health organization and africa also here is al edwards he is a professor and immunologists at reading university thank you both. now around the world celebrities have inundated us with their song and dance numbers often from home and with mixed reception but ugandan musician turned politician bobby wine has seen his own take widely shared it's a music video reminding everyone about how to purge the spread of the coronavirus wash your hands and keep your distance have a listen. thanks. for. everybody. right. there but we're now joined by our correspondent joy during beer out she's standing by for us in nairobi kenya joy we just listened to bobby winds our rap slash public service message there for us what sort of a role do pop culture and social media have in getting the word out. a lot actually because when you look at the african demographics at the moment a big population happen to fall between the ages of 35 going down and this major concern for most of people right now are focusing or making sure that the young people get the message because the older generation at the moment does not have a

world health organization in africa also here is edwards he's a professor and immunologists reading university welcome to you both michele i'll start with you what sort of advisory has the w h o given africa if any. the advisory in fact he went through different steps the 1st step is for iran the containment face is. to prevent local transmission on as much as possible so this helps to detect day. cases now that we have a serious inc a local transmission on it we have it in more than 15 countries in africa now the nest is a how to scale up quickly to be able to contain the. situation and also to start preparing for of a mitigation phase nikky guess on phase is equivalent to a wide community spread that con is a layer of ice trash they had have this is like what we are seeing now in your european countries now they are all the jets are also predicting that african countries fell experienced their peak number of infections this summer now how prepared would you say the continent is you spoke of upscaling the capacities michel. i would say that's the 1st step culture respect from quite well by di

joining me now is al edwards he is a professor and immunologist at the university of reading in the u.k. . now south korea's method seems to be working so why aren't all affected countries doing mass testing if they can it's a really good question i think that the video you just saw gives you some glimpses as to why testing itself is a very valuable tool but it's quite labor intensive and it has to be done really carefully because if you do testing in a way that isn't properly and safely controlled there is a risk that you can also spread the virus or put your health workers at risk when they take those samples so it's a delicate balance and it needs a lot of manpower. well because of the complexity of this task we can imagine that not all countries are able to enroll this kind of mass testing what would you recommend for those countries. so i think the most important thing is to spread the resource you have wisely so what's really important is to 1st of all prioritize people who are in hospital and also health care workers because these are the most vulnerable people and also the most

those are some great tips for all of us right there patricia rebel a from the university of reading thank you for joining us. now as the virus continues to spread across europe there are growing a fears of an outbreak at greece's overcrowded migrant camps last week authorities confirmed the 1st case of the corona virus on the island of les paul's proctoring fears that it could spread to the island's notorious morea camp refugees there are already living in squalid conditions with very little medical care now they are more at risk than ever before. the maria camp was originally planned for 3000 people but now it's housing some 20000 asylum seekers. they live in homemade tents outside the official camp in what's been nicknamed the jungle. more than a 1000 people share a single water outlet which frequently malfunctions. the water now we must. again to hold. this life. sadar an afghan doctor lives with his wife and 4 children in a small tent they fled the war in their country and now rely on a. this means waiting in long crowded lines for hours to get food avoiding close contact is almost im

he is director of the china institute at the school of oriental and african studies university of london and in reading also in the u.k. out edwards is a professor and immunologist at the university of reading welcome to you all a nicholas let me start with you when china announced it was shutting down new holland to prevent further spread of the virus many were stunned there was a lot of skepticism quarantine on this vast of a scale had never been tried in modern times many wondered if it would work so has china and its approach now been vindicated. i think china and its approach has been vindicated insofar as it applies to china i think other countries out there are trying their own ways of dealing with this and doing quite successfully but i think what china showed us is that it overturned what had been a bit of a debate going on within the field a sewer that quarantines should be used in the 1st place and certainly as you said on this scale it was something that hadn't been done before but i think what the example from china has shown us is with the correct amount of resources and both the social s

james read an associate professor at the university of reading welcome to you all thanks for joining us a question for all of you and i'll start though with you gail was canceling the olympics or the olympics rather the right thing to do. absolutely i think so much when you feel i think it was frustrating that it takes so long to announce that we should resign actually that that is left in him by when he was sure that the. order was by again that he was some even the uncle he had to lie and lie i understand this and not to be considered as a no money race man and that just that when it comes to you a huge decision by a french athlete who has written by 50 preparing for that as great for all. the questions have to be my part for that person for that for that physical and mental health and the whole goal of the whole 3 doesn't have to make it the right one now it's done that should be made an athlete and then prepare for what for the next year and the start of start adopting come to terms with that and also we just don't know about the spread of our if and when the thing to end the pla

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you for your analysis sense through these i know there are a refugee nor specialist at the university of reading thank you. but more ahead on the news all including planes grounded staff put on paid leave rotavirus oppressions the struggling global airline industry. and in sport the professional cyclists being forced to take a unique approach to staying fit santa will be here with that story. it is super tuesday in the united states the biggest day in the democratic presidential campaign vote is in 14 states are deciding who they want to take on donald trump in november each state allocates delegates who will decide on their candidate at the democratic national convention in july more than a 3rd of the total delegates are up for grabs john hendren joins me now live from charlotte north carolina one of the states holding primaries i was interested the mayor of charlotte has backed bloomberg one of the predictions there. well the predictions were all made before the race changed really dramatically so what happened is over the past 48 hours you had pete new judge bail out of the race and amy close

he is director of the china institute at the school of oriental and african studies university of london and in reading also in the u.k. out edwards is a professor and immunologist at the university of reading welcome to you all a nicholas let me start with you when china announced it was shutting down new holland to prevent further spread of the virus many were stunned there was a lot of skepticism quarantine on this vast of a scale had never been tried in modern times many wondered if it would work so has china and its approach now been vindicated. i think china and its approach has been vindicated insofar as it applies to china i think other countries out there are trying their own ways of dealing with this and doing quite successfully but i think what china showed us is that it overturned what had been a bit of a debate going on within the field a sewer that quarantines should be used in the 1st place and certainly as you said on this scale it was something that hadn't been done before but i think what the example from china has shown us is with the correct amount of resources and both the social s

at least 2 weeks. 5 o'clock is an associate professor and sat in that microbiology at the university of reading in the u.k. he says even if scientists come up with a vaccine it will have to be modified quickly as the virus mutates searing that. they are animals experiments the animal studies give positive results then that's when they will move into 2 to humans and there will be a number of ways of doing that they could. immunize mass population tissue while they're at the challenge from the corona virus aviation naturally into munity and see how many people get it as opposed to a group that are treated perhaps with a perceived oh well they can experimentally infect people which is that what you're suggesting with a $4000.00 payment where people really be affected experimentally wit a coronavirus and it will they will then see whether those one of those vaccines protects against that experimental infection there is the possibility that this fact this virus will mutate that it will change and that will end up having to have different versions as time goes on the vaccine towards what is essential

people must be met nonetheless contradiction there may be professor side mohammad marandi from university to read told us the sanctions are impeding the authorities ability to fight the illness. the americans have been forcing companies across the world not to cooperate with iran it's not just the banking sector the banking sector does not allow any medicine to be purchase through the network but not only are they blocking bad but they're also imposing conditions on pharmaceutical companies that are so tough that in reality no one will work with iran so they're americans through the sanctions have killed the iranians and right now they are impeding iran's battle against the coronavirus. looks where the news no foreign ministers were across the e.u. were thrown their full support behind greece this friday after meeting for a 2nd day to discuss the refugee crisis and its border with turkey clashes have been continuing along the frontier under heavy haze of tear gas as police repel tens of thousands of asylum seekers attempting to cross into europe shallow dubinsky is there still for us reporting ba

read. fiction and also something called universal basic income so i think what i see is that people are not just for me but for real transformative change. with this and that everyone should have a pretense that everybody in her group help their health care should be here and. and you know there is a plan to me or and it's something that i think now that something will help poor and that it. has to be implemented more now you know you'll see that people who have money well will be need to burn a record store on income earning. you know much more problems while many countries are implementing aggressive measures to contain coronavirus the british government has been sharply criticized over its perceived lack of action a particular concern to many people has been the suggestion that authorities will attend to control the rate at which $1000.00 spreads with a view to developing widespread immunity among the population in terms of building up a unity within the u.k. what i mean what sort of percentage of people need to have contracted the virus probably about 60 percent or so in britain the num

. >> associate professor in biomedical technology at the university of reading school of pharmacy. thanks for joining us this hour. you just heard those comments. what do you make about the supply problems across the world? >> yeah. i mean, it echos situations here in the u.k. we've heard similar things in italy and i believe the same thing would have happened in china. i think the comments at the end are most powerful, that we would respond. everybody's been incredibly creative to try and fix these gaps. i think we have to be honest to say there are many front line health workers who haven't had those supplies provided to them yet because it's such a complex situation. so much needed to be done at once, very quickly. >> it's about allocating supplies and making contingency plans. it's about forward planning. that seems to be where there are shortfalls. >> i think i could be critical in certain circumstances. plans could be made some weeks or even months ago but i myself was planning to go ahead as normal this month. so even with the best foresight, we're not very good at respondin