but you see the majority of countries around the world have signed up to that and agreed that the rich countries will pay for x.e. support a plan countries to also be out of order and have it right to talk to you thank you so much for joining us there dr margaret harris from the world health organization . but when it comes to tackling this pandemic sweden has been one of europe's outliers swedish leaders have rejected lockdowns relying instead on public trust in their recommendations but infections are increasing and the country has now seen nearly 146500 confirmed cases last friday brought to wreck or 4700 new cases and more than 6000 people have died as more than 20 times the death toll in neighboring norway and nearly 10 times that of denmark. praised by its admirers shunned by its critics when it comes to cope with 19

sweden is used to getting attention. the country has avoided for more restrictions relying instead on a culture of consensus and common sense. but now it too is battling a huge rise in cases. the syrians we see an increasing number of cases in 20 of 21 regions so it's absolutely serious what we also see as a consequence is more people being hospitalized we see more cases in intensive care units and more deaths at the file. the swedish prime minister stephan lawful and has certainly been taking it seriously he's just ended a period of self isolation off to fears he'd been exposed to the virus. health officials are now urging swedes to stay at home as much as possible half of the

country's regions have put local restrictions in place these included vising people to stop using public transport and to stick clear of indoor spaces such as shops and museums. but unlike other countries there are no fines for violating these recommendations. as previous cases continue to say hospital admissions rise whether they like you don't know what officials here may be forced to get tougher. let's get more on the swedish approach from. said he's professor of clinical epidemiology at swainson institute he's also one of the signatures of the great parenting declaration which advocates for what they call focus protection of people most at risk and seeks to avoid potential harm of coffee lockdowns welcome to d.w.

now that sweden deaths and infection rates are rising so much faster than its neighbors who went into lockdown does this call for a change of approach. and i don't think it calls for a change of approach i mean we have during the autumn now we have become tougher and i think the strategy now is not so different from the strategy this weekend had during spring the basic strategy is actually keep your distance stay at home if you're sick and wash your hands and then of course try to expose people who are very vulnerable to disease that is older people and their scripts and that is basically the same strategy we have today yet so. if i understand you correctly you're saying that you have the same saturday are since i don't know about march but now you're seeing infections increasing does that not indicate that that same strategy needs to be adjusted. and well to some extent

with toughen it a bit locally but on the other hand i could turn the question around and say we had this strategy and cases went down to almost nothing during summer and we still had the same strategy so that could be i mean you could say that that is prove it worked then but it doesn't work now so i mean there could be other underlying factors which actually drive the pandemic rather than then. the recommendations or the regulations you have if you look outside the nordic countries too for in sims belgium or italy having much tougher restrictions they have an even worse situation than sweden has right now so i think it's not only about what kind of recommendations you have the situation take overnight and situation you have any a country outline for us the ways in which you think lockdowns can be more damaging to a society than that the diseases are supposed to protect us from. yeah i mean 1st of

all i want to stress that i've actually said in an in the news media i said so during spring that if we had known except when to initiate a lockdown in sweden and that would have been even before we had fires and for a very specific time that might have been a good thing i've also argued that probably we should have put. the troubles to the alps during skiing into some kind of quarantine so it's not you know either black or white but at present i think that a gentleman looked down where everyone would be for instance i told him not going to work it's. looks like the technology has defeated us and the economy and in the longer term. sorry it's just that your buying are broke up so well believe it professor thank you so much for joining us yet unicef and vic's have from sweden 2nd of insecure institute thank you thank you. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories from around the world the u.s.

calling for a massive funding purse to tackle food shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic the world food program says 7000000 people have died from starvation this year and it expects that number to double or indeed triple in the future. u.s. attorney general william barr have authorized the federal prosecutors to look into allegations of voter voting irregularities in the presidential election it's the 1st time he's addressed president trump search repeated and unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud. cruz congress has voted overwhelmingly to remove the president martin viscosity pietschmann which was prompted by corruption allegations and his handling of the pandemic flu has one of the world's highest covered mortality rates and prison for scotus says he won't challenge the decision. russia has begun to deploy troops to the disputed territory of the goal of a kind of back to uphold the cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia the 2

countries agreed to stop fighting over the region after more than a month of bloodshed the russian brokered deal lives or by john to keep its territorial gains at least a 1000 people have been killed since the longstanding conflict erupt erupted again in september moscow says this latest truce will enable a permanent end to the conflict. of of was a peace deal signed but this was the reaction in armenia. was 'd her turn to protest as storming the parliament building in demanding prime minister nicole pacini and resign. for him of the several government offices were ransacked and local media reports that the parliamentary speaker was attacked and they sent him a prime minister pushing the cold for calm and said it hadn't been easy to agree

a deal. i saw. doc the decision has been taken as a result of analysis of the military situation. and by stay on the assessments of people who are most familiar with the military situation. during 6 weeks of fighting as about johnny forces might still inroads into going to cut a buck and on sunday officials say that taken the key city of shusha now going to cut about has been in armenian hand since it won the war with azerbaijan in 994 most of the people who live there. but under international law it's part of azerbaijan. both russia and turkey will be huge influence in the region and both will send peacekeeping forces. the republics of azerbaijan and armenia are to stop at the positions they have taken peacekeeping

forces of russia are being set up along the line of contact in the corner car back and along the corridor connecting nagorno-karabakh with the republic of armenia. in baku the capital of azerbaijan the deal was high old as a victory. alqaeda back is a liberated nation is liberated thank you for today god bless you all i have so many words in my heart that i don't know what to say. 3 cease fires in the back of failed since fighting erupted in september many he hopes this deal will finally bring peace to the troubled region. but of course a pandemic means that lots of places we go to have fun like amusement parks that are sitting idle when they would usually attract hundreds of thousands of visitors

a day well one park in japan has come up with a new business model that offers play and work. things have been going downhill for quite awhile and land the number of visitors has hit a record low since the pandemic struck but the theme park hopes to turn things around with a pivot to office space. cuban dingaan you know you've got a little change to my mood i think anyone who works at the same place every day will run out of ideas that mentally. instead of working from home this 80 consultant can now work poolside. for 15 euro's a day he gets electricity wife and loads of sunshine. she just it's strange but i can actually concentrate here better than i thought through the cuticle us from us and. the only jury then used to be one of japan's most

popular theme parks but it had been losing to strong competitors such as tokyo's disneyland change was essential for survival in the pandemic struck prompting the 50 year old park to get creative. secada decides to work on a ferris wheel today he can sit and roller coasters instead but that's just too impractical. the wheel is perfect for video conferences it's quiet and has an unbeatable view. to consider. whether you're working near the pool or in a ferris wheel the noise level is surprisingly low and other people's conversations aren't distracting the mechanical noises don't bother me either i didn't expect that it's really nice lucrative. for theme parks like yomiuri then the pandemic poses a big challenge but thanks to adventurers office workers things may be looking up

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i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us as. coburn 1000 cases climbed around the world once again we take a closer look at the government that has most successfully tackled the pen demick in asia taiwan just 7 people have died of the corona virus there with a total of 570 cases ever recorded as of this tuesday some people have pointed out its island geography as one explanation but take one look at the u.k. and that should dispel any myth about an island advantage in fact taiwan was especially vulnerable in the early days of the pandemic with hundreds of flights going to china every week making its success in the fight against cove it all the more remarkable. massive. joyful faces this year taiwan's pride parade was more than a showcase for the island's liberties but also its achievement in containing

coronavirus it seems surreal to many others around a rose to severing from the outbreak but here has never been any kind of lockdown people have gone through more than 200 days without a local transmission record. jason long a public health expert from stanford university has been studying the taiwan model since the early stage of the pandemic his travel twice from the u.s. to taiwan this year one of the things that i noticed immediately is how serious. they take the corn team procedures in seoul they track you by sort of you say you are signals you'll fall the location where we were under going quarantine they were barely any signals. so we got visited by the police and the public health department. speedy and strengthen border control is the most important key to success except residents travel and question nobody is allowed to enter taiwan

even though it's too late for regions like the u.s. and europe to stop the virus and to bother the expert thinks that contact tracing quarantine and universal masquerade as the relevant lessons that should be learned from taiwan just because you you have lockdowns and then you release people and they would laugh again release people does not necessarily help dana is a pretty critical of data coming from peskin or or or you know data coming from. individuals. tracing and that needs to be standardized. in order to mount an effective response was successful in finding the have the. not only found the 1st public health but also the economy here i will mention make it one of the all economies in the world to expand this year with around 1.5 percent g.d.p.

growth forecast taiwan's hope in the 1900. words now it's growing more sustainable ways to step forward and some scientists including chisel will and those a local professor jones home suggest to do with authority will be qualified to be openly supported in the near future we can come up. kind of for me that we can. shorten the corridor base by increasing testing. for the more you know cost you will. be better off and disputed we still need this they hope by step machine credible trouble bubbles tonton certain other some point to lead the world into a new normal. joining us is dale fisher professor of and sexist diseases at national university of singapore adel one thing i keep hearing is that taiwan is

a small island new zealand is another example and that what they're doing can't really still up for europe or the united states what's your take. on certainly very difficult the countries you mentioned likewise china thailand vietnam there's like a 0 tolerance policy if you are trying to eradicate if they have any cases they have to be a lockdowns massive testing. and really try and get back to 0 that's that's their strategy. and so do you think that the strategies that taiwan has employed would be able to then cross over and be used by the united states which clearly the government there has not really employed a lot of the strategies that we see in taiwan. i don't think it would be feasible or i think it is especially at this stage of the outbreak i don't believe

people would be tolerant of the imposition the these policies have very good for health but they really take to get cases to 0 but but it really means a lot of vigilance a lot of locked down tight border controls these types of things and we know these have major economic and social impacts. i think a more reasonable model that you might compare for europe in asia might be that same by other countries sorry europe and the u.s. would be seen in other countries in asia such as singapore malaysia south korea. hong kong japan these countries tolerate cases even tolerate clusters but but try and shut down these clusters they're going to very strong public health systems. but this allows for

a little bit more leniency in terms of the lockdowns and the social restrictions and the intensity of mass testing that's required when you when you have a case so that's a slightly different strategy which is a degree of of tolerance and if you like living with the virus what of course you can't you know no one should be prepared to accept is free flowing community transmission which is what's happening in in europe and in the states at the moment . you know one thing that you keep hearing when you look at what's happening in asia especially east asia is just that the people the citizens there are more obedient that their confusion culture makes them prioritize the collective over the individual that's kind of a stereotype do you buy that argument looking at all the countries that you just mentioned. listen i think if if in any of these

asian countries if there was harsh lock downs and then it was unlocked and then there was mad spread and again large numbers of cases this and the need for more lockdowns i would say. that the same frustrations that we're saying from the communities in in europe and the americas you know i think you would see it in in many parts of asia but the point is the the action was fast and decisive the public health systems were built up any lockdowns were minor and and brief and therefore there's trust in the government trust in the strategy and if you think about it europe did lockdown right now they are wearing masks so things that you thought wouldn't be tolerated before now are being tolerated syre

so i don't think it's entirely cultural if it's not cultural then i wonder if it's political ah taiwan is a democracy china isn't singapore for that matter isn't i there do you think the form of government matters in the fight against the pandemic. i think what matters is the relationship between government health departments and the public and and we call it risk communications community engagement that that has that that's the number one killer in any outbreak response. whether it's ebola or any type of infectious diseases that sprint spreading in a in an epidemic sort of way. you have to engage the people so that they don't understand how to protect themselves they can understand how to assist in the predicament because they're critical and in it you know any less a way is covered 19 where it's community spread and how the community but this is

absolutely directly related to the outcomes. thank you so much for your time a pleasure. in myanmar the government has sent thousands of people to cope in 1000 quarantine facilities and the places are very much like prisons so much so that former inmates are counseling those doing time there to help them cope with confinement. isolation uncertainty life under lockdown in myanmar isn't easy but for the spirit souls motivational talks like this have been comforting who better to understand them than these counsellors who spent time locked away behind boss. the people at close contact with covert 900 patients have been confined to the quarantine center since the 1st wave of the coronavirus pandemic then we learned that they had feeling similar to us former

prison is since they long for visitors or people to talk to you. only on kill himself spent 9 years behind bars and a $990.00 s. as a political prisoner together with around 20 colleagues most of them former detainees has offered counseling at dozens of cornered centers the volunteers say it's important to address the psychological impact of the pandemic. we are worried about people will kill themselves due to mental health issues even though they won't die from covert 19 we've seen reports of suicide cases because of the quarantine. during the pandemic myanmar has had as many as 45000 people in quarantine at one time the counselors say the pandemic is compound an existing issues many already faced a precious of poverty and now they have to worry about infection and social stigma

. and not a form of stress is that they get blamed by their neighbors if they're infected they feel guilty when all of this stress comes down on them the depressed angry traumatized and discriminated it. has all been obvious if you watch it with. the counselors want to let them know they are not alone in feeling isolated and that there will be an end to the confinement. that's it for now be sure to check out our other stories on d.w. dot com for asia or on facebook and twitter we leave you with pictures from india of preparations for dolly the hindu holiday known as the festival of lights thanks for joining us we'll see tomorrow the bite.

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running rampant in these tight corners or should doses go to frontline workers who put their lives on the line like here at a testing station in frankfurt. questions remain especially on the news that brazil has suspended its trial of a chinese candidate vaccine there are no easy answers. welcome to the show all this week we're talking vaccines and covert 19 on monday used broke that there could be a vaccine by the end of the year and pfizer and germany's biotech were 1st to announce successful data from a large scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine they say it's more than 90 percent effective when not going to be able to rely on just one vaccine to inoculate the world and then came the.