this is the new. infections climb towards a 1000000 worst it is the united states which has just posted a record single day. the president. also on the program. opens a term for hospital in a month an exhibition center to cope with a tsunami of new cases as the country records its time stated that. face masks are short supply in many parts of the world. a way

around. welcome to the program the number of coronavirus cases around the world is approaching a 1000000 the united states is worst hit with more than 200000 infections and the death toll has risen by a record 884 in the last day was new york city the epicenter of america's corona virus outbreak the streets of new york deserted. but ambulances are a constant presence on the streets the state's death toll has doubled in just 3 days a refrigerated truck was brought in to hope this brooklyn hospital would deal with the shop rise in fatalities. hospitals are running out of medications some hospitals don't have protective gear for staff or family members

a police inspector into the hospital or running out of medications were running out of the building and but even running out of oxygen which is something that has been to have all been run through. the white house is projecting that the virus could climb up to 240000 lives across the country we're told just by this pandemic authorities urging restraint and if you are going to wear a face covering when you go out please understand please don't need an end 95 mask and if you take one of those in 95 i ask you maybe taking it out of the hands of a health care worker who desperately needed to care for patients union leaders are warning that frontline health care workers are at risk you're here to say that our members are afraid to work because the protocols aren't being. that is what i were calling for hazard pay you're trying to keep ourselves safe we're trying to work are safe we're trying to keep our community health care workers who didn't get

access to a mosque are now stuck at home so i haven't really been given too much direction besides just wait it out a hole. or it's going to wait it out and you get worse you know if you you can't breathe you know you're start average. president trump is warning americans they face a very tough and painful 2 weeks and he is not given to understatement. journalist james ryan who joins us from new york and gave us this assessment. i think you can say the mood in new york city it's becoming increasingly concerned and i think that goes nationwide as well in the last 24 hours there's been a discernible shift in the empathy on the scale of this crisis for example previously president on trial he was talking about you know the possibility of there being some pure being found coronavirus saying that the crisis was going to

be as long lasting. and wasn't going to tank the economy as such a long time now that has changed in the last 24 hours we've just had president trump speaking to the nation again and he said it's going to be vicious the predictions the projections for the total death toll from that crisis that are come out of the white house. suggest that as many as 100000 or up 224-0000 people could die and that even if we start to bang the social distancing rules and everybody does they shut up in their apartments not just here in the worst part of the country the tri state area of new york new jersey and connecticut but i need to add a. other parts of the country like florida and you were lanes. starting to show biggest signs of epidemics there or britain recorded its largest one day increase in coronavirus deaths on wednesday 202500 people have died of coverage 19

in the u.k. they prime minister barak's johnson the health minister and prince charles of all tested positive the government has opened a series of emergency field hospitals across the country to deal with the massive search in cases the w. charlotta parts reports from london. the finishing touches to london's newest hospital 4000 beds to treat covert 900 patients and isa pressure on britain's national health service which has far fewer beds intensive care units and ventilator than most of its european neighbors what you see here is a mass mobilization taking place right across the country but also these new nightingale hospitals this is being an extraordinary team effort on the part of nurses and doctors and therapists and pharmacists across london but also volunteers and paramedics and people returning to help 20000 retired doctors and nurses have returned to work most of them could be needed to cover this new hospital alone

meanwhile critical care beds across london. doctors and nurses are bracing for a continuous tsunami of patients and they're frightened of what's to come they don't have the proper equipment to protect themselves and there is a serious lack of testing one in 4 hospital doctors is self isolating at home at the moment because they can't get tested just at a time when they are needed the most so far only 2000 out of half a 1000000 frontline n.h.s. staff in england has been tested for the virus now the government has promised to use all spare coronavirus tests for medical personnel. british industry is doing its part and the crisis instead of vacuum cleaners dyson is now building thousands of this as well comic us from the world of formula one racing like mclaren despite these efforts experts say there won't be enough ventilators ready in time that

people in britain are still proud of the health service. and it just here is i feel more prepared and more than most countries that i know. you're absolutely fantastic. to be on this long. before christmas in china and we should been preparing for a. just get on with especially the west is yet to come the peak is expected to reach the u.k. after easter so these next weeks will be the most crucial test for the n.h.s. since its founding after the 2nd world war. all countries around the world are reporting shortages of protective equipment like facemasks for staff and for ordinary citizens but one country that's avoided this problem is taiwan so how do they do it could very approachable related by others. kong reports from taipei.

this handmade face must cover can be washed and reused for a day or 2 amid shortages like the so many others here face masks have become a necessity in josie's everyday life the virus with bradford drop i have to take a bath to my office every day so it's more than one hour they are to share a fan base with more than 30 people in it made me feel safer without wearing it. while getting a mosque can be no easy task in many parts of the world it's another story here in taiwan to ensure the safety of its population of $23000000.00 taiwan imposed an export ban on surgical masks as early as january the government then began rationing masks to 3 per person per week and soon after made them available online now as you can place an order for face masks with an up purchase history is recorded by hand national health insurance card so that it can be verified before

sales for those who don't want to order online software developer can fin john has developed a real time must map to track facemask stocks in pharmacies. people can check their availability before heading out this is among the dozens of online tools that have mushroomed on the island during the epidemic an exhibition of public private partnership a mutual trust. fund so that it's not difficult to create such a map but the key to the successful rationing system is that the government is willing to share its data with us taiwan's well established health care system is our advantage the data of over 6000 pharmacies across the country has already been connected to the official database it's enormously beneficial once the data is open to society panic can be eased as a result. by collaborating with other programmers across east asia his map was also adopted into a korean version to solve

a similar problem facing south korea. 10 days after placing the order josee picks up a surgical masks at a convenience store. in conning people can buy in a really fair price you can buy 3 man for the last one euro and this is really cheap if like a social equality for us you can achieve a healthy right for everyone and you can have them to protect yourself and that is invaluable in these difficult times taiwan's health care system and the serve it not only help provide musk's but much needed comfort and stability into advice about the wearing of mast sources something that people have just done for themselves. well recently taiwan government has ramped up the mosque wearing policies because there's a rep the search off import of cases on the island and has now reported over

$300.00 infections confirmed cases now so the government is now requiring the citizens to wear a mask while they're saying indoors and taking public transport and this can. because. a steady supply of the mosque can be guaranteed on the island that one can now manufacture 10000000 mosques a day. and not only how one can cater to his domestic demand but also. try to help other countries in other parts of the well the government just announced yesterday that they will donate 10000000 mosques to the most needy countries including the u.s. and europe and 7000000 will go to europe to help medical workers over there and. just talk us briefly through. the most of the most critical mass to construct

a pandemic taiwan has imposed very only want to control life back in taiwan. likely cut off the flights between mainland china and taiwan and also to impose travel restrictions to certain types of people so right now all foreign visitors. pants and street and the government is also. essential personnel including medics and military so they are not allowed to travel overseas and also students and. schools and they're not allowed to leave the country right now so this is. the. time. of the world's population is now in the coronavirus changing life not just for us but also. millions of good friends and

i'm. reconsidering that position. long days stuck at home may be frustrating for us humans but many of our 4 legged friends have never had it so good leo from florida is locking up the extra attention. during this rather tricky time leo brings a load of joy to. be at parties it is in our history and being. with us so the doorkeeper gets boy it's obvious that feeds the dogs that have time with the fallacy in london sim rance pooch can't believe her luck. everything has gone completely out of the window as long as social distancing is practiced there is no reason to give up walkies and it's not just dogs who are enjoying more family time believe it is usually asleep at this time she. night out

or an i pod but there so it's all the kids are here and everything we thought we'd take her out. during times of crisis pets can be a great comfort that's why across the world animal adoptions are now soaring. who say no it's 300 percent increase in adoptions and interest around foster kids up occasions and it's been really motivating to see many people turn to animals for some companionship over the next few weeks if not months. thanks to the increase in demand for new furry family members many of these shelters cages are now empty. this is d.w. news alive from brother no more at the top of it in the meantime of course as always the website the doubly. have good.

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really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at dot com. science. goats conquering empty streets in a british film what a strange picture to us humans are used to only seeing all cells governing the world as soon as we withdraw mate so quickly takes over these monkeys in thailand as well at the corona crisis eventually being good for the environment subplot images seem to prove just in italy. people have been living in lockdown for weeks traffic stops and nitrogen dioxide levels have clearly dropped and other studies suggest that germany might even reach its climate goals as the corona lock down causes the economy to produce much less c

o 2 so. good for the planet this is the news with special coverage of the covert 19. years in berlin welcome. thousands of flights canceled empty streets because people are working from home instead of driving to the office global economic activity has been put into an induced coma bad for the world economy but from a climate perspective the coronavirus pandemic is not entirely negative environmental activists might actually rejoice measures have been implemented immediately that drastically cut emission emissions measures that otherwise would have taken years to come into effect. images from space china's and pollution shown in red shrunk dramatically between december and march. thick smoke has given way to believe. thanks to closed factories reduced capacity

power plants and fewer cars on the roads beijing's residents have been enjoying some unusually fresh spring act and then the air in europe is that it's too depending on how long the crisis goes on for the think tank estimates that germany's greenhouse gas emissions could be 40 percent lower this year than last. tourist hot spots are also enjoying some restaurant venice normally bustling with over $20000000.00 tourists each year is virtually empty. the water in its many can now usually dahlan murky as a result of the many boats is certainly clear. kraft are responsible for around 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions but the booming business is currently very international flights have been reduced to a minimum german carry a lot of cancer for example has cut 90 percent of its long distance flights in many

countries lockdowns is set to continue for some time others are on the threshold of that as china however is beginning to wind its economy back up again and that raises the question when the lockdowns end will it be business as usual. will its joining me now is this from our environment desk we just saw some of the positive effects in inverse commas of this pandemic on the environment so will we or should we go back to business as usual. we need to go back to what we're doing before but in a different way it's really difficult to talk about silver linings or to kind of celebrate these lockdowns because of course we're in the middle of a pandemic and this is a much more urgent crisis than the climate crisis that we're also living and you can understand people celebrating this partially particularly when we talk about

air pollution now air pollution is one of the world's most deadly killers it claims more than $7000000.00 lives each year and it shaves off on average about 3 years of our lives in particular people living in the global south then africa and asia now what this means when we've got locked down which have reduced pollution that we can see partially in china and it really is that in the short term at least people are able to breathe better the question is how long can this be held on for and wanted to lock down the lift how will the economy you be reshaped in a way that doesn't lead to just more smoke more smoke being produced rather puts things into perspective as if the shutdown also causes a drastic cut in c o 2 emissions to a degree that germany might even reach its climate goals for this year prematurely is that shutdown or a shutdown of that magnitude of what it takes to reach climate targets. it's one way of reaching them but i think most climate experts would say it's not

a particularly good way of doing so there are clear solutions that would enable us to reduce greenhouse gas gas emissions and meet the climate targets that countries have agreed on in a way that doesn't require people to stay locked in their houses or to a hoax economic activity the most obvious of the solution the to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and on top of that change how we consume food how we to reduce the amount of for instance beef that being a term that required raising rain forests and raising large numbers of cattle that belch meat tain and other greenhouse gases. so the key point of reddit from what the climate experts are saying is to find ways to reduce the emissions without causing the harm to to the economy to humans that they've locked down the currently doing but as you do do you think that what once the recovery period after covert

has started do you think that fighting climate change will go on the back burner for a while i think we're already seeing that happen and it's hard to predict how that hope played out once the pandemic is over which will hopefully be as soon as possible. what we're going to see this year for sure is climate summit being canceled or postponed or i mean potentially held over skype and video. but a lot less effective as a clear answer we can see governments have much bigger priorities to deal with namely reducing the spread of the virus and on top of that we also have the issue of the kind of momentum behind change being lost so even climate activists the school strikers protesting lycra to invoke having to do that over skype it's a lot less in the public domain it's a lot less on people's minds because frankly there are other more pressing issues to deal with. now the corona virus outbreak is actually changing the way we

think about a whole range of things including how we treat nature intensifying has come in for particular criticism many of many new viruses have spread from animals to humans some say that in that in growing vast quantities of a single crop in monocultures all stripping the rain forest off it's what humanity is laying the groundwork for outbreaks like this one is that true as if our people just using the current crisis to further their agenda as well as they indeed a direct connection between say the rainforest and the corner virus there's a direct her connection between human activity encroaching on ecosystems and the effects on pandemics whether that was the case with this particular current virus it is too early to tell there's some suggestion that the virus spread initially from bats through penguins and then to humans we know that the center of the outbreak in china was in

a wet market where you've got lots of animals being traded sold illegally for meat on top of each other it's very easy to spread from animal to animal now that can all accelerate and what we're seeing clearly from course from a college of course from scientists to protect these rainforests to protect nature and even if we can't necessarily link it to the current crisis to be aware that this will help prevent future pandemics as it narrowed down from our environment desk thank you very much. thank you thank you ok time now for your questions answered by science correspondents derek williams locked away in his office at home keep your questions for him coming via social media by a comments on our you tube channel and if you're more the old fashioned type via email today we start with the weather. does hot weather help stop will slow the virus. most of the most severe corona

virus outbreak so far have been in places that were still in the midst of winter but where spring is now on the way we don't really know yet whether when things heat up in the northern hemisphere it will slow the spread of covert 19 but there is reason for cautious hope that it might related coronaviruses have been shown to have seasonality but the w.h.o. has more than that at this point we very much just have to wait and see. once the lifespan of the coronavirus. a study released a few weeks ago in the new england journal of medicine looked at exactly that question and came up with some ballpark figures that 1st looked at how long the coronavirus remained in the air and found there were still viable levels of it after 3 hours the researchers also looked at materials like stainless steel and

plastic and found that the virus survives on those surfaces for up to 3 days on cardboard it only remains viable for around 24 hours it's important to say that those tests they took place under strict laboratory conditions so you can't really transfer those results one to one in the real world but they do provide a kind of rule of thumb. can the virus spread. when money changes hands. paper bank notes and bills are not all that different than services like cardboard so yes you can expect the virus to survive for a while on their surfaces so in theory yes money is possible back to or for infection but but don't forget that you can't catch the disease through your skin the virus has to get into your respiratory tract and it does that by your hands

when you touch your face so if you avoid doing that and wash your hands thoroughly after conducting any monetary transactions it should be an effective way to limit any risk. that science correspondent and that concludes our covert $900.00 special for today for more on the pandemic do check out our social media channels and our website that's t w dot com of course which is dedicated covert 900 pages in 30 languages now before we go let's spare a thought for animal friends in zoos around the world with lockdowns in full force it seems the animals are missing the visitors. anyone who doesn't like camera crews for example is greeted with delight at using images off from germany both zookeepers in the u.k. and the usa their animals are feeling the say. let's hope we'll be so.

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