not too dumb to. april and. this is the w.'s live from berlin the u.k. government under fire over its coronavirus response as hospitals prepare for certain new cases in the country because it's highest daily death toll lask an expert from the world health organization what countries should be doing to minimize deaths also on the program. life in serious refugee camps is hard enough but what will happen to the thousands stuff that when the virus hits.

time for welcome to the program the corona virus has spread across the planet but it's playing out differently in different countries britain has just recorded its logic stating increase in deaths 563 on wednesday bringing the total to $2500.00 that the u.k. government has been under pressure over its response critics say it was unprepared despite having seen the virus spread elsewhere and that too few tests have been carried out to other cuts compared to other countries a prime minister who has himself tested positive for corona virus has promised to remedy this. we're also massively increasing testing and i want to say a special word about testing because it is so important and i as i've said for

weeks and weeks this is the way through this is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle this is how we will defeat it in the end while they don't need a shot apart since in london she gave us this assessment of boris johnson's claim that he called for an increase in testing weeks ago that is obviously not true because he hasn't been saying for weeks and weeks that testing was so important indeed has been no testing for anybody basically but very serious cases at the hospital so the number of unrecorded cases here in the u.k. will be much much higher so what does the government now propose to do show. well there's a lot of confusion in the government's message there because the faces of the crisis the health minister the prime minister and the chief medical officer are all sick and in quarantine at the moment so there is no clear strategy but obviously

testing and tracking hasn't been on the radar so far so the n.h.s. the national health service has been taking matters into their own hands so to say $20000.00 retired doctors and nurses have returned to work at this point it's an army of volunteers over half a 1000000 who have signed up to help those that are isolating the vulnerable and elderly for the next 12 weeks they're doing shopping for them or transporting discharged patients so there is a lot of positive movement but this testing really remains an issue in the government saying we don't have enough chemical. agents to do massive testing but the chemical industry in comparison is saying that they have it so really a lot of confusion about what's to come. in london thank you well dale fisher chess the world health organization is global outbreak alert and

research network he joins us from. welcome to be doubly what do you make of britain's lack of testing. i'm not there are not sure how much testing is being done but the one thing that sends me is when we say test test test it's about what you do with that and the thing that actually concerns me to my eyes is when people are a foundling countries across the world to be positive they generally send home we know that you know up to 80 percent of cases a mild will and a lot of rain young people and and it's very difficult to completely isolate yourself. at home. we are in the 5 countries where where there is a quite a flat good and relative control we all isolate out isis you know hospital but when that capacity is breached then we have unity isolation centers this is all

through china now hong kong taiwan south korea and singapore so to me of what you do with this and given that there is no cure why is testing so important well exactly if you don't do anything with it then there's then you could argue what's the point in testing the reasons the test is you can identify the cases and you can take them out of out of society and you keep them out until and until they're cleared and then they can come back you know it's not a it's not a penalty or punishment to isolate they will isolation as a genuine infection control intervention to prevent spread so you can either shut down your whole community and tell everyone so just so quarantine or you can pull out the positive ones isolate them and not allow society to function as it is even in parts of asia where we see t.v. pictures that every day people in hazmat suits said disinfecting this story as part

of a response to this and this is an approach that i think you're not necessarily keen on. no army no that maybe it's a community image that we take seriously i don't know it's certainly not in a thing that we recommend we don't believe people are catching up from the ground. and and you know it's it makes no sense it's it's it's quite wrong just right people with chlorine i saw images of i think refugees claims re you know that that's wrong i think it needs to be to be stopped i'd rather see images. of people you know washing their hands and distancing and things like that that that's the community response not not spraying chlorine everywhere let's not look to the medium and long term how should governments avoid a resurgence in cases in this pandemic and indeed prepare for the next one.

i'm not sure what you mean by the next time if we were to face this one 1st. the you know so many countries or cities are under lockdown and this lockdown release needs to be seen as an opportunity firstly you will stop transmission if you if you separate everyone and say don't mix transmission will eventually burn out they'll be household clusters and things but it will stop you also have an opportunity for your healthcare system to recover you'll get your ventilators back you know people will go one way or the other of 000 come off the ventilator hopefully successfully but some will die but your health system can recover but i think what's most important is journey lockdown period is that you reboot your response you look at your testing you look at what you're going to do with positive patients you look at the laws you know what do you have public health powers to be able to do what's

what's the right thing for the public how you know do you contact tracing what are you going to do with with contacts all these sort of things and now be devoted because you're locked down and you've got a sort of a breather period but if you just open up again rather things of the same dentist come back in history it's important to learn the lessons good talking to thank you for joining us dale fisher from the world health organization. well here in germany our search for a group of researchers has turned a hard hit town into a study area they're looking at everything to get information about how the virus is spread and who gets it and what stops it. this is germany's. hind spac is the german epicenter of the corona virus outbreak now it's about to be turned into an open the door tree and

a coffin and as one of the country's worst affected regions heinz bag has reached the point where we can now see new infections declining and looking annoying so here for the 1st time we can ask the question how many infections went undetected how high the ratio of those really years were sick without ever being diagnosed. doctors are teaming up with pollsters to analyze a group of 1000 people in the small community of gang it following cannibal celebrations in february the town saw a sudden surge of coronavirus infections those responsible hope the mistakes made back then may now produce some good for others. in the end maybe we won't just be remembered for being the region where things were really bad and maybe will be remembered for handling the situation well doing as much as we could. it's hoped taking samples from all aspects of daily life will set some light on how fast and

in which ways the virus spread it is probably in the sea of the problem is that we are currently relying too much on mathematical models. and if only one factor turns out to be wrong the whole calculation model collapses like a house of cards house is on the team of scientists hopes to be able to present the 1st concrete results on actual infection ratios by the beginning of next week. well here are some more of the latest developments in this pandemic the total number of reported infections worldwide as risen to almost 140000 with more than 47000 deaths this is un climate summit has been postponed the cup 26 talks at you for glasgow in november has been pushed back to next year and brazil has reported the 1st coronavirus case amongst its indigenous population a woman from a common ethnic group in the amazon rainforest has tested positive well the u.k.'s the flagship carrier of british airways is the latest allied to take

drastic measures to try and ensure its survival becomes is reported to be planning to spend about 36000 stuff there stressing that there will be no redundancies this week temporarily halted flights out of the u.k. 2nd busiest airport gatwick the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the aviation industry into an unprecedented crisis as carries a force to ground their fleet as borders closed and passenger numbers please. every crisis will hit the most defenseless hardest in the coronavirus pandemics no exception the situation in war torn regions like syria's province is already dire of the medical infrastructure almost nonexistent coronavirus outbreak there would be devastating. disinfecting tents at a refugee camp in it live province a prevention effort being carried out by the volunteer rescue group white helmets.

almost a half a 1000000 people are packed in here at times up to 10 people share a tent under catastrophic hygenic conditions many of them have fled civil war only to be threatened by the corona virus pandemic children are taught the most essential convention methods their parents often desperate. yes i've heard about the coronavirus i'm scared for my children there is no prevention happening hardly any disinfectant nobody takes care of it. syria is ill prepared to deal with the corona virus outbreak so far authorities claim to have only 10 cases but the actual number is likely much higher. to him as a doctor at one of the few hospitals in ad lib he alone tells us about 50 suspected cases. so far this old man has trouble breathing. them or another has a high fever and is feeling sick. the entire province of it live has roughly 100

intensive care beds and 47 ventilators for a population of over 3000000. mom and i don't know we're doing the best we can to prepare for the corona virus and we have installed a quarantine ward the players but we would be out of our league to confront a virus like this should it break out here may god prevent this in the shuttle but . here in the capital damascus a curfew is in place from 6 in the evening till 6 in the morning just like the rest of syria but during the day life still moves at its normal pace and even in it live the shops are still open nobody is under quarantine abu ahmed owns a small street shop like you but i do have the virus is dangerous for all of us but we need to work in order to survive how can we stay at home i do what the world health organization has so far sent only 300 corona test kits to add limp according

to local health officials who have a stern warning we. actually. receive fees if you want to hear. if the corona virus spreads and it live it will hit those who are defenseless and have nothing to counter it. this is day w coronaviruses special is up next i'll be back at the top of the hour i'll leave you now with a look at the landmarks and public spaces silenced by the corona virus pandemic of the day.

combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour carona update.

when the covert 19 special next on d w. the global corona crisis you can find more information online at e.w. dot com and on the telly use social media channels. goats. empty streets in a british village what a strange picture to us humans were used to only seeing ourselves governing the world as soon as we withdraw quickly takes over. these monkeys in thailand as well the corona crisis eventually being good for the environment

satellite images seem to prove just in italy where people have been living in lockdown for weeks traffic has nearly 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 is the coronavirus good for the planet this is the news with special coverage of the covert 19. years in berlin welcome. steve out of work thousands of flights cancelled 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 bought 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 pollution shown in red shrunk dramatically between december and march. 6 smoke has given way to building skies thanks to closed factories reduced capacity power plants and fewer cars on the roads beijing's residents have been enjoying some unusually fresh spring air and they're not alone the air in europe is better too depending on how long the crisis goes on for the a guru 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 then it's normally bustling with over $20000000.00 tourists each year is virtually empty. the water in its many can now usually dull and murky as a result of the many boats is clear. crafter

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 carrier looked handsome for example has cut 90 percent of its long distance flights in many countries lockdowns are set to continue for some time others are on the threshold of their china however it's beginning to wind its economy back up again and that raises the question when the lockdowns end will it be business as usual. will it strong i mean now is. from our environment. we just saw some of the positive effects in inverted 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 particularly 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 lockdowns lift how will the economy would be reshaped in a way that doesn't lead to just more smoke more smoke being produced rather puts things into perspective as it 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 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 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 flu shot and 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's being a term that required raising rain forests and raising large numbers of cattle that belch me thane 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 these lock down the currently doing but as it does 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 kids only vote 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 if the 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 like grit 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 rightly 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 us 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 you are people just using the current crisis to further their agendas or as they indeed a direct connection between say the rain forest 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 coronavirus 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 the rain forests 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 our 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 knifes ban if 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 remained 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 banknotes 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 a possible vector for infection but but don't forget that you can't catch the disease through your skin and 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. there we go ims 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 d.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 a lot downs in full force it seems the animals are missing the visitors anyone who

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