i'm melissa chana thank you for joining us india has crossed the 20000000 threshold when it comes to covert cases and that's only the officially recorded infections experts say the actual numbers could be 5 to 10 times higher the oxygen shortage at hospitals continues and the health care system remains overwhelmed with not enough beds or drugs for patients the infection rate is slowing down however and the government is aggressively vaccinating as many people as possible in the country of 1400000000 here and we've had cheema in delhi with more. the worst largest manufacturer of vaccines is basically the serum institute of india but i know this is due to you shouldn't this be a key usually just vaccination going along with another indigenous in good vaccine now people are asking themselves whether that you do government underestimated its need for maxine's after the 1st wave of the good virus into the india and these again next tuesday vaccines some 66000000 doses of vaccine were sent in dozens of countries as applied to india's vaccination diplomacy the countries data dispute also wa

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i'm melissa chana thank you for joining us on news asia parts of india finished holding regional elections this weekend and they were closely watched as possible indicators for how people feel the ruling national government of prime minister in the renda modi is doing but it was the incumbent triple congress or a i.t.c. that prevailed by a nearly 3 to one majority of the b j p a day to gain new seats western goal saw a lot of attention in part because modi's b j p spent so much time and energy campaigning there. the pandemic has played its part in the election as it has in so many elections around the world this past year with many citizens pinning the blame on modi when the cases started rising up to plan. for turns out that it would in the 1st week or so that the government have no idea they're not prepared for anything if you don't have enough manipulators in one hospital forget about all the whatever you need for the entire city ordinance armies we have minnows joshi with us he's a distinguished fellow at the observer research foundation i know should the pandemic has played a role in

i'm melissa chana thanks for joining us the covert surge in india has spread to nepal it's seeing a record number of cases almost double since its previous peak last fall over the past week doctors have reported almost 70000 cases according to the red cross and red crescent 44 percent of covert test conducted are coming back positive and the cases per 100000 people or about the same as india's 2 weeks ago in other words it looks like a repeat of india's disaster and with a weaker health care system than india's and a slower vaccination rate the challenge for nepal will be that much bigger. getting out while they still can. these passengers are on the last flights out of kathmandu as. all suspends international air travel. over you because you just i'm glad that i'm able to leave nepal where the covert 19 situation is getting really bad. like neighboring india nepal is reeling from a deadly 2nd wave of the coronavirus the porous border between the 2 countries has contributed to skyrocketing case numbers. nepal's main towns and cities are in lockdown the health ministry says the situation is

i'm melissa chana thank you for joining us as india's covert crisis continues to hammer its health care system a shortage of oxygen is making matters worse in delhi hospitals are taking to twitter to ask for help and turning away patients because of low supplies as. reports volunteer groups are now having to step in to help. the nation house has spent the last 2 days right here on the road in front of a sikh temple 50 kilometers from home. his son passed the clue nobody. has also developed a $60.00 lung infection. he gently needs to be hospitalized but his father says even this week shipped enjoyment is a blessing. but these people are working 24 hours providing oxygen cylinders otherwise it's very difficult to get oxygen for them to get a bed in a hospital awful that morning this morning i visited 15 or 20 hospitals to look for a bed for him but there isn't a single bed all of them refused us. for the last 2 weeks. that has been d.c. a stiff your shortage of medical oxygen. this isn't life saving the last resort a free oxygen service run by cars to help a sikh group volunteers who are

i'm melissa chana thank you for joining us honk honk pro-democracy activists joshua wong and 3 others have been sentenced to between 4 and 10 months in prison for their participation in an annual vigil marking the 1009 $199.00 and square crackdown for the 1st time last year officials had banned the event that gave the government grounds to charge those who gather on kong has been the only place in china where people could commemorate the events of tiananmen it was an indicator of the territory's political freedoms under its one country 2 systems arrangement with beijing. china hong tung one of the organizers of the event reacted to the sentencings growth disappointed in the call i'll quote have been failing to save got our rights to say the iraqi people. i miss a guy right to defend us russian. because he was wrestling that. all of us have more freedom than other places not we're not seeking more freedom than the other we are seeking i'll guarantee right under our constitution under basic law under the bill of rights we have samuel a chew of hong kong democracy council he joins us fro

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