Us whos life in india people desperately searching for medical supplies as the country battles a record breaking spike coated 19 infections and deaths. And stocking up on provisions and fleeing cities for their hometowns turkey enters its strictest lockdown of the pandemic with the country fighting its own ways of covert 19 infections flops are turning africas stolen Cultural Treasures germanys will start handing back ancient looted sculptures to nigeria plundered during colonial times berlin says that it wants to shine a light on its own colonial past. The big. Plague. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program. In israel at least 44 people have been killed. And around 150 others injured in a stampede at a religious gathering attended by tens of thousands it happened at mount marin in the northern part of the country were Ultra Orthodox Jews were holding all my prayer and a dance celebration. This footage from social media shows the scene shortly before tragedy struck a densely packed crow
Im Anthony Howard welcome to the Program India has set a daily global record of new coronavirus cases every day for more than a week now with an average of nearly 350000 infections that the deaths of nearly tripled in the past 3 weeks but most experts are convinced the numbers are still being under reported International Relief if it has been stepped up but many indians still struggling to find medical supplies including oxygen and the white for vaccines continues. In the southwest indian state of carolina they wait. Wait for a vaccine that doesnt come. Stuff that they send to a ready. But they have nothing to give. Them so for now i would get about the doctors in. These records nation but there is no votes in with those. Its a similar problem across india with Vaccination Centers forced to close just as the government says all adults are allowed to get a jab. We dont have vaccines right now well let you know as soon as we get them up with. The hunt for oxygen also continues across the
Exports have now stopped and this may have negative impact on the availability of oxys is in large parts of the world so we are concerned and we will fund try to find a way to to make up for that. Yanick not just the European Commission of a Crisis Management thank you so much for joining us from brussels. A new w. Tertian of the coronavirus in india has been partly blamed for the rapid increase in cases its said to be more infectious and deadly than. Here is what is known so far about. The west indian state of maharashtra is where the b. 1617 far into the coup and a virus was 1st recorded in december 2020 the strain has 2 mutations on a spike preteen thats the bit of the virus that gets into our body cells. Both genetic mutations of cut up before around the world in other strains of the current virus and when they did they willing to the virus passing between people more easily they were also linked to the virus being better able to get past the bodys defenses weve seen 1st medic incr
Guess it was another a bad day for india as the number of infections new infections rose by another record people obviously ike st be right hospitals are under great pressure and in the air running short of supplies of oxygen its known as hospital beds the Prime Minister today had a meeting with his council of ministers and the now board in the army and to have the army in india is often used in disaster situations of they have great experience and they have a big reputation so big now being asked to set up field hospitals set up isolation wards and quarantine still rooms but at you know but the situation is really grim another mike at the grim reality is its not just essential supplies like oxygen which are running not but also space in commission grounds and burial sites the number of dead being taken there is simply to latch everything is in short supply here Health Officials are opening up Vaccine Availability to every adult from saturday but what does that really matter the time w
Play again im fully back to bowl with the headlines on aljazeera israels Prime Minister has promised an investigation after at least 24 people were killed in a stampede at a religious festival it happened in mount meron where up 2200000 ultraOrthodox Jews had gathered fossett has more from merrill the Prime Ministers spokesman has been tweeting about it saying that it was the overcrowding that led to a stampede which in turn led to the partial collapse of a structure that people were standing on so that is the the closest thing weve had to sort of an official proximate cause of what took place but of course there are much wider questions being asked about the nature of all this as well. In India Several states say theyve already run out of koran a virus jobs a day before the country sought its vaccination drive for all adults above the age of 18 new infections across india have reached a new high with 386000 cases reported in the last 24 hours for sale meanwhile is marking another blea