Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. This is a bittersweet moment in the global fight against the covid pandemic. Joy that at least two vaccine trials have produced extremely promising results is tempered by the continued spread of the disease across much of the world. To put it bluntly, the global containment effort has had limited success. My guest is dr David Nabarro, the World Health Organizations special envoy for covid i9. Are countries doing enough to minimise the damage done, before mass vaccination changes the game . David nabarro in geneva, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, hello, stephen. How do you do . I am very well. May i begin by reading out to you something you tweeted very recently . You said, covid i9 is surging back, threatening to overrun hospitals, causing long term illness and more death. We have had nine months as a World Community to contain covid i9. Why have we failed . Stephen, i think the first thing to say is that things would have been a lot, lot worse witho
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