they tell me to in china let's say you want to their story. and reliable information for margaret. this is g w news live from berlin tonight the coronavirus pandemic a minister aid groups say that greece's overcrowded migrant camps should be evacuated they warn an outbreak on the island of lesbos would be catastrophic also coming up tonight for millions of india the fear of starvation greater than the fear of infections workers who've lost their jobs trying to get home and

a mass exodus from the cities is this a pandemic perfect storm plus a new date for the 2020 tokyo lympics mark your calendars for the 23rd of july 2021 last week the games were postponed because of the global coronavirus endemic. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight where social distancing is practically impossible greece's overcrowded migrant camps consider the maria clan on the island of lesbos conditions there were already unsanitary in many migrants have preexisting health conditions aid organizations are now calling for the most vulnerable migrants to be evacuated to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. in the maria refugee camp very few have

been able to get a mask to protect against corona virus. there are more than 20000 people living here in dire conditions lack of food washing areas and medicine are the norm. there is a lot of disease here people are sick they have fevers and skin conditions like scabious and lice they cough and have breathing problems like asthma officially there are no coded 1000 cases here but also no government plan to prevent them says doctors without borders such a scenario would be a disaster for everyone lesbos refugees and residents alike. people to. be the one. before the pandemic germany had agreed to accept unaccompanied minors

that's off the table now an effort to avoid bringing in outsiders from at risk groups opposition parties have criticized a lack of political will to end the humanitarian crisis. many politicians say we don't want a repeat of 2015 but we're not talking about millions of people here just a few tens of thousands if you're really serious and want to do everything possible to prevent a further outbreak then we have to evacuate these camps. a camp intended for 3000 people housing 20000 that makes social distancing here close to impossible. or earlier i spoke with the director of medical programs for doctors without borders in athens he described what his colleagues are experiencing on the ground on the island of. rationing the. situation. fork in 1000 schumann's and women and men living in a place for 6095 people these people are in overcrowding situation on the

question of stay home there is no home where they have a lack of access to water one days one was applying for 1300 people days wondering that for 200 people and they had one child for 200 so they had no assets to water and sanitation and thirdly these people are having an additional problem of accessing health care since united are 19 the government stopped allowing the city to access come in addition to the last days they had not done because that means that from 7 o'clock in the evening of this are going to going these people cannot move out of the gas that means more difficult conditions and more exposure to these people to list them as doctors without borders there from athens eric mark last is a member of the european parliament for the green party he spoke with me from let's say about possible steps that might be taken to move back you wait the can i also

think that it's not a matter of possibility it's just a matter of political will we have empty hole to all of you and we have to support the horses in the tree in the summer and we will have to support them will be an economic crisis which also affects them and i think if we speak about hotels but we can also speak about cruise ships are empty at the moment to have no get and we just have the possibilities to deal with the situation back to a refugee camp and we should do that actually not only because of humanitarian issues but also because of the fight against cologne or should be fought everywhere and i don't understand why everybody is talking about social distancing do applies of a call to question the camps because they overcrowded it's also in our interest in the fight again. and they're talking about the possibilities of evacuating greece's migrant camps well as more countries impose lockdowns because of the pandemic india

faces perhaps the biggest challenge last week it's 1300000000 people ordered to stay at home for 3 weeks but for the informal workers who form the backbone of that economy that means losing their income overnight leaving many without enough money even for food and those hardest hit by the walk down main will also be most at risk of catching the virus. social distancing is a privilege that these people cannot afford all the cross india daily breeze rushed to transportation hubs carrying whatever they could. a nation wide lockdown has put millions out of work and started a mass exodus from the city's. for these people who are leaving new delhi for their home towns the fear of starving is currently greater than the fear of infection with the coronavirus. if we had food why would we have left we're not enjoying this

we know that a pandemic is spreading but we are forced to leave we're taking precautions and keeping as much distance as we can i don't have a word to mean of the government did nothing otherwise we wouldn't have left. india's efforts to contain the coronavirus have plunged the country into chaos. after transportation was shut down some state governments arranged buses to bring migrant workers back to their home villages. but in other states people were left stranded and forced to walk hundreds of kilometers home. deliveries street vendors and other informal workers form the backbone of the indian economy. with police chasing them off the streets and no savings to fall back on the luck zone puts many of them interest prime minister narendra modi who had ordered india's 1300000000 people to stay home has apologized for the hardships they are now facing. especially when i look at my poor brothers and sisters i think they must be

wondering what kind of prime minister i am put people in such a difficult situation. especially ask for their forgiveness. so far roughly 1000 people in india have tested positive for corona virus but experts worry numbers could be much higher. fears are that an outbreak in one of the world's most densely populated countries could result in a catastrophe. when this meeting one 3rd of the global population is living in a coronavirus walked with restrictions on public life in a ban on gatherings of people this is posed a serious problem for protest movements around the world from the fridays for future climate strikes to hong kong. pro-democracy protests but organizers they are experimenting with online demonstrations trying to voice their demands without gathering together my colleague our reporter i mean as if he has been following

this story for us i mean it's good to see you here in studio for a change and what is an online demonstration what does it look like well i think people are still experimenting with this they don't really know i mean there's always been some kind of online activism but this is really forcing their cards now and they want to find out what works and what doesn't one good example was a protest organized by is able to that's an organization here in germany that's fighting for asylum rights so they're concerned about the concentrations of people in camps like on moriah on lesbos so they organized a kind of virtual march through berlin had various tactics involved one of them you can see here they had people send soundbites from morea camp asking for saw their tea they also had people design banners hanging out their windows with in berlin and they had a kind of virtual marj like i said where they went to different institutions in berlin and had targeted tweet campaigns or e-mail campaign so basically they said ok everybody now is going to tweet or e-mail or phone call the interior ministry in

berlin so everybody did that and they got trending i mean they use this hash tag leave no i'm behind it was trending you know was the hash tag leave no one behind that was the demonstrations successful yeah that was the number one trending hash tag in germany it even beat out coven 1000 which i think feet nowadays they had 6000 people participate at the height of the live stream this is a live streamed on you tube but the question of whether or not that's effective i posed that question to one of the organizers and here's what he had to say right now we have to be creative we have to find a way. i think the question was how the 1st thing that we actually tried to its wealth about what you. and also i think for the future you can use the it's all right fools to. react to things that aren't quickly because you can mobilize a lot of people online and in the short time and you know after all

a nice little thing for them especially. like. authorities for permission for that that will. activate a lot of people on the short. side tool of activism that's not what we want to do in the future but it's probably going to be very powerful necessary to right now you know there's been criticism already today of the prime minister in hungary viktor orbán who has been given the right to govern by decree there's no way for the public really at this point to protest against it are there other examples of governments taking advantage of this crisis to put limits on freedom of speech sure i think we're going to see more and more missed time goes on but human rights activists have pointed out 2 examples in russia the government put a ban on public gatherings the very same day that president putin approved a measure that would allow him to stay in office until 2036 so the timing there was

pretty obvious or suggestive anyway and also in iraq there's been a protest movement going on since october and that has come to a virtual standstill after the government put a ban on protests there back in at the end of february when they only had one case of coronavirus confirm now the tally has risen in that country but the ban a still effective and it's really shut down the protest movement so i think people are going to be asking will we get our rights back once the lockdowns you have rights can become endangered especially when people are living in fear i mean as it is always on thank you. start on the 23rd of july 2021 the paralympics will follow on august 24th the international olympic committee and japanese organizers settled on that date a week after the games were postponed because of the panda. waving goodbye to the shias games the name tokyo 2020 may be staying the same dates most certainly not

after a weekend of speculation confirmation the tokyo olympics will take place almost exactly one year later than originally planned. proposed holding the games in the summer of next year and it was agreed. that. the decision followed a meeting of the tokyo 2020 organizing committee which was then rubber stamped by the i.o.c. after a cooler with federations i.o.c. president thomas boxset humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel these olympic games tokyo 2020 can be a light at the end of this tunnel. the so-called cherry blossom lympics in the spring had been considered to avoid the summer heat but organizes preferred to have more time to deal with the perspiring mint. how we feel it's better to hold the games next year at some

a time for the sake of transportation volunteers and ticket holders around the world. for athletes to fully prepare we need to give them as much time as possible . there are many challenges ahead including ensuring the venues will still be available to use next year but for the athletes at least there is now some clarity in the most unclear of times. finally the characters and the guy behind me here cookie monster they are adored by children all over the world now they are joining the fight against the coronavirus the 2 sesame street characters feature a new musical public service announcements teaching kids how to sneeze carefully and how to wash their hands properly a sponsor going global in a variety of t.v. channels and online platforms here's elmo getting into the groove. here.

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a virus spread. why do we panic and when we're. just 3 of the topics covered and the weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the crawler or any other science topic we should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. science. in times of corona might be one of the key weapons to curtail the pandemic the data on our smartphones for example shown in the every step we take every step people around us take scientists estimate that one infected person passes the virus on to

around 2 to 3 people on average so what if we used all the data that we already have on all smartphones to track people infected with the coronavirus and warn those who had contact with a carrier prevent more infections build something like a digital parsonage and south korea that seems to have been one of the keys to keep their infection curve flat surveyed candidates are trying to help us find the current crisis. this is the news welcome to our special coverage of the global covert 90. today want to take a closer look at south korea a country was hit hard by the coronavirus early on but now it has seen a steep decline in new covert 19 cases compare that with the numbers in germany they are currently nearly 10 times as high. kumba number for germany in recent weeks it appears south korea has lost me reined in the

disease and without closing down public life to a degree we're seeing in europe and elsewhere now how they've done this nobody knows exactly but making use of internet technology to share confirmed patients occasions and travel information directly with the public seems to help quite a lot actually. so theory a seems to be battling the coronavirus kovac 19 effectively without implementing a complete lockdown in addition to rigorous and innovative testing for the virus online applications and social networking have been crucial to encourage ongoing public participation in the battle against the corona virus every day south korean health authorities send text messages to everyone's smartphones the advisories remind people to avoid large groups practice to meter safe distancing and

regularly disinfect their homes leaving the windows open. so korean health authorities emergency alerts share the locations of new coronavirus patients people can then follow the links to detailed patient tracking data web developers like ryan hone have collected and aggregated that information to more user friendly websites up the government to provide the travel history of each patient. that's in the text so even if you. read that place name you don't really know where exactly to locate it so i try to put that out on the map so that people can. officially see where it's exactly look at it so that they know if they've been to the place the south korean public has become a bit complacent as the pandemic drags on so websites like this may help remind people that the risk of infection is still out there and possibly nearby there are

a lot of people like theel in korea. because they think they didn't have any contact with the patient with this web site they have a better idea of that and they can't really deal with the situation since their creation in late january in early february independent coronavirus patient tracking web sites have received millions of page views offering users reassuring information on. when the corona virus became a threat i downloaded the app since started using them to understand the situation you can see where infected people have been and avoid going there so it helps to stop the virus from spreading. so 3 has managed to flatten the curve in reduced new pieces of the corona virus in recent weeks although health officials here still worry about potential new clusters. well from seoul south korea i'm now joined

by professor john one son associate professor at the bob school of fleming university college london professor offer a peek at the beginning of march south korea has kept new infections very low you say besides the testing program that's due to surveillance how yes tracing through through surveillance technology played a pretty part in this fight against a corner. if the country has pretty be complicity with testing if you don't know who to test the testing capacity has only limited use so to find out who to test disobedience technology was really cool so the cool east to find though that it would be one in every single one patient to come from the patient contacted in the past so ted way you can find out who this patient could fighters from and to who this patient could have been itas to what kind of data

exactly has the government there gathered. because the initial data is the interview of people experts interview interview patients who too is king rarity but then this entity just quote your work at all says to police state. resources overtaken through police and that's a credit card transaction move like point. and this is cities so there's no better form every every move by point service networks have information about where mobile phone has been through g.p.s. and intensive seabrooke connection and the 2nd a critic cars is again the banks can tell you really and when detestation happened so combination of these 2 well it gives you a lot of cars so for example if a cashier was patient for example everest every single

customers or potential patients they had to be tested and using credit card or of course you can find out all they want to call costumers and then see if the t.v.'s can give you even more finite movement today. to the patient to talk to in the past who the patient to pointing to poor example and then someone can i just interrupt you did don't you think profess a this it is dangerous when a government can track every step of its citizens it is is certainly is so this is this is an emergency manager who will only when the only when the president of proof see this dental put it is a control access to these authorities or with a ta through police so when this situation is over they don't have the data don't get all sustained longer professor john once on joining us live from

seoul in south korea thank you very much for this important. if you think you. know that answer questions about. the fight against the virus but fresh questions around the globe arise every day. your questions most important and you have sent us plenty facebook twitter and e-mail and to answer them at least the part of them every day here is our science correspondent williams. if we start data tracking are there any assurances in place the technology won't be used against us in the future that depends a lot on the country i think where you reside any assurances put in place will have to come from governments now there's no question that digital surveillance measures like cell phone tracking that are used to trace the contacts of someone who has

been infected are one of the most effective ways that we have to find out who else might have been exposed but a big fear of course is that once given the right to track their citizens in this way some governments might continue to do it once the current crisis is over and it needs to be addressed and the legislation expanding the rights of governments to track their own citizens so striking the right balance between outbreak oversight and data privacy is not going to be easy. what data can be used to track the spread of the coronavirus. well nowadays practically all of us leave a kind of trail of digital bread crumbs behind us as we move through our lives if you had g.p.s. or bluetooth turned on on your phone for instance than that can provide pretty specific information as to your whereabouts or who you might have come close to other information that can be used as for example when or where you might have made

purchases with a bank card or a credit card and then of course in places that are directly monitored by c.c.t.v. you can employ facial recognition technology to pretty precisely determine exactly when someone was where in south korea which has so far had some of the greatest success at containing the virus without resorting to drug kone and measures like lockdowns tracking the previous movement of people who tested positive has relied on a company. of all those measures. can big data help us avoid a 2nd corona virus outbreak and the short answer to that is no the only thing that will stop coded 1000 for good is herd immunity which hopefully we will acquire through a vaccine in the not all too distant future however there are many ways that big data techniques can help us better control and in future outbreaks they can help us

recognize when one is beginning at an earlier stage to start with and dealt also tell us a lot more about what measure is being instigated all over the world at the moment actually work best so even if it doesn't solve the coronavirus problem for us big data it is providing valuable information all the time on how we can hopefully solve the problem ourselves. and that was 19 special coverage for today from all on the pandemic to check out all social media channels and our website that city w dot com which has dedicated coven 1000 pages in 30 languages. at the end of the show we leave you with pictures from a balcony in long body it's a nice region hit hardest by the novel coronavirus streets that. empty

country sacrificing almost all folds of business activity to fight them and then. crowded again based on tracking will be an issue to avoid the 2nd wave of the pandemic and to stop governments and companies from tracking every move. i do see businesses with billions of euros cars hands much of the rubble used to make incomes come time here which is truly understand translations of the starvation wages in the screamed unhealthy conditions of the german manufacturers not being flamed because we should exert pressure all the way down to from. coast

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