writers to news know. this is big news live from berlin signs of progress in germany's battle against the corona virus health officials say measures to slow the spread of the virus are working but there's still a caution as the country's death toll surges of a 1000 also coming up. stranded abroad hundreds of thousands of e.u. citizens face obstacles getting home as borders close and flights canceled is help on the way from brussels plus.

beating the lockdown blues people around the world a stock of han and turning to music and anything else they can think of to fill the endless hours. i'm anthony held welcome more than a 1000000 people around the world now have confirmed corona virus infections and over 55000 people have perished here are more of the latest developments in the pandemic now the united states has registered the world's highest daily coded 19 death toll thursday so 1169 confirmed deaths from bars for life it causes the south korea has refused entry to foreigners who refused quarantine measures all of a series of rivals including south korean nationals are required to serve us like for 14 days and germany now has more than $80000.00 confirmed case. has been over

a $1019.00 deaths but the leader of the country's disease control institute says new data is indicating a slow down in new infections even chancellor angela merkel says the data is cause for some cautious optimism. that you thought it's true that the latest figures from the robot call institute as high as they are give some hope after all the increase in new confirmed infections is running a little slower that was a few days ago. if you need but it's definitely far too early to see a definite trend in this it's far too early to relax the strict rules we have set ourselves. short on chancellor angela merkel that will turkish president richard type of one has ordered a partial curfew for people under the age of 20 in a bid to slow the spread of the outbreak is also tightening dozens of city borders

and requiring people to wear masks in public spaces the measures come as turkey sees the shop jump in infections and deaths from covert 9 saying the country already had a curfew in place for the chronically ill and those older than 65 people who have their own particular needs. home delivery turkish style. for many istanbul residents this is not a novel way of doing their shopping but with the corona virus epidemic worsening it's now become a lifeline for the city's elderly you. know cool shopkeepers have quickly adapted it into subsidies that we have started to delivery service so they call us and we help them i mean really care if they want something from the shop of the market we take it to their homes because they are our elders. the curfew for citizens older than 65 was among the 1st measures taken by the turkish

government in their battle against the epidemic. it is true that it is local authorities have been told to be strict. to enforce the rules and send people home. at 1st however many pension is wouldn't listen to an arson from these general municipality tells me beat us a lot of illness. eat by star does nothing really change during the 1st days but when you look at it now you can see that the use of public transport for example is down 90 percent and this is a strong sign that our older citizens are more aware of the importance of the issue you know the following the rule is more than before. the more pensioners stay at home the more work there is for municipal support teams across the city they have delivered groceries to tens of thousands of quarantined istanbul lights. but despite the yearly introduction of the curfew for the elderly it has

proven to little in the fight against the virus more measures have been taken. it's jungles grand bazaar one of the largest in the world is now closed as are schools museums sports. clubs bars and cafes. all international flights have been stalked and domestic travel severely restricted its jungles new gigantic and poor auntie and deserted and shingles and an arson predicts that more measures will come in the sulu fires they're all out here in istanbul the population density is very high hearted so it's safe to say that we will need more radical measures eventually after all that is sample appears to be a hot spot if this epidemic going on in the now and then watch a priest stumble. with restrictions looming stumbles patients will be

tested as well as the solidarity of its people. well as the virus sweeps across the globe health care workers on the front lines of the fight against 19 facing critical shortages of protective gear even so they're continuing to risk their lives to save others next report shows how health care workers around the world are confronting the bleak reality of being overwhelmed and protected. not all superheroes wear masks but these ones definitely should get the masks they have aren't good enough. these new york health care workers are demanding protective equipment that will stop them catching and spreading covert 90. this is outrageous that we have we have people coming in sewing things for us sewing mass sewing shields making things out of plastics this is what we're doing now how how. i mean that would be like so

you're going to war and making a plastic gun to bring with him this is this is what's happening front line workers across the u.s. are in the same situation the daily toll of their exhausting and risky work beginning to show anything going to go even all you know having you know kind of like his or her my daughter till 3 weeks because. i was gone. it is too late. in the u.k. the army has been called in to make sure supplies get to hospitals but staff say it's still not anywhere near enough i never thought in my wildest dreams i would be sure surgical mask in this country i never i never thought in my wildest dreams that we would be feeling consistently unsafe it's. in france a group of caregivers launched an eye catching campaign to draw attention to what

they see as their lack of protection their message they feel naked in their fight against corporate 90. foreign ministers have held a video conference to discuss the repatriation of e.u. citizens stranded of seeds 600000 citizens got stuck around the world when the pandemic hit of those at least $350000.00 have already been flown back home on private and e.u. facilitated flights the rest are still waiting the e.u. has been hoping to pay and coordinate flights. well the deal is teri schultz has been following this story force in brussels she said there's still much work to be done to ensure citizens michael back. what we heard after the foreign ministers video conference today is that there really hasn't been a lot of progress in bringing home the 250000 or so e.u.

citizens who remain stranded all over the globe foreign policy chief joseph breaux pointed out to that commercial flights are canceled that transfer hubs are shut down and so people can't even take off because they might get stuck on the way so there have been about 10000 citizens brought back by special military flights but he emphasized that no one should be thinking this is the way they're going to get home this is only a means of last resort when there is really no other way to get people out of what could potentially be a dangerous situation so german foreign minister heiko moss at the meeting today pointed out that yes little by little people will find ways to get home but it can't be excluded that those who are right now sitting in the colombian jungle or on some island in the philippines may have to be very patient and sit it out a while longer. in brussels well as many other parts in the world colombia's lockdown has hit the home was there very hot and this report is

from a call for a lick on the streets of bogota she met a man who was already an everyday hero to the navy and is now rising again to the challenge in the time of the 10th. nobody knows the invisible like this man for 15 years orlando beltran has been looking after the city's homeless he knows where they meet where they sleep and where they get their drugs with his n.g.o.s get a little bit on the bronx banquet he provides the destitute with food clothes and a shoulder to lean on but the most important part of today's delivery are these face masks. a face mask can save many lives the drugs they smoke damage the muscles in their mouth. move. their muscle it's hard for them to control their saliva. and they may accidentally spit on each other without realizing what is happening and then they would lose your job because the

person who orlando's help is needed now more than ever ever since columbia went into lockdown it has become hard for the homeless to get money begging or collecting metal and rubbish makes little sense when the only people left on the street are those with nowhere to go with police in charge of enforcing the quarantine this young man tells us he's often violently chased off the streets. tell us to leave but if we don't tase us and beat us i do what i can to avoid that i try to collect some money and find a place to sleep. those who can afford it escape police brutality in these temporary housing facilities. but sharing a windowless room with dozens of people who roam the streets of bogota during the day may well increase their risk of contracting the virus. under these conditions orlando's masks may seem like a band-aid on a bullet wound but it's all these people have and even the skeptics wear their

masks like shields protecting them from an invisible menace the end of the day is bittersweet for lando. sad to leave but i'm happy. because we gave them hope the hope of us coming back and bringing along the humanitarian aid for the homeless. he knows it's a stretch but it's this hope that has kept him going for the past 15 years. and the smiles on the faces of those he has helped smiles he may not be able to see under the new masks but he still knows they are their. club and have announced that their home stadium signal is you know park is set to become a coronavirus treatment center the largest football stadium in germany will act as a testing station for suspected cases as well as providing medical care for those that have already tested positive the center which will be staffed by doctors and

nurses and stocked with medical equipment will be fully operational from saturday. in football but munich have announced that the head coach has if they can signed a permanent contract by him have climbed from 4th to 1st place in the bundesliga title since then winning 18 out of 21 games in all competitions and seeing stars like thomas flourish once again on behalf of flags leadership the bundesliga season remains suspended as a result of the coronavirus pandemic until my at the you know just. well with most of us forced to stay indoors and away from our friends and family for better or for worse social media is helping fill the void videos and names have become a semi reliable way to get a laugh during the crisis so let's take a look at how some people have been stretching the creative legs while in lockdown . this music is the medicine of the minds coronavirus has its own

genre. for some home office means blowing off some steam. for those 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 don't forget our canine companions i'm to fail just. so.

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out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. science. do you also feel like banging your head into the wall sometimes stay in bed forever just cry plainly freakouts because the bad news about corona seems to have no way these are tough times you switch on the news or look at your favorite website and it's not a pretty picture more dead every day infections on the rise johns hopkins now counts more than 1000000 cases worldwide healthcare systems reaching their limits hope countries in lockdown friends and families are cutting off contact with each other. and it doesn't end their businesses are facing bankruptcy workers are losing

their jobs it's all pretty scary stuff so how can we get through these challenging times without feeling helpless and depressed today will talk about how to get on top of the situation and feels very much like nothing is in our own z.w. news with our special coverage of the covered pandemic out of us in berlin. so a coronavirus does to the body is quite well known by now and more research is underway but what does it do to our soul fear of infection the isolation worries about loved ones who are dressed walk we do to not be overwhelmed by panic let's bring in the morrow and she is neuroscientists and her field of research really is bad news and what it does with our brain and how does this barrage of bad news that we're seeing right now influence our perception of this pandemic. well 1st of all

it tilts the perception in a certain direction because as you already mentioned most of the news actually negative so we get the idea that the votes out there is even more negative and even more challenging than it is so what that does to our brain is really create a continuous chronic stress response so we continuously in this situation where we think we either have to fight or run the site of flight response and what that does to our perception and also to our decision making abilities as content of the search and what we know also thought is that it definitely hidden this long term decisions that are focusing on going to kill. the virus is a threat we can all see or feel is similar to radiation does that give the fear another dimension. yes certainly because of course if we see something like a wave coming towards us we can run and what we see unless also especially in many

countries that i was pleasant present in the beginning people were very relaxed about it because it was fall a and something we know about this perception humans is that. spoken openly is quite bad so when we don't see something we actually count grasp it because our brains are not optimized for that so it's leading needs to be local it needs to be immediate and it needs to hurt people for us in order to act and of course that creates really a challenging situation because then it also comes into effect is what i mentioned before it creates this continuous stress response which in this our problem solving abilities. really help old people not only more at risk they are also by the 4 more isolated than younger people and now even family can visit what does that do to the elderly and how can we help keep best spirits up. now well maybe also sing something more hopeful because then this is

a very negative note in general is what it can also create and also especially to the end of the people is a sense of community because once we all understood that this is really a risk situation and this is really a danger that is out that even though we can't really see in it or see it it can create this common sense of shan't responsibility and that's what we see all over the world and also as we got to the elderly that people actually take more time take more care not only to the people we know and our own family members who might be isolated and feel a little relieved but also to strange us because we now is what we consider up psychologically and one group we act together and gets this virus that is the global threat. news outlets often criticized for focusing on the bad news all the time like all journalists we here at the w are guilty as charged but just reporting on a happy promise and kittens is not really an option either so what can we the media

do. yeah i was already kind of hinting at that because that's really a unique chance for what we call constructive or solution oriented join in this these days because now we have this idea of this understanding that we are all in this together and people all over the world ask what now and that's really the key that's a additional question that is introduced by construct defense additionally and to report into joining us and into the journalistic thinking and that's for example lots of journalists are practicing now these days because the people come to watch them and they have this birds to get onsets to all that questions and needs to understand the situation and i see this really all over the world now and we just need to focus on it even more the people who selected news they consume but also of course all the jonas that are covering this global pandemic trying to heed your advise in order that thank you very much for this important. thank you

but it's not just the news that can give you the blues we are social creatures so having to live in self isolation can be pretty stressful in itself our reporter hugh dela talked to a researcher who observed quarantined people during the 2003 sars epidemic. in 2003 a previously unknown virus called the severe acute respiratory syndrome known as sars more than 8000 people were infected and thousands were quarantined. remus direct conducted research into the mental health of people during the best songs are in teens. and what we found was that there was a higher percentage of. p.t.s.d. the and the crash. happened. during sars

a result so what we found when we talk about p.t.s.d. what we know is that people feel. well what it is that we create it feel there's a lack of control how can you explain the fact. so it's not all there is is you know most dramatic stress and ok so that's what we are starting to experience is the fact that it's a true that and people when they were sort of really about the fact that they might have developed star or in this particular who were on the barrett you're thinking about and we're going to make it when i. have a heart oh you know i have a longer harder agree it is the common one. although the current coronavirus

a pandemic is also throwing up such a thing as there are differences now to some of these could even have a positive effect on people's mental health. and they are going to have a sense of community so what we see now is there are so many people in isolation but people don't feel they're the only ones you know there is a lot more communication as well now we have to. the other thing that's happened this time which is very different from sars is that there is a lot of psychological support what are they seeing people can do if they find themselves now in isolation and keep in touch with family and friends by using technology they will provide you a tremendous amount of support the other thing is setting out a routine and routine helps in harming one's peers and inside these. even though the world might seem grim at the moment we should remember that there are still

things we can do for ourselves and for others not everything is beyond our control . and who has managed to stay in control and stay calm all through this crisis he's a biologist a science journalist and our resident corona expert g.w.s. derrick williams with us again to answer questions that you sent to us. since the virus from animal humans can claim $10000.00 stuck there isn't much work there yet looking at which animals could carry the disease or might even get sick from it one study published by a chinese team earlier this week claims the virus replicates poorly in a range of domesticated animals among them dogs pigs chickens and ducks but that cats and ferrets showed some susceptibility and could also pass it

along to each other that work still has to be confirmed it's not a surprise though if it's correct because the number of corona viruses are known to cause a range of illnesses in livestock and poultry. how no take for an. infection it turns out that it's a pretty tricky question to answer and like so much else we don't know for sure yet when it comes to catching any viral disease the length of time you remain infectious differs depending on the virus and we aren't sure how long that period is for sars cove to however a study carried out here in germany indicates very high had loads of virus in 1000 patients peaks to about 4 days after symptoms began and dropped steadily from there the researchers recommended release though only 10 days after symptoms began

and then only if detectable levels of the virus had dropped dramatically. if the virus attacks the lung will this also effect a liberal. it's clear that if your respiratory system is affected by an illness then it's going to have knock on effects throughout the body not least for your heart of course but there. also mounting evidence that the corona virus might directly affect the heart as well or it might have an indirect effect there are also indications that the virus can directly damage the kidneys in some cases though that's apparently more rare but for the majority of patients especially patients with milder cases the disease begins and ends and the longs. there are questions for him coming on all you tube channel by facebook or twitter and that was our code with 19 special come on the pandemic to check out our social media

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