Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome the Health Protection agency with Accurate Information when those threats arrive. As the head of the agency, doctor redfield has been one of the leading voices in this pandemic sharing and issuing publichealth guidance and about how to safely return to work, school and daily life. Cases are spiking across the country and as a result we are seeing some states resort to different types of lockdowns like we saw in the initial and americans everywhere are hungry forer information and guidance about how to navigate the Holiday Season and an uncertain winter. We will address all of these issues and more and take questions from the audience as well. Without further ado, doctor redfield, welcome. What can we tell the audience about the state . G thank you for having me. We are at a very pivotal time in this pandemic. We have a significant number of jurisdictions in the stas that are in what we call the red zone and lasted a lot longer than say the spring and s
Citizens. Welcome to the program the president of the European Commission ursula fund a line is urging drug maker astra zeneca to stick to commitments to supply the e. U. With its 1000. 00 vaccine the british Swedish Company has said its cutting the number of doses by 60 percent because of production problems astra zeneca also says it is not contractually obliged to deliver but funnel line said the contract is Crystal Clear many e. U. Member states are still failing to meet their vaccination targets. Correspondent. In brussels so the president of the e. U. Commission says their contract is Crystal Clear what does it say about the livery. Look ive been looking into this contract which i have here with me for the past couple of hours and i have to tell you its its a little bit difficult to tell what it says on the delivery schedule because if you go through the Relevant Pages they they look like this so a lot of the parts are blackened out and so they do not provide the Crystal Clear few
Tracking to make sure infected people stay home we put that idea up for debate. I give g. P. S. Tracking is for the stand up for implementation in time anyway weve got to get back to work weve got to get back to what not to do so we dont get to come back jim if we let this continue but im worried that we still are not lots of monkeys was he going to get out of this quickly and the way to do it is to keep these restrictions going get people vaccinated. Youre watching our 2 International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 5 pm welcome to the program. The simmering spat over covered Vaccine Supplies has seen the European Commission a publish its contested contract with endless swedish drugs maker zeneca their disagreeing over definitions the firm. Says its hearing to the specified best reasonable efforts the insists the supply of volume is a binding number however you members are about to decide whether nations should be able to ring fence their own local pr
Has just introduced a control mechanism for companies producing vaccines tell us a little bit more about that if you want its a bit of a warning shot for other companies and pfizer of biotech is also a company that has suddenly confronted the u. S. Supply a problem so what the use is has introduced is a mechanism whereby companies a you can track now to what extent companies are exporting vaccines that are being produced inside the e. U. The u. S. Made clear today this is only an insurance policy they do not want to get involved into any sort of vaccine protectionism or to export bounce but it is clear that they are flexing their muscles to show those tech or from a suitable dions that they do mean business here. Georg not as in brussels for us thank you so much. The astra zeneca vaccine is one of 3 being used as part of britains vaccination drive the country has one of the highest death tolls in the world but as we have heard it is also making more progress than many other countries e
Code phrase how these at near record levels all the government considers using g. P. S. Tracking to make sure that the people city home is but that idea for the big. Guy give g. P. S. Tracking people is for the 1st time for implementation in time the way weve got to get back to what weve got to get back to what not to do so you dont get to come back if we let this continue much longer im worried that were. Still not. Going to get out of this quickly and the way to do it is to keep these restrictions going to get people back so. Youre watching our 2 International Coming to you live from the russian capital this every hour welcome to the program. European unity over securing coded vaccines appears to be splintering further a meeting between you members is deciding whether nations should be able to ringfence local production and curtail exports after brussels fell out with britain over getting enough to us as of the astra zeneca vaccine sent across. Explains. This ra is really heating up