beethoven's 9th symphony for the world starts on d.w. . live from berlin this is the deadly news the u.k. government is on the file of or its response to the coronavirus those hospitals prepare for a surge in new cases while the country records its highly highest rather die think death toll ask an expert how the health service is coping also on the program. pressure builds on brazil's gibe both in iraq even as infections and deaths mount

the president resists calls for a broad lockdown and continues to dismiss the severity of the crisis. i'm admitting how broken the corona virus has spread across the planet but is playing out differently in different countries britain has just recorded its largest daily increase in deaths 563 on wednesday bringing the total number of deaths there to 2500 the u.k. government has been under pressure of writs response critics say it was unprepared despite having seen the virus spread elsewhere and the too few tests have been carried out compared to other countries the prime minister who has himself tested positive positive for corona virus has promised to remedy this we're also massively increasing testing i want to say a special word of. 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 let's go to philip play and i just stuck to and from a member of parliament and he joins me from outside of london. for the n.h.s. philip what is the situation for you and your colleagues like at this money well i'm actually self isolating at the moment about mild symptoms fortunately because i get access to a test i'm having to sort of stay away from patients for a bit. look it's challenging and we're having to sort of adjust the rest of the services so the hospitals now it is just ha ha the service is tools coded $98.00 in my part of the world i'm just west of london and in primary care in the family doctor every no we're now putting him in place preparations to manage david 19 as

much as possible in the community. the the ventilator capacity that people have talked about a lot is being built up but it is still not where it needs to be. flip we heard the prime minister saying that he was always for more testing but that hasn't happened so far because it's a part of was that your understanding that he was always for more testing and why hasn't it happened so. more i mean. suffice to say i think the british government's strategy seems to have evolved i think that's the most generous thing i can say i think initially there seem to be some arguments being made in number 10 that we should push on through and just mitigate the impact take it on the chin was a phrase that was used. and now it seems that we're moving through testing more as has been the case in germany throw a number of weeks. i mean we are where we are and we're going to have to try to do

a lot better i think we need to find out where this virus is isolate the people who are positive treat the people who need to be treated because it's very simple a 2nd jim medical student would tell you this that's how you read a case of virus right no matter which way you your method it seems like the worst is yet to come in the u.k. in your opinion then how will the n.h.s. cope in the coming weeks with a further increase in coronavirus patients. well i think that the national service is good in that if it is nationally coordinated in a situation like this that is a positive where it struggles in comparison to the german health system is it runs normally in benign times it full capacity bed occupancy is often about 90 percent of my understanding in germany it's more like 70 percent normal rate so you know national health service is having to build that capacity in one by physically

building a hospital and there's been a remarkable achievement in building a significant hospital facility in central london over the last 2 weeks but also the hospitals themselves are moving away from doing routine operations like you for placements and gallbladder operations and pivoting towards using their medical x. the medical skills towards treating coded 90 that's where the additional capacity is going to come which means yes we should cope unless it really becomes bad however what it does mean is that all the other health care needs of the population are going to be pushed down the line to do so so this is going to be a long term problem for the national health service to do with this philip playing and i just talked to and former member of parliament good luck to your colleagues and thank you so much pleasure in our some of the more lightest developments in the pandemic response death toll has passed the $10000.00

mark it's europe's hardest hit country after italy concern is also growing over the possible spread of the virus in a densely populated shanty town in mumbai that's after the that obviously some reported its 1st death from the virus and more evidence on how the virus is affecting jobs in the u.s. 6 and a half 1000000 people claimed unemployment benefits last week and a record. more than half a 1000000 people in europe have now been infected with the coronavirus european union chief on the line and other leaders have criticised the lack of solidarity and coordination among member states now fund alliances the e.u. a huge relief program comparable to the u.s. rescue fund for europe after world war 2 many are calling right now for something which is called just marshall plan well i think the european budget should be the marshall plan we are laying out together as

a european union for the european people the commission will provide loans to those member states that need them to strengthen their short time work schemes these schemes now exist and plan straight across the european union well let's get more from v.w. brussels correspondent. talk us through what this new marshall plan what's in it and for whom. well the short time unemployment scheme that was enough on the line introduced today having a capacity of 100000000000 euros in loans from member states is only a small part of that marshall plan and we'll still have to see what the whole marshall plan will look like but the unemployment scheme she said today is a 2nd line of defense she wants to offer to all member states all member states have to provide guarantees in order to participate and in order to benefit from that scheme but basically what she has said is that these a short i want to broaden schemes is something that member states 18 out of the 27

already have and she'd like to see it in all the member states and what she wants to provide is basically allowing member states this that's what the scheme does it allows member states to reduce the working hours of people in working in companies and the state will then subsidize their salaries now this is a strong strain on unemployment schemes in member states and so the fund she has created here oh she's suggesting that the you will create then would provide loans to those member states who have difficulty and all of this will be put in front of finance ministers next week in order to get the green light and brings us to the next big question will this be enough to keep europe's economies going. ok number of things are currently being debated for instance a state aid rules have been basically being abolished the state can fund companies

as much as they want the very strict financial laws f. being pushed off the table by the commission so a lot of measures the european central bank has ingested 750000000000 euros of on the line today set of a huge number 2770000000000 euros have been put in the table in order to face that crisis will still have to wait and see how much of that money will actually be needed for the moment the sign of the commission the sign that the commission wants to send out is that the e.u. and its member states take this serious and they do everything they can in monetary terms in order to support member states to prevent them from facing economic consequences harsh economic consequences from that crisis madness in brussels thank you. in south america brazil has the most cases of the coronavirus and the highest death toll almost $7000.00 people have been infected that includes the 1st corona virus case among its indigenous population the country's president has been under

fire for his handling of the pandemic last month he referred to covert 19 as quote amazingly cold he's also the only major world leader continuing to criticize lock down measures designed to slow the spread of the virus. it was a deliberate provocation by president jaya bo'sun r.-o. visiting a supermarket surrounded by shoppers right in the middle of the coronavirus crisis both himself may be infected with the virus this is why he chose to mingle all the same. people who thought it should have the corona virus as a former athlete don't need to worry. i wouldn't notice anything at the most a touch of the flu or a cold or do you watch our families must be able to feed themselves that's why we should now all be returning to normal people in rio de janeiro's

biggest shantytown took the president at his word to days of isolation residents went back to work shrugging off the dangers of the virus. the local mayor fears he may soon be dealing with an epidemic. it will be a disaster we've already been fighting a tuberculosis outbreak was because when he did you know residents don't realize that they would be safer staying at home. across this is escalating. unlike bowl scenario brazil's provincial governors acted from the start shutting beaches schools and supermarkets scientists are warning that the crisis is just beginning noise. we estimate that the demi cure being brazil will peak in $2.00 to $3.00 weeks the infection rate is constantly increasing. across brazil

coronavirus victims of being buried and young people are among the dead. these scenes have sparked protests presidents have been banging pans in anger at a whole scenario he eventually backtracked on is we have a mission to save lives think without threatening jobs we have to focus on both the virus and the economy. in an apparent huge turn also narrowed now wants to fight the virus but too late to prevent him losing many supporters who now see him as irresponsible. for more on this we're joined now from rio de janeiro by the correspondent who filed that report material but is do we know where both sonora has been getting his information from and why he brushed off warnings for so long. as we see there are 2 major wings inside his own government

and in the last weeks the predominant wing why are the signs deniers the religious groups who advised him to talk in the way we saw in the report but on tuesday this changed the wing of the military's and the science friendly groups inside his government told him to lower his wards and to not anymore. talk against isolation measures so now both now is much more moderate than before regional leaders have taken the initiative to warn people on their own in some cases it's the country's health care system also britain for an onslaught of infections the public health care system of brazil is a much better than other countries he and 1000 america. governors of the different states in sao paulo and rio janeiro they are constructing special hospitals temporary hospitals with more beds for corona cases for example in the famous american

a stadium and also in the some boardroom con about temple of rio de janeiro's so there are measures taken but we have to see and wait for the numbers of death and infections here in brazil and this would be really. not sure we are not sure so far if it will be enough and if poor people will have access and quickly what about brazil's indigenous people materials and the threat to the. yeah they are one are available and they went to the amazon forest many groups tribes went back to the amazon because they have no bodies and as they know from the memories that other former generations suffered from diseases brought by white people so they went back to some groups and they want to hide deep inside the forest. correspondent mathias reporting from rio thank you. it watching the news stay tuned

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corners still growing up on other strange out of the corral jim bakker this televangelist has now been sued for selling these e from your fish hoax lottery originated tooth brush from south to sales but scientists agree silva is no effect against the curfew's about the outbreak are flooding the internet this is your covert 19th special on the news i'm going to head office in berlin welcome times of crisis it seems the more traction they gain on social media feeds tips like drinking alcohol to kill the virus and fight the disease as tempting as it may sound for some it is it or religious claims that corona was a punishment dished out by gold or mother nature team from did obvious science has put together a selection of some of the most outrageous fake news about koch. 90. whatever

you do don't try this at home this cape stories circulating online the problem as the disease continued to feel that the footage actually shows the suicide of a woman before bodies on the streets of its action in germany. also doing the rounds conspiracy theories among them the just south korean series and of many false stories describing the pandemic as a preforms like facebook are rife breeding grounds for the spread of fake knees the social networking giant is among several companies pledging to take stronger action to prevent the spread of misinformation others too are doing their bit to make sure people are getting the right information about corona a service called africa check recently had to rebuff a south african man has claimed that. much of asia seems just over the hill and most of europe is in the battle against covert kenya africa check and joins us from

nairobi vincent how much of a problem is corona fake news in african countries right now. things we're having. a fire is misinformation is a big big problem and the reason is all the ins be that if they don't pay attention . because they heard. what's the weirdest piece of fake news you've come across so far well the weirdest i have come out and you can heal the steam you can if you're going to war and we know that's not sure because your water temperature internal or in temperature never really changes all you end up doing is burning. people actually believing this kind of stuff. well people believe misinformation particularly of our health because it's tied into the people and so this gives them hope when you give them

a little hope they will try. you should notice that really we don't see a lot of fake news about a disease lank malaria because we all know it's curable and across africa generally trust the governments to take the right measures of force that misinformation are on fertile ground. cover example in cape uninvolved and all they are people like that just unless you're providing them with money so that they can stay inside. who benefits from these fake news a lot of people benefit there are people who wants to group their insurance online and those then there are people who want to actually make a business selling fake cures so that you can actually spend your money that are

not true for example stories and that way will the 2 koreas. incensing is he the deputy kenya at the time and africa thank you very much for joining us from nairobi talking 3rd book on twitter well send us an e-mail to stories unfold claims about iris genetically modified to be used as a biological weapon and this was one of those conspiracy theories that was bound to pop up in the midst of a global pandemic right i mean there have been too many books and movies with that as a plot line but the team of researchers that studied the genetic makeup of the virus recently published some compelling 1st they said source code to most closely resembles and of course and taishan is that any bio engineer by humans. can supplements like fish oil zinc over to men's health. supplements or an area of nutrition where there's very little consensus in the sand demick the idea that you

can somehow boost your immune system i mean what does that mean anyway the answer to this question is a resounding no the only thing that we currently developed antibodies that will prevent you from getting it again i'm not saying you should stop taking your fish oil or you know it's a sign of a severe case of page 19 can we hear more about that. recent large scale study and britain that collected data from hundreds of thousands of people reporting on an up showed that from those who eventually tested positive for the disease around 60 percent had that symptom to a greater or lesser extent that certainly sounds pretty convincing the only problem is that losing the sense of smell or taste is also closely associated with other respiratory infections it's a lot more common than you might think that's why as of this morning at least the w.h.o. was still reviewing the issue and hadn't yet decided symptoms of corona virus infection

but that could be written. and answering your most pressing questions and that concludes our covert 19 special forces day for more on the pandemic do check out our social media channels on the website that's w dot com which has dedicated go ahead let's go back to africa where use it to the public in songs and sing about washing hands wearing face masks and voiding the fake news trucks. going. oh nobody does. little good. job on the day. enter the conflict zone but sarah kelly with sarah kelly to face it's real

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