i. visited the news line from india's population of 1300000000 begins a 3 week lockdown to combat the coronavirus the streets of the capital as people stay behind closed doors prime minister nuri warns that without the lockdown the country could be set back $21.00 he's also on the program the u.s. congress agrees a 2 trillion dollar stimulus package to support companies and protect workers during the crisis. the sports world reacts to the postponement of the tokyo olympics to next year close to welcome to decision but it means big problems for

sporting chance. welcome to the program india has become the latest and largest country to introduce a nationwide lockdown in the fight against the coronavirus its population of 1300000000 has been told to stay at home the country is so fascinating about 560 confirmed cases and 11 deaths and there are fears that infections could spread quickly in densely populated urban areas crowds formed at pharmacies and speech shops shortly before the midnight deadline non-essential businesses have been closed most flights and rail services have been stopped and the busy bollywood film industry has ground to a halt indian prime minister nuri interim o.t. said without the 21 day lockdown the country could be set back 21 years. so let's

join t.w. correspondent nimish it jives well daddy welcome the nation of people biting by these new restrictions. well to a large extent yes people have not been coming out on the streets as much as they would have the sunday one untreatable a few was hugely successful with reports of many and it's not quite the same deal in the streets right now because people are not allowed to step out to get essential services within a police checkpoints across the city going to preventing people to not going to change of being caught accessing essential services from stepping out however it is also important to think about the fact that there are many amongst the open pool it was actually trying to get back home not consulate so since the last you shut down off most chains as well as might call them though many are still trying to meet their real back to them because their daily lives on earth and the cannot sustain themselves they're going to florida life in the city anymore and we've been to

point out how exactly these people are managing walking last uncertain distances in that enclosed to get room even though a lot of the through the airport. these people are while eating a lockdown deady has closed its borders nor buses trains all flights can leave yet these migrant workers are determined to get home. any on just a daily wage. and with businesses shut they cannot afford life in the city anymore . with public transport reduced the vote has walked many kilometers with his family putting them at risk of exposure he's scared but he says he has no option on those little die they aren't letting me work that's the problem i have young children they're hungry who do i ask for help we've been struggling for 4 days of although the. delhi government has announced some relief measures for the poor but these

workers don't feel reassured or intel present that i cannot wait to find out if the government will give me money but how am i supposed to eat until then and what if they don't. ovi from the bus stop the city lies deserted those who can't afford to are staying home checkpoints like this one have been established across the city the police is ensuring that only those who are entering essential services are allowed to be out the government has also said that violators off the lockdown can face legal action. grocery stores remain open some are only allowing a limited number of shoppers in this one says mosques on the says city as a sign that ties in your hands before entering. india has been battered lies by these measures but health experts are throwing their weight behind the knock down if india can fight this together for 2 weeks we definitely would have prevented the

from going up and made it all that we need to do is to prevent that from going it leaving because if that happens in india the results will be much worse than what happened in. the indian prime minister has appealed to migrant workers to stay put and avoid infecting their families back home. but for many that risk is far more distant than being trapped of the from home during the slow down. image of the poor always suffer worst in these crises tell us more about how the government is trying to help these migrant workers. well the government has claimed an economic cost for us and the finance minister at head to find out exactly what it would be to best move forward to address the economic crisis that a shock to the satisfactory answers on all this not down just yet to do something unique she and the measures for an ounce in addition the government has offered on

thursday then fine then add my bank account instruction book that's one of them me in particular ends of the deal regional but they're not going to be violent and we would have to read and see how exactly because i'm disappointed in showing that in the midst of conduct i'll be sure it's going to make me out in shock that these d.d. and poorest of what in the country are continuing to get new years i'm joining us not them thanks for that michel just one day when we're lawmakers in the united states have now agreed to a 2 trillion dollar stimulus package after days of wrangling democrats and republicans and arms a deal shortly after midnight in washington among the items agreed i don't could receive direct deposits of up to 1200 dollars 500 dollars for children the government will support small businesses with large the tune of $367000000000.00 and hospitals will receive around $150000000000.00 in aid and also be a half

a trillion in guaranteed subsidized loans to larger businesses a move from b.w. financial reporter tells a delay in frankfurt welcome chelsea so how does this package different from the one that was voted down on monday. well we're still awaiting the full text of the bill that's expected later and the day but one of the big sticking points have been oversight that this $500000000000.00 that's going to be helping big business democrats wanted there to be more oversight of that and it does appear that they have gotten a concession on the democrats of money especially at this $50000000000.00 it's going to go directly to airlines this is going to be overseen by a congressional panel and the inspector general some of the other changes that democrats got through this negotiation process was more money for local and state governments more money for the health care and hospital system and also

a stronger unemployment measures for people who lose their jobs through this crisis so previously there had been 3 months of unemployment insurance now going to 4 and this can also be extended to give you a commie worker says something like a driver in the markets react. well to tax just open up here in frankfurt it's up about 2.5 percent right now wall street futures are also pointing a bit higher it's hard to tell right now if this is going to be the beginning of a longer upswing for markets but there's clearly been a disconnect in the past few days between the really dire numbers we're seeing in terms of the spread of the virus and the economic damage and these big gains in stock markets as people focused on stimulus the stimulus measures are crucial they're going to be huge and it's going to help businesses and workers get through this crisis but i think they're now that governments have sort of played their hand

investors are to go back to focusing on the reality of the situation which is that the outbreak is not contained we don't know how long the shock and shutdowns are going to last and what the economic damage is really going to be. from the thank you. note to watch series. must be the one. at least able to deal with the coronavirus flick case was confirmed over the weekend and serious and are bracing themselves for a lockdown of a broad an outbreak would have severe consequences because a decade of civil war has devastated the country's health care system. syria some 400000 people killed millions displaced and tie in neighborhoods bombed to rubble. 9 years of civil war have left much of the country in ruins and now there's a new enemy the one that we're all fighting right now. these volunteers belong to the syrian civil defense better known as the white house. in recent years

they've been providing emergency health care to wall victims in serious opposition strongholds. these days they're trying to save lives by sterilizing surfaces. corona virus is spreading around the world and in arab countries and it's turning into a global epidemic that threatens human life so we have the syrian civil defense in cooperation with the department of education in our frame are carrying out a preventative sterilization campaign. syria reported its 1st case of the novel coronavirus on sunday and the whole country is on high alert. as we are ready the health ministry is ready the higher education ministry is ready all medical and health sectors in the country are ready to be on one team and we hope to overcome this thing. but serious health care system is severely strained according to the world health organization less than 2 thirds of the country's

hospitals were functioning late last year and 70 percent of health workers have fled the country this particular concern about the virus spreading in the northwestern province where up to a 1000000 people live in overcrowded camps like this. it's the perfect breeding ground for the virus and not the only one they were actually conscious of syria is very high this country especially we see that we do have populations and. refugees slum areas. for for for for for larger war and sometimes all these are actually higher risk for us. in. province checkpoints have been erected by the white helmets the taking the temperatures of people who are traveling through. but if developments in other countries are anything to go by and when stop the corona virus from spreading among syria's most vulnerable.

is a white helmets volunteer he told danged doubly that if the coronavirus does take hold in syria the results will be catastrophic if you're not you see the lack of equipment if you're going to lock equipment or damaged grove mask there is a growing amount of youth. from country their country with the throng and we're going to him them actually out and give one through fair use these 3 don't wonder about who you are here we are talking about you miss mcdonald if we are going to dump their. ventilator of. syria we are actually we we are. right on the bridge here we were in very night we would be depressed. so what helmut volunteer selma let's take a look at some of the latest developments in the crowd

a virus pandemic the number of confirmed cases around the world has not passed 400000 doubling in less than a week italy's death tolls a surge to gate 743 deaths registered on tuesday broke 2 successive days of declines on facebook as seen usage across its platforms a surge in countries with virus lockdowns italy has seen the biggest increase with group video calls up by more than a 1000 percent. well the sport's been reacting to the perspire much of the tokyo olympics to next year most of welcomes the decision although it will create big problems for sporting shettles they postponement follows months of debate under pressure from athletes around the world. the tokyo lympics are off. the decision came suddenly but was not unexpected after weeks of debate and speculation in order to safeguard the health of the athletes and everybody involved in the olympic

games that we have to postpone the olympic and paralympic games or talk you were 2022 the year or 2021 with the aim to have it there are the latest in summer time 21 it's a decision that was not taken lightly or willingly but pressure had been mounting from athletes and sports federations it's it's a power bomber that i want them to be no limits this year but not yet to understand the situation understand that things are a little bigger than sport and i mean you have a next year important that they. exist because so many athletes are not. i'm not been able to. prepare you know they haven't been able to do their qualification. a lot of it's also they'll have access to training. and it's not fair if everyone.

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new information on the crown of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you go your podcast you can also find us at. science. this is 1900 special from berlin the corona virus has forced millions of people into quarantine and isolation that means millions of people are working from home some for the 1st time we take a look at how people cope with working from home and we ask an expert how the crisis might change how we work for good. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us people all over the world are working from home that includes many of my colleagues here at the view our reporter sent us

a report from her apartment in berlin where she set up her temporary office and she has some tips on how to make it work. 6 now our. aircraft should be in the office which now here are. on how to actually go from her. room in no was easy today shall i put some actual clothes of. all of this great time. this may sound super off here but i haven't gotten my microsoft teams to work the entire day right from my mistakes make sure everything works before we have to stay . i know it's super tempting but

it's a separate clean quiet west facing away from a distraction. are now it's easy for me to say because i don't have kids my only distraction is my favorite t.v. isn't even on the fridge and the laundry and the dishes and the books. to get my point. yes that means you might have to look presentable starts talking face to face is the best way to the only alive. and happy hour camping ground for all to. sleep while you usually go through to cook yourself in yummy luck to. finally block out big for the music while we. just hope that your top 12 those of us who act

privileged enough to steal our money and do this on the thinking of our. we should make them eh. let's speak now to norbert to crow now he's a researcher from the university of potsdam studying how people work from home number thank you for joining us 1st of all what do you think of those tips you know don't work from bad stay in touch on video conference you have anything to add there. yeah this is not only an advantage but it might also be a quiet sort of huge dizon box just because all travel times are no go on and immediately be replaced by another you know conference and i want to lose all our friends and and all this all the work and density is that's why science on it is much higher and typical of this work where you have to walk from one medium room to or not so always where you're kind warped with

a contemporary art or have a brick. wall to cool all the coffee machine that's all no longer possible all right so you also have for yourself you might have more time a clock then you're saying i mean looking at the fact that millions of people are now in their home offices essentially what if you found i mean how does this change the way we work how we more productive are we less productive at home. well in some cases it depends in some cases we on was productive because now we can't exactly see what the other colleague was talking about because we have our points alliance crystal clear all because you know it's crystal clear on the screen not 8 meters away and got going through and that's an advantage on the other hand so what we are focusing on in our research is that creative and knowledge intensive process is in it is a business they need the nieves of people that can work in the same man are

online and to indigent to meetings and therefore we are missing something so we. today we had with my research us virtual lunch break where everybody said in front of his camera and ate something and trying something and that's a lot of the same you have you cannot achieve the knowledge transfer between the u.s. screens you need the near miss off persons and right in some on the notion terms rosen says we have 75 percent of knowledge transfer out i socialize ation by personal meeting between persons and all but you know what all of this is all for how do you think this will fundamentally change the way that we work will more people stay with working from home permanently. i don't think so i think some tasks can be done remotely and some other tasks will need

a personal meeting and it will be resumed in full when we are able to travel again i think that won't change a lot all right nor practical you're going to do this in her posts ok we'll have to leave it there a number going out from the university of potsdam thank you so much for joining us . and we will be following the story closely at g.w. our social media editors will be reporting weekly and we want to know how you are coping with working from home we're all new to this mind boggling situation spiders is an influenza we. unchartered territory all life as we know it is changing. but we're all in this together in this new series we want to find out how to handle

on new lives in times of the corona pandemic thankfully with the help of leading experts it seems like it's been a very popular study how do we stay mentally and physically healthy how do we handle family and all partners without driving into a completely insane. just up how to deal with cabin fever. how are you dealing with being cooped up let me know leave a comment and i would love to profit from your experiences for our upcoming episode . well we asked you to send us some of your questions on the cover 1000 pandemic and many of you did get in touch our science correspondent dirk williams has some answers take a look. why did you come from. the best of our knowledge the 1st cases of covert 19 appeared in the chinese city of

one han back in december 29th they were closely associated with the wildlife market they are now coronaviruses can jump from animals to humans and we think that that's what happened here at the sars virus to the same back in 2000 here in 2003 it was traced back to bats the civets sold in wildlife markets we don't yet know what animals might have acted as intermediaries here but we have seen very similar coronaviruses and bats and we think that they are the ultimate reservoir in the wild. how does it spread. that 19 is a pretty infectious respiratory disease that spread by droplets of saliva or discharge from the nurse someone when they cough or sneeze that's why it's important to stay at least a metre away and preferably farther from anyone who's coughing or sneezing it

doesn't stay airborne for very long we don't think but it can remain infectious after landing on surfaces which is why you also need to pay attention to how often you wash your hands and you should try not to touch your face as much as possible. how do i know if i'm effected. we only way to know for sure if you have copd at 19 is to take a test because many of the symptoms are similar to those people experience when they have other respiratory ailments like the flu in coded 19 the primary symptoms that people have reported are fever dry cough and fatigue and then to a lesser extent things like congestion a sore throat or diarrhea some people who catch the disease don't have any symptoms at all there is. symptomatic around 4 in 5 people who get it will recover from the disease without any special treatment or having to go to the hospital. what can i

do if i'm in fact it. because this virus is a novel one in humans no one has any immunity the 1st time they catch it even if someone doesn't show any symptoms they still go in fact it and can in fact others we don't yet have any specific vaccines to prevent covert 19 and we don't have any medications to treat it so at this point if you are infected there's no way to interrupt the course of the disease the best thing to do if you're infected this is talk with your local medical authorities and follow their advice if you aren't at a high risk group for the disease the chances are very good you'll return to full health within a couple of weeks. if i thought it was going i catch it again in the future. because this is a new virus we still don't know much about how the immune system well reacts to subsequent infections with copd at 19. doctors assume that catching at will give

you some kind of immunity but a big question is exactly how long that immunity well last hour immunity levels to related coronaviruses like some that cause common colds are not permanent and we don't really know why the question of immunity is a question that really only time will answer. a news team that the austrian public broadcaster o. r. f. will go into voluntary isolation to brett prevent any of them from becoming infected now they'll be isolated on site in vienna they've all tested negative for the virus and no one will be allowed in the door will be guarded and food will be delivered these 180 employees will guarantee that new services continue to run an interrupted a war office not the only austrian company to seal off key teams of staff last week around 50 healthy employees from the main energy company were isolated within

certain power stations to make sure that the electricity supply would not be affected. thank you for joining our covert 900. s. always you can get the latest on our website if you dot com for all of us here in berlin thank you for watching. the cold in. charge of cool. air conditioners. but those writers in delhi have come up with a new spin. old system for you cause. you really believe this. next song d.w. . guys are code. county

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