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U.N. and Red Cross Evacuated 100 Civilians from Mariupol; Russian Media Release Confusing News; Workers Celebrates Labor Day; Ramadan Ends Peacefully at Al-Aqsa Mosque; PM Narendra Modi Met with German Chancellor Scholz; Shanghai Ease Down Lockdowns; Mask Outdoors Now Lifted in South Korea; Speaker Pelosi Met with Polish President; Experts Warn of New COVID Surge. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired May 02, 2022 - 03:00   ET

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ISA SOARES, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the United States, and all around the world. I'm Isa Soares coming to you live in Ukraine.

Civilians in Mariupol cautiously waiting to see whether evacuations continue without conflict when a U.N. supported convoy attempts to leave the city later today.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Rosemary Church in Atlanta, following our other top stories including clashes between Israelis and Palestinians after another week of deadly violence. We will take you live to Jerusalem.

SOARES: Welcome to the show, everyone. It's 10 a.m. here in Lviv. We will begin in Ukraine where there is hope that evacuations from the besieged city of Mariupol could resume soon. Now according to local officials, a convoy overseeing by the U.N. and the Red Cross will leave the area in the morning.

On Sunday, Ukraine's president said more than 100 people were evacuated from the city's Azovstal steel plant. But it is believed hundreds more are still trapped inside the sprawling industrial complex. Many have been stranded there for weeks now, and the Russian attacks that have to be completely honest, decimated the city. Food and water supplies have been running dangerously low.

But despite those dire conditions, evacuations had to be paused on Sunday night and Ukrainian soldiers shelling resumed against the plant once again.

Well, for so many in Mariupol, the chance to escape came too far too late. The city's mayor says more than 20,000 residents have been killed since the war began. It is a staggering number, but for those burying the dead are seemingly endless as well as heartbreaking task.

Our Sara Sidner has this report. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SARA SIDNER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: No tears, no remembrances, no final goodbyes, just dust to dust. The burial is over.

UNKNOWN (through translator): We bury 50 people, Donnie (Ph) says, today we've done two lots of 18 bodies and then another 10, 6 in total.

SIDNER: Gravediggers like Donnie (Ph) can barely keep up the pace at the stary Krim cemetery in the outskirts of Mariupol. Once marked with only a number the sign the bodies have yet to be identified by families.

UNKNOWN (through translator): People come to find their loved ones and bring crosses and the board, he says.

SIDNER: CNN is not present in the Russian occupied Donbas but footage we obtained and satellite images show dozens of fresh graves, local authorities say about 600 and total and this is not an isolated case. Images show graves have been dug in mass at two other burial grounds, this is one of them, Manhush.

UNKNOWN: They have been bringing bodies every day for a month, Anna (Ph) says, they just keep bringing more and more bit by bit.

SIDNER: Here too footage shows rows of freshly dug graves and indications bodies have been buried before being identified.

UNKNOWN: Each body is given its own grave and a coffin and a board with a number.

SIDNER: A separatist soldier who did not want to be identified says --

UNKNOWN: After their process, the city funeral service works with the prosecutor's office to organize their burial.

SIDNER: CNN could not independently verify the claims but local authorities say the majority of those buried here and in Stary Krim were killed during Russia's assault on Mariupol. Moscow has now seized control of most of the strategic port city but some Ukrainian forces continue to hold ground at the Azovstal steel plant. So far, the Kremlin has not reported an official death toll but Ukrainian officials say it's in the thousands.

UNKNOWN: By our optimistic estimation more than 20,000 people, women, kids, elderly died on the streets of our city, the mayor of Mariupol says.

SIDNER: Because the death toll is bound to rise, at Manhush the work continues, about 100 freshly dug graves ready for the dead. As war rages, Ukrainians aren't just being buried by strangers, but also buried by them.

Sara Sidner, CNN, Kyiv. (END VIDEOTAPE)

SOARES: And of course, we'll stay on top of the evacuations from Mariupol. We know we heard from Ukrainian officials there will be, the hundreds of people that are being evacuated will be going to Zaporizhzhia. Soon as we get any more information once that evacuation of course starts today, we shall bring it to you.

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In the meantime, Ukraine's military released a statement just a short time ago, it says Russian forces are pressing forward in eastern Ukraine, and likely gearing up for an attack on Sloviansk, an important town in the Donetsk region. We have already seen heavy shelling in the east from Kharkiv in the north to Donetsk and Luhansk in the south.

Drone video shows one village near the front lines coming under fire. On Sunday, officials in Donetsk, as well as Kharkiv region said at least seven people were killed by Russian strikes.

And Russia's defense ministry releasing this video, they say it shows a high precision missile, the same kind of weapon Russia says it used to destroy a hangar full of U.S. as well as European weapons at a military airfield near Odessa. Ukraine says Saturday that Russian missiles knocked down out a runway at Odessa's airport, but it's unclear if Russia is referring to the same attack.

Joining me now from Odessa is Hanna Shelest. She is the director of security programs at the Foreign Policy Council Ukrainian Prism. And she joins me now.

Good morning to you, Hanna. Thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us.

Let me start right there in Odessa because I believe that's where you are, we saw that attack on the runway just a few days ago. Give us a sense of what you have been seeing and hearing on the ground.

HANNA SHELEST, DIRECTOR OF SECURITY PROGRAMS, FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL UKRAINIAN PRISM: Good morning. Thank you for the invitation. Those stories just that Russia claimed, that's been not this latest attack but the last Saturday when they charged the civilian residential building and eight people being killed with 18 additional wounded. And that's been the biggest strike against the civilian infrastructure in Odessa.

As for now, the situation is that after Moscow ship are being sunk by Ukrainian missile we have more or less a safe situation comparing to the east, but at the same time, it is daily air raids. We are now in the long curfew that started yesterday evening and will finish only tomorrow morning.

And it is the constant reconnaissance drones that are captured by the air defense, so it sounds like Russians are trying to look what is either the best way to target the city, or they are looking for so- called --

SOARES: Yes.

SHELEST: -- storage of the weapons that they claim are somewhere around the town.

SOARES: So given everything you just laid out for us, do you think this attack that we have seen in Odessa was perhaps a prelude to a wider assault on Odessa, Hanna?

SHELEST: No, the very first attack two months ago being also just near the airport so that's the time they just didn't aimed at, they're just in storage facilities around it. The issue is that today is the 2nd of May, why a tragic date for the history of the city. In 2014, we had a tragedy here that Russians are using a lot of their propaganda.

So definitely, we expect the certain difficulties, certain attacks to bring this additional fear to the city, both today on the 2nd of May and all days till the 9th of May, because you understand that this day is very emotional and important for the Russian Federation as well.

Plus, they started threatening Moldova. And from Odessa to Transnistria, the separatist region of Moldova is just 50 kilometers. So, you need to understand this in a whole. City to be stricken.

SOARES: Yes.

SHELEST: Moldova to be stricken but also to take forces not to be allowed to move to Mykolaiv.

SOARES: But in terms of Odessa, can we just stick to Odessa, are you seeing security being ramped up in Odessa given what you have just outlined?

SHELEST: More or less. We knew that our security services are working --

SOARES: Yes.

SHELEST: -- quite intense because we had a lot of saboteurs on the eve of these anniversaries. So that's why these types of activities intensive fight we have several serious groups being captured in the last week. We heard a lot about the drone reconnaissance, but that is not that dangerous for the people, but definitely like each week you have one or two airstrikes, or the missile strikes as far as from the Caspian Sea with the destruction of the civilian infrastructure.

So, I would say that it is more of the saboteur intensity that threatens us now, rather than open attack against the city.

SOARES: Let me ask you something that I have seen out here in Lviv, which is relatively safe of course. We have seen long lines of people queuing really for petrol. Is this something that you have seen in Odessa? We know that the Russians are being hitting supply lines and that obviously has a huge impact on the logistic effort of bringing what is needed to the frontlines. What have you seen? How much of a problem is this, Hanna?

SHELEST: Yes, petrol is definitely a problem within the last week. It's quite a problematic to get it now, however we heard from the local authorities that they already have negotiations with Romania and that is the closest way to us to bring additional supplies. So probably this week the situation should improve. At least there are hopes from the local authorities and they are working in this direction.

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In terms of other supplies, I would say that there are no problems with the supermarkets, or with the open markets as for now. Definitely some shortages exist of what's being imported, but it is nothing that we can say that we are really need here in the city. Even more, we are trying to help the neighboring regions like Mykolaiv.

SOARES: Hanna Shelest, I appreciate you taking the time to speak to us. Stay safe, Hanna. Thank you.

Now at least two new explosions have rocked the Russian region near the Ukrainian border. The governor of Belgorod is confirming the blast, saying there are no casualties. The explosions come after the same governor reported they fired a military site on Sunday. Video from social media shows thick smoke rising into the sky as well as a burst of flame.

And police were seen redirecting traffic away from the area. Russian officials have accused Ukraine of cross-border attacks. But some Ukrainian officials say that is meant to strike anti-Ukrainian sentiment. Still, an aide to President Zelenskyy said after explosions last week that karma is a cruel thing.

And straight ahead right here on CNN, a weekend of violence in the Middle East mark the end of Ramadan. We will get the lates in a live report from Jerusalem next.

May Day brings people together in cities across the globe to celebrate workers right. That story and much more after a very short break. You are watching CNN.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Well, about 200,000 worshippers gathered to mark Eid at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem just a short time ago. Officials say the event went peacefully despite tensions at the side and in the region during Ramadan. Over the weekend, violence left at least one Israeli and one Palestinian dead.

CNN's Hadas Gold joins us now live from Jerusalem. So, Hadas, the situation is calmer now, but what more are you learning about this recent violence?

HADAS GOLD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, calm right now. We're seeing incredible images of those 200,000 people at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound praying, celebrating the end of Ramadan. The Eid festival. But it caps off what was a violent weekend across last night. You can see there those images of the people at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound praying.

So, as I said, peaceful today, but it was a violent weekend. It began Friday overnight when an Israeli security guard, who was guarding the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ariel, this is one of largest Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, he was shot dead when two Palestinian gunmen approached the guard tower where he was working and shot him.

He was -- there is another guard there who's actually his fiance, and Israeli media said that he protected his fiance with his life. Israeli forces later arrested two Palestinian suspects in the West Bank. They said were responsible for the attack. And the Palestinian militant group the Al-Aqsa martyrs brigade has taken responsibility for the attack.

Also, overnight between Friday and Saturday, a Palestinian man was shot in the West Bank in an unrelated incident in the town of Azzun. Now from what we understand, after the attack in Ariel, the Israeli military has set up road blockages as part of this manhunt to find the gunmen.

And that might have contributed to clashes that the Israeli military said broke out. They said that violent rioters threw Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers and they responded with live fire. Then at that man's funeral, further clashes broke out. The idea they said they once again responded to rioters, and that the Palestinian Red Crescent said that three were injured with live fire.

This weekend, of course, comes after a deadly and violent past couple of months. There have been attacks in Israel that killed 14, 14 people. The Israeli military has increased their raids in the West Bank that have killed at least 20 Palestinian and, of course, there have been clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for some time.

Now it's been calm today, but the Israeli -- Israeli officials tell me that they are prepared potentially for more tensions and more violence because this Thursday the Israelis mark Israeli Independence Day and next week will mark the one-year anniversary of the 11-year war between Hamas and the militants in Gaza and the Israeli army. Rosemary?

CHURCH: Hadas Gold, many thanks bringing us up to date on that the situation.

Well, the 1st of May brought May Day marches to the streets of cities around the world Sunday to celebrate workers rights. A drum corps provided a snappy rhythm for demonstrators in Mexico City. Authorities say some 20,000 people marched in Paris to Mark the day, also known as International Workers Day. Most participants were peaceful but there was some violence. Police say 45 people were arrested.

And in Honduras, protesters burned an effigy of former President Juan Orlando Hernandez recently extradited to the United States.

Cubans marked May Day with scores packing Havana's Revolution square for the annual march.

CNN correspondent Patrick Oppmann is there in Havana. And this is his report.

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PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Following a two-year suspension due to the pandemic, government supporters once again took to the streets in Cuba to commemorate May Day. This is one of the largest gatherings of pro-government supporters throughout the year in Cuba, as it's called a Workers Day. Here's an opportunity for the government to whip up support in Havana, bring in thousands of people, hundreds of thousands according to the government's own numbers to march through Havana's Revolution Square.

Once again, while their leaders looked down on them, show their support for the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban government. Cuba is still being battered by the effects of the pandemic and what it has done to their tourism economy here. And as well, by the impacts of increased sanctions started by President Trump that have been continued under the Biden administration.

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Some critics say that Cuba should not carry out these mass celebrations due to the pandemic. The risk still presented by the pandemic, as well as the high cost in transportation and gasoline of busing in so many people to the Cuban capital.

But clearly, the Cuban government that has been stunned by criticism, that has been on the defensive following unprecedented protests last July, felt that it was more important to make this show of strength and the show of support.

Patrick Oppmann, CNN, Havana.

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CHURCH: Our coverage of Russia's war on Ukraine resumes after a short break. India's prime minister is set to meet with another leader facing pressure to ramp up support for Ukraine. We will look at Narendra Modi's visit to Berlin just ahead.

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SOARES: Welcome back to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I'm Isa Soares coming to you live from Lviv in Ukraine.

Mariupol's city council says an evacuation convoy supported by the U.N. and the Red Cross will attempt to leave the besieged city today. Civilian evacuations have been forced Sunday for security reasons. Still, Ukraine's president says more than 100 people including women and children were able to leave the Azovstal steel plant after a period of calm allowed the operation to move forward. By Sunday night, shelling had resumed at the plant where it's estimated hundreds of civilians are still trapped.

Meantime, the Ukrainian military now says Russian forces are pressing their offensive towards Sloviansk. That's the key town in the Donetsk region. You can see there in your map. Heavy shelling of Ukrainian defenses is being reported.

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And Russia's defense ministry releasing this video. They say it shows a high-precision missile, the same kind of weapon Russia says it used to destroy a hangar full of U.S. as well as European weapons at a military airfield near Odessa. Ukraine said Saturday that Russian missiles knocked out a runway at Odessa's airport. But it's unclear if Russia is indeed referring to the same attack.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. And there's one thing they have a common, they're both facing pressure to ramp up support for Ukraine.

For more on all of this let's bring in CNN's Vedika Sud from New Delhi. And Vedika, what can we expect from this meeting? How much will Russia's invasion of Ukraine be front and center here?

VEDIKA SUD, CNN PRODUCER: I think it will be front and center, Isa, to be honest because that's what they are going to be talking about along with other issues like bilateral talks and trade. But Ukraine will be the focus of talks, especially like you mentioned, two countries that have been coming under immense pressure from the U.S. and from the European Union in the past to go ahead and make some comments and take a stand and take some action in favor of Ukraine against Russia.

But remember, India and Russia share very historic ties in all the ties. And India depends massively on Russia for military equipment. More than 50 percent of India's military equipment is imported from Russia, according to statistics. And that is one reason why India is not keen to take a stand in the Russia/Ukraine war currently.

Germany, as we know has announced the delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine but that's under pressure from NATO and the European Union. India has face similar pressure from the west. You've also had Joe Biden come out and talk about and acknowledge the historic ties than India and Russian share. There were talks of sanctions at one point. But of course, that is not going to happen anytime soon.

India has made it very clear that they want a cessation of violence in the region. They want talks and diplomacy to go ahead between Ukraine and Russia. Now the U.N. and India has not directly condemned Russia's actions in Ukraine. So today, there will be intergovernmental consultations between the heads of state. Modi will be there with his team and so with the German chancellor. There will be trade talks. There will be talks on energy. But what will be the focus is Ukraine. Both these nations, as you mentioned at the top, have been trying to

withstand pressure. For now, India has maintained its stand of non- alignment, but we have to see how that goes off in the talks today. Isa?

SOARES: And like you -- and like you've hinted that, Vedika, much of India's reticence in not criticizing Putin and the Russian aggression in Ukraine is these trade links and these economic links. Talk to us a bit more how they are tied they are economically here.

SUD: Well, absolutely, its historic ties, its old ties, its economic ties. Russia has been an all-weather ally for India in many ways. In fact, in the past, Isa, when even America has been hesitant to take a stand and support India, it's been Russia that's come to India's rescue in the last few decades. And that's something that India has always acknowledged.

Now, India imports around 2 to 3 percent of its oil imports from Russia, which is quite insignificant when compared to European nations while it has defense equipment coming in to between 50 percent and more. So, India has been very clear on its stand as of now. You also have the foreign minister come out in the past and say that European countries have been importing a whole lot more oil from Russia than India has so there should not be that much pressure for India to go ahead and take a stand against Russia at this point. This has been acknowledged by the Russian government in the past. And I think the status quo is here to remain for a while, Isa?

SOARES: Yes. And like what we've seen in the U.S. and in Europe with those sanctions, we haven't seen any sanctions from the Indian side. Vedika Sud in New Delhi, I know you'll keep us posted on that meeting. I appreciate it, Vedika.

Well, the refugee crisis from this war is worsening by the day. The U.N. says almost five and a half million people have now fled Ukraine since the invasion began in late February. More than half of them are children. That is according to UNICEF. The vast majority of refugees continue to head west with more than three million crossing into Poland alone.

Well, it was a touch and go really for a couple of wild lions who were trapped in a zoo in Ukraine for six weeks while fighting raged all around them. But thanks to the manager of the Odessa Zoo and his deputy, these two 6-year-old lions were saved. They are beautiful. The man drove nearly 18 hours, avoiding precarious front lines of course to pick up the big cats from the Kharkiv Eco park and then transport them to Odessa. The lions are named after Lion King characters, Mufasa and Nala. And now they are getting settled in their new home.

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Now powerful moments at New York's Metropolitan Opera over the weekend, have a look.

And that is Ukrainian soprano, Liudmyla Monastyrska who performed in the title role of Turandot then took her curtain call draped, as you can see in the Ukrainian flag. She replaced fame Russian star Anna Netrebko, who was cut from the performance after she refused to publicly distance herself from Vladimir Putin after Russia invaded Ukraine.

And just ahead right here on the show, we'll bring you the latest COVID numbers from China as the country races to control its current COVID-19 outbreak. So, stay right here. You are watching CNN.

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back, everyone. The daily number of COVID deaths and new local cases in Shanghai declined slightly for a third consecutive day. According to the latest government numbers, Shanghai reported 32 deaths and more than 7,300 new local cases Sunday.

Meanwhile, the Chinese capital city of Beijing reported 41 new cases Sunday. Nationwide, there were more than 7,700 new cases reported according to the national health commission.

And CNN's Anna Coren joins me now live from Hong Kong with more on all of this. Always great to see you, Anna. So Shanghai is reporting a dip in COVID infections and deaths, and of course, this means some districts will ease restrictions. How many people will be affected by this and what will they be able to do after a very tough lockdown?

ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's been an excruciating lockdown, Rosemary, more than a month the people of Shanghai, 25 million of them, the economic engine of China has been in lockdown.

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But the local government has announced that six districts, that's about seven million of the 25 million people will have restrictions eased. Now we've spoken to people in these districts, and they are yet to be released from their apartment buildings, but once they are allowed out, they will be allowed to travel around their districts and their neighborhoods. But that's about it.

Certainly, that will be welcome news when it finally happens, but for the rest of people in Shanghai, you know, they do not see an end in sight. Because as we say, this has been going on now since the end of March, the official lockdown.

There were some people who were in lockdown their communities weeks beforehand. And I spoke to one lady who has been lockdown, Rosemary, for now six, seven weeks. And she said she is feeling depressed. I mean, there is no other way to explain what she is going through. She said she stopped watching news feeds, she stopped watching social media feeds, she stopped counting the days because she simply cannot deal with the reality.

Her small joys, now daily joys are receiving food, whether it be from restaurants that have reopened in her neighborhoods or convenience stores that can do deliveries. But she said that's where her focus is now because of what she has endured. Feeling like this caged animal. You know, juxtapose that to what is going on in Beijing, the country's

capital of 22 million people, as soon as the outbreak occurred in Beijing, they very quickly introduced, you know, lockdowns of residential compounds, these rounds of mass testing and now the local government has said that in- restaurant dining will be suspended, schools have been closed, amusement parks like theme parks like Universal Studios, also close as of Thursday.

Rosemary, people who travel on public transport, or want to go to public venues, they will have to produce a negative COVID test. So really, Beijing is doing everything and its power to ensure that this COVID situation doesn't spiral out of control the way that it has in shanghai to avoid, you know, a citywide lockdown, Rosemary.

CHURCH: All right, Anna Coren, joining us live from Hong Kong. Many thanks.

South Korea will mostly lift its outdoor mask mandate starting today, but it will stay in place for rallies, concerts, and sporting events with more than 50 people. Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum made the announcement Friday saying the government could no longer ignore the inconveniences to its citizens. But the country's newly elected president, Yoon Suk-yeol opposes the move, saying it's premature.

South Korea's daily case count though is well below its peak from mid- March.

All right, we want to take you now to Warsaw. And this was the scene just moments ago. Polish President Andrzej Duda is meeting with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Now this follows her unannounced visit of course Saturday with a Democratic congressional delegation to Kyiv. And that made Pelosi the highest-ranking U.S. official to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Russia's invasion more than two months ago.

And during that stop, we heard her tell Mr. Zelenskyy Ukraine's fight is a fight for everyone. She also reiterated the U.S. commitment saying until the fight is done.

And back in Washington the U.S. House has passed legislation that would allow the White House to swiftly supply weapons to Ukraine on loan. The Biden administration is also asking Congress for $33 billion to aid Ukraine over the next several months.

Now there is strong bipartisan support for Ukraine on Capitol Hill now. But Republicans at Democrats warn there are many issues that need to be sorted out over the request, and it could be weeks before we see a vote in both chambers.

Speaker Pelosi will likely face questions on that as she meets with the Polish president. So, there we are, taking those pictures of that visit of course and we'll continue to bring you more on that story.

All right, I want to return now though to the coronavirus pandemic. And New Zealand is also relaxing some of its COVID restrictions, the country updated its travel policies on Sunday opening borders for travelers from about 60 countries. Now vaccinated visitors from visa waiver countries and visitors from other countries who already hold a valid visitor visa can enter New Zealand. And they will still need to self-test upon arrival there.

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Well, the U.S. should be preparing for one health expert calls a now predictable summer surge of COVID-19 cases across the southern states. Former White House coronavirus response task force coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx says health officials need to make it clear to the public that protection against the COVID virus wanes overtime, and precautions should be taken with vulnerable or compromised people.

Birx says that she is closely following that out of South Africa which is currently indicating an upward trend in cases. Take a listen.

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DEBORAH BIRX, FORMER COORDINATOR, WHITE HOUSE CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE: Each of these surges are about four to six months apart, that tells me that natural immunity wanes enough in the general population after four to six months. That is a significant surge is going to occur again. And this is what we have to be prepared for in this country. We should be preparing right now for a potential surge in the summer across the southern United States because we saw in 2020 and we saw it in 2021.

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CHURCH: And thanks so much for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. For our international viewers African Voice Changemakers is next, and for our viewers here in the United States and Canada I'll be right back with more news after the break.

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