Two years ago. 0ur correspondent, henry zeffman, explained the difference between the schemes. Its not what weve been talking about for the last couple of years. This is a rwanda scheme, but its not the rwanda scheme. The government for two years, under three Prime Ministers and more Home Secretaries than i can count, has been committed to forcibly relocating people who arrive in the uk in small boats across the English Channel to rwanda. What happened on monday was not that. It was a separate scheme, which weve only known about for a couple of months, whereby they want to offer, and, crucially, that is the word offer people whove applied for asylum here but been rejected the opportunity to move to rwanda should they wish and to do so, the government is willing to pay them up to £3,000. And, on monday, according to the sun newspaper, that happened for the first time. So, a man who had made an Asylum Application here, which had been rejected, was paid around £3,000 by the government t
Many of these are countries that were previously behind the iron curtain where confidence in government is less. within germany and our eastern regions also are behind the iron curtain. some of the errors that have problems also bavaria which are always western germany. you will see different impacts again in different areas based on attitudes. if you look at spain, portugalto based on attitudes. if you look at spain, portugal to a large degree france and italy you have much fewer problems and much higherfraction of the population vaccinated. and that s true. spain, portugal and france all have higher vaccination rates and lower infections. but low rates of vaccination aren t the only factor driving the spread. hans kluge covers europe, for the world health organisation. three factors at stake for the first one is what we called the winter seasonality. the second one, important one, so we are far too many people susceptible to the virus.