Seeing that same development faster than ever before joe biden promises to change the course of the pandemic once mass vaccinations with a logistical challenge. Still no grades of breakthrough. Invites british Prime Minister baraks johnson to brussels for last ditch talks both sides admitting it could soon be on the phone. Im Anthony Howard welcome medical history was made in the United Kingdom where the enormous task of inoculating its population with a fully tested vaccine again the vaccine was fast tracked by German Company buying take in partnership with us pharmaceutical giant pfizer the u. K. Faces some public worry of a safety given how fast the treatment came to market but the government couldnt have asked for a better influence or to get the 1st job. With one prick the largest Vaccination Campaign in the history of the u. K. Was launched. 90 year old margaret chain was chosen to be the 1st recipient and she played the role with grace and gratitude. I say full of praise for sec
Masking to drive down the numbers can should be considerable. Gaz is imposing a partial lockdown this weekend to curb a rise in the number of Coronavirus Infections mosques and most schools will be closed during the day and theyll be a nighttime curfew from saturday a full lockdown is set to start next friday aid workers say at least 1600. 00 Rohingya Refugees are being forced to move to a Remote Island off the coast of bangladesh the un warns its prone to storms and flooding nearly 1000000 rohingya have been living in squalid camps since a military crackdown in the United Nations says simon like conditions have reappeared in parts of yemen and almost half the population is experiencing high levels of Food Insecurity aid agencies are warning time is running out to prevent loss starvation and the outlook for next year is worse famine has never officially been declared in yemen where the more than 5 year old war has left 80 percent of the population reliant on 8. Indias government and pr
Finding effective vaccines is a crucial part of tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Madonna and pfizer biotech have now both applied for emergency approval moderna hopes its vaccine could get the green light by christmas. You end the year. Yes. All those that are advisory meeting is likely to be on december 17th. If you hire people seaboard that between the 17 and christmas to go, the product is approved. If the u. S. Food and Drug Administration gives the go ahead, inoculations could start within hours of them led by u. S. Vaccination, logistics chief general gustav panna seems to me dont those hes a baby on the way. Yeah. So as soon as we get approval or urge arcana and hes teams are going to get hold of a vaccine we have. And so our shipping in the conference is going to vaccinate americans within 24 hours on the pro or the Company Hopes its latest trial results will lead to speedy approval in other countries too. In trials of the vaccine with more than 30000 people, only 30 particip
Im british by the day. Welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. He highways leading to the indian capital of delhi, blocked as thousands of farmers protest against new agricultural laws passed by. The government. Farmers are demanding a rollback of the laws. Claim me, they removed a government assured grain purchase scheme that acted as a safety net for them. The government has assured the scheme will continue, but farmers convinced these 20000. 00 farmers arent going anywhere. Their trucks and tractors are blocking the major highways near indias capital. Each one of our tractors is loaded with rations up to 4 months. Until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws, none of us will go back to the farmers field. Their livelihoods are threatened. They fear that the government will stop buying grain at guarantee prices. The worry is that this could leave them at the mercy of corporations who wont pay enough for their crops. Prime minister, Narendra Modi is trying t
70 good day. So good to have you with us. How much of a setback has it been for the efforts to fight hiv aids since the pen demick broke out . Yeah. Hello, and im very glad actually about, you know, bringing attention to this age. Hiv aids pandemic again, because indeed they have much concerns that the court 19 pandemic will pushed aside our efforts and a champion aids prevention. Now of course, we dont know the impact yet at that age of the aids had all of that covered. 9 of them and happen each of the aids, but the estimates that when you have 6 months of lack of delivery of and to provide a medication that you get up to a 1000000 more aids death in a year or so, which would push back. But i want absolutes almost a decade, so it doesnt seem to be as bad, but only know next year when the new aids reports come out. Now as you know, better than anyone that weve seen, medical breakthrough reset when it comes to fighting coping 1000 in terms of developing a vaccine that the Technology Use