china is seeing a sharp rise in positive covid cases, just 10 days after suddenly easing its strict lockdown measures following a wave of protests, with the capital beijing being one of the worst affected areas. in china s largest city, shanghai, officials have ordered most of its schools to take classes online as covid cases soar. our reporter, ijoema ndukwe, reports. cars bearing the dead line the driveway of this crematorium assigned for covid 19 deaths. it is among dozens of such facilities across the capital, beijing, struggling to meet a spike in demand days after china began to relax its pandemic protocols. workers and drivers at funeral homes have been calling in sick, as the disease spreads across the city, adding to a shortage of labour.
the thing is, masks, n95s masks, are underused in china. masks are a variant diagnostic and china isjust not using the ventilation air disinfection aspect. these are also very key pillars of controlling covid, notjust testing and notjust reliant on vaccines, because we know those strategies are not enough by itself, especially against these new, highly invasive, omicron subvariants. in iran, the well known film actress taraneh alidoosti has been arrested, as anti government protests continue into a fourth month. an iranian news agency said ms alidoosti, who s best known for her starring role in the oscar winning iranian film, the salesman,
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is a really important step in making those vaccines available to countries around the world. first of all, everyone should, i think, take a cold shower about all of this issue about how much of a difference is there between the vaccines. by and large, all of the vaccines are doing a very good job at controlling covid. certainly the ancestral or the initial wuhan strain, but even now with the delta strain, which is much more elusive, they re still doing a good job. there are questions of availability, of certainty about that, in some of the vaccines for example some of the chinese vaccines, some from cuba and others where there isn t yet enough transparency in the data, either clinical trial data or data following their rollout in populations, to be certain about what i just said to be certain that they are as effective as others. but the suspicion is that they are. so that is an issue, and countries assisted by who need to be assured that if they are going to procure vaccines that
i think, take a cold shower about all of this issue about how much of a difference is there between the vaccines. by and large, all of the vaccines are doing a very good job at controlling covid. certainly the ancestral or the initial wuhan strain, but even now with the delta strain, which is much more elusive, they re still doing a good job. there are questions of availability, of certainty about that, in some of the vaccines for example some of the chinese vaccines, some from cuba and others where there isn t yet enough transparency in the data, either clinical trial data or data following their rollout in populations, to be certain about what i just said to be certain that they are as effective as others. but the suspicion is that they are. so that is an issue, and countries assisted by who need to be assured that if they are going to procure vaccines that they will do the job that they ve promised. and that is a significant issue for which who has significant responsibility.