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if you look at it that the. this is the w. news live from berlin and the number of worldwide coronavirus cases tops 1000000 and there's another bleak milestone for spain as deaths surge doctors and nurses are overwhelmed and under protective the economy is grinding to a halt also coming up a lot of air pollution tells russians to stay home from work for a month the president tightens restrictions on movement but stops short of a nationwide lockdown. the ban on.
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the lockdown blues how people forced to stay at home are turning to music and anything else they can think of to fill those endless hours. i'm claire richardson welcome to the show more than a 1000000 people have now been infected with the coronavirus around the world 50000 are dead 19 is hitting spain especially hard with more than 10000 fatalities the virus is also creating an economic crisis nearly a 1000000 people have lost their jobs health care workers meanwhile are overwhelmed and desperate for more essential protective equipment. stretched to breaking point the wards are philippa's hospital the now the county so coronavirus patients lie in the corridors just north of barcelona medics have turned the hospital library into
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an intensive care unit spain is one of the worst hit countries the number of coronavirus deaths is no jumped to more than 10000 after a record 950 deaths in the space of a day. the health workers on the frontline say they are being put in an unthinkable position. we're lacking the staff at the moment and the few staff that we have available are in a dangerous situation themselves and at risk of becoming transmitters. i got infected because of the lack of protective measures as we don't have enough resources there are fewer and fewer protective masks. and these ideas of an office when somebody is doing things really badly and we need them to rectify this because if they don't do so tomorrow we will double the number of infected health workers if we continue like this there would be enough professionals to take 8 of our patients. but there are glimmers of hope the rate of new infections in
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spain appears to be slowing and people are recovering here at a hospital the northeast of the country doctors discharged a 93 year old man who is made to feel recovery after 5 days in isolation. spain has been in a nationwide locked day and since the middle of march and the standstill is hitting the economy hard 100000 people have lost their jobs and spain's recorded its highest ever monthly rise in unemployment the government says it will have to work on relaunching the economy once the epidemic is under control health officials say data shows the curve is stabilizing but despite the slowdown in the rate of infection the fight to contain the. virus is far from over. russian president vladimir putin has extended the country's lockdown until the end of this month all citizens except essential workers must stay at home people will still be paid and
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putin says russia is facing a serious threat and he warns that the outbreak has not yet peaked. the nonworking week declared all over the country as well as our isolation regime for residents of many regions allowed us to win some time for preventive action which is to mobilize all the authorities to increase health care resources to fight the epidemic with maximum efficiency using birdland our own experience and the past practice of other countries that. earlier we spoke to d.w. correspondent emily sherwin in moscow we asked her how people in russia are reacting to the shutdown being extended. well last week when putin announced this kind of weeklong coronavirus holiday as you called it people kind of took him by
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his word some people booked flights to the black sea city of sochi there were images on social media of people in moscow barbecuing and then in the off forty's took rather strict measures for example by closing hotels and such a by imposing the self isolation in the capital i think people now have understood the seriousness of this and the fact that these are essentially just euphemisms moscow certainly is rather empty there is hardly any traffic there are billboards around the city calling on people to stay home presenters on state t.v. are presenting from their living rooms some of them are wearing masks to encourage people to kind of stay home as well and i think people are starting to understand that here as well and they are likely to understand it even better better if strict measures come into force as well across the country. that was d.w. correspondent emily sherman in moscow along with nearly every other country egypt
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is stepping up its fight against the virus manufacturers are being ordered to deliver protective equipment to hospitals a stringent lockdown has seen tourism collapse and critics say the government is also restricting the free flow of information. a familiar scenario in egypt to appoint the army to the rescue in a crisis as a fighting an enemy the government's polished message is everything's under control . the country looks scoured museums mosques and schools are closed so is the airport a nightly curfew takes effect at 7 in the evening tourism has collapsed president abdel fattah el-sisi has promised billions in aid to egypt sions and ordered them to stay home only it was a different story back in february a t.v. station closely aligned with the government was joking about the coronavirus this spoof was an interview with a friendly contagion tourism along the nile and in looks or were still in high gear
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until mid march cases of infection including those among german tourists were considered outliers no one thought egypt was at risk. until now the streets have been as packed as ever many buses too despite the rising infection rate shops have been open busy as usual with barely a trace of physical distance and for many the risk doesn't seem to have sunk in here yet. egypt is safe this man says people are taking precautions everything's fine. we have to eat what else are we going to do how else will we feed our wives and children. the government rejected the criticism of its crisis management despite a shortage of hospital beds doctors and ventilators instead flashy light effect detract from the real situation whoever reports on the staggering statistics of coronavirus cases risks imprisonment or deportation that's what happened to
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a reporter for the british newspaper the guardian. it out journalist lena abdullah is undaunted in november she was placed under temporary arrest there is no legitimacy in controlling any flow of information. in my opinion in a moment like this. part of the citizens' rights as much as it is to have access to good basic services like health but also to have access to a free flow of information. pressure is also rising behind egypt's prison or an estimated $60000.00 egyptians are political prisoners their relatives and lawyers are forbidden from visiting them a stent simply because of the risk of infection. under cairo's dark clouds human right as well as human beings are endangered in the pandemic and this in north africa is most populous country. well here's some more of the latest developments a cruise ship that was stranded at sea with kovan 1000 patients on board has been
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allowed to dock in florida as an dam had been turned away by south american countries russia has sent a plane load of facemasks and other medical supplies to the united states after president donald trump accepted an offer of aid from moscow and here in germany more than 1000 people have now died there are nearly 80000 confirmed cases. well one of those people who has had coronavirus and recovered from it is my colleague here at stamboul it's earlier he told me about the symptoms he experienced. 3 weeks ago were cop and i had a fever i just felt hot it wasn't too bad and i measured my temperature is about 38 degrees it's pretty convinced i had it then you know current virus news going around. double check so i had the fever and lots of aches and chills all through my body felt like a normal flu at that stage but the thing that sort of made me convinced that i had cried
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a virus was i had nothing in the nose no running nose or anything like that every time i've had the flu it's always sort of had something to do with the nose as well so i thought well this is probably something to a crowd of us. and then after that the thing that really convinced me was the nose you heard people talk about this before i couldn't ate and sleeping was even difficult to see can grow he would wake up in the north and to know where i was pretty convinced credit. were very happy to have him healthy and back at work now here in germany and the number of deaths is lower than in other big european countries chancellor merkel is a struggling conservatives have rebounded in the polls many had dismissed americal as a lame duck a leader but now most germans are backing at the government's handling of the crisis their big worry is the economic fallout. almost 2 weeks into the new freeze of public life more than 90 percent of germans still agree with the contact
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restrictions in place. i've simply accepted that that's the way things are now no problem. is good you can still buy everything but of course i miss my friends. confidence in germany's health system has even slightly grown since last week to 77 percent overall while 22 percent say they are less confident the system can cope before 3 got rid of. the health service is working despite all this is great as an old person i remember war times and we're nowhere near that yet or. what germans currently worry about most is the economic damage the crisis could bring. 3 quarters are concerned or very concerned for the economy overall less than a quarter worry about their own personal situation solidarity in europe and beyond is also something most germans would like to see now where almost 2 thirds feel it
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is right for politicians to think of germany 1st at this time of crisis 95 percent would like to see solidarity within the e.u. and 64 percent say rich countries like germany should now help poorer regions. well now let's look at some more ways than 1000 is impacting of the world's brazil's merican our sports stadium is being turned into a field hospital to treat coronavirus patients the facility will have 400 beds makeshift clinics are being set up across rio de janeiro the city has recorded 18 deaths a cruise ship carrying suspected cases has docked in florida after a 3 week ordeal medical workers and mediately began offloading severely ill passengers 4 people died on the dutch own designed dam and a sister ship the vessels were eventually allowed to sail through the panama panama
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canal it to the united states. the u.s. navy has dismissed it the commander of an aircraft carrier who wrote a scathing letter after an outbreak of the virus on his warship captain breck closer demanded tougher action to safeguard sailors around $100.00 have tested positive the navy says the commander showed poor judgment. panama and peru have brought in gender based restrictions on people leaving their homes men and women will only be allowed outside on alternating days during the week on sunday everyone must stay home exceptions will be made up for emergency outings. well with most of us forced to stay indoors and away from our family and friends social media is helping to fill the void videos and other names have flooded the internet as a way of raising a smile during the crisis let's take a look at how some people have been showing their creative sides. if music is the
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medicine of the mind coronavirus house. means blowing off some steam. getting a bit more restless. how about some sports. no equipment can just improvise. even if the goods are in short supply. we've seen disappearing cars. not to mention disappearing parents. some just want to ride off into the distance. others have been sharing their time for state attempts at home a face masks just one forgets our canine companions i'm to fool else fails
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