bring it on. you tube and 2020. 150th anniversary on d w. this is d w news live from berlin the us coronavirus death toll exceeds 3000 but most of them in new york state it's gov make sense urgent appeal for medical volunteers as a u.s. navy hospital ship arrives with a 1000 hospital beds the governor warns of a staggering number of deaths are u.s. correspondent has the latest also coming up what's taiwan secret the island was hit

early by the one a virus outbreak and managed to keep things under control will be talking to a public health specialist in taipei and a new date for the 2020 tokyo olympics it's in 2021 parker calendars july 23rd this after the games had to be postponed because of the global coronavirus and. i'm called aspen thanks for joining us we begin in the united states where the death toll from copan 1000 now exceeds 3000 over a 3rd of those victims were from new york state whose governor has issued an urgent appeal for medical volunteers governor andrew cuomo called the number of deaths staggering so far an 80000 for medical professionals have answered cuomo call meanwhile a u.s. navy hospital ship has arrived to help relieve pressure on the city's overwhelmed

hospitals. a welcome sight for new york. as the battle against the corona virus ramps up a u.s. navy medical ship with a 1000 beds docked in new york harbor on monday. the mayor spoke of the city's frayed nerves with hospitals are already stretched to a breaking point we've all been through a lot these last few weeks. and we needed this post we needed this hope that's being created by our brothers and sisters the u.s. navy marine corps central park in the middle of manhattan is the latest site to be taken over by a field hospital but new york has been caught in a war of words president donald trump says that medical equipment already in place should be enough for the city but the mayor and the state governors say they both

need more help from the federal government to be ready for what's coming. it is a fundamental blunder to only prepare for today that's why in some ways we are where we are we've been at behind this virus from day one you have this scientist in the data projections show you a cur. the curve goes like this you're over here prepare for the high point of the curve and do we know when you can do it the night before. medics have become the heroines and heroes of the day and monday was even national doctor's day but in new york they've had no chance to celebrate their on the front lines in a city or the coronavirus death toll is rising rapidly meanwhile other states such as michigan louisiana and new jersey also report a spike in coronavirus cases and brace to become the nation's new hot spots and

all of this is happening while the u.s. is still struggling to get testing ramp it up and to better coordinate the efforts to come but the pen demick president still on charm dismisses and the criticism of the federal government's describing the job they are doing asked tremendous on monday president trump urged the american people to vigorously follow the fertile social distancing guidelines that were extended through april he said he was not thinking about opening the u.s. economy very soon instead suggested he might be toughening up the measures in the coming weeks. i let's take a look now at some other coronavirus developments around the world italy the country with the most deaths full extent is locked down until at least april 12th the talons have been under lockdown now for 3 weeks already france has reported its

worst daily death toll more than 400 people france has become now the 4th country to report more than 3000 fatalities brazil's health minister has defied president is valuable so narrow and urged brazilians to practice social distancing something both scenarios not doing he's been downplaying the pandemic and opposes regional lockdown measures and the world health organization is warning that even though the focus is now in europe and the united states the coronavirus pandemic is still quote far from over and asia and the pacific region. gary lawmakers have granted prime minister viktor orban sweeping emergency powers amid this pandemic the bill sets no end date that allows or bonds of will by decree and definitely critics are calling it a power grab rights watchdog amnesty international has said the legislation poses a threat to human rights in the country. while coronavirus was taken hold of europe

hungary in parliament here in budapest decided to put democracy itself under a lockdown. the assembly has voted for the provisions in the proposals by a majority of 137 yes votes to 53 knows no abstentions. by a large majority lawmakers approved a bill handing sweeping powers to prime minister viktor orban a highly controversial move. that has. had all of these measures you are asking for an authorization without any time limits which is unprecedented in your at. gary in prime minister says he needs these powers to fight her own virus after declaring a state of emergency earlier in march the new law gives them the right to rule by decree for as long as he wants during this period elections cannot take place and problem entry oversight is limited. to jail terms up to 5 years can be imposed for

spreading false words about coronavirus the journalists and human rights defenders fear this could be used to muzzle them minister speaking to w. hungary and justice minister you to develop defended her government's move. nothing more than to provide for the government the necessary room for acting immediately for the sake of citizens house life and for the stability of the national economy. prime minister or bad has promised to hand power bad. to parliament as soon as the fight against coronavirus is won. but he made clear this wouldn't be any time soon. or one success story in battling coronaviruses taiwan just over 300 cases have been reported with 5 deaths so far the island has capitalized on its experience battling the sars epidemic in 2003 taiwan moved early

to roll out a coordinated effort this time to teach hospitals how to cope with a new coronavirus taiwan was also quick to disinfect public transport and appointing travellers once cases started appearing containment teams isolated them and tracked down their social contacts all of that was done without support from the world health organisation taiwan is not in the w.h.o. because it's not recognised by the united nations and that's because china use it as a renegade province. we're joined now by mr john chang one he's the dean of the college of public health at national taiwan university thanks for taking the time to speak with us and back in 2003 taiwan was was hit hard by the sars epidemic what lessons did taiwan learn then from that outbreak. you know we learn hostile listens for own as ours break and doctors nurses you know taking care of their sars patients

so the whole society is a hyper in the past few years to be your 84 names attack for on emerging diseases and it took us 7 years to be just a judge and one thing we learned 1st is there's any news from china and you had to leave very cold shivers and you to get a few cases today report as a serious as you can so when we learn for is full of these 19 at that time we don't have a name for that but our government decided it's every of these so we took a bit early. on december 31st is early on that any countries and date wrong we insist we have to beat site to look at that as situations and we insist it and chinese government as some of our experts who go there but they were

not and are now to see why they want so n.z. in return we thought this is serious because a person to person is head but in the air is so we took that older possible actions we can that tactic when rachel was not a dividing any travel advice and we decided to ban any trade barriers from china that i want to ask you to just hop in here quickly because taiwan is not a member of the world health organization because beijing objects politically did the w.h.o. here miss an opportunity to maybe better contain this outbreak by not including taiwan and its consultations. yeah you know that's. if we look at the past few mines this authority or has a man to several mistakes of the lane the crane penned a mixed note on and even the not the right advice to countries even the could include staying one in the full monty skies union some of our successful mangers

could be. somewhat a country who are suffering now and so by screwed in time when it's not a good for the united for debt rest of the war do you think do you think politics won out here over over global health. yeah until now i still see this part it is over as a public ails you know that it still put our duty to china and it's not right and even there is some of these christians we are whole our name is paying one and there is a 23 counties by they put our name is type b. and you violence you know indirectly you can not get a correct bait car that you had to be very serious of the look in and all it did are reporting from the country they have do very far away and then if you are using not the right to tell you i'm it wrong to see it so did not make known the season on time one name in china. i will have to leave it there thank you very much mr

john dean of college of public health at the national taiwan university thanks for speaking with us. yeah it is my prayers to be here. are we have to take a look now at some of the stories making news around the world ford and general electric will produce $50000.00 burgeon c. ventilators in the next $100.00 days they join carmaker g.m. in the race to pre repurpose factory lines to produce ventilators hospitals across the u.s. are urgently seeking the devices as they deal with an onslaught of corona virus patients. amazon workers in the united states are worried about getting infected they have accused the company of not providing proper protections and are threatening to strike business for the online sellers been strong in recent weeks as people do more of their shopping from their computers. the largest dutch flour merchant says that his industry could lose between 2 and 3000000000 euros due to 2

to the current coronavirus crisis and social distancing measures in the height of what would be flower season most of the harvest remains unsold and has yet and has to be compost. a painting by dutch master vincent van gogh called spring garden has been stolen from a museum in the netherlands broke into the singer lauren museum near amsterdam which is closed because of the corona virus the painting from 1884 is valued at get this up to 6000000 euros. 3 the 2028 tokyo olympics will now officially starts on the 23rd of july 2021 the paralympics will follow in august the international olympic committee and japanese organizers settled on that date a week after agreeing to postpone the games due to the pandemic. waving goodbye to this year's 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 so that you'll watch the case 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 cool with all in pick 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 organizers 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 to be a society 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. you're watching news from berlin i'm called asked not be back with more news of the. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour corona up to.

19 special next on d w. the global corona traces you can find more information online at e.w. dot com and on t.w. social media channels. and times of corona data might. be one of the key weapons to curtail the pandemic the data on our smartphones for example. every step we take every step people around us take scientists estimate that one infected person passes the virus

on to around $2.00 to $3.00 people on average so what if we used all the. phones to track people infected with the coronavirus and warn those who had contact with a carrier prevent infections build something like a digital. and south korea that seems to have been one of the keys to keep their infection flat survivals can data trucks help us find the crisis. this is the. special coverage of the global covert 19 outbreak today want to take a closer look at south korea country was hit hard by the corona virus but now it has seen a steep decline in new covert 19 cases compare that with the numbers in germany currently nearly 10 times. the number for germany in recent weeks it appears south korea has largely reined in the disease

and without closing down public life to a degree we are seeing in europe and elsewhere now how. nobody knows exactly but making use of internet technology to share confirmed patients occasions and travel information directly with the public helps quite a lot actually. so theory a seems to be battling the coronavirus covert 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 3 and 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 home have collected and aggregated that information to more user friendly websites up the government provide the travel history of each patient also that's in the text so even if you. read that placing 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 the thiele 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 they can't really you know deal with the situation since their creation in late january and early february independent coronavirus patient tracking web sites have received millions of page views offering users reassuring information. when the coronavirus became a threat i downloaded the app still 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 and reduce new pieces of the coronavirus in recent weeks although health officials here are still worry about potential new clusters. well from seoul south korea i'm now joined

by professor john wants son associate professor at the bar and school of planning university college london professor off a peak at the beginning of march south korea has kept new infections very low you say besides a testing program that's due to surveillance how yes tracing through through surveillance technology played a pretty part in this fight against a corner as if the country has barely 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 everyone every single one patient to come from the patient contacted in the past so ted way you can find out who this patient fighters from and 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 movie like point look asians and this is cities so this movie a form every every movie points service networks have information about where mobile phone has been through g.p.s. and intensive sieber connection and the 2nd a critic cars is again the banks can tell you. when the testing action happened so combination of these 2 well it gives you a lot of cars so for example if a keshia was patient for example just every single

customers or potential patients they had to be tested and using credit cards or of course you can find out all they want to critical scholars and then see if the t.v.'s can give you even more finite movement to data. to the patient to talk to in the past who the patient to pointing to poor example and then someone can i literally have you did only thing profess a this it is dangerous when a government contract every step of its citizens it is certainly is so this is this is an emergency manager who will only lend only when the president of troops it does tend to put it is a controlled 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 those who stay longer professor don't want to join us live from

seoul in south korea thank you very much for this and what. if you think you. know that answer few questions about how south korea handled 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 problem. every day here is all 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 now to find out who else might have been exposed but a big fear of course is their 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 address and the legislation expanding the rights of governments to track their own citizens striking the right balance between outbreak oversight and data privacy is not going to be easy. and 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 draco nian measures like lock downs 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 any future outbreaks they can help us

recognize when ones beginning at an earlier stage to start with and dell 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 covered 19 special coverage for today from all on the pandemic to check out all social media channels and our website that's home which has dedicated cohabit 19 pages in 30 languages. at the end of the show we leave you with pictures from a balcony in long body italy's region that hit hardest by the novel coronavirus streets that. emptying this country sacrificing almost all folds of business

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