Doses of its covert 1000. 00 Vaccine Health commission a stellar career acted as said vaccines made in astra zeneca as british plants should be shared with europe but as tensions rise the drug maker says those doses should go to britain because its placed its order 1st. Germanys parliament has marked International HolocaustRemembrance Day chancellor Angela Merkel and representatives of the Jewish Community took part in the ceremony to remember the 6000000 jews and other victims of naziism survivor and former Jewish Community leader Charlotte Loesch warned lawmakers of a resurgence of anti semitism in germany. This is d. W. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at d w news always at our website at www dot com. It has now been exactly one year since the 1st person here in germany tested positive for the corona virus on january 27th 2020 practically no one expected what was about to begin unfolding here and all over the planet more than 100000000 people have been infected more than 2000000 have died in the numbers will get worse before they get better tonight the unprecedented attempt to vaccinate everyone on the Planet Science has given us vaccines will the politics of us versus them get in the way i bring gulf in berlin this is the day. Hundreds. More doses of pfizer and a 100000000 more doses returned some countries. Yawned and acquired up to 4 times what 14 theres. Creases the total vaccine. In the United States by 50 percent of bucks in nationalism might set short term Political Goals we are all its not saying in some countries. People of a country. As being nations own interests just uploaded but its. Also coming up in germany handled the 1st wave of the pandemic better than most countries the 2nd wave change that tonight the virus the learning curve and a good dose of humility. Where else would you rather be none of our neighbors has been able to get these pandemic under control 3 more lenient mischas where would you rather be than in the federal republic of germany. Or to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to our viewers a look around the world welcome. We begin the day in the darkest moments of the pandemic this week the world reached and surpassed a tragic number 100000000 people have now been infected with the coronavirus and most of those infections have happened in the last few months in fact january looks set to be the worst month so far for new infections and cope with 19 deaths scientists expect the figures to get worse next month with more people hospitalized and more people die how quickly things get better will depend significantly on what we do with the coronavirus vaccines thanks to science the world now has numerous effective vaccines with even more in the pipeline getting the vaccines from the lab into peoples arms is now a question of logistics but also a matter of the hands and have nots this week the World Health Organization warned that the divide between rich and poor nations is worsening by the day as we speak rich countries are owning out vaccines while the woods least developed countries watch and wait with every day that passes the divide grows larger between the worlds haves and have nots bucks in nationalism might said short term Political Goals but its in every nations own interest to support equity i leave you with a challenge i said at the beginning of the week together we must ensure that vaccination of Health Workers and all of that of people is underway in all countries within the 1st 100 days of this year. All right for more now we want to bring in bruce word hes Senior Advisor to w. H. O. Director general to address or you just heard there hes also heading efforts to speed up Vaccine Distribution its good to have you on the day so were talking about the haves and the have nots when it comes to vaccines and you are working youre trying to make these vaccines equitable everywhere i mean you must have one of the hardest jobs on the planet at the moment. Well theres an awful lot of people sharing this load actually right now so its its its not just may but it is a massive challenge but theres a lot of people working very hard right now to try and right this situation as quickly as possible the u. S. President is promising to have almost everyone in the u. S. Vaccinated by the end of the summer south africas president is accusing rich countries of hoarding back scenes for their own citizens whats the truth here. Well even if we knew the facts right vaccination these vaccines were available proven the 1st ones licensed at the beginning of december and since then were now at a point where 59. 00 countries almost 60 countries have begun vaccination only one of those countries is a low income country so the rest of them the vast majority are high Income Countries a couple of or a few upper middle Income Countries and then very very few at the other end and at the beginning it was understood because of the contractual arrangements but now we have 71000000 doses are right you know delivered around the world and of those doses 25 of the 70000025 have gone to people who live in the lowest Income Countries so thats a situation that we have to rectify very very quickly theres a number of reasons for that which we talk about but the big thing is we need to change that that that that distribution pattern very quickly and i want to ask you about that in just a moment let me just ask you last night when President Biden promised 300000000 americans will be vaccinated by the end of the summer things 2 more purchases of vaccines that sounded like an american or america 1st approach does it does it worry you. Well this is not an american frozen 1st approach this is every country is taking the same approach thats the challenge where every country and of course elected politicians ever responsibility to take care of their own people so most countries or many countries are approaching the use of coronavirus vaccines the same way the reality is though and its interesting just the study came out just the other day that that that just highlighted once again that it is in not only the Health Interests and morris interests but also the Health Security and now the economic interests of every single country to do this in a coordinated manner they world is so interconnected right now no country can get out of this situation this pandemic acting on its own d so the situation is not about one country 1st or another country 1st its about every country deciding we need all of them to move together and that means a combination of not just assuring we finance the making isms that need to get the vaccines out on a global scale but that also we provide the spaces in the queue so to speak to make sure that everyone gets at least some share of those initial doses you know the worst possible outcome is all doses go to some countries solution is. All countries get some of the dose. And that brings me to kovacs which was set up to ensure poor countries also have access to the vaccines we know that the w. H. O. Is part of kovacs what is the biggest challenge or the biggest problem right now the inability of poor countries to afford the vaccines or the shortage of vaccines. Well to go back to the reason that kovacs was set up remember this was set up nearly a year ago now or we began to roll it out at a time when no vaccines when we didnt know whether vaccines were going to be successful we didnt know which vaccines of the you know the myriad vaccines that were being tested were actually going to be successful and in a situation like that the best thing for the Global Community was to pool resources pool the risk of Development Tool the procurement of these products and pool the roll out of them coordinate the rollout and that was in everyones best interest and that was well recognized by months ago so the intent of kovacs was not to provide doses for the lowest Income Countries it was to coordinate a global rollout of doses now where we are today many hiring come countries in addition to signing up to be part of that global effort they also made by lateral deals with manufacturers and sometimes for it for vaccines that like them during the vaccines that were extremely expensive or the Pfizer Vaccine that of course is affected only if kept at it ultra cold say minus 70 degrees and some of those products are best suited to low Income Countries so initially there was a sense that well maybe we can rely on other products but the reality is its been these m r n a products at a vaccination the world right now and so without access to that group of products there is a delay in getting out to the low Income Countries so its a good part of it is financing but part of it is also access to the only vaccines that are currently internationally recognized and approved you know and all of those contracts on those are held by high Income Countries so its as simple as that im sure youre aware to that asp is in a confines or theyve angered the European Union by cutting the amount of vaccine doses that theyre delivering your boss says that kovacs expects 100 50000000. 00 doses of astra zeneca is vaccine to become available for distribution for the 1st quarter of this year is that still realistic or is that Wishful Thinking now. No thats absolutely possible remember the big challenge with the astra zeneca product right now is it actually hasnt gone through the final regulatory processes that are necessary to roll this out on a big scale so if we look at the kovacs facility were going to be drawing on astra zeneca supplies from 2 of the different production facilities around the world nice facilities are being and their products are being assessed right now and what were looking forward to is these things passing Regulatory Approval by mid february and then starting to roll out very very soon thereafter and weve contracted 150000000 doses are from sites that are not supplying your so it should not be affected by the challenges that are being faced by those sites that are currently planned to serve europe remember the astra zeneca vaccine is not yet been approved for use in one in may not your work on it with your thats correct bruce and a lot of people are wishing you lots of success word Senior Advisor to the director general of the w h we appreciate your time in your insights tonight thank you. Thank you very much. One year ago today germany reported its 1st corona virus infection today more than 13200 new cases were reported a slight drop compared to the same day last week but it shows you the Dramatic Development in the pandemics 1st year germanys Disease Control agency says that daily infection numbers are steadily decreasing but the situation remains serious outbreaks are still being reported across the country particularly in nursing and care homes and the death rate remains very high with more than 982 deaths reported in figures released on wednesday morning. Physical distancing medical mask wearing and a social life that largely been consigned to the Virtual World that pretty much describes everyones life everyones reality at the moment when the 1st corona virus case was detected last year very few had any idea that a new normal was about to emerge and change everything heres a look back at how the pandemic unfolded here in germany. Jeremy 1st came across 1000 here at the offices of this automotive supplier in bavaria its where 33 year old employee caught the novel virus from a coworker who had traveled to germany from china he became patient number one. German officials were quick to assure the public the country was taking the virus seriously but that there was also no cause for alarm. Health minister yang spahn told the public theres no need for exaggerated concern and. If this kind or which the World Health Organization echoed this with calls for simple measures like more hand washing self protection is still the best possible way we can go about this but infections spread to every region in germany Contact Tracing became impossible. Germanys hold on the virus gave way to the free spread of covert 19 and. Then just 6 weeks after the 1st case was discovered germany announced the closing of schools by the end of march a nationwide lockdown meant the workplace and the school day had to compete for attention in homes across the country. The bulk of people in germany seemed to take the restrictions in stride and agree with them with the budding spring germany slowly started opening up again. But by the start of me nearly 7000 people in germany had died. Meanwhile elsewhere in europe the numbers range from more than 24000 to over 28000 deaths. In comparison with many european neighbors germany appeared to have weathered the height of the crisis fairly well. Many people enjoyed the warm summer months. But then fall arrived and cases began to rise again. By november a socalled lockdown light was in place despite both calls for stricter measures. As well as protests against them. But the many locked down didnt work cases rose at alarming rates with more and more patients needing intensive care. By the Christmas Holidays restrictions have been tightened again and after the new year schools and shops remain shut. The latest extension of germanys lockdown will continue through february 14th. Looking back on a year of code 19 here in germany lets bring in our Political Correspondent on strong good evening to you hons lets start with one aspect of germanys response when it became clear that coded had arrived here in europe that was the decision to close the borders and to ban the export of protective gear what have we learned from that experience. Well that was a knee jerk nationalistic reaction but here in germany and in other countries in europe and in fact it turned out to be it is all started with a bogus close the supply chains were broken factories were stopped supplies to shops was stopped. The disputes of bald way to get protective equipment went around the world. A lot of money was made by people who were producing low quality goods protective equipment and saw this and learned from it was that this should not happen again and the German Government in fact has been trying very hard since then to coordinate much of its measures much of the cross border measures within the European Union within the continent of europe for instance the acquisition of scenes that weve all been talking about has been coordinated on the european level so that this kind of nationalist. Cannot happen again germany its response in the 1st wave of the pandemic was pre stood around the world that has been the case in the 2nd wave whats happened. Well basically whats happened is that people were to relax after the 1st wave it was summer people went away on holiday the schools were closed that area of possible infection was eliminated many of the businesses were slightly less active than they would be because of the summer time and the government neglected to prepare for a 2nd wave properly for instance in taking precautions that care. In preparing schools for the 2nd wave and preparing Public Health systems for the 2nd wave everyone was relaxed everyone in a sense thought that this was already overcome and so the 2nd wave hits germany very hard as it did in other countries and the Lessons Learned from that will take a lot longer actually to correct it once how has the Public Acceptance of the governments response how was that changed well in fact one can say that public exceptions and acceptance of harsh measures of locked on the just has consistently been high in germany is consistent if you are on 3 quarters of a full 5th of a population if you believe the polls but if you look at the actual infection figures you must say that there must be many people who say that they accept these measures but dont actually stick to them otherwise the infection rates wouldnt have risen at the rate that they have i want to take a listen to chancellor merkel she was speaking back in the summer a belt the challenge posed by the Pandemic Take a listen with also listen to it and you hearing jamie is well know the months since february and march have marked a radical cut everyone has experienced jim of the changes in private moment in that family life and in the way we live together in a democracy is the virus is an affront to democracy. You know hundreds germanys political system seems to be rather resilient and is holding up quite well. Well you can say that this was an old us that are going to michael said this is the 2nd wave radio and it started hitting at the beginning of september us. Whats been happening here in trying to control the outbreaks of the virus weve had a kind of coordinating committee consisting of angle americal the chancellor and the 16 leaders of various of the 16 regional states and this has been a very very difficult relationship im going to america has pushed almost all the time in the last few months for harsher measures to be taken but the regions have said that they do not agree with that and many times have done what they felt right which is not really contributed to controlling the virus and they have also been groups in germany who have said that measures to control the virus are. In a sense contravene constitution should be stopped that even people that deny that the virus exists and of course as time goes on this is become a part of political matter as well so the opposition parties are putting a lot of pressure on the German Government with the elections coming in germany thats going to be general elections in september and various other Regional Elections before that its becoming much more political the whole issue here in germany where the Political Correspondent once branch with the leaders tonight here in berlin on thank you. But during the 4 years of the trauma presidency millions of americans have become followers of the right wing Conspiracy Theory known as q anon followers believe that a great awakening in the u. S. And around the world was about to happen they scoured anonymous web postings from a shadow week you figure and interpreted tweets and statements by former u. S. President donald trump as messages sent from their champion they expected some kind of epiphany to occur on Inauguration Day but there was no epiphany biden became President Trump left the white house and chewing on followers are facing a harsh reality check. My colleague as if he has been following this story for years remind us what exactly is q is there any way to know how many people are still followers look you in on is a Movement Based on a Conspiracy Theory thats based on trump so Trump Presidency was at the center of this they believe that he was going to save them from a cabal of satan worshipping pedophiles in the u. S. Government mostly among democrats and also high profile hollywood celebrities they believe a lot of tropes that come from old antisemitic conspiracy theories and they believe that trump was going to save them all from this now as turned in terms of how many people actually follow this movement its really hard because its all online or most of its online anyway some estimates by facebook and independent estimates by the guardian have put that number around 3000000 people who have accounts that are associated with q. Anon accounts and theyre all following this one person who posts under the name of q so none of this is based on evidence i have to say that maybe maybe for some people out there listening in but its based on just these anonymous postings online so its really hard to tell how many people are active but just in my travels across us i would say 3000000 is a huge underestimate because if you just talk to people at trump rallies they might not say i am a follower of anonymous but they say theyre doing the right thing or i believe that there is this cabal of child sex Truck Driving and we know that a key belief of cumin on followers is that double troll remains u. S. President so obviously hes no longer in power whats going to happen to the movement well its been a reckoning for the movement Inauguration Day when joe biden became the president of the United States and trump had to leave to florida that was an existential crisis for the movement now we were looking on chat rooms where a lot of q. And autumn is to a non followers talk about what to do next and you can see that there are several main things you have people who are continuing to. Test as we saw there were just going on as if Nothing Happened theres people who have left the movement who have said ok this is all fake ive wasted my time and then theres you know theres also people who have tried to incorporate bidens presidency into a new narrative you know what you have to what you can forget is that trump is still alive hes still out there so he can still play a role in in organizing this somehow or at least being a symbolic figure in this now we talked to the the head of the podcast the host podcast the cuban people are basically faced with a kind of double down or back down position what happens in those cases historically is more radicalization among the people that remain and more i suppose violent outbursts but whats always been a rescue and on is the most mentally ill within the system theyre like kernels of popcorn that go off before inches of the movement and they harm themselves and usually the people that they love around them their Family Structures their friends structures and thats what were going to be seeing very soon i believe because of the cognitive dissonance created by this great disappointment you know kernels of popcorn going off i mean we know that germany is home to a friend judge a major fringe of q anon outside of the u. S. What do we know about that and what do we know about the role of donald trump in in this friend thats a really good question don from being the former president of the u. S. What does that mean for the rest of the world now like you said there germany is considered to be the home of the largest base of cuban on followers outside of the English Speaking world as telegram channels there is online chat rooms where a lot of germans are also communicating about this false Conspiracy Theory and some people have put the estimate around 150000. 00 followers of the movement within germany which is pretty significant now trump does play a major role in this youll see you this. These trademark red maga hats at a lot of rallies here especially around the pandemic pandemic has been a big issue for germans a lot of conspiracy theories not believing that kobe in 1000 exist and because trump early on had also cast doubt on how serious it was they took that as a sign that he was that he was going to do something for them so you saw a lot of that play out here and like i said its going to continue to play a role as long as trump is still around and. Despite all of the cognitive dissonance that he was talking about i mean thank you. Well the day is almost done but the conversation it continues online youll find us on twitter either d w news or you can follow me at brant go t. V. And remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see you then everybody. He sits in jail. Everywhere. Colleagues a number where you know the russian Opposition Leader is a mass protests. 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