Indian capital delhi. They fear theyll be exploited in the new agricultural reforms and theyre prepared for a long battle. And we go to japan to me, to get into the giant battle robot that surprisingly has an antiwar message. As welcome to the program, covered 19 has dominated headlines this year, but there is another pandemic that still affects and kills millions of people around the world. United nations figures show that 38000000. 00 people were living with h. I. V. Last year, nearly 700000 of them died as a result of their hiv infection. But prevention and treatment measures are showing some promise in the last decade, the number of new infections has deep priest. And so has the number of people whose death was caused directly by aids. All factors related to the immune deficiency syndrome. Experts predict that trend will reverse this year because of the covert, 19 pandemic, and lock downs, causing a shortage of hiv medication. Its estimated there could be an additional 1400000. 00
Well, its looking like the f. D. A. In america is probably going to be making an announcement round about the 17th of december. And if thats the case, and if thats positive, then these vaccines are going to be shipped literally within hours, as weve just heard on that report. Now in terms of the european situation, the europeans measured medicines agency, typically this can take months or even up to a year to approve a new vaccine. So we really are in unprecedented territory here. And its going to be remarkably interesting to see what sort of timelines they come up with. But i think we can rest assured that they will be working flat out on this. Theyll be doing a lot more. A lot of hard work on the fires that are not important. Remember, its a rolling program, so they have access to much more information than we have pfizer mid and it will be reporting to them on a daily basis with the latest information will have all the latest information at their fingertips. But of course, this is n
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Finding effective vaccines is a crucial part of tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Madonna and pfizer biotech have now both applied for emergency approval moderna hopes its vaccine could get the green light by christmas. You end the year. Yes. All those that are advisory meeting is likely to be on december 17th. If you hire people seaboard that between the 17 and christmas to go, the product is approved. If the u. S. Food and Drug Administration gives the go ahead, inoculations could start within hours of them led by u. S. Vaccination, logistics chief general gustav panna seems to me dont those hes a baby on the way. Yeah. So as soon as we get approval or urge arcana and hes teams are going to get hold of a vaccine we have. And so our shipping in the conference is going to vaccinate americans within 24 hours on the pro or the Company Hopes its latest trial results will lead to speedy approval in other countries too. In trials of the vaccine with more than 30000 people, only 30 particip
Im british by the day. Welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. He highways leading to the indian capital of delhi, blocked as thousands of farmers protest against new agricultural laws passed by. The government. Farmers are demanding a rollback of the laws. Claim me, they removed a government assured grain purchase scheme that acted as a safety net for them. The government has assured the scheme will continue, but farmers convinced these 20000. 00 farmers arent going anywhere. Their trucks and tractors are blocking the major highways near indias capital. Each one of our tractors is loaded with rations up to 4 months. Until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws, none of us will go back to the farmers field. Their livelihoods are threatened. They fear that the government will stop buying grain at guarantee prices. The worry is that this could leave them at the mercy of corporations who wont pay enough for their crops. Prime minister, Narendra Modi is trying t