lockdown the audience has been limited to a select g

african states are struggling to secure even a small number of doses the world health organizations kovacs initiative to help poor countries abroad vaccines now nigeria kenya and rwanda started inoculating health workers and other vulnerable people. it's an historic moment for this medical work as they are the 1st kenyans to receive a call back 19 vaccine. the east african nation has began rolling out those us from the global kovacs program an initiative launched by the world health organization to ensure low and middle income countries have fair access to vaccines. it's a crucial resource for the world's poorest continent and say kenya's president stressed the importance of global cooperation. is something that. we think and i think. if you ask any stuff. there is no single country. unless all of us. so we have. to ensure that this vaccine is made. and as a special. citizens of the globe this week the 1st batch of more than 1000000 astra zeneca this arrived in nairobi kenya hopes to vaccinate 1200000 people by june. let's take a look at some of the other global developments in this pandem

and his wife have become the world's 1st recipients of a coronavirus vaccine from kovacs the global scheme to procure and distribute free inoculations to poorer countries the 76 year old got the astra zeneca vaccine live on television is the 1st country to receive vaccines from kovacs more than 20 african countries will get supplies next week. as well as battling a 2nd wave of the infection again and health authorities are also fighting this information about the safety of vaccines president door said he hoped getting the job would encourage others to do so its importance. the example. that. has to have everybody. comfortable with not taking the next visit to the everybody in the is that's made that's all. w.'s i'd like to see is covering the vaccine of rollouts there he told us that many canadians are highly skeptical of the vaccines and dangerous conspiracy theories are widespread in the country so these theories have been there since the pandemic broke people thought that it was far away from from the continent and so really it's not something i'm going to hear from them once it got to

the world's largest vaccine manufacturer and it's been the biggest supplier to the international kovacs and alliance c m n to choose and india which has been is still manufacturing the oxford astra zeneca vaccine it says $28000000.00 doses to call back so far it was planning to deliver $40000000.00 the smom 50000000 next month and callbacks have said that those will now be delayed and the indian government has stressed that it's not going to ban exports of back same but it's recalibrating how many day export because of the situation in the country with cases rising as they are and they have been criticism in india because as well as being part of the kovacs amman's india has exported vaccines to other countries as a that and also because of commercial agreements 60 more than 60000000 vaccines to 76 countries and people have pointed out that that 60000000 number is higher than the 58000000 people who have been inoculated in india so far the government is running behind its own vaccination shed you kill a thing 300000000 people in the 1st 6 months of the syria. iran and china have signed

rwanda was one of 14 countries to receive their 1st doses from the w h o's kovacs program medical workers were among the 1st in line to receive it. we hope that this vaccine will help us to reduce the number of people infected or killed by covert 19 and that it will eradicate the pandemic completely. in the chinese city if we run the place where it all started the cherry blossoms are in bloom it certainly feels as if the pandemic is all but over in china beijing recently set an economic growth target of over 6 percent this year as it looks to the future well people in other countries hope for signs of spring amid corporate nineteen's long winter of discontent. and some sports now and the women's league are rubber lundahl ski led barbie munich to a thrilling comeback as they beat a dog one floor to index dortmund were 2 mill up early on but league leaders byron showed their class with scoring a hat trick the win means yron stay ahead of our sick at the top of the table lights and kept up the pressure by winning 3 mil and freiburg. they led house time thanks to christopher and cuckoo who wa

so far very few children have become seriously ill with kovac 19 to the point of being hospitalized about a 3rd of them have a preexisting condition made worse by covert such as a lung disease the other 2 thirds of premature babies children with down syndrome. anderson asked to infection can also trigger the so-called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome p i.m.'s a disease that attacks various organs in children whether they have severe mild or even no kogut symptoms at all which makes you wonder shouldn't children be higher up on the priority list in fighting the pandemic. welcome to a copy of 19 special i want to get johnsonville and good to have you with us now we all tend to associate old age with frailty and illness right so when it comes to prioritize it covered $900.00 backs a nation we all say the old and vulnerable should come 1st but what about the young and vulnerable is the struggle of a family that feels abandoned by society as sir there. is a loving partner to her husband where suffered from spastic paralysis since. she also looks after her son felix the family could

profile sign ups germany is a very prominent supporters pulled quite a bit of money into that but kovacs is just announced its latest its 1st rather initial allocation of vaccines to developing countries around the world they're talking about an allocation of 237000000 vaccines well think about what the european union has orders it says it's ordered 2600000000 for the european union alone so 237000000 for the developing world 2600000000 for the european union rep so you're right there is a wide open door that china and of course russia as well a walking through. should we expect this crisis richard to allow china to expand its foothold in europe. well of course we've been talking quite a bit about developing countries that china's its vaccine drive and its built roads initiative kind of primarily focused say on the global south you could say but it's also looking at countries within central and eastern europe sort of countries that are i thought on the periphery of the european union or relatively new members of it take hungary for example a victoria and strongman prime minister of hunga

chile is the world's kovac 19 vaccination champion while the e.u. makes sluggish progress on inoculation the country of 19000000 on south america's pacific coast has already caught up with overtaken vaccine heavyweights like the u.s. and britain chile was quick to get its orders for vaccines in early from astra zeneca johnson and jones. unfun is a bio tech but also from signs of attack on the sputnik vaccine presidents have been yet overseas the vaccination campaign personally vaccination centers they're everywhere from parking lots to football stadiums nobody has to make an appointment and anyone who's up for the 2nd shot is also free to walk in and get it officials want 80 percent of the country fully vaccinated mind june that means herd immunity however the successful vaccination campaign has yet to translate into a reduction in numbers infected daily infections reaching record highs health officials fear the campaign may have inadvertently encouraged people to become complacent about prevention measures and take increased risks alexis colleges i

chile is the world's kovac 19 vaccination champion while the e.u. makes sluggish progress on inoculation the country of 19000000 on south america's pacific coast has already caught up with and overtaken vaccine heavyweights like the u.s. and britain chile was quick to get its orders for vaccines in early for.

begins its covert 19 vaccine rollout after receiving more than 60000 doses through the international kovacs. more violence in man march 20 kook protests continue un's top official echoes calls for sanctions against the military leadership. plus enjoying a taste of freedom in taiwan where a thriving economy is bucking the global trend. so voters in the republic of congo choosing the next president in an election that could see the current one extend his state almost 40 years then sasuke new guy so is one of the world's longest leaders and is widely expected to stamp out 7 people are vying for the top job but some opposition candidates are either in jail or are boycotting the poll the internet has been shut down and there are concerns a vote is not transparent one candidate to get a breeze puff fake who's in hospital cave at 19 is aging people to get out and vote . my dick i'm part i'm in a difficult situation i am fighting jet i demand that you rise up and go vote for change fight don't give up the fight to rise up please do this for me that's enough american webb who has more from a polling

the east african nation has begun rolling odos us from the global kovacs program an initiative launched by the world health organization to ensure low and middle income countries have fair access to maxine's. it's a crucial resource for the world's poorest continent on thursday kenya's president stressed the importance of global corporation vaccine nationalism is something that you should. we think and i think. if you ask any expert there is no single country that will be able to be sued unless all of us are sick so we have an obligation to ensure that this vaccine is made a very. early. and as a special. to the citizens of the. this week the 1st batch of more than 1000000 astra zeneca dozes arrived in nairobi kenya hopes to vaccinate 1200000 people by june. here in germany corona virus has contributed to the deaths of more than 70000 people at his official residence in berlin president friends welcome to people who have lost loved ones in the pandemic and he heard a range of moving stories the pain a still rule and november last his father tarik to the coronavirus he was only 64 years

but the delivery of vaccines to poor and middle income countries through the kovacs program could be set back by weeks because of delays from a major indian producer the indian government has told international buyers that will now have to keep more of the available data says after a rise in new infections saturday's saw the highest daily number of for the year with more than 62000 infections one of the countries impacted by the decision is iran which was expecting a shipment of 375000 doses present some rouhani has criticized india he's also accused the kovacs program of failing to live up to its commitments elizabeth promise more new delhi. and the export of more clothes and minding that thing than any other country the c.r.m. and student and is the world's largest baxley manufacturer and it's been the biggest supplier to the international. alliance. and india which has been is still manufacturing the outside astra zeneca vaccine it sent 28000000 doses to call back so far it was planning to deliver 40000000 the smom 50000000 next month and callbacks have said that those. now be del

back to vaccine sharing scheme known as kovacs many others in africa are being left behind. there is a capacity for mr companies to produce things and i stayed in medical. it is essential that the wealthy states start blocking opening illegal barriers and delaying essential crows all ahead of the troops of the world trade organization according to the united nations 3 quarters of all covert $1000.00 vaccines have been secured by just 10 countries all of them wealthy 130 countries that's about 2500000000 people have not received a single dose this is not the 1st public health emergency that south africa is facing it has one of the highest hiv aids rates in the world in the 1990 s. millions of people in this country and other developing nations died without access to the drugs they needed simply because they were too expensive so africa is once again calling for access to cheaper drugs to save lives with some arguing that despite covert 1000 vaccines being tested in africa many nations on the continent still remain at the back of the queue for me to milan al-jazeera johannesbu

kenya has become the latest african country to receive covert 19 vaccines through the kovacs program more than a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine arrived at humor in the outer international airport early on wednesday kovacs scheme aims to provide vaccine to less wealthy countries kenya has recalled more than 106000 confirmed cases the u.k. finance minister is expected to set out his plan for economic recovery or wednesday . says that the nation's finances are under enormous strain after supporting millions of people through the pandemic journal reports now from manchester. the economic damage caused by the pandemic is written in britain's deserted city centers shuttered restaurants boarded up shops not everything will emerge intact and nor will the country's region's bounce back at the same pace and last year was a really challenging year for a lot of people. but what it really showed was any inequalities that we had in our regions they've just widened and worse since joining the pandemic so for example in the north child poverty levels are the highest one in 3 northern chil

the astra zeneca vaccine last week through the world health organization vaccine sharing program kovacs. and here in germany a scandal over face masks a lawmaker from chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats is quitting over payments he received for brokering facemask deals for local authorities and another conservative member of parliament is stepping down following claims he made 600000 euros supplying masks. what is being called the mask affair surfaced at the end the february when police searched the offices of georg newsline a member of parliament and prominent figure in the conservative c.s.u. party newsline is being probed for bribery he is thought to have accepted over 600000 euros biomass producer to lobby for its product but the affair doesn't stop here nicholas lobel a lawmaker with chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. party admitted his company received 250000 euros to act as a mediator for mask purchases prosecutors are now carrying out an initial review of his case both newsline and rebel have announced their the parcher from the conservative blocs parliamentary group but

backed kovacs program could be pushed back by weeks because of the slowdown of exports from a major indian producer the indian government has told international buyers it will now have to keep more available doses because of a rise in new infections or india correspondent elizabeth problem reports from new delhi. for more than 3 months indian made vaccines have been delivered to countries around the world 60000000 doses have gone to 76 countries as part of aid and commercial agreements but india recorded its highest number of carbon of r.'s cases in 5 months this week and the government says it must now prioritize local supply the director general of the world health organization says that's understandable but it's important and the a continues to export vaccines we're already in discussion to keep a balance so that they can use locally but at the same time continue to provide. their countries vaccines from the seed and institute of india. the c m institute of india which is making the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is the world's largest manufacturer and the biggest contributor to the un bac

government enforced kovac 19 lockdowns and restrictions on movement have led to fewer people donating blood supplies are dropped to critically low levels across the map where every moment we transfer living from hand to mouth most will have one word to discover because when you talk about stocks we're looking at how much we want thing and for how long we need to cover as a nation so on average we're operating with one or 2 days which is really we want to do all routing a minimum 5 days talk if we have to be idealists locked up in 3 d. for any emergencies. earlier this month the government it's down and an overnight curfew imposed in january more people are now coming in to give blood but the numbers are still small the public is being encouraged to support the blood drives across the country in a few months here in southern africa and health workers are warning of a 3rd wave of coronavirus and the government enforces. it will put even more pressure on the banks. other countries around the world are also worried about dwindling blood stocks in zimbabwe health workers approaching eligib

yes over the last few days there has been this reports of this kovacs shipment coming in. but you know it's a very very small batch it's only about i think about 64000 doses and we're talking with talking about a population of 5000000 so it's really really minute we've heard more reports there are supposed to be at least another $100000.00 coming across from china but this is just really these are really ted bits for a very very vulnerable population and there is a very stark reality going on that whilst the palestinian population isn't being vaccinated and that the israeli population is now over 50 percent vaccinated well israel backtracked on those plans to sell so close vaccine abroad what are things looking like now what's the way ahead do you think. i think the way ahead the only way ahead is for israel to provide the vaccine to the people they occupies the palestinian people and i think the international community has to place a huge amount of pressure on israel to fulfill those obligations because at the end of the day there isn't any way a border between israel and

chile is the world's kovac 19 vaccination champion while the e.u. makes sluggish progress on inoculation the country of 19000000 on south america's pacific coast has already caught up with and overtaken vaccine heavyweights like the u.s. and britain chile was quick to get its orders for vaccines in early from astra zeneca johnson and johnson and finds a biotech but also from sign of back on the. nick faxing president sebastiaan piniella oversees the vaccination campaign personally vaccination centers they're everywhere from parking lots to football stadiums nobody has to make an appointment and anyone who's up for the 2nd shot is also free to walk in and get it officials want 80 percent of the country fully vaccinated by june that means her demeanor. however the successful vaccination campaign has yet to translate into a reduction in numbers infected daily infections are reaching record highs health officials fear the campaign may have inadvertently encouraged people to become complacent about prevention measures and take increased risks. alexis col