amounted to genocide. thousands of rohingya muslims were killed and hundreds of thousands driven into bangladesh following the 2017 offensive. us based scientists say they ve found a way of using plants to remove harmful microplastics from the world s water supplies. the non toxic solution involves okra and other slimy plants often used in cooking. extracts from the plants help remove microplastics from both fresh and sea water, often outperforming the chemicals now used in treatment plants. china is facing its worst set of covid 19 outbreaks since the original lockdown in wuhan more than two years ago. the city of shenyang, an industrial city of nine million people, was placed under lockdown on monday night. more than 4,000 coronavirus cases have been reported. professor dale fisher is chair of who s global 0utbreak alert
professor adam finn, who sits on thejoint committee on vaccination and immunisation, said it is still unclear whether all over 50s should be offered a third jab this autumn. the director of the oxford vaccine group, sir andrew pollard, told mps yesterday that spare doses should be sent abroad instead of being used as booster shots. let s discuss this further with dr gail carson, deputy chair of the global 0utbreak alert and response network at the university of oxford. good evening. where do you stand on this issue of a booster campaign? basically, if you think about the situation, ten of the countries in the world out of 194 have around 75% of the covid 19 vaccines. yet, about half of the world s population are