i m outside of colubia sports and the ceo says, we opposite in over 90 countries. we don t have a problem. in fact, when he looks around the country here in the u.s., he thinks this is the only country that actually has a problem. when you talk to ceos, though, for instance, in the deep south, as i did, ceo lex taylor, of a machine parts company in mississippi, he says, i have tried to give incentives to get vaccinated and yet only 30% of my population, of my employees are vaccinated. and here in a nutshell are the two very different reactions. take a listen. we want to have a safe working place and we believe the best way to provide that in addition to other hazards that are known is to have people vaccinated against covid. you re going to let you re going to have to let those go until they come back with a negative test and/or you re going to tell them, you re fired because you don t because you won t get a vaccine. it s going against all
4,000 or 2,000 people dying a day back in the wintertime, we didn t really have a choice. we didn t have a vaccine. but now we do and we see the consequences of politics. we see the consequences of misinformation. that is truly hitting the south in a way that i anticipated this back in march of 2020 when i said what happens in new york city, new york city, you have 62 hospitals. in the deep south, like south carolina, there are literally 8 counties without a single hospital. we cannot afford to have a massive uprising of people getting infected and what we see the consequences of that is that people die and it truly is unfortunate. well, here s something that may be a glimmer of hope, certainly, the drug maker, merck, says its experimental pill for people with covid reduced hospitalizations and deaths by about half. mercking on tested on unvaccinated individuals but fda regulators may now consider authorizing it for people with breakthrough covid symptoms and in your mind, how promis
right not to bare their arms. but that has resulted in the king s daughters hospital in rural mississippi being inundated like never before with covid cases. the senior physician is wrung out. it s pretty dire. we re running out of beds, we re running out of staff. we re running out of the oxygen means that we give these patients. we re interrupted by him having to deal with an emergency in intensive care. we have a patient that is maxed out on life support in the intensive care unit. despite our best efforts and measures, they re just not getting better. a couple of hours after we d stopped filming, we were told that the 68 year old man had died. he hadn t been vaccinated. jon sopel, bbc news, in the deep south. algeria has observed the first of three days of national mourning as wildfires continue to burn across the north of the country. fanned by strong winds
is wrung out. it s pretty dire. we re running out of beds, we re running out of staff. we re running out of the oxygen means that we give these patients. we re interrupted by him having to deal with an emergency in intensive care. we have a patient that is maxed out on life support in the intensive care unit. despite our best efforts and measures, they re just not getting better. a couple of hours after we d stopped filming, we were told that the 68 year old man had died. he hadn t been vaccinated. jon sopel, bbc news, in the deep south. dissent in hong kong has been crushed after beijing imposed the national security law last year. the city s artists and filmmakers have struggled to cope with the law s vaguely defined boundaries on what constitutes acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign powers. despite the risks, film director kiwi chow has made a documentary about the 2019 protests, which prompted the crackdown from beijing. he tells the bbc why he s cont
in intensive care. we have a patient that is maxed out on life support in the intensive care unit. despite our best efforts and measures, they re just not getting better. a couple of hours after we d stopped filming, we were told that the 68 year old man had died. he hadn t been vaccinated. jon sopel, bbc news, in the deep south. let s get some of the day s other news. the authorities in northern germany have asked more than 8,000 people to repeat their covid jabs, because a nurse is suspected of having injected saline solution instead of vaccine in many cases. police are investigating whether the nurse gave saline jabs in more than the six cases she s admitted to. us border agents say they detained more than 212 thousand migrants trying to enter the country from mexico last month. it s the highest monthly figure in 20 years. almost half of those stopped at the border have been expelled from the united states under special regulations introduced to curb the spread of the coronavirus. t