this is g.w. news a live from berlin the corona virus has spread to rapidly and brazil a drastic increase in the number of cases of pushes brazil passed britain to become the 3rd worst affected country in the world more than a quarter 1000000 brazilians are confirmed as having covered 19 also coming out promising results from a coronavirus vaccine test us biotech firm which are now says 8 people showed them you respond since early clinical trials of an experimental vaccine. and to germany and france and set out a half

a trillion euro rescue fund for europe's battered economies german chancellor on the american who dropped her longstanding resistance to the e.u. are raising joint crisis funding. i'm claire richardson welcome to the show brazil has overtaken britain and has now recorded the 3rd highest number of coronavirus cases in the world more than a quarter of a 1000000 of brazilians have been infected and here the 17000 have died the government is calling and more than 150 doctors from cuba to help contain the surge in cases. brazil's hospitals are running dangerously close to capacity rio de janeiro's famous maracana football stadium now serving as a makeshift over spill facility for covert 19 patients. shantytowns

are among the hot spots residents from one of the biggest in the city of san paolo marched to protest against their plight with no space for social distancing and lacking medical care there especially at risk. president the narrow has fiercely criticized lockdowns imposed by brazil's regional state governors because of the impact on the economy but they insist there is no alternative. to beat the economic crisis we have to beat the coronavirus the enemy of the economy is not quarantine it is the pandemic and that is why we have to provide all the necessary support for science for medicine for health. flying doctors have begun evacuating critically ill indigenous patients from remote areas of the vast amazon region the virus there is spreading fast and the only

intensive care units are concentrated in the capital menow says. many brazilians are angry they say they're the ones suffering because the authorities acted too slowly. but i feel that brazil is in a bad state and is behind in its response. should have been done a long time back in getting. people into work people need to eat what they're seeing the government playing politics so nobody is taking it seriously despite the seriousness of the problem. the seriousness of. the government says the worst of the crisis should be over by july and the economy will be able to pick up from august not everyone shares that confidence. the u.s. biotech firm moderna is reporting promising results from the 1st clinical tests of

an experimental vaccine against the corona virus early results from the trial or show that participants developed antibodies similar to those in people who have recovered from cofa 19 the u.s. government has invested half a $1000000000.00 in the research meanwhile u.s. president donald trump said he's taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine trump has repeatedly touted it this drug as a treatment for covert 19 despite medical warnings. well let's jump right in and bring in dr peter hotez a vaccine ologists at the baylor college of medicine in houston dr hotez stock markets are up sharply on the news that a 1st clinical trial for the vaccine has been successful but how optimistic should we be at this stage in the testing. well it's still pretty early on in the testing there we only are only seeing information about 8 individuals and remember this is through a press release from the company there's it's not even published data so so we

don't actually have any doubt to look at all we have is the opinion of the company so it's not a lot to go on what they're saying is that the 8 individuals handled the vaccine pretty well there were no immediate serious reactions one individual had some severe redness at the side of injection and some of the ones with the really highest dose may have had more morse what we call a systemic problems of. sin and and and malays and that sort of thing but overall they handled it pretty well so that's good news and they also report that they developed antibodies which we would expect and they also developed what are called neutralizing antibodies which of the type of antibody need to protect against the virus the big question that we really haven't seen is the amount of neutralizing antibodies because we know from

laboratory animal experiments including ours for the vaccine we're developing you need a lot of that neutralizing antibody and all we know is they're saying it's roughly equivalent to the amount that's found in patients who are unfit previously infected with the virus and terms of neutralizing antibody and there's a report coming out from the week before from my colleagues at the rockefeller university in new york saying that's not a lot of neutralizing antibodies so it's a little bit of a confusing muddled message and it'll sort out once we see the published out of before right now the vaccine looks like it's well tolerated whether or not it's going to work we are really known to we do those large phase 3 clinical trials which will get underway in the summer in the fall of pharmaceuticals have been made . news elsewhere as well u.s. president donald trump claimed earlier today that he is taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine listen to us but i get a lot of tremendously positive news on the hydroxy and i say hey you know the

expression i've used what do you have to lose ok what do you have to lose your bet if i haven't taken for about a week and we can provide are we going to have every day at some point every day i take a pill every day. at some point else up what i'd like to do is i'd like to have the cure and or the vaccine and that will happen i think 1st of. all there's currently no evidence that hydro hydroxy clark plan is effective in treating cofa 19 and it could be serious a risk associated what would you say it to trump or others who might be considering taking a strike. at this point i've not seen any compelling data supports that it does anything you know we are at this stage about a decade ago for influenza it worked in a test tube and there was a big study showing that it did not prevent you from getting influenza and it looks like it's probably going to be the same for kovan $1000.00 so i would say the risk

of heart disease and arrhythmias and others outweigh the and need potential benefits so i think there are better things we could do if he's seriously concerned about earth as doctors are concerned about him being exposed to cova 19 or if he has been exposed we have convalescing the antibodies plasma that we know has a much better record both in service one and we're doing clinical studies now for this new one so as to that would be a far better option for dr fair hotez thank you so much for that analysis thank you. germany and france have announced a half a trillion a year 0 plan to help euro to help europe weather the worst crisis in decades the proposal calls for a rescue fund to boost sectors of the economy hardest hit by the pandemic and in our 1st german chancellor angela merkel and her long standing resistance to the e.u. raising joint debt to fund relief efforts it's wishful thinking to hope europe's

economies could bounce back as easily as these parisian after months under lockdown even before the e.u. commission presents its aid package berlin and paris are rushing through a joint initiative for economic recovery in a bid to put this crippling face behind them. in a joint news conference with the french president chancellor angela merkel stressed the coronavirus pandemic is endangering european unity. most everyone at a fund has to help ensure that all countries in europe can react appropriately but . this requires an extraordinary one off effort which france and germany are ready to undertake provided that if this is the result of the bilateral work in cooperation with our partners i'm convinced that this plan provides the groundwork to revive our lives our economies and our societies so it's hard.

to offset the drastic decline in production transport and tourism across europe this development fund will get an injection of 500000000000 euros e.u. budget funds will be made available to the hardest hit regions and sectors. the overall plan is designed to strengthen the e.u.'s future viability of the in these resources will of course if this purpose will invest in digitalisation and the green deal to cope with the climate catastrophe this will inspire a new dynamic for the future i am in the field of health we will aim for cooperation to apply all we flew on from the crisis together by their design tight that sounds like support for the e.u. commission whose economic recovery plan is being drafted the commission's president is expected to present it next week. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world a group of labor unions has filed a complaint of systemic sexual harassment against the fast food giant mcdonald's

the unions say workers were abused in restaurants in countries including the us britain and australia the chain insists it does not control working conditions and franchised outlets. members of the extremist group boko haram have killed at least 20 people in a village in northeastern nigeria eyewitnesses said the islamist storm the village and began shooting just as people were preparing to break their ramadan fast at sundown boko haram has now been waging its insurgency for more than a decade. well germany is slowly easing out of coronavirus restrictions and breathing life into the hard hit tourism sector beaches have reopened in the northern states of. a welcome boost for local businesses. this season maybe beginning 6 weeks late. but the beach chairs are out. the coronavirus shutdown cost this beachside cafe 200000 euros in lost revenue

owner hi now back in myer is keen to get back to business. you know traditionally we have to remain closed over easter when the weather was excellent that cincom win now missing. luckily customers are returning believe me we like to have breakfast here it's nice here especially when the beach chair is close to the water finish time cup. but while the restrictions are scaled back new rules apply the distance between the chairs is carefully measured and adjustments are made on a minimum distance of 2 metres is required well. this can doesn't dissolve because. the authorities say beach chairs have to remain in exactly the same place people can turn them to face the sun but they can't be moved even by a few metres. high no picking my our hopes that his customers stick to the rules

another closure would mean bankruptcy. sports now and the quiet stands and stunted goal celebrations seen and been displayed on matches in recent days may be strange and unfamiliar but there's nothing new about the goal scoring talent of laver couzens young star. he scored 2 as leverkusen return to action on monday night with a 41 victory away from home against strugglers vetter bremen. the closing act of the reopening weekend underneath the visa study on lights there's much about the in the strange times like the sight of teams emerging separately from the tunnel that makes the match day feel like a training exercise and it was with training ground ease that labor queues in breeze through graeme and defense to net the opener in the 28th minute mussa g.r.b. charge unchallenged to the touchline and picked out an unmarked car i haven't seen

the guests in front. braman were back level just 2 minutes later when leon gets in courts corner was turned by a crafty tito gabriel selassie back but just 3 minutes after that laver couzens lead had been restored yet another free header for one decade car i have a whose 2 goals gave his side an advantage that they carried into half time. they drew further in front on the hour mark when mitchell visor profited from some serious confusion in the brain and back line to make it 31. and in the 78th minute carrying demi by was able to put the result beyond doubt after a small through ball from carrying better robbie and an early dive from keeper pavlik. both teams pick up where they left off before the break a dream restart for later crews and i'm a nightmare one for impact will break. here watching to.

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