This lack of trust in vaccines in china. is there not that push for vaccinations? well, that is not push for vaccinations? well, that is not something - push for vaccinations? well, that is not something new. push for vaccinations? well, l that is not something new and from the very beginning we saw despite the high vaccination rates, close to 90% to dose vaccination rate, there s always this concern about the low vaccination rate among the elderly. especially those aged 80 and over. i think it is this inaudible at risk population that really we have not seen a major progress in terms of increasing their vaccination rates, especially over the past three months. professor ya nzhong huang. thank you so much for your time. thanks forjoining us on bbc news. time. thanks for “oining us on sac news. hundreds of people have also been demonstrating outside the chinese embassy in london where flowers were laid and a vigil was held. the bbc s greg mckenzie has been speaking to the protestor
Even if it wanted to, what would be the risk at this point? well, i think it s understandable that in china they re adopting the zero policy as many elderly people have yet to complete the second or third dose vaccination. they have a very high first dose vaccination rate of 90%, but that was six months ago. they really need to catch up on the second and third dose. if they move away from the dynamic zero policy, then they will have a lot of people coming down with severe disease. and even though it s omicron, because many of the elderly will come down with relatively severe disease. so i think it s advisable and it s the right policy to carry on with the dynamic zero for the time being. but of course this mass testing will not be sustainable. so they really have to think about moving on once people have you know, and focus on vaccinating as many elderly
Your reporting. really appreciate it. let me get more on this now. joining me now is dr. manonica gandhi. . good to see you. david culver has done some amazing reporting in wuhan and his team. much there is a lot to be learned about that intelligence report. and what you can and cannot extrapolate from it. one thing we know is it raises more questions. i do want to ask you about just this moment that we re in here in the united states. new cases, hospitalizations, deaths. down across the board. the former fda commissioner, he said over the weekend that at some point in june his belief is that we re going to probably approach one case per 100,000 per day. what does that mean for all of us. it is amazing news. it came about started happening when we reached a 40% first dose vaccination rate on april 14th. the cases started coming down and down and down. and now they ve just it s very clear they re almost coming