By british manager welcome to news asia glad you could join us with more than 50000 deaths and counting india has the worlds 4th highest death toll from corporate 19 the government has expanded testing and work is underway on these 3 vaccines but none of that hides the fact that cases in india continue to rise in daily life these numbers translate to people dying jobs lost increased internal migration and pressure on medical services in a moment ill be speaking to the chief scientist about way things are headed but 1st a quick look at the impact the pandemic has had on a country of more than a 1000000000 people. Yet another funeral. For yet another victim. Just one of the more than 50000 people in india officially recorded as having died of cope at 19. And just as the pandemic has robbed lives it has also dest hopes and deferred dreams until last march 20 year old ashish kumar worked at a factory in western india he earned a regular wage part of which helped his family here in the Northern State of utter pradesh and he had aspirations to put his savings into starting up a recycling plant thats all on hold. The dream i wanted to reach by 2023 has now been pushed back 345 years now i cant do anything for the next 4 to 5 years. Shish kumars parents had put him through school he feels he has a debt to repay but now hes dependent on them again. Since my childhood theyve been sacrificing and still are and when the time came for me to do something in return this lockdown happened and everything went haywire. Indias abrupt lockdown in march sent millions of suddenly jobless Migrant Workers scrambling to return home and paralyze the economy. Experts say the damage could long outlast the virus itself. So i think given that do you think Unemployment Rate was 70 percent when you. Asked the future of these you know why did you take it its very so there is a possibility of getting this done effectively it could be and the emergence of what can be a damn good edition these people had no more time to wait driven by necessity theyve returned to the city to get tested for the virus and search for work. We had to leave from here because of the fear of coronavirus we thought that we would be safe in our homes and now weve returned why did you go back. Theres no work there no work so we had to come here to earn money. Its a dangerous decision potentially exposing oneself to disease in the hope of putting food on the table. And joining me now in the indian city of chennai chief scientist of the World Health Organization dr sami and dr horn often welcome to the program. Officially india has the 3rd highest number of cancers in the world and its 4th when it comes to the number of deaths but these are of course only official figures do you think the real tolls in india are much higher. So you have to remember that india is one of the countries. And so we need to get upset and this. Is a lot of cases but when you look at it to the size of the nation then its actually much lower. And thats the 1000000. Now the question of recording and reporting cases and debts this is a common challenge for all countries including some of the high Income Countries face this challenge the package advice thats because often in a matter of months. That there will be that constant updating and educational. Cutting in rich countries. The capacity king. He says has gone up tremendously and i understand india is forming something like. This which again is one. But when you look at the size of the needs. One needs much much more because we know just in the central finding out where the infection is. So weve also now. Going on and on the water. Done in india that the number people whove been exposed to the slides. In them but its been done and thats all that is. Why they have. Minimal symptoms and have not been detected at all so thats good news and and fact. The good news of course is that the virus. Has an infection fatality tissue which is significantly lower than the case that doctor to treat and so but if you take the denominators number of people affected in unity and section that attitude issues certainly under one percent. The bad news is that all of these people in the community got infected but never detected and therefore didnt get at this so we need to understand much more now of course you need. All these people who. Have antibodies we dont know how long these arent persist how long did we need to even insist. That a response thats quite active. So this is a lot of Research Questions helped certainly i think what were learning is. The response to this and i think. I can deal with this really to focus on those because as so she mentioned is documented if at. All then your particular concerns. So jeff has been consistently putting out the message that this epidemic essentially has a long way to go because the populations of the world are still an exposed and susceptible to this violence and again coming back to the size of the population the education i. Have i. E. Jested open slums cities with populations of 5000000 which cost you know population of some of the countries involved and then you have smaller towns villages which kept their own. Challenges and across the world you see this in the developing world in particular the challenge is an open settlements despite different from the challenges that one would see in rural populations. Like access to health. And. You know less help to the to see and so on are challenges and concerned about all possible but this action has been digging in to see that the epicenter has need an. Automatic and that in the last few weeks so many countries an issue. That have continued challenges and then we see across europe some countries and see if such its still. Quite so Different Countries and different agents. Challenges both it different stages and india has to let the states thats its need. To delete contain the fiction and some of the cities that action is good but in the same time needs to focus on what appears to be. An increasing number of pieces. And. Vaccine realistically when can we expect one. So theres been a lot of course about what scenes and again i would say that we can be optimistic for several reasons the slowest one is that there are so many different candidates in development in over 200 Development Programs that seemed about to collapse and the other very positive thing is that for the 1st time you see your i. Q. Different backseat technologies that forms being dried so we have the traditional ones like that not to be to all pirates and also the biden. Port not to eat at ones and the like. And then you have new platforms like the autonomy and the. Back seats. So this gives an opportunity for at least some of these candidates to succeed even if we talk about 10 percent success rate we got to have 30 candidates in Clinical Development one would expect that one home all of these candidates. Will be effective in protecting against infection but we have to wait and see your doctor each of these is going to be successful we need a peace treaty its tell us and were looking forward to seeing those results i think for some of the trials that become delicacy street trials weve had. That its wanting to cease to be in the months of late july early august we could expect to see some of these sites before the end of this ticky speaking its going to be closed off. But he will start seeing results of the Clinical Trial thats the kickoff now and we will then be able to stay the production which of course regulations and investments are being made right now. The act at city hall backs the city that. Is set up so that manufacturing didnt happen as soon as. The results are known or not you know the usual. Usual model is to stop bad effect scaling up only off to see themselves in the street because its a big investment Big Investments are made in advance. So that we have that capacity to get to hundreds of millions of dollars this is going to be the middle of next year and we hope that the callbacks facility will be able to access and those seeds before the end of thinking and mine which will then be able to be distributed across all these. Scientists in fact. Thats it for today theres more stories on our website of course well what a difference a few months can make this year the chinese city of was the epicenter of the coronavirus spend under one of the most severe lockdowns in history now take a look at some of the scenes from just a few days but this is the. Beach water thousands of people at an electronic Music Festival all packed shoulder to shoulder with no face mark in sight a well earned party or a reckless celebration reliever with these big just so they are back tomorrow so that by. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona update. 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