india is on its way to becoming the world's largest covered 19 hotspot with 4300000 cases india has surpassed brazil as the country with the 2nd tightest number of infections probably health experts warn it's inevitable india will soon claim the record it's not surprising that the numbers that are coming out and. reading and seeing it in india would be an. 'd end of september. india has ramped up coronavirus testing and he's now conducting more than a 1000000

a day for the virus shows no sign of slowing. that hasn't stopped the gradual reopening of the economy and schools that a. lot of what i know we have to open up the economy we have to lift restrictions otherwise work isn't possible. to protect people's livelihoods while also protecting their lives it's the high stakes decision being faced around the world. india's battle with corona virus is unparalleled around the world and subject to one of the world strictest lockdowns introducing tough measures back in march when there were just 500 cases in the country but that didn't stop the spread india is posting record numbers of new cases on an almost daily basis with nothing to suggest the curve is nearing its peak over the past couple of months india's average number of cases per day as risen from below 30000 to over 80000 even the

us at its worst wasn't posting figures that high meanwhile hundreds of thousands of young indians desperate to get into top level universities have been taking part in highly competitive exams safety measures are in place but many students are worries that a few days after the college tests they'll need covered 19 tests to. examinations during a pandemic are never writes to some colleges remain closed as india records the highest daily rise in pieces in the world. these students are appealing for a crucial test. and it's just like never before. mosques assigned at the exam center constant sanitization and repeated calls for social distancing from the city but i use my parents and students here are reassured by these measures these see they cannot afford to lose any more time to the pandemic all the

candidates are trying hard to give the argos all big because as all the safety measures are taken so that is going to get theirs and they don't abandon a couple of they could have conducted this examination. but they push it to july and now has become to port any more delays yet not everyone has been listened to about that many of the competitive advantage every year in india have faced default position this time students have protested online against the risk they favor are being forced to take and have even approached the supreme court all of the students took to social media to trend the hard drives against exams and quit while the supreme court has rejected their demands didn't say forcing them to appeal for the exams is cruel it's probably a good while an aspiring doctors is expected to travel one just to kilometers next week to the test center she hasn't stepped out in 5 months so just edified to do so

she would do most all the social media that another exam led to dozens of 19 deaths in 01 i know many students whose parents are asking them to skip exams this year it is far too risky to go for them nothing is decided for me either my family is scared they don't know whether i should go for the 6 am not. opposition parties have taken up the cause as well as they accuse them or the government of being and i student protesters insist they do not want the exams cancelled but simply postponed until it is safe for a vote on the new welfare in the control. of the entire county and the the parents . because of. all of the you can only question the prime minister of india to postpone your. examination for time be. these students however intend to get on with their parents they see their career will have to be formed within

this new normal. we can all speak to do we used to leave your a chief and richie methinks for joining us so interesting this seemingly constant very steep rise in cases what's behind it you know people are describing india as a new epicenter of this crew in a virus in the past 24 hours almost 90000 new infections were reported as for reasons 7 if you asked the government they'd say be a testing more that testing the carrying out kind of $1000000.00 tests a day and that said to increase so they say the more we test them all cases we're likely to find but of course we also have to keep in mind that india is easing restrictions throughout the country they just announced this week the phase number for life is coming close to normal they've also allowed metro rail stations to operate with some districts ins and then once must also admit that people are becoming a bit casual about these restrictions and about their lifestyle they're not taking the kind of bitter because shien's that they've been advised to take the simply

they are fed up you mention about the large number of tests that are being done and the death rate would seem to bear that out india does have quite a low death rate about 1.7 percent you compare that with 3 percent in the u.s. is that a fair defense that for where the government is taking consolation from these figures they say a fatality rate is low in india and they also say our recovery rate is very high but when you took some of the economists they say these numbers are misleading it is true that india's fatality rates much lower than in europe and in north america but they're not that low compared to other asian countries especially in south asia as the governments of the experts but how are our regular indians feeling that they feel is out of control i think there was a sense of panic when this. pandemic 1st started in march april be the bikes being divided but i do think that people. you know so less than extra can simply because they believe that these numbers do reflect to some extent that india is doing quite

well and it's all anecdotal evidence there is no science to prove that is the death rate low but people also then again anecdotally talk about a lot of missing death cases that these numbers are not as reliable as the government would have us believe people are always talking but i know so and so do and i know so and so who died and they feel maybe these numbers are not quite so reliable as the government would have have them believe and you broke it brought in a strict lock down pretty early on what's being done to try and get on top of this rising number of cases they have implemented a lot of measures but it must be said as the lockdown when it was 1st implemented on the 25th of march was 1 of the strictest in the blood and india came up with this locked on fairly in the early stages of the pandemic but what critics are saying they didn't make the most of the time that it was not managed very well it was ineffective the implemented the locked on with 4 hours notice there was panic among people and big did not use this time to build resilience within the health

system so they lost crucial time there and now they've implemented several measures of course which are testing cams they have. a corporate app that they've asked everybody to download and you know they've strengthened kind of capacity in hospitals and things that they are taking measures now but a bit late many people mention the health care system in the hospitals or how is the health care system coping the health care system in big cities was under great strain in the initial stages and you could really kind of die of stories about people dying in cars waiting to get into hospitals but now they have improved the situation in hospitals a lot but there's a big difference between who can afford health care and who come to private health care system in india is very good but it's expensive so not everyone has access to that and now the big money rob is that this virus is spreading into. larry hasn't there the health system is very weak to some extent in just pinning his hopes on a vaccine that is trying to develop itself it is then india is not the leading

countries working on a vaccine this and a promising trials going on clinical trials but there's no side of the breakthrough at the moment even if there were to be a breakthrough and then the distribution how do you distribute a vaccine to 1300000000 people the vast numbers is as always with india the issue thank you so much for giving us up to date delhi bureau tree chief i'm researching . now it's time for one of your questions to our science correspondent david williams. what are your thoughts on rapid kovan 1000 tests for daily use in the population. for this answer you need some quick background right now the gold standard in testing for coke at 19 is a method told p.c.r. or the polymerase chain reaction method now now it's very accurate but it's also kind of slow and it has to be carried out in a lab by by professionals which is why in some countries like india they've turned

to what are called rapid and dejan tasks which don't test for the viral genetic code but that just for one of the proteins that that it expresses there are a lot cheaper and they're faster and they could be potentially self administered but then they're also a lot less accurate still proponents of widespread testing with them say the upsides of the technology outweigh the accuracy issues because they could play a key role as a frontline surveillance tool which which p.c.r. at the moment can't really do because of its complexity now on the surface everyone testing themselves all the time sounds like a good idea but a lot of researchers remain pretty skeptical that it will actually work out i mean you'd have to produce a huge number of tests for it for europe alone we're talking about about billions

of them every week so so a major production challenge when facilities are already stretched and and with most commercial antigen test significant accuracy problems could really erode how much trust people eventually place in the results that they get discouraging their uptake so i'd say that yeah the idea of more testing through rapid antigen tests is a great one in principle. most of the experts i read say we shouldn't expect to turn the tide on covert 19. science correspondent derek williams that now pope francis has made a play to the catholic faithful to look out for each other's health during the pandemic speaking to a mostly socially distanced crowd of worshippers past the vatican the pontiff encouraged nations to work towards the common good during the pandemic rather than

seeking economic or political advantage he said a virus that does not recognize borders must be faced with a love without borders during the speech the pope did caution the audience themselves to keep distance between each other and to crowd together. that sash out thanks a lot for joining us. what's going on here. house of your very own from a printer. computer games that are healing. my dog needs electricity. shift explains delivers facts and shows what the future holds. good living in the digital world shift. d.w. . political dissent in russia can be life threatening poisoning alexina

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now modifying its drones to a small town called money gall instead we're delivering critical food supplies farmers who products of incompetence at the child are cooling and. the advantage of drones is that they can deliver goods to lockdown areas without individual people having to come into contact. 7 year old for don't like lease an order bread and milk for medications also being delivered directly toward doorstep it's absolutely fantastic and it's used to work by you. never see. a day at best was hacked and it wouldn't have to my care and. here's. a single drone can make up to $100.00 deliveries per day manas founder bobby healy says that if the government wants the start of could be delivering to $600.00 smaller towns across ireland by the end of the year. what's more he says monitoring the autonomy of drones could be a job for airline pilots currently out of work because of the chronic crisis. in

supple yard she like its municipal workers who are operating drones the beach town began using drones for ocean rescues to monitor forest and brush fires. now drones are also supplying elderly people in remote areas with medications disinfectant and facemasks the nearest pharmacy is about 2 hours away on foot. now this resident says it's necessary for them to come to us where we live is remote but the distance doesn't count only the goodwill of the people. these examples show how creative individuals worldwide are using the technology to help overcome 1000 jobs. several african countries like qualified john experts to help overcome this allowing unicef i found at the african academy where young africans can learn to build and operate drones.

deborah is getting a flying lesson. she's one of the 1st students at africa's 1st drone academy. deborah plans to use what she's learned during the program to help her native country malawi. many things in a moment from here we had we had in the designing of the jones designing of the payload. trees and it's had to reach. being able to fly drones accurately is important and hard to reach areas so from time meters to 5 meters over this 10 meter range or. the curriculum demands a lot from the 26th currently enrolled around half are female most and all are from

africa this was one of unicef's conditions for financially supporting the economy. africa and many times has been far behind in technology and we think drones are the future we want them to start their own businesses join current businesses just really building up the john and history and being more than just pilots. to this and deborah and her fellow students learn to construct a pilot drawn integrate them into supply chain systems and analyze drawn data. grapes in the face please. basically as a woman and of course as you're presenting. this long as not far from the academy deborah comes from humble backgrounds herself if the drone program weren't free of charge she wouldn't be able to afford it. and we are finding this drill is useful to the information. be disease outbreaks at some point

and. challenges season by season different of them. also because of these different seasonal agricultural challenges malawi hopes drones can help protect small farmers like david george. the country is spearheaded using drones and data in 2017 it opened the world's 1st drone testing corridor. here companies like martin carroll's employer can test their drone solutions. martinus testing how to supply remote villages with medicines and surveying the region to identify areas at risk from flooding. it's a hard situation because you know it's a lot of families have a lot of history in the areas that they've grown up and i don't want to move at all is to be able to provide the evidence showing that you know this is prone to flooding and this is where it could happen whereas if we moved to this area could be less less prone to flooding there was so far drawn companies like arrow can't

find enough qualified personnel in africa the academy is supposed to change that you see that today is a special day for debra her presentation on digital maps as part of her final exam . if everything works out she'll soon be a qualified drone pilot and technician. to specialize at lancer bank in order to help alleviate hunger and starvation in malawi she knows what it means to be poor as her own family never had much. her uncle currently lives in a slum he's proud of his niece and she visits him often. i didn't in the students in malawi interest the very start she's the future and the she's the 1st group that has shown interest. so i can see the future for. the drone industry looks set to grow rapidly and

deborah hopes to be a part of it she wants to found her own company that works with drones focused on helping those in need in malawi and beyond. more than 10 years. has been working on a call to. help save people buried in rubble earthquakes often cost many human life . in the summer of 2016 these images from central italy shocked the world the earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 buried hundreds of people and destroyed entire villages. knows the pictures all too well. he grew up in a region often affected by earthquakes. these events are actually shocking fortunately i was never actually affected personally it was not getting to me that

all of these are still. of course these things that you personally and i always wanted to be able to actually help other people that make knowledge of the. earth a scientist dream is to develop a truly autonomy micro drone to be used in search and rescue scenarios. and yeah the professor for robotics and his team have been working on this project for more than 10 years. old so the idea that something there where you got that disaster there firefighters with the soup of action i drive to the place of these ouster and it will finally find its way through the building and find also its way you know the space within that building you can also mark the environment. where the victims are drawing and then find its way out from that building. the design is

already largely completed the small drone has been equipped with cameras that it uses to scan the surroundings and onboard computer analyzes the captured images and extracts prominent reference points to create a detailed 3 d. map. this allows it to locate potential survivors of course the drone also needs to reach them and that presented a problem. earthquakes can reduce everything to rubble in order to reach people trapped within a drone would have to be able to get through narrow passages and type tunnels. the solution a drone that can adapt to its surroundings by folding and reshaping itself. 4 independently rotating propellers are attached to mobile arms thanks to servo motors these can swivel around the main body allowing the drone to fold into an ocean to pass through holes. to

inspect an object from up close you can turn into a t. shirt. and it can reposition its arms to fit through narrow passages. and. the drone flies autonomy slowly using a special software that registers points on structures and follows the multiplier. this enables the drone to constantly calculate its own exact location and speed. a training ground close to be our. this is where we dog the swiss society for rescue dogs trains for emergency situations. when looking for buried person after an earthquake nothing beats a dog's nose but there are limits if a building is at risk of collapsing the mission is too dangerous for humans and animals. re doc thinks these are situations where

a drone could be useful to the corn and although the drone is foldable which is great because it can enter a building through tiny openings and that's really important as pathways can be very small. autonomy's flying is another great feature as cable is communications and connections often get interrupted in the rubble. we don't use his telescope cameras to look inside buildings. but these can only extend some 5 meters after that there's no way forward and. it's going to. i think drones would be great as one of several tools for instance if i use the camera and realize that there's a large hollow space and that i can't go further but i need to then the drone is a great addition. another helpful feature would be a microphone with intercom peters' that way i could communicate with somebody very far away inside

a building and that would also be really important. to. take these needs to heart at the moment whoever is primarily working on battery life in the drone speaks bit by bit i follow it but only strictly between 20 and 30 minutes that means if you want to be able to fly fast. but you know if. there are many obstacles to overcome for example you need to be able to see fossella and to make good reasoning process thoughtful think so at the moment of working on these 2 big problems. the robotics professor will continue researching and in a couple of years his dream of the perfect rescue drone may well be a reality. political

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