biala gassed at frankfurt airport cd managed by for a part. this is due to the news live from bergen worldwide corona virus infections climb towards a 1000000 at worst hit is the united states which has just posted its worst single day death so the president awards of a horrific few days ahead also on the program a life in serious refugee camps is hard enough but what will happen to the 1000 stuck there when the pandemic.

i'm filled gal welcome to the program the corona virus has spread across the planet but it's playing out differently in different countries as the number of cases around the world approaches a 1000000 united states is worst hit with more than 200000 the country's death toll has risen by a record 884 in the last download and the epicenter is new york city. now this is the new normal refrigerated trucks parked outside hospitals to help deal with the sharp rise in fatalities the state's death toll has doubled in just 3 days doctors are increasingly sounding the alarm saying they are overwhelmed by the number of cases. hospitals are running out of medications some

hospitals don't have protective gear for staff or family members or patients that come to the hospital from running out of many cases and i'm running out of apartment and and but even running out of oxygen which is something that they seem to have quoted in $1000.00. union leaders warn that frontline health care workers themselves are at risk. here here to say that our members are afraid to go to work because safety protocols aren't keeping them 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 communities for the president on in his daily news briefing offered no relief he again said the worst was yet to come the families they couldn't be we're going to have a couple of weeks of starting pretty much now but especially a few days from now they're going to be horrific but even in the most challenging of times americans do not despair we do not give in to fear we pull together we

persevere and we overcome and we win new york authorities expect corona virus infections to peak at the end of april but the high death rate continuing through july. the constant wail of ambulance sirens that's become the soundtrack of this crisis will not fall silent any time soon. but one of the measures many countries are struggling with this testing people for the virus the advice from the world health organization is to test as many people as possible. the w h o's global outbreak alert and research that work in singapore he told me that simply testing is not enough. but the one thing that sends me is when we say test test test it's about what you do with that tests and the thing that actually concerns me a minus is when people are a foundling countries across the world to be positive they generally stand higher 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. out aren't. we in the the 5 countries where where there is a quite a flat 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 it's what you do with the tests and given that there is no cure why is testing so important what exactly if you don't do anything with it then there is then 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 people isolation as a genuine infection control intervention difference for it so you can either shut down your whole community and tell everyone to to self quarantine or you can pull out the positive ones isolate them and not allow society to function as it is in out of asia where we see t.v. pictures at every day of people in hazmat suits so disinfecting this street as part of a response to this this is an approach that i think you're not necessarily keen on . now i mean i think that if it's maybe it's a community image that we're taking it seriously i don't know it's certainly not in a thing that we recommend these 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 quite wrong just right people with chlorine arcelor images of i think refugees

things are a you know that that's wrong i think it needs to be to be stopped rather see images. of people. you know washing their hands and distancing and things like that that's the community response not not spraying chlorine everywhere let's 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 that we house all classes and things but it will stop you also have an opportunity for your

health care system to recover you'll get your ventilators back you know people will go one way or the other no 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 are you going to do your contact tracing what are you going to do with with contacts all these sort of things and now be devices because you're locked down and you've got a sort of a breather period but if you just open up it damn right things are the same then it's come back in history it's important to learn the lessons good talking to thank you for joining a fail fisher from the world health organization a group of researchers here in germany is turning

a town hit hard by the pandemic into a study area and then looking at everything how the virus is spread who gets it and what stops it. this is germany's. hind spec is the german epicenter of the corona virus outbreak now it's about to be turned into an open and the dollar tree. of hoffman as one of the country's worst affected regions heinsberg 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 this small community of going ahead 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 and 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 hope taking samples from all aspects of daily life will set some light on how fast and in which ways the virus spread. 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. the team of scientists hopes to be able to present the 1st concrete results on actual infection ratios by the beginning of next week. take a look now at some more of the latest developments in this pandemic the total number of reported infections across the world has risen to almost 940000 more than

$47000.00 deaths this year as u.n. climate summit has been postponed the cup 26 talks shuttled for glasgow in november up in pushed back to next year and brazil has reported the 1st coronavirus case amongst its indigenous population a woman from the comma ethnic group in the arms and rain forest has tested positive . for the u.k.'s a flagship carrier of british airways is the latest airline to take drastic measures to try to ensure its survival in companies reporting products or suspend by 36000 staff and they stressed that there will be no redundancies. this week be a temporary halt of flights out of the u.k. 2nd busiest airport gatwick the coronavirus pandemic has plans aviation industry into an unprecedented crisis as carriers ground their fleets as borders closing

passenger numbers of players. in his look at small ways covered nineteen's impact the world britain's turned london exhibition center enter a temperate coronavirus field hospital will treat up to 4000 patients struck down by covered 19 in previously fit and healthy sicker patients than those with underlying health conditions were treated in hospitals. the president of the philippines has ordered police to shoot dead anyone who causes trouble in lockdown areas or rodriguez deterred his televised speech came just hours after a group of 3 who was arrested in a manila slum for demanding the government do more to help the poor. now any crisis is going to hit the most defenseless hardest bars pandemic is no exception the situation of war torn regions like syria in the provinces already dire medical infrastructure almost nonexistent corona virus outbreak that would be devastating.

disinfecting tents at a refugee camp in adelaide 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 coronavirus pandemic children are taught the most essential prevention 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. not much to him as a doctor at one of the few hospitals in england he alone tells us about 50

suspected cases. this old man has trouble breathing. for 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. nominate and we're doing the best we can to prepare for the corona virus and we have installed a quarantine ward on top of places but we would be out of our league to confront a virus like this should it break out here may god prevent us. to shut off the whole of one of them. 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

a 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 it limp according to local health officials who have a stern warning we repair or save actually you know it's. just. sort of. course your theory is that you want it or it doesn't. or if the corona virus spreads an adlib it will hit those who are defenseless and have nothing to counter it. is day that we news live from berlin and say how do the top of the hour leave you now with a look at the public spaces and lots of been silenced by the coronavirus a pandemic flu this desk if a wiped out have a good day. 2 during

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seem to prove just that in italy where people have been living in lockdown for weeks traffic has nearly stopped sense nitrogen dioxide levels have clearly dropped and other studies suggest that germany might even reach its flamage goals as the corona lock down causes the economy to produce much less c o 2. so is the coronavirus good for the planet is the gov news with special coverage of the covert 19 pandemic in berlin welcome to factories devoid of workers 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. 6 smoke has given way to building skylines 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 also alone the air in europe is better too depending on how long the crisis goes on for the a good 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 doll and murky as a result of the many boats is 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 carrier looked handsome 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 them 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 it's joining me now is neurons and he's from our environment desk 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 in particular to people living in the global south then africa and asia now what this means when we've got locked down which have reduced pollution as we can see partially in china and italy 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 look down lift you know how will the economy would be reshaped in a way that doesn't lead to just more smoke more smog being produced you know 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 lead 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 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 need tain and other greenhouse gases. so the key point of read it from what

the climate experts 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 whole played out once the pandemic is over which will hopefully be of seen as possible what we're going to see this year the sure is climate summit being canceled or postponed or i mean potentially held over skype and video. but a lot less effective if 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 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 of its wood humanity is laying the groundwork for outbreaks like this one is that true edgy are people just using the current crisis to further their agendas or as they indeed a direct connection between say the rainforest and the corn of ours 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 of our earth is too early there's some suggestion that the virus spread initially from bots through penguins and then to humans we know that the center of the outbreak in china was in a wet closet 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 calls from a college of course from scientists to protect these rainforests to protect nature and even if we congress are to 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 our 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 the virus. most of the most severe or 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. the lifespan of the corona virus. 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 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 that science correspondent and that concludes our covert $900.00 special for today for more on the pandemic to check out our social media channels and our website that's t w dot com of course which is dedicated covert $900.00 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

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