Hello I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS conversations on

coronavirus refusing the vaccine.

We hear from doctors in Namibia, Russia and Bangladesh struggling to deal with

new waves of infections and vaccine hesitancy at the same time and the apology from

a British man to the doctor who saved his life after he

declined a vaccine, caught the virus and almost died from COVID.

It's our own fault not to take the vaccine actually in the first place.

A lot of your colleagues unfortunately have lost their lives, trying to save our lives.

The situation with coronavirus around the world right now is mixed. It's difficult to track what's happening everywhere, but with the best information we have, the global view is that the availability of vaccines

has led to a fall in daily COVID-19 deaths.

This positive picture tends to be in places such as Europe in the United States where there are larger numbers of immunized people.

But many parts of South America, Asia and Africa remain a particular concern.

A little later on, I'll bring you a conversation with two men in Indonesia sharing

contrasting tales of trying to save their relatives via social media. There are caveats with

global COVID-19 data, but we were told this week that the death toll around the world from the virus now exceeds 4 million.

Having recorded this figure, the head of the World Health Organization,

said it's being fueled by dangerous versions of the virus

and inequalities in the distribution of vaccines.

Add to that, people are also refusing to take the vaccine because of skepticism and fear.

We're going to hear from three doctors in countries that are currently facing a second or third wave of infections, Zambia, Russia and Bangladesh.

Dr. Numa Mbewe is an infectious disease fellow who works at a hospital for

COVID patients in Lusaka. Dr. Yuri Sorovoy is an intensive care physician in Moscow and

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