this is the w.'s line from birth in the united states confers more coronavirus cases than any other country including china new york the epicenter stretching the city's health care system to the limit more people have died health care workers are short of critical supplies and it's likely to get worse on the program. when you really need it and all for one spirit too many nationally gave only

funny response the e.u. commission president criticizes member states for that matter solidarity the coronavirus sweeps across the continent. and burning fast people turns its locker room into a t.v. studio to help keep kids active during self isolation. welcome to the program the united states now has more confirmed cases of corona virus than any other country including china almost 86000 people in the u.s. have become infected and nearly 1300 have died the crisis has hit the american economy hot fueling a record surge in unemployment claims the country's biggest city new york is struggling. these are desperate days in new york with more than 3 and

a half 1000 new cases in the last day alone medical facilities a critically overstretched a long line of worried people wait outside this hospital in the borough of queens just to be tested for the virus. almost any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the current health care system. that's why the authorities a trust a cli stepping up their response this hospital in manhattan is setting up a makeshift morgue getting ready for a wave of deaths or more that's creepy. trickle. down a temporary mark. if it is a powerful. i'm scared to be here that's something where i'm as determined president donald trump insists the battle will be won we are waging war

on this virus using every financial scientific medical pharmaceutical and military resources to halt its spread and protect our citizens and know that we will achieve victory and quickly returned to the path of exceptional health safety and pres barry for all of our citizens other emergency measures include this 1000 bed u.s. navy hospital ship due to arrive in new york harbor on monday to ease the pressure on the city's own hospitals. normally packed times square is now eerily deserted with no tourists in town and do your because he didn't government ban on working and socializing in public. a city already in fear knows that the worst is still to come. with the situation then in the u.s.

with correspondent all of the silence in the washington welcome all about why is president trump so confident these crises will be results soon. i'm not even sure he is that confident of what he's really trying to do here is to sell hope and optimism to the american public of course and also to the american voters because he knows that his reelection is at stake and you know you have millions of americans who feel very much insecure of this time are scared of course of the current situation of unemployment all of the spreading virus the pandemic and so every day president trump deliver instance a press conference in the white house press briefing room that by the way he hardly ever used in his presidency and that he has now turned into something like his campaign really if you will with the major message being always like it's all going to be good it's all going to be ok we're going to go back to work soon and the

stock markets will go back up again that's another very important aspect of course here in the united states so experts and his own health experts in the white halls see that differently but his voters like it and you can see that in the job approval rate of president trump that's as high as it has never been in his presidency. the u.s. like the rest of the world is facing an economic crisis unemployment claims last week with the highest recorded ever. you know that's right and we're now in a situation where more than 3000000 americans filed unemployment but there are some respected economists who believe that this is not just the beginning that this number could go up to $46000000.00 within this crisis so the worst is certainly yet to come not only with regards to the pandemic but also with regards to the economic fallout of the pandemic and that's again very threatening for trump's reelection

bid because he's always made the case that this is the most successful economy and the most successful stock market of all times this is basically essentially trump's take and why he should be reelected but this all is turning into the exactly opposite except that they have an unprecedented $2.00 trillion dollars into because we will this is this is the hope anyway this rescue package that cleared the senate and is expected to be voted on in the house on friday is this going to be enough to ease the strain not just on the health system but on the whole of the u.s. economy. right it's it's again unprecedented it's money that is urgently needed and as you say it's mostly needed as a kind of emergency relief so to compensate people and businesses that are suffering from the situation right now from the last dollars across many economic center is in the united states but if you look at the health system that in

particular in the efi center in new york that many health workers there described as catastrophic where french trucks are used right now to store the bodies of deceased patients in the hospitals well then money of course is necessary and would help but only if necessary material is available and new york's governor andrew cuomo desperately is calling for $40020.00 later for instance he's also stressing that the health care system is running out of supplies very soon so money is certainly not the only problem here it's also the fact that the material is not available in the market. all of a solace in washington thank you will have the world's more than 500000 confirmed coronavirus cases here in europe so this crisis is likely to hit the block harder than the previous economic and migration crises the european central bank's already announced unprecedented action to support e.u.

members and businesses the member states comments agree on how to distribute the financial burden and this is resurrecting old fault lines between north and south protective gloves now a regular feature in the european parliament the assembly is largely empty any piece who do attend are taking extra precautions on the agenda forging a common e.u. response to the coronavirus crisis when you really need it and only one spirit too many initially gave and only from me response. and when europe really needed to prove that this is not only a share with the union too many initially refused to share their umbrella an umbrella some e.u. members remain reluctant to share that includes funder lions home country germany even as the pandemic storm intensifies across the block thursday 6 hour video

conference with the e.u.'s $27.00 national leaders and did without agreement on just how unified the economic response should be especially when it comes to sharing debt across the eurozone and if we reject come in all debt this is an old system that has not been used in the cost to. the countries hardest hit by the pentameter so far italy france and spain are among 9 e.u. countries in favor of so-called corona bonds opponents including the netherlands and finland prefer the european stability mechanism set up in 2012 to respond to the euro crisis the e.s.m. can lend money to members in trouble but with strings attached now euro zone finance ministers have 2 weeks to figure out the details a long time in the life of the rapidly spreading virus let's take a look at some more of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic 3 months into the outbreak in the total number of confirmed cases has passed half a 1000000 the death toll is more than 24000 france has reported the 5th highest

number of covered 19 deaths and its death toll is still climbing it's jumped by a quarter in just one day and german company boss says it has developed a coronavirus test for use in medical facilities that delivers results in 2 and a half hours twice as fast as the tests. in other news the u.s. government has announced a $15000000.00 reward for information leading to the arrest of venezuelan president nicolas maduro you know when kerry was the u.s. justice department charges president maduro and other senior venezuelan officials with drug trafficking crimes washington accuses majority's allies of converting venice right into a criminal enterprise and stealing billions of dollars you know chachi you see escalation of the u.s. government's campaign to oust him his u.s. attorney general william bach the indictment of nicholas madero and his co-defendants alleges

a conspiracy involving an extremely violent terrorist organization known as the revolutionary armed forces of colombia the far and an effort to flood the united states with cocaine. will d.w. south america correspondent nicole servage has been following the story from the colombian capital but she explained the background to the u.s. charges in a way this was a very natural next step for the u.s. government to take but an extremely important one nonetheless because for the 1st time nicolas maduro isn't only being called complicit he's being identified as the leader of a drug cartel a position from which he allegedly orchestrated large scale drug shipments between venezuela and the united states for 20 years the u.s. don't seem to eager to get their hands dirty on all of that so what they're likely seeking with this bounty is for members of my party and the military to defect and have his support system crumble that might allow one the man who is widely regarded

as venezuela's legitimate president to move in seize power extradite him to the united states where he would then face justice. and bachata people everywhere are finding creative ways to learn or to keep fate's on the restrictions imposed during the virus pandemic in germany the country's biggest basketball club alba ballin has been helping kids who are stuck at home to do both more and more tuning into alba's sport lesson every move. 10 year old levy is at home alone just no schools closed in berlin last week but that doesn't mean he has to miss out on lessons beth nissen is not. giving to best to throw the ball from your wrist so that it flies in a good curve to make it go forward from behind your back means we bend our wrist and try to throw the ball over our but. i don't know. how the sports lesson runs

when you cue every working day from the players' dressing room with a 120 coaches at the club alba know what they're doing but they've had to quickly develop the knowhow of a professional film company what with their dressing room being turned into a t.v. studio 5 days a week the new. guys who chose the new. form 'd of. the service. earlier. also for college. and some oh. everybody knows that the online lessons have had millions of clicks alba berlin are succeeding in the digital world if not on the basketball court levy seems quite happy with it despite having to stay at home. my dear

mom i hope you keep it going it's really exciting and you can learn a lot about basketball. ciao. well despite appeals for people to avoid panic buying joining the corona virus outbreak that's exactly what people have been doing it can be hard to find things like disinfectant pasta flour especially toilet paper in german supermarkets but if you can get the real stuff you cannot get a total roll shaped cake jim a baker has started making the cakes as a joke now he's selling 200 a day and helping he says 40 staff work. in well people in britain have been paying tribute to the health care and emergency service workers who've been on duty throughout the coronavirus crisis. residents came out of their homes to join in with a nationwide round of applause and to say thank you and of the capital london

monuments including the tower bridge much better than the blue used by the national health service for its browning. covert 19 special is up next on. news and information on the website at the top of the. pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our daily update. special next on d.w.

. how does a virus spread. why do we have it and when will. just through the. show it's called spectrum if you would like any information on the drawing of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you go your podcast can also find us at. science. we have a simple message for all countries. there's. a simple message yes a simple solution or not sure and certainly not all countries have been employing it the fight against corona virus has multiple fronts testing tracing infection

chains racing to create vaccines and treatments or seeing what already exists and what could be adapted to treat the novel coronavirus how should countries prioritize. i'm gentle and those are the kinds of questions we want to answer in the. 19th special it's the same one scientists and government officials have a grappled with since the beginning of the outbreak now back to the message to test test and test south korea was one of the countries which followed the world health organization's advice most diligently and managed to flatten the curve here's how south korea did it. so 3 in hospital has created a new system for testing patients suspected of suffering from the corona virus coded 19 after an initial consultation patients enter a booth to have samples taken and talked to a medical technician using an intercom. so only young have developed

a fever and other cold like symptoms and decided to get a test just to be safe. if you don't know that you have it pandemics parents even if you're a little anxious it's good to have a test at 1st i was scared when i heard about it but it wasn't as painful as i thought and it was actually kind of interesting. to do the sort of the brainchild of dr kim saying gil really designs were quickly put in service on march 10th the booth helped medical workers process patients 10 times faster than the traditional procedure. prior to the introduction of the system patients were treated in large negative pressure aims which take a long time to sterilize them ventilate it's inefficient and doctors and nurses have to meet people face to face and we're nervous about exposure and tie it this physical separation is safe and enables print examinations. dozens of

hospitals in south korea and abroad have expressed interest in implementing a booth testing system although these prototypes are not scaled for manufacturing dr kim has shared his know how. testing has been a key pillar to south korea's response to the corona virus outbreak seeking to flatten the curve and reduce the number of new cases without implementing a complete lockdown test kits manufactured here have been exploited to other countries to strengthen their response to the pandemic. drive through testing has also been an innovative way so korea has battled the corona virus outbreak despite fewer coronavirus cases in south korea in recent days medical intern part john sue argues for rapid testing. the number of confirmed persons is gradually decreasing. the most important thing

to get rid of the epidemic is to identify the suspect to patients as soon as possible and have them self isolate overseas necessary treatment if you have even a little fee for suspected symptoms it's recommended that you go to the hospital and get tested when done people it's about after examining thousands of patients drive through and booth testing have only uncovered a few cases of the coronavirus but they have offered a lot of reassurance to a nervous population. joining me now is al edwards he is a professor and immunologist at the university of reading in the u.k. . now south korea's method seems to be working so why aren't all affected countries doing mass testing if they can. it's a really good question i think that the video you just saw gives you some glimpses as to why testing itself is a very valuable tool but it's quite labor intensive and it has to be done really

carefully because if you do testing in a way that isn't properly and safely controlled there is a risk that you can also spread the virus or put your health workers at risk when they take those samples so it's a delicate balance and it needs a lot of manpower well because of the complexity of this task we can imagine that not all countries are able to enroll this kind of nice testing what would you recommend for those countries so i think the most important thing is to spread the resource you have wisely so what's really important is to 1st of all prioritize people who are in hospital and also health care workers because these are the most vulnerable people and also the most exposed people and by prioritizing the use of your testing results and by using that smartly as possible even if you have limited testing results it's still incredibly value and it gives you so much

data and so much information about what's going on. what about home testing kits could they help at all yes there's a number of different technologies and tools out there. these can even be a simple i have one here at this little plastic that could potentially be used at home this kind of technology is going to be incredibly useful but it does have to be used very carefully so when you do a lab test you have the best possible accuracy if you do a home test they're not quite as accurate but they're more convenient so you have to make sure that you use the best possible science and medical practices to use these tests effectively rather than just using them without proper consideration. now testing is of course one issue but how much of an issue is for example global access to vaccines and treatments going to be are we in danger of seeing

a 1st come 1st serve the prochoice which could prioritize rich countries for example yeah and i think that's already happening to a degree with testing even the better of countries are getting 1st access to testing technology and unfortunately i could see the same thing happen with their opie's there's some really good news and some positive news which is that people seem to be incredibly open to sharing the information they have about improved treatments and that's vital so everybody has that knowledge but whether we can see the same sharing of resources i'm not so sure about whether that resource in terms of ventilators or when vaccines start to be manufactured whether people will share them around i'm not sure whether that's going to happen we'll have to see information sharing as well as resource sharing it's going to be vital thank you very much edward he is a professor an immunologist at the university of reading in the u.k. thanks for your insights now vaccines seem to

interest many of you as you've been sending us your questions in the last few days our science correspondent derek williams has some answers for you take a look. why will it take so long to come up with a vaccine the problem with developing any pharmaceutical product is that it has to go through an exhaustive testing process with the vaccine you 1st have to identify good potential candidates and that when astonishingly quickly this time within weeks of identifying the virus and sequencing its genome researchers begin talking about candidates but that's just the start you next have to test your candidate for safety usually you do it 1st in animals and then in increasingly large groups of humans but only after a candidate has proven safety developers usually begin looking at actually how effective it is so even if and when you're a candidate fulfills all of those criteria you still have to ramp up production to manufacture hundreds of millions or even billions of doses now there are ways to

speed the entire process up a little bit for example by by running some of those trials in parallel rather than one after the other but that approach has drawbacks to and that's why most experts usually predict that we won't have a vaccine we're ready to distribute on a wide scale for at least a year and a half. why do people talk so much about a vaccine is a medication more important. medications are of course important for limiting the impact of the virus on patients around the world but long term to defeat the disease we need what's called herd immunity and the best way to get that is through vaccines if we don't develop vaccines experts currently estimate that between 50 and 70 percent of us would have to get covert 19 before herd immunity kicked in and stop the pandemic naturally but along the way it could potentially kill millions of

people so a vaccine offers a safe alternative to achieving immunity in a large percentage of the population and don'ts of prevention is really. worth a pound of cure that's why although treatments are very important long term that seems our even more so is that research on how existing drugs affect 19. a range of potential drugs that might one day help treat kovac 19 are being trialled around the world but we don't really have many results for any of them so far the world health organization is looking at 3 candidates in particular that have shown some promise 1st it's examining the effects of a stablished anti-malarial drug song coronavirus symptoms that each oh sponsor trials are also ongoing for combinations of antivirals that have already been approved for treating h i v and finally one of the most promising substances is a compound called rendez if here it was originally developed as

a potential treatment for ebola but it didn't work out for that disease as well as hoped retrospective testing however showed that it did affect replication in the summers virus so hopes are high that it might also affect that pathogens close relative to new coronavirus the best thing about all of these candidates is that most or all of the development has already been done for them so production could be ramped up quickly if they did prove effective and these clinical trials we should know soon if any of them or. before we let you go we step away from the sobering world of tests and vaccines $20.00 in lighter fare one restaurant in hanoi has created about corona burger so far only available in vietnam but it looks set to take off the world wide it's a beef burger in a green tea stand by

a shaped body the restaurant owner is there lighted with his creation he says business is good i know hopefully remind customers to wash their hands before eating. and there are swiss confectioner's reminding us of the season but also of the times when chocolate easter bunnies a decorated with little face masks. and that was our d w 19 special for more do check out our social media channels i'm john thank you for watching and stay healthy everyone. what unites. different. looks. what binds the continent to. the cancers and stories aplenty. why don't people.

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