philippines would pivot away from the united states to china and russia. he tossed us in. what‘s interesting is what happened when the united states pushed against what was happening in the drug war. last december, the us government actually took away the visa of the man who was carrying out the drug war, the philippine national police chief. he is now a senator but they took away his visa under law, and the philippine government was so upset that they cancelled part of the military permission that has gone on for a long time, this is a very strong relationship, in the past, to the visiting forces, the government cancelled it, but here we go again. just this month, the philippine government gave notice that they were not going to cancel that and it is back up. my point — you are making my point for me. whatever the detail of difficulties, geostrategic difficulties in relationship between united states and the philippines, in the end, there seems to be a brotherhood feeling between donald trump and rodrigo duterte. you could argue they are populists of

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what sort of recovery will we see in the philippines? i tend to be a little more conservative generally, but there are green shoots in one way or another. merchandise exports in the philippines are up. agriculture is up. service industries are down. if you look at the operating statistics, measured on a quarter by quarter basis, foot traffic is up by 10%, 15%. land sales are at about 70% of what they used to be. that is not so bad. the two companies we have, the water company, the energy company, and the telecom company, are all at pre-covid levels. it is a balanced scorecard. essentially transportation is just starting to open up again. people are starting to move again. you've got some positives, some negatives. from the second quarter to the fourth quarter, we are seeing improvements. consumption is key to the philippines. two thirds of the gdp. when do you expect foot traffic to recover to pre-pandemic levels? >> i think that is going to take a little time. during the pandemic it went down to 15 to 20%. we are now at 30 to 35%. to se

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while the philippine government says it will have to rely on $1000000000.00 loans and private donations to get enough vaccines jamila dog and reports from manila. general silver door is a covert 19th survivor he spent 2 weeks in hospital in a critical condition and he says he spent his life savings a few 100 dollars on medicines he's now without a job and despite reports a vaccine against coronavirus will be available early next year he's not confident his family will get access to them. you know i didn't even get any cash this entire time so i don't even think about seeing this something will get either a yes or no about the children that's all i care about this so the doors live in one of the poorest communities in manila the center of the pandemic in the philippines there are some people here however who don't share cheer will specimens him and are hopeful the vaccines will signal a return to normality. our residents belong to the society we the global mentor girls are looking forward to the suboxone hoping will be made a priority the government aims to vaccinate at least 60 percent

but meanwhile that's not the only challenge for the philippine government officials health experts also say that it has to strengthen its national immunization program vaccine rates have fallen over the last few years and they call it vaccine hesitancy where many filipinos are afraid to get vaccinated and it's true that in a day and give vaccine scandal that actually out went public over the last few years so that also led to a rise of communicable diseases like measles and call your so it's a tall order for the philippines 1st to get enough vaccines to inoculate a significant portion of the population get those much needed vaccines you know to be transported to an archipelago of more than 7100 islands and actually convince the public that these vaccines are safe and secure considerable challenges ahead for the filipino government. so much for living that its own dog and joining us from manila let's head across to lebanon where all to syria's seen a hoarder joins us from outside a hospital it would seem in beirut seeing that lebanon has had a terrible year really mean it can't be home f

real negative interest rates is not new to the philippines. we have had many episodes of that in the past. that should not be a major constraint. we want the economy to recover, and right now, we need both and accommodative monetary policy and fiscal policy. i can assure you we will not go into the conventional negative interest rates. countries, that is not part of our policy framework. you are looking ahead, what is the current high-frequency data telling you about the philippine economy? how is the recovery story there? are you confident with things are going to be ok? guest: we expect the q4 performance to be slightly negative still, but we are hoping that the q1 2021 economic performance will be positive. and we expect the economy to 7.5% startingo next year. there will be a stronger recovery in 2022. our expectation is we will be back to where we were in 2019 by maybe the middle of 2022. the governor talking to us in an exclusive interview. let's get to markets. of,nesia making to dps percent growth this year i china weight on betting on

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i know it is a long season in the philippines. yes, yes. we actually have the longest christmas season in the world, so we start in september and end in early january. so basically, half the year. but of course we will be continuing our relief and food programme as long as it takes. although for some people it seems as though we have lost the christmas. because of everything that has happened this year. to me, it has never been more alive. there are people out there on the streets, in their homes, at work or on social media, doing whatever they can to be there for others and to me that is what christmas is all about. community. solidarity. love. and hope. chantel, what has it been like for you this year stepping up, not once, but twice? it has changed your life. this pandemic has shown me what is most important. the floods have shown me what we can do to help others, especially when we are together. that was chantel in the philippines. i am philippa thomas and you are watching... coronavirus — your stories, a programme about how covid—i

who give access in its ability to contain the virus in southeast asia over the past few months the philippines is seen as the worst performing country and many here fear it will also find itself on the bottom of the list for the vaccine jim duggan al-jazeera manila. strict health measures have been enforced as tens of millions of people voted in. elections it has the worst of it 19 outbreak in southeast asia doctors worry that a large voter turnout could make things worse just like washington reports. politics has long been a family affair in indonesia and circuit had this candidate is hoping to follow in his father's footsteps. good brown rock a booming rucka is the son of president joker widodo and is contesting the same mayoral race that kick started his father's political career is contesting his 1st election in unusual circumstances when some might be reluctant to go out and vote because of concerns about covert 19. right at the voting booth the safe comfortable and sterilized don't forget to wear your mask so i have a somewhat when president joke otoh was elected to the highest office ma

>>with the fact that we english a second language in the philippines, so won't be much of adjustment in terms of communication. there is a growing number of international reinforcements coming to america and more recruits are in the pipeline places like the u he the u k i can't harm. a saudi arabia of the philippines australia jim, a job and more ron hobby is ceo of worldwide health staff solutions which brings in professionals from around the world. >>hospital requests have doubled, they're really not facing a recruiting problem. they're facing the supply and demand problem and it's those nurses that add to the supply as opposed to employers just constantly reshuffling the deck of available workers between themselves the domestic pool of about 25,000 travel nurses is pretty much tapped out we would love to feel the pull people from all over the country. >>right now the entire country is struggling so we don't have the luxury of being able to pull from from that we normally do the high demand and short supply is especially evident in california were some alternate care facilities hav

that was chantel in the philippines. i am philippa thomas and you are watching coronavirus — your stories, a programme about how covid—i9 has changed lives around the world. we are revisiting some of the stories that people have shared with us in this extraordinary year. as the world went into lockdown, we saw countries shut their borders to limit new infections. this put many seafarers in an unpredictable situation. we heard from a ship's captain and a young engineer, both key workers on important shipping routes, but effectively stranded at sea. we also heard from american and swedish couple brian and karen who had been sailing the world for years, now with a baby, sierra, on board. we first made contact with them on an uninhabited island in the bahamas where they had been living their lockdown for more than 100 days. we are out here at an island that is completely uninhabited. there are no stores, no people, no city, just us, the bush and a few other boats. and you are managing with a baby who i think is going to

and the philippine energy ministry a total of 30 vehicles. and tricity met sherman once to become an environmental pioneer and cut traffic congestion with new concepts pasig is one of 10. being promoted with funding from the e.u. and the international climate initiative but it's not that simple and america pasig knows just how urgently change is needed. climate change an air pollution there definitely problems for us globally but. the image of. air pollution is definitely a big problem recently we just completed our greenhouse gas inventor the. air pollution in the city are. alarming to see the least and we need to do it every week to lower these numbers in the near future. wants to profit from this switch to elect your mobility base to the south of metro manila for 7 years now it has been.

the philippines is 94% christian, so christmas is a really big deal. celebrations stretch on for months but mr duterte four weeks has been pleading with the population to keep gatherings small, to stop singing iso church choirs but also karaoke. he wants that to stop. and he is trying to introduce the idea that christmas should include small, solemn gatherings. but he has also admitted a lot of people are probably going to ignore him. it is really interesting watching that playing out in two different countries around the world. iain martin, how worried do think some of borisjohnson‘s parliamentary colleagues and his conservative party are about this, and about the decisions being taken on having a system or tiers or potentially and england—wide lockdown in the new year? very interesting, because of course at the time of talking live, there are meetings ongoing about what to do about the situation in the south—east of england and in london in particular, so it is that cluster around the capital where there are reports of a new strain. and that is

at the moment hardly anyone buys electric cars in the philippines the private use. nifty has a start up that builds folding bicycles and originally electric ones too but with that business proving unprofitable the 2 founders now only upgrade bikes with batteries the parts that. costs the same a so called a bid to get from china so for a start up it's very difficult to compete especially in such a new market such the. market where it's very price sensitive income f. or e. is the startups co-founder he and his team make standard folding bikes he's a cycling enthusiast and keen to contribute to efforts to reduce traffic congestion our cities were not designed other modes of transportation specially it will not do it that i support the show and once so. if you're see if these not meant for bicycles electric bicycles would also be challenging. elettra mobility comes at a high price it's still too expensive for most people and it also hasn't gained widespread acceptance among the population according to the mer of past sake nevertheless the desire for a cleaner and more e

and the philippine energy ministry a total of 30 vehicles. and tricity met sherman the once to become an environmental pioneer and cut traffic congestion with new concepts pasig is one of 10. being promoted with funding from the e.u. and the international climate initiative. but it's not that simple and america pasig knows just how urgently change is needed. climate change an air pollution there definitely problems for us globally but. the image of. air pollution is definitely a big problem recently we just completed our greenhouse gas invented the. air pollution in the city are. learning to see the least and we need to do it every week to lower these numbers in the near future. to profit from this switch to elect your mobility.

the philippines more than even winning the war. and navy and many of the powerful internal planners of the joint chiefs of staff organization in washington saw a major role for china in his last stage of the pacific campaign but they wanted a full on the coast of china, i wanted that for bases, for b-29s and theyalso wanted the potential to draw on chinese infantry manpower . in the invasion of japan if that were to take placeand the destruction of japanese armies on the asian mainland . point took formosa so i made 1944 i think it's fair to say that we were going to take one of those two islands first. either luzon and northern ireland or the capital city where manila is or formosa, today we call it taiwan, one of these two islands that was the immediate decision that fdr and his military chiefs faced in mid-1944. beyond that there was the question of can we force the japanese tosurrender without actually invading their homeland . and that played very much into the thinking that they were confronting atthis time as well . >> me tr

back home in the philippines basketball or baseball or a sport typically captures the imagination of sports fans the s.e.c. divas are working on changing that they're a breath of fresh air in hong kong's cricket scene which is rooted in its british colonial past in the now on the run of life to be yours because i've done so much good now getting better and they did a learning lot of cricket in skills and i'm dead to his disco to know how to play cricket more than that. not that this group need much teaching now they've won their league twice and around britain say fog a season maybe even provided most of the prayers for a newly created philippines national team. looking the girls are you know really into the west they felt that we focused on life and to set certain sports. and be deprived and i wasn't close to you know support from people all i was just still going to almost. have it all the while they continue to rack up the runs scoring for success a welcome break from the day job. that's it for today there's always more on dot com for slash asia and we're on facebook and twitter a

going to get you to what is going on in the philippines. saying the pace is going to be benefiting from the gradual reopening of the economy. this coming from the central bank chief. saying the peso is supported by foreign direct investment to read remittances as well. the peso has appreciate it by 5.4% since the start of the year. >> breaking news out of australia. scott morrison announcing a cabinet reshuffle. liberal from a regional seat, a former diplomat who worked as a policy advisor. he has been the minister for education since august, 2018. previously served as minister fromocial services december, 20 17 to august, 2018. named the new trade minister. we will bring you details on that reshuffle later on, when we get details. here is the first word news. >> microsoft is said to have been hacked as part of a suspected russian campaign that pits several government agencies -- that hit several agencies including the nuclear administration. it took advantage of software from a company called solar. reports from washington say the treasury

facebook is our internet in the philippines. there's 71 million filipinos. we spend the most time on the internet and on social media globally, and i think it's the fifth year running. that's hoot suite and that's their number on social. what's happening is this astroturf—type manufacturing of consensus, the manipulation of the public on mass scale using facebook has happened here in the philippines. you asked about the popularity of president duterte, that's partly buoyed by a propaganda machine that we got clobbered for exposing in 2016. maria, i'm going to have to interrupt because what you are suggesting is democracy doesn't work anymore. if you are talking about, quote unquote, "manipulated public opinion" as you've just done, then you are undermining and delegitimising the notion that the people have a right to choose their governors. if you're saying their opinions are somehow fake or false, then where's democracy? that's exactly what i'm saying. that democracy is essentially dead, and part of what killed it are social media platforms that have beco

the philippines leader struggling with this as well. the philippines is 94% christian, so christian is a really big deal. for weeks now, he has been pleading with the population to keep gathering small, to stop singing, so church choirs, but also karaoke. and he is trying to introduce the idea that christmas should include small, solemn gatherings. a lot of people are public going to ignore him. it is really interesting watching that play out in two different countries around the world. martyn, how worried do think some of boris johnson's parliamentary colleagues and his conservative party are about this? about the decisions being taken? very interesting, because of course at the time of talking there are meetings ongoing about what to do about the situation in the south—east of england and in london in particular, so it is that cluster around the capital where there are reports of a new strain. and that is forcing him to rethink the christmas rule. it is a issue across europe, not unique to the uk. borisjohnson, a few weeks ago you w

back home in the philippines basketball or baseball or a sport typically captures the imagination of sports fans the s.c.c. divas are working on changing that they're a breath of fresh air in hong kong's cricket scene which is rooted in its british colonial past and now on the run of luck to be yours the girls have done so much good nudging dugdale getting better and they did a learning lot of for cricket instills an undead tooth he's discussing how to play cricket more and better. not that this creep need much teaching now they've won their lake twice and around a bit in say far this season maybe even provided most of the prayers for a newly created philippines national team. so looking at the elsewhere you know really into that was different with focus on mine to set certain sports. and be deprived of guidance and closer to you know the support from all all else as a system into all this. having all the while they continue to rack up the runs scoring for success a welcome break from it's a job. that's it for today there's always more on dot com for slash asia and we're on facebook

say the heaviest rain over the next couple of days little disturbance just to the east of the philippines may well develop into a tropical depression if not a tropical storm but more heavy showers coming through here northeast dries for the showers in across a good part of thailand into the malaysian peninsula and more of the same as we go on through friday and if anything is see that distinct line setting up well heavy rain there coming into northern parts of the philippines active showers right across the region 3 malaysia down into indonesia still some active showers across the far north of australia but things aquatic down further south high pressure in charge here that will help to just ease the temperatures back that we've seen down towards the southeast and kona recently but the intense heat that is set to continue into the interior pushing across into queensland we've seen already seen record december hate heavy showers drive the way into new south wales over the next couple of days and sinking further south. captaining a leading. team at 16 years old takes determination. to that

facebook is our internet in the philippines. there are 71 million filipinos. we spent the most time on the internet and on social media globally and i think it is the fifth year running. that is their number on socials. what is happening is this astroturf type manufacturing of consensus, the manipulation of the public on mass scale using facebook as happened here in the philippines. you asked about the pop polarity of president duterte, that is partly buoyed bya duterte, that is partly buoyed by a propaganda machine we got clu b by a propaganda machine we got club for exposing 2016. maria, i will have to interrupted because what you are suggesting is because he doesn't work anymore. if you're talking about, quote unquote, manipulated public opinion as you have just done, manipulated public opinion as you havejust done, then manipulated public opinion as you have just done, then you are undermining and delegitimising the notion that the people have a right to choose their governors. if you are saying their opinions are somehow fake or false, then where is democ

he actually tries, like he did in the philippines, hand-picked a president, hand-picked a new prime minister in vietnam and whispers of how to defeat communist, and unfortunately got so big in vietnam, kind of small cell hearts and minds got swept away by the huge military bureaucracy, headed up the first american military commission, him and 12 other guys for two years. and eventually be followed. >> host: near intervention in vietnam led out of the crisis, you mentioned several others that could have defused the cold war. tell us about these moments where things could have gone much better or differently oriented more. >> roosevelt's idea of what the resolution of world war ii was supposed to bring and spread democracy, he dies 3 weeks before the end of the war, truman comes in it is way over his head. he first meets stalin, has his first meeting with stalin in that summer of 1945 and says to stalin he is honest, smart as hell that i can deal with him. he was pretty much wrong on all counts but fdr's death when it came was an awful fork in the road. he would have reacted to a usurping of e

the philippines and taiwan meet today. bitcoin tops $21,000 for the first time and prompts even higher bets. 30,000 --indo sees crypto lenders sees 30,000. rishaad: the pfizer vaccine rolling out its first night with an allergic reaction reported in alaska. india awaits emergency use approval. we are seeing a modest uptake on the ms ci asia-pacific index. holding onto these january 1998 highs. we are seeing treasuries hold these losses. some traders are expecting changes to their bond buying program. the fed making no change to asset purchases. watching the new zealand curve steepening to gdp soaring a record 14%. we saw this massive monetary stimulus sparked by a recovery in consumer spending. bitcoin is getting close to 22,000. guggenheim saying bitcoin should be worth 400,000. rishaad: let's take a look at what is going on in the time market. -- the thailand market. the 30 level against its american counterpart. this has been a huge headache for the central bank. authorities looking at ways they can stop this appreciati

there obviously was quite a social media reaction in the philippines so china is facing this, a trust deficit in the region but what is interesting and given the pandemic, southeast asia, i think leaders have been particularly hesitant good to criticize china over the pandemic. we haven't seen but maybe we have seen of australia are coming out of europe for instance. i think it is because they see china as economic recovery, the potential engine for their own way out economically from a real stressful situation they are seeing economically in their own country. here, i think, one thing i am concerned about is the secrecy of economic recovery could have potentially long-lasting effec effects. as china comes out of the gate first, the region is looking obviously at this moment much more into the united states. the vaccine diplomacy will be interesting because they have been much more assertive in the front and get the news i have been seeing about china for their vaccine development, at least so far, hasn't been quite as positive as what we have been hearing from pfizer or moderna here.

the impact interest the acute care as well as just general murshid care within the system philippines has extended their travel restrictions to keep out a new strain of the coronavirus travelers from 19 countries and territories will be banned from entering the philippines until mid january to control the spread of the variant previously the philippines imposed and then extended a ban on flights from britain one of the countries where the virus mutation was 1st detected south korea has secured vaccines for another 20000000 people as a grapples with a rapid rise in cope with 19 infections the deal with madonna comes the same day the country reported 40 new coronavirus deaths its highest ever one day toll of governments also unveiled a new $8000000000.00 aid package for small businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic ok let's speak now to robin bright he's live for us in seoul so let's talk about the deal 1st of all these extra vaccines are going to take time to arrive just talk us through the kind of preparations and 6 of the security measures that the government's

a saudi arabia of the philippines australia jim, a job and more ron happy is ceo of worldwide health staff solutions which brings in professionals from around the world. >>hospital requests have doubled, they're really not facing a recruiting problem. you're facing the supply and demand problem and it's those nurses that add to the supply as opposed to employers just constantly reshuffling the deck of available workers between themselves the domestic pool of about 25,000 travel nurses is pretty much tapped out we would love to feel the pull people from all over the country. >>right now the entire country is struggling so we don't have the luxury of being able to pull from from that we normally do the high demand and short supply is especially evident in california where some alternate care facilities have opened, but the state is still seeking about 3,000 professionals to work in them and elsewhere and just yesterday governor newsome said request for federal help remain on fulfilled the biggest issue remains and i'll just remind everybody this its staffing bringing in international s

this so the doors live in one of the poorest communities in manila the center of the pandemic in the philippines there are some people here however who don't share cheer will specimens him and are hopeful the vaccines will signal a return to normality. didn't belong to the society we the global mentor girls are looking forward to this box you hoping will be made a priority the government aims to vaccinate at least 60 percent of the country's population in order to achieve herd immunity but in an archipelago of more than $7100.00 islands and the national budget that's barely enough even official theory admit it won't be easy for weeks now countries around the world have been trying to secure deals to buy vaccines when they become available wealthier countries are bidding for a huge share of supplies hoping to vaccinate their entire populations but the united nations says 2 thirds of the global populations will not get enough and many countries including the philippines do not have the logistical support to establish an adequate vaccination program they also don't have the capacity to produce thei

december 1944 allied forces are approaching a japanese prison camp in the philippines. when the japanese realized how close the allies were they took 150 allied prisoners and put them in a ditch, in an air raid ditch, put gasoline in there, set it on fire and folks who were trying to jump out, they would be shot. now 11 out of the 150 actually made it out of the ditch, into the woods and were able to relate this story once they were behind friendly lines which gave more impetus to the idea of liberating these prison camps before the allies got too close. so the next japanese prison camp that was likely to be massacred were prisoners at the prison camp and also in the philippines where over 500 allied prisoners were being held. many were veterans of the batan death march in pretty bad shape. the idea the prison camp was about 30 miles behind friendly lines only added to the complexity of this problem. companies c and f under the battalion command of henry lucci were ordered to liberate the camp. 125 rangers left their encampments and on the way they picked up philippine

and there obviously was quite a social media reaction in the philippines. china is facing trip wires. i think it knows it has a trust deficit in the region. but what's interesting and in kind of getting to the pandemic is in southeast asia, leaders, i think, have been particularly hesitant to criticize china over the pandemic. we haven't seen, you know, what inbound ma -- maybe what we've seen out of australia or europe, for instance, and i think that's because they see china's economic recovery as the potential engine for their own way out economically from, you know, the real stressful situation they're seeing economically in their own country. and here, i think, one thing i'm concerned about is how the sequencing of economic recovery could have some potentially long lasting effects. so as china comes out of the gate first. the region is looking obviously at this moment much more to them than to the united states. the vaccine diplomacy is going to be very interesting because they've also been much more assertive on that front. and yet, at least the news i

a saudi arabia of the philippines australia jim, a job and more ron hobby is ceo of worldwide health staff solutions which brings in professionals from around the world. >>hospital requests have doubled, they're really not facing a recruiting problem. they're facing the supply and demand problem and it's those nurses that add to the supply as opposed to employers just constantly reshuffling the deck of available workers between themselves the domestic pool of about 25,000 travel nurses is pretty much tapped out we would love to feel the pull people from all over the country. >>right now the entire country is struggling so we don't have the luxury of being able to pull from from that we normally do the high demand and short supply is especially evident in california were some alternate care facilities have opened, but the state is still seeking about 3,000 professionals to work in them and elsewhere and just yesterday governor newsome said request for federal help remain unfulfilled the biggest issue remains and i'll just remind everybody this its staffing bringing in international st

for four years, he worked with macarthur, who was commander in chief of the philippine army, to help the commonwealth government work out a plan for its military defense. ordered back to the states in december 1939, lieutenant colonel eisenhower went to ft. lewis, washington, as executive officer of the 15th infantry regiment. in the dark spring of 1940, german armored divisions were crashing through holland and belgium. the lufthansa were streaking destruction through the european skies. beleaguered britain was standing alone. the united states had passed the selective service act to prepare for what inevitably lay ahead. and the biggest challenge in colonel eisenhower's life was to aid in that preparation. late in 1940, he was made chief of staff of the third division, where his staff work brought him assignment as chief of staff of the ninth corps. in the summer of 1941, colonel eisenhower became chief of staff to general walter krueger, whose newly organized third army was preparing to participate in the most realistic war maneuvers yet held by american troops. in these maneuvers

back home in the philippines basketball or baseball or a sport typically captures the imagination of sports fans the s.c.c. divas are working on changing that they're a breath of fresh air in hong kong's cricket scene which is retreat in its british colonial past and now on the run of luck to be yours the girls have done so much good no getting better than they did a learning lot of cricket in skills and on day 2 he's discussing how to play cricket more and better. not that this group need much teaching now they've won their league twice and they're on the bench unsafe august season maybe even provided most of the prayers for a newly created philippines national team. still being the girls are you know really into the stuff that we focus on lying to set certain sports. and be deprived of guidance and close to you know support from people all as assistant into all this. having all the while they continue to rack up the runs scoring for success a welcome break from into a job. that's it for today there's always more on for slash asia and we're on facebook and twitter as well we leave y

the philippine government says it will have to rely on $1000000000.00 loans and private donations to get enough faxing doses jimmy the island organ reports from the capital manila. general so the door is a covert 19 survivor he spent 2 weeks in hospital in a critical condition and he says he spent his life savings a few 100 dollars on medicines he's now without a job and despite reports a vaccine against coronavirus will be available early next year he's not confident his family will get access to them. you know i didn't even get any cash this entire time so i don't even think about since something like that either i just worry about the children that's all i care about this so the doors live in one of the poorest communities in manila the center of the pandemic in the philippines there are some people here however who don't share cheer will specimens him and are hopeful the vaccines will signal a return to normality. our residents belong to the poorest sector of society we the global mentor girls are looking forward to the suboxone hoping will be made a priority the government aims