takes place. thank you very much forjoining me. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. let s start with the astrazeneca vaccine. the european medicines agency has been examining its safety after more than a dozen eu members suspended it this week over health concerns. and today, we heard its verdict. the committee has come to a clear scientific conclusion. this is a safe and effective vaccine. its benefits in protecting people from covid i9 with the associated risks of death and hospitalisation outweigh the possible risks. the committee also concluded that the vaccine is not associated with an increase in the overall risk of thromboembolic events or blood clots. that press conference took place in amsterdam, and our correspondent jean mackenzie was there. what they ve been saying all along stands, that they think this is a vaccine in which the benefits massively outweigh the risks. it was striking, they pointed out there how many people have died in th
The Karnataka government has declared restrictions and announced new guidelines till January 19 in the wake of unprecedented surge of Covid-19 cases in the state on Tuesday.
the office. they will be disruption there. you are missing out on the important social contact, the conversations around the water cooler, whatever. there are some productivity losses there as well. in addition, you are probably not spending as much money in the wider economy. city centre office supplies will be missing out. in addition, there is everything else. thing is that the vaccine passports which are being introduced. all of those measures cumulatively, it could have a big impact. one way to look at this is to look at what has happened in the past. in the semi lockdown last winter, gdp fell close to a%. we might have a small impact this time around, perhaps 2%, but that is still four £5 million per month.
take another ten days, i think this timing, delayed timing, is really the key that of course a large scale has caused a large scale has caused a large scale of spreading, and as you mentioned five provinces but now it is eight provinces so it s a faster developing around 22 cities involved and more than 200 cases identified. this is an outbreak of the delta variant. you mentioned local authorities have been slow to act. what have they done? are there lockdown enforced? are people being told to stay at home? to stay at home? indeed, the cities are to stay at home? indeed, the cities are under to stay at home? indeed, the cities are under lockdown - to stay at home? indeed, the cities are under lockdown ori cities are under lockdown or semi lockdown and not only for nanjing but all of the links, the traces destination from nanjing, iwas the traces destination from nanjing, i was mentioning like eight provinces, 22 cities, have all kinds of different lockdowns based on their sit
or semi lockdown and not only for nanjing but all of the links, the traced destinations from nanjing. i was mentioning like eight provinces, 22 cities, have all kinds of different lockdowns based on their situations and so far, most of the cases already have been traced the origin of the virus outbreak, which is good. it means it is still in the early stages but there are still a few cases in some provinces and some sources are unknown so it is not clearly linked to nanjing so this is worse, so they have to be there click on contact tracing and the tracing of the sources in order to stamp out the local outbreaks and we all know this is so far the worst outbreak since wuhan. briefly, do we know much about vaccine rollouts in the areas affected and how the virus is going to fare with that? in general, china has a very vaccination rate. it s slowing down but it s still very high and in some areas around 80%