allah gassed transferred airport city managed by from a bought. the seat of use life from her land the world health organization warns europe not to move too fast to these pandemic locked out. the storm loads of this pandemic still hunting or do you have been reaching. numbers look good as the region continue to climb in the boston danes the number of cases reported in europe

has nearly doubled to close to 1000000 this in any way chose the director for europe says it's imperative that we don't let down our guard governments must be sure that the virus transmission is under control also coming up a gloomy economic outlook for asia the international monetary fund says there will be 0 growth in the region for the 1st time since the 1960 s. because of the coronavirus. great art inspired by sound isolation if you're getting bored at home try reproducing well known works of art in your own living room bedroom or bathroom. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the world health organization's european director has warned that despite some optimistic signs in some of the country's worst hit by the corona via. yes the number of cases continues to rise dr holmes

a clue those remarks came as some governments including here in germany eased their lockdowns now he said that despite the spring weather europe remained in a storm and he warned against over optimism about easing restrictions as we consider transition you must acknowledge that are no quick wins complexity and uncertainty heads which means that you are entering a period where you may need to what happened in just measures introduce and remove restrictions and ease restrictions gradually was constantly monitoring the effectiveness of these actions now germany has one of those countries partially easing their lockdowns it will gradually reopen its schools and allow smaller shops to resume business many restrictions will remain in place though as the country continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic chancellor angela merkel said that

germany's efforts to contain the outbreak have been partially successful but that the situation remains fragile it's been 3 weeks since chancellor angela merkel announced the initial restrictions on contact now they're being largely extended social distancing rules will remain in place until may 3rd groups will remain limited to 2 people and at least 1.5 metres must be kept from others from may 4th the schools will gradually reopen 1st for school leavers in primary and secondary education day care will remain shut religious gatherings will also remain banned while major events including germany's beloved football will be called off until august 31st. meanwhile restaurants cafes theaters cinemas and music venues will keep their shutters down only shops up to 800 meter square can reopen from monday facemasks are also being

recommended in shops and on transport announcing the amended restrictions chancellor angela merkel warned against complacency. what we've achieved is an interim success no more no less and i emphasise it is a fragile interim success this is now determined our deliberations that should be no rushing forward even if it's with the best intentions we have to understand that as long as there's no vaccine we have to live with the virus. that's kind of to become in the. controls along germany's land borders with its neighbors in the shenk in free travel zone will also remain in place for another 20 days so how do people in berlin feel about the new measures. i'm not surprised and i assume that it will continue on like this. first it's ok easing the restrictions is

more difficult than the shutdown it's like being on a diet when you're strict it's ok but the moment you start loosening the rules is when the danger starts. but i'm looking for the bar. for now germany will continue keeping its distance. and for more let's bring in now lars felt he is the chairman of the german council of economic experts and of the panel of experts at the science academy leopold vienna the president of the plan for how german authorities should reopen the country thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. hello good afternoon we heard there chancellor angela merkel saying that we have to live with the virus until this vaccine is found but that will probably not be until the middle of next year so i'd like to ask you because you have recommended using this lockdown now is it really realistic

well well what we need to do is. insufficient information. lowly. quality in social life. this is what the government is now doing it is the restrictions to some extent. ask every 2 weeks what the outcome what the results of this. is whether there is a precise number of sections or not and then we can have additional opening. measures for the economy not like the. rest of the year we have to find out whether the restrictions that are going to be lifted or whether we need to continue with them in order to keep the number of infections low until we have a vaccine. but it's

a delicate balance as an air between you know lifting the restrictions with the economy in mind and having the structures in place with human lives in mind how do you strike that balance. well i'm happy that the government just. ability. what you need to find out. what is the situation. at the moment. given or. not have to fold to cope with the number of inspections that system so once. they have not reached a capacity of one as a system yet. it is necessary to keep it's that level to ensure that we don't have. a number of inspections in hospitals which would be beyond pesty of those hospitals and this is meaning that every step. that the

government is not going to take the next couple of weeks. looking at those inspections and on the other hand it must be assured. information that the databases on which these decisions are taken this improve from week to be so this is also very important. we also have the economy in my in mind or rather those officials have the economy in mind and there are several models that are out there which predict that the german economy could recover quite quickly after this crisis if you had your crystal ball in front of you given you know the challenges that are ahead what sort of timeline do you think that we are looking at. well when we. presented or projections for the economy for this year couple of weeks ago we saw this 5 weeks of shutdown 1st lowly. we're opening up 30 economy again. which cost us about 3 percent of g.d.p.

so a minus 3 percent given that. is continuing much more strongly into realizations i'm not so wrong but expect that the downturn is much stronger that they're going to have a recession. so this is the situation i'm thinking about i'm still believing that you can realize mation of economic development so a sharp decline in the 2nd order of 2020 and then sharper increase starting sometime in the order continue next year. what we need to avoid. well with this as much as we can is a w. formation. if of infections. ok so but no matter which way you cut it you think that this is really painful here for

the economy we thank you for that analysis and that perspective lars felt chairman of the german council of economic experts. thank you very much. and we have now from germany to asia where the i.m.f. says that the asia pacific region will experience 0 growth this year for the 1st time since the 1960 s. due to the massive economic damage caused by the corona virus the new report warns that the impact in asia will be quote severe across the board and unprecedented massive drops in industrial and detail activity major supply chain disruption and a huge collapse in demand from europe and north america have been felt across the continent since the start of the year is very unclear and couldn't from business who's covering the story for us i mean it's quite clear the coronavirus having a devastating effect economically what are the biggest factors for the i.m.f. shaping the outlook in particular in asia well i think when we look at there's no

good time to have a global health fund demick but the timing in this case was particularly bad because asian economies were already slowing down because of the u.s. china trade war and economies were slowing generally marie who's the i.m.f. said columnist asia economist he said that a just service sector in particular will struggle you're going to have airlines factories shops and restaurants much like you're seeing here in europe and in the in the rest of the world but it is the worst recession since the great depression a synchronized contraction is what we're seeing as well so it's all happening at once which is also a big problem for asia which is so dependent on trade the worst recession since the great depression a lot of people are also looking at you know the last crisis to really rock the global economy that was the crisis of 2009 back then we saw china really pull the global economy out of it they they were able to pick up some of the slack and it sounds like they can't do that this time around no back then the chinese economy was growing 9 percent more over 9 percent even during the whole the whole period of

the russian recession this time it's under a lot more pressure it doesn't it just doesn't have that seem to have the money that it did to to help. it's still got the trade issues going on. even though its factories have started to to produce goods again there's nowhere to sell them so china isn't going to be able to bail out the world economy this time around talk to us a little bit more about the infrastructures that are in place especially in asia when we're talking about social safety nets for example i mean that's not necessarily something that exists in many countries so what can be done in asia to prevent people from slipping through the cracks during this downturn i think is exactly like you say i mean these are emerging economies a lot of them you have your tigers and everything but it still is still very very difficult a lot of these very poor countries. which were just coming into into high periods of growth i think with the i.m.f. is saying is that whatever it takes they they say that governments should just do whatever means necessary to to try and rescue the situation they should use policy

they can can use whatever means necessary they can apply to the i.m.f. for money as indeed many of them have so there's lots of different options open but they need to use everyone clifford couldn't get any of this thank you. in china life may be gradually returning to normal after a lifting of lockdowns but people are proving hesitant about going shopping again so we're on the city where the corona virus was 1st detected is to hand out millions of vouchers to try and tempt people to start spending even at the once popular fish market business or made slow. unloading the catch of the day and will have the city was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe experts say the virus originated in this wet market apart from fresh meat and seafood it also sold wild animals such as bats thought to be the source of the disease. while the hunan seafood market remains closed most

markets have now reopened to the dismay of international health experts and politicians. many locals are less worried. i take it all and i think it's ok to go to the seafood market this virus won't affect our eating habits because it's a special case and there is a lot we don't know for instance we haven't confirmed that it comes from the you nancy food market we have eaten wild animals for thousands of years you know what they may have had some problems during processing so we should be more careful with that by cooking them or in checking if they're fresh. difficult due to. the markets or a traditional and affordable way of shopping in china and customers are returning. oh we're very aware caucus is similar to supermarkets so it's relatively safe there was to go even if it's unsafe because supermarkets are more expensive still vendors

complain that business is slow as many shoppers now prefer more expensive hygienic supermarkets as some returned to the markets for affordable food others fear getting more than they've bargained for. while science. around the world's are in a race to find a vaccine or a cure for the corona virus one thing that they always emphasize is that the race will be a long one success could be 18 months or even more away here's a report now on the work being done by a team at a hospital in wigan's park in germany. this bad contains a possible cure for 19 it's plasma donated by a person who was infected with the coronavirus but has now recovered this means he also has the antibodies produced by the body to fight the virus you're going to have informed the antibodies that the patients full attack and destroy the virus that's why that's the only possible specific treatment for the virus that we have

the media in the hunger problem. the doctors at the university hospital in reagan's book have been working with these plasma donations for 10 days hundreds of people who have recovered to fill in tear that they take up to 5 donations per day. the samples are checked with an antibody test developed especially for covert 19. or 20 i'm very optimistic and we have found donors who have substantial amounts of neutralizing antibodies in their blood and we have already injected this into the 1st patients here and reagan's book spoke about target more than 40 patients have been treated with the antibody plasma since last week all critical serious cases so far no side effects have been observed in reagan's book but they have recorded the 1st successes the parameters or signs of the infection improve after a few days. that's fairly new 13 is one of the parameters that false relatively

quickly and if the patients still have a viral load so still have the virus in them then we can see the bio load decreases disappears completely it's pretty clear what. this means people who have now recovered from the virus can help those who are sick and possibly also save lives. while the united states is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic and it's disproportionately impacting african-americans in some states and cities black americans make up the majority of deaths from the virus even though they are the minority of the population. correspondent stuff on simon's went to a hospital in washington d.c. to find out more. this is how far we are allowed to follow doctors and nurses to one of 2 intensive care units at howard university hospital. this medical center in washington d.c.

has been serving the african-american community in the city for over 150 years. most of our patients are poor. most of our patients live in help desert. on in shore or on their insured. most. other. health here in washington and elsewhere across the country high quality primary and preemptive care can often be absent an affordable in poor neighborhoods and communities the lack of access to healthy food sources is another factor that accounts for the stark difference in numbers of covert 19 related deaths in predominantly african-american and white communities this is the when the us she spent years researching the root causes and impact of what she says are systemic inequities on predominantly african-american and minority. she's not surprised that black americans are impacted by covert 19

and a disproportionately high rate. 3. you had hired a higher proportion of individuals with hypertension diabetes with obesity these things that are the leading causes of death in the country and chronic disease leading chronic diseases in this country it's not surprising that individuals that are already have that higher proportion of those immunocompromised diseases would then be at the higher. one of the most economically and socially deprived areas in the district of columbia table a nonprofit organization that serves underprivileged communities is based here providing healthy food and offers education healthy food choices among other things for many residents of. disparately hard by the coronavirus the work carried out there. is critical this is if there's only 2 grocery stores in this neighborhood

and there's a lot of people that don't have the resources to either get there or shop there so we came here because we knew that this is where the food resources were needed as well as the education giving families healthy food choices they normally can't afford is perhaps just a band-aid right now but many hope that america's coronavirus crisis could finally trigger a real policy change that aims at making underprivileged communities healthier more affluent and with that more resilient to a public health crisis in the future. and i am joined now by calypso shell could do director of the global health policy think tank the center for global development in london thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and i'd like to begin by asking you because some have called the coronavirus a great leveller impacting poor and rich alike what is your response about sort of language i do not social you've just demonstrated using the

united states as an example of the most vulnerable and poor it's the monks the citizens are the worst heat and when you look at countries unfortunately nations south asian nations are much more likely to hit the hardest perhaps not just the direct effects of the virus but the effects of the global economic shutdown that the global north is imposing to manage the outbreak so with that in mind what would you recommend i mean what coronavirus measures you think should be implemented in less affluent countries and in less affluent areas within countries themselves. so i think 1st of all one size does not fit all i do not think that we can take the measures imposed in the united kingdom or indeed the u.s. or france italy and try and implement them directly in sub-saharan african nations

for all sorts of reasons the african c.d.c. has issued guidelines on more staged rollout of measures for suppression but i think if we were to think the top 3 or 4 things african governments could do 1st of all water and sanitation low tech water supply we know wash interventions are very effective and we do good after the virus is gone in terms of saving lives secondly when you look at social distancing it must be done in a way which takes account of the realities of poor nations people leaving crowded spaces 90 percent of the people working work in the informal sector so these people must go to work all they will starve to death they and their families so must consider this as the starting point and whilst we're talking about scaling up hospital capacity let's go to some trade again on simple things that we know save

the most lives ochs agend physiotherapy chest physiotherapy section that will save lives in normal hospital settings as opposed to high tech i.c.u. ventilators which may well not be feasible in countries electricity for it since the simple things that are in dire need are just briefly before we go i'd like to ask you because we hear a lot about you know the global economic impact of the coronavirus and i'd like to ask you briefly about how you see the impact on the global poverty in particular going forward. i think it's like it to be tragic in fact already looking at forecasts of millions of people falling into poverty and this reduction in g.d.p. in sub-saharan africa which could be up to 6 percentage points well directly result in halves of thousands of deaths for instance we estimate about 300000 children will not live to see their 1st birthday soley as a result of the projected economic contraction so this is

a direct health goal of the economic downturn cliff socialcam do of the 9 global health policy director of global health policy excuse me at the center for global development in london thank you. thank you it's around the world people are staying at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus while some are simply getting bored others are becoming creative using their time to produce and reproduce works of art take a look at what one facebook group in russia is doing. fly into a painting from your bad. sink into the tragedy of malays ophelia the thing greediness from your kitchen. from edward monk to michelangelo social media users are giving out classics a quarantine make over. the russian facebook group is. isolation

started as a challenge between friends and moscow just a few weeks later it has nearly half a 1000000 members from all over the world. no one expected such a huge reaction that's for sure the group grew so quickly right away people are really taking time for this going through our books looking at the websites of international museums to find the right picture for themselves and their families for. the rules of the group a simple use a classic like this leonardo da vinci painting take the photo at home and use props that you happen to have lying around in quarantine photoshop is not allowed. decided to take part in the art heist lation project because i'm sick of my cat and she's sick of me. which is. why i tear apart in this project because it is uniquely wildly joyful and it gives everyone positive emotions gives you

a break from the difficult situation we're all. used to say many of the recreate are a spontaneous thing but some people have been so in customs and getting the whole family involved in. including that perhaps. now there are around 2000 new posts every day according to the page administrators each one is a glimpse into how self isolation can sometimes open up new doors or draws to creativity. now to a story that is inspiring people around the united kingdom and beyond a 99 year old army veteran has raised the equivalent of over $14000000.00 euros for the country's health service after completing $100.00 laps of his garden captain tom moore had initially set a target of around 1000 euros in an effort to thank the health service staff for

the care that he had received for a broken hip and cancer more than 600000 people have donated. with that now you're up to date on t.w. time sir kelly and her lead up to custom are now web site t w dot com you can also follow us on social media thank you so much for sharing this part of your day with us and we do hope things to see complex. models.

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