poor welcome to the show i'm susan beardsley in berlin it's good to have you with us frustrations are growing in south africa as coronavirus deaths surge their lockdowns intensify and vaccination campaign remains perhaps months away and figures on tuesday showed more than 30000 deaths now in the country and south africa has yet to secure an agreement with vaccine makers even as does dozens of other countries have kicked off their own inoculation campaigns in order through the international kovacs facility meanwhile won't arrive until april at the earliest on monday a group of senior medical leaders in south africa called on the government to fire officials over the delays. now for more on this i'm joined by philip yvette in south africa philip nice to have you on the show what's behind these the lace we're not quite sure until quite recently the government position was and the the health minister literally tweeted this was that vaccines on silver bullets and that there are non-pharmaceutical interventions that are perhaps more important and he was very quickly taken to task by the med