this is deeply 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 working but they still corson's the country's death toll surges of 1000 also coming up. new york's deadliest day the heart of the pandemic in the u.s. cities are being called surging fatalities hospitals are stretched to the limit and the city could soon run out of lifesaving ventilators get an update from the city. and stranded abroad hundreds of thousands of the new citizens face obstacles

getting home as borders closing flights are cancelled. on the way from brussels. i'm anthony how would welcome more than a 1000000 people around the world have now confirmed corona virus infections and have a 55000 have perished in the united states is still very much at the epicenter as we look now at the very latest developments and the u.s. has registered the world's highest daily death toll thursday saw 1169 confirmed deaths from a virus related causes south korea has refused entry to foreigners who refused quarantine measures or overseas or rivals including south korean nationals are required to so far for 14 days and germany now has more than $80000.00 confirmed cases. and over

a 1000 covered 19 deaths at the leader of the country's disease control institute says new data is indicating a slow down in new infections in the chancellor angela merkel says the data is cause for some cautious optimism as student do you will but it's true that the latest figures from the robot cost institute as high as they are give some hope after all the increase in new confirmed infections is running out a little slower than it was a few days ago. if you need but it's definitely far too early to see a definite trend in this it's also far too early to relax the strict rules we have set ourselves. in the. short to be don't let nano sheilds is following the latest developments for us in germany and then what does it appear that germany is getting a handle on this pandemic. well there's definitely room for some cautious optimism

today after jos declare ations but demigods by no means controlled yet a lot of you know the head of the. institute say death at the moment we observed a trend over the past few days that showed that infected people one infected person would only infect another person and that's a progress as opposed to a few weeks ago where you could see one person infected up to 7 people but so as for the pandemic to be under control one person should in fact less than another person know for it to be safe and to be told and a country under control so cautious optimism right now almost 2 weeks into the need of freeze of public life more than 90 percent of germans still agree with the contact restrictions in place. 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 coverage 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 but. what germans currently worry about most is the economic damage the corona 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 well almost 2 thirds feel it 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. and that's something that germany has been doing and to countries say that it would have out other countries they needed to taking in critically ill patients from neighboring countries from france from each of the so far so at as long as germany has a capacity to do it out there we continue doing so. remember we hear the word solidarity a lot at the moment bangkok airport 200000 facemasks. were diverted to the usa do we know what happened there exactly. yes those 200000 mosques there had been ordered by their family not sorry teams to a u.s. firm but they were manufactured in china and apparently u.s.

officials confiscated doe's mosques to the profit of the u.s. even it does mosques i had already been paid for so no official is actually told that the u.s. and say that this was a case of modern piracy they say i'm to as a geyser that banding in terry are a means to say this is not how you treat transatlantic potter and he called for german government the federal government to to address this issue we see us. thanks for your time in new york city has seen its deadliest day of the pandemic 562 people have died from covenanting within the space of 24 hours with nearly 3000 deaths the city now accounts for nearly half of all virus related fatalities in the country with hospitals facing critical shortages of medical equipment governor andrew cuomo has issued an executive order to seize critically needed supplies

across the state and bring them to where they needed most. new york city is struggling as a grapples with skyrocketing infections and a severely strained health care system friday mocked it single deadliest day yes in its back to with coronavirus. new yorkers in crisis helping new york and then pick up the camp and then go to the next place as this row across the country. it comes a day after. that the city only had enough ventilators to get through the next 6 days. with supplies already scarce it raises new concerns about how well the state is equipped to combat coronavirus. inside this brooklyn funeral home it's clear they're struggling to meet surging demand. usually equipped to

handle up to 60 cases at a time they dealing with more than 3 times that amount and counting maybe to go make you know me and figure out a way that we could accommodate families in a timely manner and a more dignified way amid the deepening crisis the federal government is yet to formalize any orders. well i think we're going to be coming out with the regulations on it if people want to abide by and frankly i don't think it will be mandatory because some people don't want to do that with little direction from the white house states like new york left with no choice but to continue taking matters into their own hands. well as with many other places in the world colombia's law found i said the homeless there very hot and next report is from. 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 mic. 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 that it owns 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. with little or muscle it's hard for them to control their saliva. and they may accidentally you spit on each other without realizing what is happening around them they would lose your job. 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 think tase us and beat us i do what i can to avoid that i try to collect the 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 where 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 it's kept him going for the past 15 years. and the smiles on the faces of those he has helped smile he may not be able to see under the new masks but he still knows they're there. you foreign ministers have held a video conference to discuss the repatriation of a used citizens stranded of the city's 600000 e.u. citizens got stuck around the world when the pandemic hits of those at least 350000 have already been flown back on private and facilitated flights the wrist still waiting the e.u. has been helping supply and coordinate flights. teri schultz has

been following this story for us in brussels she said there is still much work to be done to enjoy e.u. citizens might get back on what we heard out of 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 e.u. foreign policy chief joseph breaux pointed out of that commercial flights are cancelled 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. teri schultz in brussels there will 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 that void videos and names have become a semi reliable way to get a laugh during the crisis let's take a look at how some people have been stretching their creative legs while in lockdown. if music is the medicine of the mind creating a virus has its own general. for some home office means blowing off some steam. for those getting a bit more restless. how about some sports. goods never equipment and 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 stage attempts at home a face masks to start forget our canine companions and if all else fails just party. to. it watching the news will leave you now with some sad news one of so music's biggest voices has been silenced american singer bill with those who was known for his seventy's hits lean on me and i ain't no sunshine passed away from heart complications at the age of 81 he's more from one of the legends of our day.

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any information on the chrono large rest or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at dot com slash 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 to switch on the news or look at your favorite web site and it's not a pretty picture more dead every day infections on the rise johns hopkins now cons more than 1000000 cases worldwide health care systems reaching their limits hope countries and lock down friends and family. these are cutting off contact with each

other. and it doesn't end there 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 that feels very much like nothing is in our own. news with our special coverage of the covered 19 pandemic alpha's in berlin welcome. so a coronavirus does to the body is quite well known by now and more research is on the way but what does it do to our soul fear of infection the isolation worries about loved ones who are brisk walk can we do to not be overwhelmed by panic let's bring in the mother and she's 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 of those out and it's even more negative and even more challenging than it is so what that just 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 side of flight response and what that does to our perception and also to our decision making abilities is confident of research and what we know so far is that it definite hidden this long term and good decisions that out focusing on them to keep. 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 of a very relaxed about it because it was fall of lay and something we know about this perception humans is that. spoken openly is quite bad so when we don't see something we actually contrast 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 what 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 default more isolated than younger people and now even family can visit what does that do to the elderly and how can we help keep their spirits up.

yeah 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 there isn't it though we can't leave the fear of 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 old city there 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 lonely but also to strange us because we now is what we consider psychologically and one group we act together against this virus that is the global threat. news outlets our criticised 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 additional reporting into joining us and into the journalistic thinking and that's what example lots of journalists are practicing now these days because the people come to watch them and they have this urge 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 select a news they consume but also of course all the jonas that are covering this global

pandemic trying to heed your advise or an order that thank you very much for this import. 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 caused 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 best solves our intake. and what we found were that there was

a high percentage of. p.t.s.d. the and the crash. having been born during the sars a result so what we found when we come up about p.t.s.d. what we know is that people feel. well what is it that we must create it they feel there is a lack of control how can you explain the fact. the your experience. so it's not. because it is most dramatic stress and ok so that's what they're starting to experience is that it's a true that and when they were sort of about the fact that they might develop star or in this particular. virus you're thinking about what am i going to make it when i. have a heart oh you know i have

a woman who are agree it is this this is coming why. although the current coronavirus a pandemic is also throwing up such fears there are differences now too and 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 are the only ones you know there is a lot more communication as well now we have to. ologies 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 seeing people can do if they find themselves while 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 hama and one's peers and inside. 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. it's not a man 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 t.w.s. derek williams with us again to answer questions that you said to us. since the virus from. 10000 stuck there isn't much work out 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 a number of coronaviruses are known to cause a range of illnesses in livestock and poultry. how no take for an infected. infection. 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 covert 19 patients peaked 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 well this also affects about the role and. 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. 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 in the lungs. there it is there keep the questions for him coming on the all you tube channel by facebook or

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