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carpenters and caterers high and dry. and invisible and let's do business the last time this happened was the 2nd world war but instead of producing weapons car makers electronics textile factories are switching their production lines for the common good french luxury group which earns you a real toll and christiane to your is ditching perf you for hand sanitizers italian textiles firm mean old leo is supplying the state without a face masks smaller companies in italy are following its lead and us all the manufacturers are looking at making medical equipment like ventilators which are also in short supply but retooling production lines is complex and costly for well there's hope with all the stimulus announced european equities pushed higher friday u.s. stocks fell with new york the latest state already people to stay home but firstly the british government is taking extraordinary measures it's promising to pay 80

percent of wages in the private sector it's to discourage bosses from firing staff over lost business from the virus finance minister says they'll be no cap on the size of the plan which the government will fund by selling more debt is also allowing companies to hold on to billions of pounds in value added tax over the next few months. let's look at how the virus is making business headlines elsewhere in the world. can no longer pay its bills the german restaurant chain has been forced to close almost all of its low. patients due to the corona virus the proceedings are expected in the next few weeks the company is hoping for government 8. luxury carmaker bentley will hope production in the u.k. for 4 weeks the decision was made to keep employees dave there also fears about shortages of parts of the british luxury brand is owned by fox barton which is reducing output across europe. the world economic forum is launching

a coded action platform the 1st of its kind drawing on its network of business leaders it aims to galvanize the global business community for collective action the group is open to all businesses and governments who want to offer their help. study as a he is managing director of the world economic forum thanks for joining us central banks and governments are throwing trillions in stimulus and aid at this pandemic and even in global equities local horrible how can your platform common best is. so what we're trying to do is one be a source of sort of the best synthesized information from various experts and 2nd try to mobilize business and the service off helping solve the sort of health economic and social challenges that are emerging i mean let's be clear the health impact is what comes 1st but we need to start preparing for managing and

mitigating a lot of the social economic fallout that is to come you know you are absolutely right about that loss of confidence we asked a group of chief economist from across the banking sector the insurance sector and the consumer sector about their views on what the recession and recovery may look like and while a good 30 percent thought that this would be as auto v. shape but as staggered the shape across multiple economies and there for you shape globally there was a good 30 percent that were completely uncertain and a good 5 to 10 percent that actually were thinking this is going to be an l. shape this is going to take a very long time and the reason for that loss of confidence is essentially because there isn't a belief that there is quarter nation between fiscal and monetary policy despite the very large sums that are being talked about that there isn't that coordination at the international level between various governments of the nature that we saw in

2008 and that there isn't really clarity on what are the pathways with which we are going to deliver cash in 2 different households yes the kitchen sink approach but then how do we actually get it into the right hands and then finally there is a belief that employers are particularly prepared right now you know we surveyed our employers and less than 10 percent had ever thought about pandemics as part of their current rest scenarios and less than 50 percent had ever experimented with even part of their. teams working remotely that's of course just the white collar workforce so there is this overall sense of uncertainty and anxiety that you're of course seen across the board so he is a part from the loss of confidence there's also a lack of cooperation what makes you think countries and companies are going to start working together when everyone's withdrawing right now people are going local big bads on exports of mosques for example. as the europe has europe or the us even

tried to learn from china is handling of the outbreak because i don't think they have you know a lot of what we're trying to do as sort of there is of course a call for push for working closely with various international organizations use the forum sort of platform to push for a lot more of that collaboration but the 2nd thing that needs to happen is in addition to the current sort of emergency there's 2 things that need to happen one business needs to be mobilized a whole lot more to actually help deliver some of these solutions that's a large part of what we're trying to do at the world economic forum particularly when it comes to those health related supplies and the 2nd element is we need to start preparing now for understanding what is going to be the impact of these fiscal policy measures that are being put in place in very different ways in different parts of the world what might be the distortionary effects of that what can be done in terms of corrective measures and very quickly crowd sourced from the

best experts you know what is the best approach is this about transfers directly to households is this about small and medium sized businesses is this about bailouts of specific industries or some combination of the above and what is that optimal combination i think we have to at this moment in time rely on expertise rely on information and then take that information very very public very quickly and quick and to do private businesses on that bailout topic deserve public funds like like boeing for example. you know i think there's a lot of debate on this right now there's quite a bit even before this crisis unfolded there was a lot of views from experts and academics that the situation has gotten to a point where we do need to start thinking about having some sense of better distribution of risks and returns in between the public the public sector and the private sector so i think you're going to start seeing much more of that debate

play out as any of these measures go ahead of course different economies have different sort of almost cultural views when it comes to this and i think that's going to be a huge part of the factors that are taken into account as well so audios managing director of the world economic forum thank you very much thank you as public life in germany slows one sec to really hurting is a vents in addition to the concerts and conferences that have been cancelled trade fairs a struggling. for the time being there's still some work for d. for a project building modules for the interior fittings for a museum normally this workshop is a hive of activity $26.00 carpenters and painters usually turn out stands for trade fairs in germany and abroad but those fares have been cancelled or put on hold for now. and those parts worth the i t b they came straight back on opened. over there you've got singapore i was also

canceled. the whole stand for singapore all scrapped the cancellation of the i.t.v. international tourism fair and other exhibitions means that d. for project is only making 15 percent of the sales it made at the same time last year that's only enough work for 4 or 5 employees 2 weeks from now there's nothing on the schedule what happens then. i've no idea at the moment we've applied for short work subsidies we've been authorized to cut back on working hours starting today and we will we started today but we began in the back office and will have to extend it to all areas beginning in april we're hoping that by then the state will be helping us out in a big way. exhibition and event cater a veto is also feeling the crisis where normally there would be piles of small snacks and tidbits now all empty a veto founder alexander shot has put most of his staff on home office for the time

being the few remaining are working on new concepts for the current landscape. of the casella kites we haven't had a lot of socializing lately that means we've all vesely had a few olders trade fat as conferences meetings being cancelled people are working from home or go from home office the caterer is now trying to concentrate on critical employees who cannot work from home and put together lunch boxes for them. in berlin future events are. still in jeopardy officials want to build a hospital that would treat up to $1000.00 khurana infected patients on what is now an exhibition ground that's bad news for the event industry and room for if there's going to be a hospital it'll just expand yes now won't be enough room for future trade finance for me that's going to be a massive limitation and so far industry association estimates show that event sector companies have lost 2000000000 heroes due to coronavirus related

cancellations but that number could still rise significantly. french bookseller's a calling for restrictions to be lifted to allow them to open for at least a couple of hours every day they say if online retailers are allowed to keep selling their wares search of a neighboring germany has granted bookstores exceptions france's economy minister poor old man has pledged to look at the issue saying shops are an essential business. and one sector in which jobs are growing a supermarkets some of the big retailers are rapid sizing for tens of thousands of temp stuff to deal with the panic buying will need lots of people to stop their shelves with toilet paper nice to business with it.

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and audio. anytime anywhere. w. media sector. the global corona crisis you can find more information online at e.w. dot com and on t.w. social media channels. hello and welcome to in good shape in today we've got a special edition broadcast to you from my family practice what we're seeing right now is the dark side of globalization every day almost 130000

flights bring more than 11000000 people from one place in the world to another that makes it really easy for a virus to spread it around. you may not want to hear the word anymore or maybe you or someone in your family is unfortunately affected or you live in a region where there are many cases and it creates a lot of fear and many questions but as fast as the virus spreads myths created today we will focus on some of those myths but let's 1st take a look at how this corona virus managed to put the world into panic. people with an unknown illness start to appear at central hospital in early december 2900 late in the month when the young doctor there posts on social media

that patients in the hospital are showing symptoms of viral pneumonia. chinese health authorities admit they're investigating an outbreak among the 1st patients many have direct ties to the hunan seafood market where wild life is also sold by january 1st it shut down. 2020 dawns chinese health authorities announced they've identified the culprit a novel coronavirus a 61 year old becomes the outbreak 1st official casualty. the number of people affected starts to rise and before long thailand confirms the 1st case outside china's borders then japan reports another unsettlingly neither had visited the markets so person to person transmission looks increasingly likely. and inside china the virus spreads to other cities people begin wearing masks over 200 cases are confirmed experts predict many more.

medical workers and han themselves grow sick after treating patients taiwan and the us report cases followed by a number of other countries including germany the chinese government takes a drastic step suspending all traffic out of as well as public transport in the city. researchers report the corona virus has an incubation period and that carrier is not yet showing symptoms might be contagious just as the lunar new year starts and millions of people begin moving around the country at this point there are nearly 2000 confirmed cases worldwide 50 have died. the w.h.o. declares the outbreak a global health emergency kicking in a more coordinated international response.

as february begins mohan remains in lockdown cases are confirmed in every province in china. the when the doctor and whistleblower falls victim to the novel coronavirus one of many. by late february the virus is spreading rapidly outside china south korea iran and is really our most affected at 1st but soon the corona virus is detected in more and more countries. in china the number of new cases per day begins to decline slowly things in the country return to normality for how long it's unclear. the disease that is caused by the new virus is called covert 19 covert 19 kovac 19 is often compared to the annual flu but there are several moves circulating in this context. it's more likely to get the flu that covert 19. this is not necessarily true to figure that

out scientists take the basic reproduction of a virus basic reproduction number this number indicates how easily virus spreads the flu also called in france or has a basic reproduction number of 1.3 meaning that one person with the flu infects. 1.3 other persons with covert 19 this number is higher it's 2.2 so it's important to keep in mind to interrupt the chains of infection wherever possible myth to the coronavirus is not as lethal as the flu in reality the corona virus seems to be more lethal than the flu however there's still a great uncertainty about the mortality rate of the virus in the u.s. one in a 1000 flu patients dies on average in comparison recent data suggest that covert

19 has a 20 fold high mortality rate that's over 20 deaths per $1000.00 affected but scientists are still and able to accurately quantify the risk of death the most important difference you can get a flu shot and there's no vaccine against corona yet. an epidemic that's threatening the globe calls for a global response. the new coronavirus 1st emerged in the city of han but the efforts to combat the virus go far beyond china. research is all over the globe are racing to contain it. the children of chinese scientists published the genetic code of the virus in early january enabling scientists around the world to start working on it. at home university pathologists of brain the new

coronavirus and human tissue to find out more about its properties one of the basic . things which people want to know about this farce is the firstly what is the patient especially tragic or in the human body in which the process replicating and the 2nd is what sort of damage is according to the body and then also to see how the body reacts to this virus attempt it. the ultimate goal in the fight against any virus is to find a vaccine multiple teams around the world are already searching for the magic bullet that can be used to immunize people one of them is based in belgium at the university of life and vaccine development takes 1015 years before a new vaccine may come so know the entire scientific community is trying to get faster there to to. help in this emergency. the belgian teams research is partly conducted in

a robotic lab that separates researchers from hazardous pathogens they hope that within a few weeks there will be able to test the 1st vaccine on mice. between mice and using this in humans is still a long long part because you need to do all kinds of tests safety tests and animals and then you need to test it for safety and human volunteers. despite the scientists best efforts a successful vaccine against kovac 19 is not expected to be ready for use on humans until the summer of next year so research is also focusing on how to minimize the risk of the virus spreading. in germany's capital berlin physicist but man and his colleagues have been working on a global risk assessment model analyzing flight data they calculate the risk of the spread of the disease for different countries. and i.

act in an advisory capacity not just in germany but beyond our borders the work on modeling the spread of infectious diseases has become really important. and my experience is that in this area of research all the teams around the world are very tightly knit we exchange all our data and information it wasn't like that during the a bull a crisis or the h one n one pandemic this is really new and noised. the fight against the new coronavirus is a race against time another is that the coronavirus cannot harm children. that's not true and 1st this myth came up because only a few children we have affected new studies from china suggest that young people have about the same risk of infection as older people however the disease is usually much less severe and shoot people who are already weakened by lung or heart disease a particular risk. in most cases the symptoms of

a coronavirus infection are mild you'll have a cold a cough and feel generally under the weather but for people with preexisting conditions the symptoms could be severe they're more likely to contract pneumonia which can be fatal but do you feel asians are most vulnerable to a coronavirus infection or those with long conditions such as c o p d n pomery fibrosis was a smart move i'm most concerned about patients with heart conditions patients with reduced cardiac efficiency. as about millions of diabetics need to take special care to protect themselves against the coronavirus to tell a man has c o p d chronic obstructive pulmonary disease the chronic lung condition means she has difficulty breathing she has to be very careful to avoid infections be it just a normal flu or the new coronavirus. mommy my nigga dung

i am aware of the risk but i'm not worried because i'm doing everything i can to be careful. i disinfect frequently between 2 i wash my hands after i've taken the bath. there's not much more i can do i just hope i don't get it over. unfortunately patients are at greater risk of contracting the virus because their lungs are already damaged a coronavirus infection is potentially more harmful. conic bronchitis is inflammation of the lining of the tubes which carry air to and from the air sacs of the lungs they can therefore narrow and become clogged with me. this makes it difficult to move air in and out of the lungs and they become vulnerable to infection.

and the potential is that if a patient gets an infection like coronavirus the inflammation can worsen the lining of the bronc you'll tube swells the patient has difficulty breathing and infection symptoms increase such as fatigue and a general decline in overall health and as i might to standards. the only way to guard against a coronavirus infection is social distancing. in poll monologist mathias miller's practice patients who call in to get appointments are asked if they could have the virus. if there's any risk that they might they're not allowed to visit the practice. these patients get house calls are examined and samples are taken at their homes. which are 4. don't just specialized in cardiac rehab they're also concerned about their patients no one is shaking hands anymore to avoid spreading the virus it could be fatal to

anyone with a cardiac condition. that's how it's in these cases the heart is already taxed enough simply through supplying the body with the blood and oxygen it needs. in a healthy body the immune system can fight off viruses which cause disease but that's an energy intensive process and in patients with cardiac conditions it can be too much. to how to transfer that the heart rate rises their temperature goes up and that raises the heart rate even further and patients with heart failure lack the strength to fight infections and are more likely to become gravely ill. anyone with poorly controlled diabetes is also more vulnerable to infection they should be especially vigilant. right now anyone with diabetes should be aiming to

control their blood sugar levels as much as they can along with the usual hygiene precautions this is the best way they can protect themselves against the coronavirus. high blood sugar levels alter the white blood cell count and can weaken the patients immune system defenses. it's similar with rheumatism patients who are being treated with immunosuppressive medications such as cortisone these weaken the body's defenses. stopping the virus from spreading is vital for the protection of the elderly and people with underlying conditions. anyone who thinks they may have the corona virus should avoid going to the doctor. instead they should call a hotline and ask about the best course of action. in other words you will know when you've got covert 90. covert 90 causes the

same symptoms as a common cold like a sore throat runny nose coughing or somebody so usually you cannot distinguish between covert 19 and the common cold. the new coronavirus has sparked fears worldwide and stringent protection measures are being put in place in germany a group of researches has long been working on medicines to treat coronavirus diseases we have i don't know if examined a new class of drugs some for stablished but it's very effective against a range of dangerous viruses. dangerous viruses including a boat and. but will it help against the new coronavirus. researches have found a possible active substance against the virus in the naturally occurring molecule sylvestre all it can be extracted from the leaves of a glamorous.