As a syria is wholly virtual, we have a few housekeeping items for we begin. For todays meeting the chair or staff designated by the chair may mute participants microphones when they are not under for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members are responsible for dod and then beating themselves. If i notice that you have not and you did yourself i will ask you if youd like the staff do i need you. If you indicate approval by nodding, staff unmute your microphone. I would might all members and witnesses the five minute clock still applies. If its effect on the move to the next member and resolve the issue and then you will retain the balance of your time. Youll notice a clock on the screen that we show how much time is remaining. At one minute remaining the clock will turn yellow. At 30 seconds remain i will gently tap the counter my members that the time is almost expired. At that time i will allow you to finish your sentence that we will then quickly recognize th
And well hear how young women in south sudan of breaking down barriers to talk about anything. But its a shrine to the universal declaration of human rights freedom of speech and from the basic principle it really is the freedom to express your minds your opinions without the fear thats your governments might punish you i take legal action against you but you want to hear from the so we asked around one of freedom of speech really mean to you. To me freedom of speech means. Where really its like power to express myself you know results here without restraint with all its field any legs that all i think is what everybody wants. Must be just a citizen a lonely as a person in a be able to express my view without trying to clamp down without trying to tell me whats its what you choose it is very hard to be upbeat speech for you all say what sort of. People from the bottom of your heart. Still maintain that you when you need help with. A conscience all i think that you shun some balls on il
We are leveraging existing departmental entity resources to perform this audit including partnering with the Controllers Office and using staffing currently at dta. Next slide please. So bill 1421 is another area that will be impacted by the budget. Specifically there are as i mentioned previously, there are four positions. Four positions currently at the va that are sunsetting or will sunset at the end of the fiscal year and if we dont get those positions extended we will be in a little bit of a problem in terms of fully complying with its 1421 in a timely manner. So this table that is on the slide shows the kind of projections of how long it will take us to complete the disclosure just based on the request that we currently have. If we are able to get them extended beyond this current fiscal year. And so you will see that at the top line , shows that our current staffing level of two attorneys to assistance would take how many years to complete just at the levels we currently have so
Because what it means is that we can unbutton next supply chains and we also have a range of different options not all vaccines are going to be suitable for all people in all geographies and this is a world problem so these vaccines have got to work in all territories the fact that we now have 3 of them approved and theyre going into lots of people a 1000000 scale with an ambitious plan to get them into millions more very quickly this is brilliant news the doctor spoke when we last spoke in the short just before christmas the u. K. Deft or had just passed 60000 though its 80000 and rising why is that the virus been sought reception over the last month is it because of the new variant because of noncompliance or are the Public Health measures not been Strong Enough across europe the World Health Organization has pointed to the fact that many countries more than half are struggling with severe resurgence is the coronavirus. Now that points to the fact that its not just new variants that
There are still some twists turns and handbrake turns on the part of corona virus yet to play out but we have our best fighting chance now of seeing the back of this thing in 2021 because were attacking it on multiple fronts now weve got Public Health measures that we know work but theyre extremely costly in many ways but we do have treatments we do have drugs that have been proven to make a very substantial difference to people with severe disease and now the real cavalry riding to a rescue of these vaccines are not one not 2 but 3 have come along all at once rather predictably like london buses but thats really great because what it means is that we can bottleneck supply chains and we also have a range of different options not all vaccines are going to be suitable for all people in all geographies and this is a world problem so these vaccines have got to work in all territories the fact that we now have 3 of them approved and theyre going into lots of people a 1000000 scale with an a