because the recovery rates have been over 85%, but we want to make sure that people get the vaccine whenever that is possible. we ll come on to vaccines in a minute. but you mentioned blantyre, and when malawi liverpool and the wellcome trust did a study last year, they found antibody levels of about 12%. that was last year. so, it does suggest the actual infection rates in the country are so much higher than is being reported. do you accept that that probably is the case? it s just testing, the ability to test, that is limiting the picture that you know? when you are doing a scientific study, you go with figures, not probabilities. and these are the testing sites we have across the country and the results that we have had to work with. but more testing if you were capable of testing more, you d find more. obviously, and there are more testing, at sites that are being set up in order for us to have that.
them whatever is necessary for them to get well, because the recovery rates have been over 85%, but we want to make sure that people get the vaccine whenever that is possible. we ll come on to vaccines in a minute. but you mentioned blantyre, and when malawi liverpool and the wellcome trust did a study last year, they found antibody levels of about 12%. that was last year. so, it does suggest the actual infection rates in the country are so much higher than is being reported. do you accept that that probably is the case? it s just testing, the ability to test, that is limiting the picture that you know? when you are doing a scientific study, you go with figures, not probabilities. and these are the testing sites we have across the country and the results that we have had to work with. but more testing if you were capable of testing more, you d find more. obviously, and there are more testing, at sites that are being set up in order
people get the vaccine whenever that is possible. we ll come on to vaccines in a minute. but you mentioned blantyre, and when malawi liverpool and the wellcome trust did a study last year, they found antibody levels of about 12%. that was last year. so, it does suggest the actual infection rates in the country are so much higher than is being reported. do you accept that that probably is the case? it s just testing, the ability to test, that is limiting the picture that you know? when you are doing a scientific study, you go with figures, not probabilities. and these are the testing sites we have across the country and the results that we have had to work with. but more testing if you were capable of testing more, you d find more. obviously, and there are more testing, at sites that are being set up in order for us to have that. well, let s look at the hospitals, because you said
the figures you mentioned, you could see that in some places it is at one day s figure in terms of people dying. we want to value every life. and that is why we have also embarked on notjust testing and notjust hospitalising people and making sure we give them whatever is necessary for them to get well, because the recovery rates have been over 85%, but we want to make sure that people get the vaccine whenever that is possible. we ll come on to vaccines in a minute. but you mentioned blantyre, and when malawi liverpool and the wellcome trust did a study last year, they found antibody levels of about 12%. that was last year. so, it does suggest the actual infection rates in the country are so much higher than is being reported. do you accept that that probably is the case? it s just testing, the ability
the figures you mentioned, you could see that in some places it is at one day s figure in terms of people dying. we want to value every life. and that is why we have also embarked on notjust testing and notjust hospitalising people and making sure we give them whatever is necessary for them to get well, because the recovery rates have been over 85%, but we want to make sure that people get the vaccine whenever that is possible. we ll come on to vaccines in a minute. but you mentioned blantyre, and when malawi liverpool and the wellcome trust did a study last year, they found antibody levels of about 12%. that was last year. so it does suggest the actual infection rates in the country are so much higher than is being reported. do you accept that that probably is the case? it s just testing, the ability to test, that is limiting