this is due. to the virus spain mourns those who have died in the pandemic a minute's silence was held today across the nation more than 8000 people have died in spain's health care system is being pushed to the breaking point also coming up in new york a field hospital in central park. as the united states sees its. toll hit $3500.00 that's higher than china's and german football clubs agreed to extend.

the end of april but could this season resume in may with empty stadium it's. good to have you with us today across spain people paused for one minute to mourn and remember the wives that have been lost to the coronavirus the country's death toll is the 2nd highest in europe behind italy the number of sick and needing care in spain is growing pushing the country's health care system to its limits and yet the government says there is reason for cautious. silence in madrid after the deadliest day yet in spain's corona virus outbreak. the city and much of the country are on lockdown following other european nations. a

senior health official who has been infected appeared via video link to praise measures taken so far but with a warning. and history. and now this is from last week in certain regions shows that the measures are little by little having the desired effect now it wouldn't make any sense to try new measures very important measures were rolled out on the 15th of march. and in that if it does this you know if you look at the but we can institute more measures if the present ones are having an effect this isn't a race to the top. in the west. meanwhile with many medical facilities strained to the breaking point in coming patients are being treated in makeshift hospitals like this one in madrid's convention center which just opened up a new section on monday. as the death toll spikes the leader of spain's main business association complained about the effect of stay at home

orders. if industry cannot stop we have to try to not stop it and if it has to stop it should be for the minimum time possible this is because industry gives strength to the spanish economy. in the industry must be treated with special care because it generates employment and services it is a very important issue. that it clearly is soldiers in hazmat suits have been called up to help disinfect public spaces as the battle against the deadly virus grinds on. in the united states the death toll from the corona virus is nell's are past 3500 that is more than china's official tally new york is the nation's deadliest hotspot with about 1550 deaths statewide most of them in new york city now it's trying to ramp up its capacity before he says hit their peak that includes a u.s.

navy hospital ship that's now docked in the harbor able to take up to itself in patients. for more now is take the story to our very own oversell and he is standing by in washington good evening to you oliver there's been some shocking statistics in images coming out of the york one new york resident died every 12 minutes from the virus over the weekend there was according to the city's health department there's now a field hospital set up in central park is the health system the health care system is it completely overwhelmed in new york or grand certainly very troubling and it's perhaps not completely overwhelmed yet but we are looking at a very troubling scenario indeed that we're facing and that's very realistic scenario as well and it's not only the field hospital that you've mentioned in the swimming hospital that arrived yesterday in the u.s. and has come from a 1000 additional hospital beds also convention centers are now turned into

hospitals so there is a lot happening on that end but if you believe experts who predict the peak of new infections will be there in 2 to 4 weeks then it's not enough of course there's not enough happening and there is not enough hospital beds provided because until then until the peak is reached the numbers of infections will continue to go up exponentially as they did in the past and we are looking at a health care system that is already very much strained with not enough supplies a shortage of ventilators masks and you know we all know those really. shocking images also of dead bodies that are put into french trucks because there is no other space and all of this shows that the health care system is increasingly overwhelmed by the it will certainly also be worse if the predictions of the experts are right new york city mayor bill de blasio he says that 900 inmates have been released from city jails due to coronavirus concerns over why was it

crucial to release these prisoners all over can you hear me now. ok we apologize for that oliver salad in washington is that we're having problems with the signal to washington all right as corona virus cases continue to climb in the u.s. pressure has grown on so-called essential workers to continue to sell groceries and to make home deliveries with some workers are now going on strike or hers at the e-commerce giant amazon walked out of their warehouse in new york city over fears that they are not being protected from the virus there were also nationwide stoppages at the amazon owned supermarket chain whole foods as well as grocery delivery service insta card employees say the increased workload has put them at risk and that the companies are not doing enough to protect them. or let's

take a look now at the latest round of virus numbers around the world more than 8 100000 people have been infected worldwide and almost 40000 have died germany has canceled its famous wagner opera festival in by reut this summer and the world health organization is warning that even though the focus is now on europe and the united states the corona virus pandemic is still quote far from over in asia and in the pacific region where despite doubts about their effectiveness there seems to be a surge in wary masts face masts here in europe president mccraw and he wants french factories to produce 10000000 a week. face masks for years they've been part of daily life for many in asia and now for parts of europe they're about to become say to us just

decision to make it compulsory to wear the mosques in supermarkets and sparked a debate in neighboring germany. the town of year has now become germany's 1st to announce similar measures though given the shortage of facemasks the city has encouraged people to sow their own it's a move large be welcomed by the residents. i think it's a good the more that stunned the better and the more everyone does it the sooner it will be free of the virus i have 6 simple masks at home and then push comes to shove also my suit and. i think it's a good idea in principle the problem is that there simply aren't any masks mix. the world health organization is among those saying there's little scientific evidence showing that basic masks once not intended for medical use affectively prevent healthy people from catching the corona virus but some experts advice that they could be useful as

a barrier to stop those infected from contaminating others. non-truths masks for nose and mouth are relevant for the protection of others if someone is infected and masks keep the virus droplets from flying out when someone sneezes or coughs it should nice to fight feed and could be. up to now the insistence by many western countries that the widespread use of mosques is not necessary has surprised many in asia that people have worn face masks the years because of application but in this pandemic there practically a civic duty in europe that attitude is now increasingly gaining ground. or here's a look now in some ways that covert 19 is impacting the business world the streets of nigeria's economic capital one goes have been almost deserted on the 1st full day of a government ordered lockdown police are manning checkpoints and turning back nonessential traffic

a jury has recorded more than 100 cases of the coronavirus including 2 deaths south africa has the most confirmed coronavirus cases in africa but it's struggling to make its citizens obey social distancing rules the government has announced massive door to door screening and testing for infections morocco's capital robots it has been hard hit by a coronavirus quarantine that has seen the city's famous suits shut down almost completely only food stands bakeries and fruit stands are allowed to operate. in japan a surge in corona virus infections in the capital tokyo is putting the government under pressure to declare a nationwide lockdown 2000 cases have so far been confirmed throughout japan in a bid to contain the virus many employees are already working from home and that is quite a novel concept in the land of the so-called salaryman the worker drone who was

chained to his desk. casually dressed as his daughters play nearby yuki such as work environment is far removed from the typical japanese salarymen tokyo's decision office workers are expected to spend long hours at their desks but the corona virus outbreak has forced employers and workers to adjust to more telly working from home it's getting a cautious thumbs up. what's good about telly working is that i can have more free time i usually spend 2 hours in total commuting which i now use to take care of things at home. that i like very much. the government wants to encourage more women in the workforce in japan and this requires men to pull their weight on childcare and housework while one 5th of companies offer a tele work option just 8.5 percent of employees have tried to. experts say it

may lead to a more permanent change and it's not just the office workers themselves who welcome the change to kids like it to. go in the german football league has confirmed that the restart date for the bundesliga will be april 30th at the earliest the club's agreed on tuesday that the suspension should be extended because of the corona virus however games may still be played behind closed doors when the season resume. these are uncertain times for german football there's been no action inside disney get stadium since the middle of march now the $36.00 clubs from germany's top 2 division say that's will remain the case until at least the end of april. so the bill does leave your clubs have unanimously followed the recommendations of the committee all play should stop until at least the 30th of april wouldn't and that training should stop

until the 5th of april to support the efforts of the government so distance. from major league wants to look at playing games behind closed doors without fans if the season were to be cancelled clubs would lose a combined 750000000 euros in revenue mainly from t.v. contracts and that some teams in financial peril. what was made clear today is that certain clubs. games this season can't be played and if t.v. licensing fees from certain media broadcasters aren't paid form the fees and i need clips in my then certain clubs in may and others in june could find their existence threats instance but on is it once you and. the desire and need to play it that it's not clear is whether the possibility is to you. well the tennis season has

also been hit by the coronavirus but it hasn't stopped one of the sport's biggest stars from keeping his skills in top shape roger federer shared this video with his twitter followers despite the snow in switzerland he managed to pull off some nifty trick shots now out of action since january after having need surgery but he joked with fans and he can still remember how to play in the cold. tokyo's main countdown clock for the 2020 olympics has been reset the digital clock in front of tokyo's main train station was built for the run up to the games it had been counting down to the originally slated date until organizers agreed on monday that the games will be rescheduled for july 23rd to august of 202-1479 days and counting remain on the clock that's a good way to create

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like any information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you can get your podcast you can also find us at. science fiction. fan demick is over why. it's just so many people that need the breathing machines that just simply haven't been manufactured. imagine you're a doctor and have a 30 year old patient and an 80 year old both infected with the coronavirus both strong severe symptoms and both need an oxygen mask but you only have one who. has this kind of decision is called tria it's french and that means deciding who has a higher chance of survival and is given a higher priority in medical treatment and who might be left to the.

doctors around the globe are taking these decisions right now what does that mean for those doctors and what are the ethics behind 3 are that's what we're looking at today in our special coverage of the covert 19 crisis here on d w. it all comes down to how well the health system is prepared for a pandemic in the embers the number of intensive care beds and ventilators that counts most health system outside italy and france are holding the line but around the world hospitals are filling up tria might become a reality for doctors sooner or later. this is the worst case scenario when treating patients in front stopped as a force to make life or death decisions patients over the age of 80 will not be put on mechanical ventilators this process is called tria. the term comes from the french for t.n.a.

it means the sourcing of and allocation of treatment to patients modern medical tree ours was invented during the napoleonic wars france spain and italy of the worst affected countries in europe more than 100000 people have been infected with the virus in italy and nearly 12000 have died and the longer the crisis continues the more often doctors are faced with making some very tough decisions. and to talk about those decisions are now joined by dr to be escort is a physician an epidemic epidemiologist at the director and also the director of the institute for public health at berlin's charity hospital and professor vinca physician teaching medical ethics at heidelberg university let's start with you dr cord we're not yet doing trea and germany are doctors well prepared for taking these decisions will work doctors are well prepared as other doctors in the world

are training and the hospitals and physicians already stationed. theoretical i think when it's reactions necessary in germany it will be very challenging for a doctors and medical teams yes well put how does trash work in a hospital is it just one doctor who ends up being the only one responsible and carries this burden well there are certainly operating procedures in place so you can imagine eventually there is still time to decide in which case it louis left eye in treating physician in the medical teams on site will get into place or not so it's going to be very challenging situations for the support of the law structures the hospital as well as the legal system is very important as or just medical teams to make these decisions we're talking about these procedures a professor how can doctors and hospital actually prepare for tria.

then i think. from an ethical point of here and prepayment for these decisions is crucial for 2 reasons the question uniform rules in order to ensure fair a patient of resources. across teams across units and hospitals and because doctors in their everyday chemical don't and i'm not familiar not at ease this as such decisions because the traditional clinical ethics is patient centered and not at for allocating patients to different levels of contingency care so from an ethical. need to actually are 2 areas i think the 1st victory asks for courts that provides for a step by step evaluation and criteria for testing patients and in germany several medical association pettish recommendations for tria protocol last week with their ketamine for ethics in medicine in that heat and 2nd each hospital test if and test

out these bullets should be implemented and therefore actually asked him that include the expertise of intensive care physicians. maybe even clinical ethics committees can support in setting up these processes think the most important think is s. and thing as doctors that there are only if they give it a place not to charge for the responsibility taken in these decisions that's where one key issue of course but what about normal doctors saying in the community village doctors who have covered patients do they also might they also face these ethical dilemmas. i think not those that this and this and the decision on. who gets under mental a dose of is he not the primary care physician that they have at their tree ash decisions if there are many patients who are going to transfer to the hospital. if

there are many patients in need so i think the same criteria of seriousness and and come of it that go into the trash or tickets in the hospital can also here in the periphery for nominal primary care physician or at least of importance for him. coming back to you how well can you predict actually whether a person will probably die even if treated isn't that also a bit of a lottery. but there are certain visa logic parameters medical history medical experience of the trade in physicians will help to support your decision but there is no certainty that the 2 minute decision is he is the right one there also isn't only. here in spain that it seems made a difference decisions to the canoe up situation will be

a circle learning for us who are there in conservative best to really use the us for the best of the large professor when coming back to you as an ethicist what can you tell a frontline doctor who is facing a decision like that could you give us an example. well i think 1st it would be important to or to acknowledge that these are tough decisions that kind of head out spend our 100 doctors. and summer test effectively upsets dilemmas and then coming back to those schools and protocols that we have now is set up saying. there are different faces of the pen demick and if you have not enough. tests for a patients who needs you and have to pray or test so it's. certain that you are and that they will survive and then others and there we have clearly led laid out

criteria so that this was a good set current situation up the patient come up to tease for a it isn't criteria but for example age just not a credit here that went into our recommendation said chumbley and if i think the steps thing that i would recommend is make. a way out of. a terrible suppliants in secular absolute terms because we know that this is a serious stress and more and otherwise stressing situation and this church as a bit up now or in the hospital floor relieve the stress that happens in trio situations professor you have in there and started to be a support thank you very much. and i was every day here's a science correspondent stary quill him for a couple of answers to questions that you have sent him keep them coming today it's

about how men and women kemi differently affected by covert 19 it's the covance gender gap. studies suggest men are more likely to catch covert $1000.00 than women is that true it does indeed appear that men are more likely to test positive for the disease than women are in other words men make up more than the 50 percent of confirmed cases you would expect if the virus infected men and women with equal frequency. are men more likely to die from cove in 1000 as well. here the data is there's more conclusive and what it's saying is that men are more likely to die after infection with cope at 19 than women are the numbers are very striking for example in italy where over 70 percent of the confirmed patients who succumbed to the disease were men also the coronavirus really does appear to be more lethal for men than it is for women. so why are men more

vulnerable than women. like so much else about this virus for just don't know enough at this point to really pin down why it's killing more men than it is women but researchers have hazarded some guesses on average worldwide more than women do men pursue behaviors that are considered to be health risks like smoking tobacco or were drinking alcohol and everyone should know those risks those unhealthy behaviors can also lead to what are called co-morbidities those are conditions like like hypertension or a cardiovascular disease or chronic lung disease and many of the victims of cope at 19 were elderly men with co-morbidities yet other researchers are trying to cast some light on the issue by focusing on the biological and genetic differences between men and women could estrogen be playing a protective role for example maybe there are also some well documented immune

system differences between men and women and what's most probable is that all of those factors social behavioral biological that they're all going to play a role in why covert 19 is hitting men harder than it's hitting women there's not going to be a simple straightforward explanation. on the derrick williams there keep the questions coming and that was our covered 900 special for more on the pandemic to check out our social media channels and our website that's the w dot com of course which is dedicated covert 900 pages in 30 languages and now we want to leave you with a few images from that egypt the famous great pyramids and presents with messages of unity and solidarity with those battling noble karata coronavirus across the globe a 1st time last night stay safe and thank you those peeping safe flashed

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