this is d.w. news live from berlin china more and says corona virus victims the country came to a standstill for 3 minutes gesture to honor the more than 3000 people dying in china's cold 19 outbreaks also coming up testing for antibodies a lot of community germany is working on tans that can tell if a person has already built up immunity to the corona virus something that could help populations return to a more normal life. plus the world over homeless people are among the most

vulnerable during this pandemic only one man is doing what he can to help people living on the streets of the colombian capital but top. i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us the corona virus is paralyzing countries across the world but in china where the outbreak originated life is slowly starting to return to a normal pace this morning though the entire nation came to a standstill for 3 minutes as people there mourned the more than 3000 lines loss to the pandemic. at half staff throughout the country. cars ships and trains sounded their horns as their red sirens wailed for 3 minutes they're forced to remember the people who have died all over china during the

coronavirus pandemic according to official numbers more than 3300 lives were lost in mainland china. in 100 alone the capital of where province at the epicenter of the outbreak some 2500 people have died. why rush during the moment of silence i felt so. you could hear everyone was choking with sobs. mourning i gather i mourn for the big crisis china has faced what happened to these people was very unfortunate we should mourn for them when lang was a hero he discovered it early now it's too late but now our country is stronger than others. lee when liang was a young doctor who tried to warn others about the disease and was initially reprimanded by authorities he died from covert 19 in february now lee has been listed among the national martyrs who died fighting the coronavirus and who were

honored on this national day of mourning even though life came to a standstill on saturday china claims to have curbed the spread of the virus and after 2 months of lockdown and will han the government has decided to loosen restrictions. businesses have slowly started to reopen and the lockdown will be officially lifted it on april 8th. well here in germany hundreds of thousands of tests are being done each week to find out who has the corona virus but equally important scientists say is determining who has already had it and has built up immunity while such tests will now be carried out by researchers in the city of new nic they're hopeful that the information will be able to help us as scholz get a better picture of the extent of the epidemic. this machine could bring relief from isolation for some here at the isa our clinic in munich doctors can not only

test for the corona virus they can also see if patients unknowingly contract to the virus in the past more than 100 samples can be processed in an hour this is how it works the sample vials are coated with building blocks from the virus or surface if antibodies are detected in the patients of blood they will attach to the blocks the virus can then be the texted with a different antibody that carries a dye and changes the sample color if positive in addition to patients the new machine will also allow health care workers to be tested. on but not till it is a test has will of course be offered to personnel working in infected areas which will allow us to know who has already had the virus and has built up immunity to how do i mean one farm it's thought the antibodies could provide immunity for years to come for those with antibodies that could mean a return to normal life it's hoped that people who work in other sectors could soon

be tested by their general practitioner. well for more i'm now joined by fabio schmidt from science desk. now and just hello now how extensive is this new testing i mean how many people will actually be able to access these tests. and what people munich of the scientists in munich are doing right now is that they are 1st running a larger trial was resold households that involves about $4500.00 people and they're going to be selected totally by random these people are going to go from door to door but not every dog having a certain system which they also knock on and they will be also joined by the police so that some credibility to their claims so that people can get visited by these people don't know you know that it's not a hoax but so this will be a trial for the purpose of right really finding out what the figure of known

infections is in the overall population so that one could basically scale up to the entire population now this machine that we've seen in the report is able to process about $100.00 tests per hour that of course is not enough to test the entire population of the country was $80000000.00 but as more of these machines come into work this will be a big improvement well what we also heard in our report is that knowing who's already had the virus could potentially allow us to ease some of the lockdown measures now sobbing how exactly would this work. there are basically 2 questions of 1st one of course is when will there be a herd immunity well we're very very far away from that because simply the number of people infected and the percentage of the total population is probably still far far too low to talk about

a herd immunity in which the basic is overall population is developing some kind of immunity but what it could do is that these tests could help us identify people in the health system who have already had corona what over it who are now healthy and who have an immunity or people like bus drivers police people people who are in contact with a lot of. basically brought up population who then could still go about their work without being having to fear that they get infected a 2nd time and now finally and quickly if you can could these somehow help in the development of a vaccine cycle that 90. in the original development of the vaccine they're not really that essential but what they are essential for is to find old was a vaccine is actually effective so in the phase 3 of the vaccine development when you're actually administering the vaccine to many people then you want to know whether the vaccine actually triggered

a immune response and that should be possible to detect was machine so it's good to have it all right in smith thank you very much. to the us now and new york state which had its largest single day death toll in the pandemic so far officials there reported 562 deaths on friday alone the state now accounts for nearly half of all virus related fatalities in the entire country as hospitals continue to face critical shortages of medical equipment new york's governor andrew cuomo has issued an executive order to redistribute medical supplies and equipment from hospitals that are not currently using them and to bring them to where they're needed most new yorkers in crisis help new york and then pick up the camp and then go to the next place as this role so across the country the peak hasn't yet hit

new york's governor is warning the state could run out of ventilators in days cuomo has ordered the machines to be redistributed to overwhelmed hospitals. with many overcrowded this convention center in manhattan has now been turned into a makeshift hospital. funeral homes and crematoriums in the country's most populous city are also struggling to cope. was really good but it wasn't like. a lot of. them were around. with. a very what we're getting now. death in isolation for victims and their families there are no last words no goodbyes only pictures of their loved ones from those on the front lines meanwhile

u.s. officials have done a u.-turn on their face mask guidelines after initially stating they aren't necessary for the general public the center for disease control is now recommending face coverings such as bandanas and homemade masks bill the president has stressed they are not mandatory. well i just where we were in myself it's a recommendation they recommend it. i'm feeling good i just don't want to be doing i don't know somehow sitting in the oval office behind that beautiful resolute desk the great resolute desk i think wearing a face mask as a great presidents prime ministers dictator kings queens. but i don't see it for myself the mixed messages have left many in the u.s. confused and frustrated. let's get a look now at some other covert 1000 related stories. a new coronavirus testing

facility has opened on the border of germany and the czech republic to test czech workers returning home previous the workers needed to quarantine for 14 days at home when they came back from germany. the head of russia's influential orthodox church has taken an icon of the virgin mary around the streets of moscow in an effort to ward off the coronavirus patriarchate or else the convoy traveled over 100 kilometers in the capital before bringing the icon to the cathedral more than 4000 covert 1000 cases have been confirmed in russia. well as with many other countries in the world colombia's lockdown has hit people without homes especially hard our next report is from the new call for days on the streets of bogota she met a man whose work during the crisis has made him a hero for those in need. 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 banquets 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. from so it's hard for them to control their saliva. and they may accidentally spit on each other without realizing what is happening and they would lose your job because the. 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. or to 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 where there are 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 no one but who will carry on of course. 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 there. in other news britain's main opposition labor party has named kenya starmer as its new leader that's after a ballot of party members a trade unionist and registered supporters stormers a former director of problem prosecutions and has acted as a shadow bribes of secretary he was one of 3 candidates for the labor leadership and one resoundingly with more than 50 per cent of the vote they were placed jeremy corbyn who resigned after a crushing defeat to boris johnson's conservative party in december's general

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