following that the use approval of the biotech pfizer vaccine many european citizens are eager to be vaccinated we expect that if additional exceed supply us and companies got to get approval this and that the would be able until the end of summer to reach sufficient exene those unselfish and immunity of the 8 and in that age of 60 to 70 percent which could have us to climb toward the pandemic before next week in winter and 10 to $21.00 by on tech is already planning to expand production capacity currently the vaccine for all of europe is only manufactured at its pfizer plant in the belgian town of poor as many are hoping life will soon return to normal without masks and without fear that should be possible if the goal of immunizing 60 to 70 percent of the population is attained a husband when he joins me for more he is overall

a just with lancaster university in england dr mayor welcome back on the program we just heard the bio on tech c.e.o. saying he is confident that their vaccine will work against the new virus variant what do you make of his assessment. yes that is pretty true the reason is that event somebody is vaccinated basically the vaccine not only part of it despite it being multiple sites but also induce other level of protection as well like our like blood cells which are within our blood all to prime to attack on the virus and also the complete system t. cell responses and light addie of responses are induced so if the antibody related protection is a little minimized because of this mutation we have other ad is to work on to add made the vaccine effective so therefore i'm pretty confident that this vaccine would protect against this new strain whatsoever as it stands but the problem really is not at this moment the problem is that as we move along this what is we're proper propagating to the human population that really dominant levels at

least keep accommodating more and more the mutation that are making it would reach to a tipping point at that point we need to what he devote the vaccine i think it's about as it stands now i don't really think that would be any problem given that information can really say how dangerous is this variant of the crime. this moment what we know that is that this new variant has it on 43 mutations and out of those 23 mutations already and the spike will be nobody could equal state that is making this flight is more transmissible so it moves from one person to another person from one community to enter the community quite effectively this means that if it carry on increasing infection rates and we do know the hospitalization and the death auto suppose you did with the number off infection for timothy it would have some impact but that is not because of the highly. ability of this vaccine that ian to cause infection but is just that it will take high number of people to

do in fact and that's all it will toss out into the impact on. that was just mohamed in one year of lancaster university in england felt relief could be on the way for hundreds of truck driver stuck at the port of dover in southern england where they're waiting to cross to france french media are reporting that the governments will allow the blash drivers to enter if they have a negative coronavirus test workers that were shot to travelers from the u.k. after a fast spreading coronavirus variant was discovered there and the european commission has advised against a blanket travel ban ahead of the holidays. what a way to spend the last days before christmas hundreds of trucks huge on the road to die in a line that stretches on and on and on dozens of kilometers some of it into the city the stations of the freeway it's here we meet. and not my gunter from germany . we want to spend christmas at home with our family it would be very bad if we

conned. my wife has been really upset since she found out about all this but what can i do. these drivers couldn't have known the french border would suddenly slam shut on sunday since then they've been stranded here some forced to literally live life on the road their anger growing as the hours pass. where near the base people knew. she was going to go with. what the world and the closure of isn't just hurting drivas one 5th of all goods bound for britain pos through the now empty port if it remind shot then shortages of by sea good stretton the british government says it's working on a solution with france so yes we do know how this 2nd strain of corona virus let's be clear is well it's not just confined to the united kingdom the 2nd strain is elsewhere in the willows and could well be in europe as well london says it's

prepared to test those waiting me the country's channel ports for the virus but that's set to be a huge logistical challenge with thousands stuck on various roads why if you did cross over the channel. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines the united states a top infectious disease scientist and he has received a kopek 19 a vaccination he's the latest u.s. official to be undocumented in a live streamed event meant to encourage people to take the vaccine thought she follows president elect joe biden and vice president mike pence. commercial flights between israel and morocco have started after the countries agreeing to normalize relations the 1st aircraft from the televisa arrived in robot carrying a delegation including a u.s. envoy jared questioner it's the latest in diplomatic deal between the jewish state

and an arab nation just by protests from palestinians. norway's top court has cleared the way for new oil exploration in the arctic judges meeting on line ruled that new oil drilling would not violate a constitutional guarantee for a healthy environment environmental groups and said the outcome with lead to norway violated its climate protection commitments to deal with the fallout over the poisoning of a russian opposition leader alexei navalny has intensified moscow has now barred officials from germany and other european states that sanction to russia for allegedly trying to kill in the fall meet with a deadly nerve agent during a plane trip in russia over the summer. has a stirred up controversy by publishing a recording that he claims is of a phone call with a russian security agent involved says he duped the agent into revealing details about the poisoning attack moscow has dismissed the phone call as

a fake. but for more let's go to yoga hot foreign policy spokesperson for germany's a c.d.u. c.s.u. conservative parliamentary group can you tell us exactly which german representative representatives have now been slapped with sanctions. we have no information about names 3 ambassadors from france sweden germany good why did to go to the foreign office and moscow and the information was only that some of citizens of those 3 countries. will not have to enter. as russia always do in this case as they don't put names on the table they say that if they have those people try to enter russia they will be informed on the border that they are not allowed to go and it's not on self russia on the same european union put on russia because russia is not cooperating in developing and investigating

what happened because nobody i'm not about is poisoning and for must go i think it's a never ending story. which burden on the shoulder of the president and he has to find a way out to make sure that russia will not be blamed for all time by. being responsible for the boys and you know of nobody officials in the e.u. have for months now called on russia to investigate mr have on these places and he repeated those calls today appears russia simply ringback not willing to do so what comes next. from my point of view we have to look. deep as personal sanctions on the some people around the president and the people that are benefiting from the representative political regime from putting in minerals not in russia but i think russia can step out of that same to regime by

doing to us things 1st make sure that nobody chalk is. bent and destroyed 4 times which is not the gauge of russia due to a treaty on the ban on chemical weapons and 2nd there. also russia has to investigate who is responsible for the poisoning of nobody and both they don't do. that was juergen hard foreign policy spokesperson a poor germany's c.d.u. c.s.u. conservative parliamentary group was getting sports news now and empty stadiums have become a common sight join the pandemic the absence of supporters has to change the match day experience dramatically but for those watching at home technology does now offer a substitute you went behind the scenes at a recent bundesliga match to see and hear the enhanced stadium experience. here i was those off hand chance but without actual fans in the stands by to.

use faulkner knows exactly what buttons to push to make the bundesliga experience from home sound as normal as possible the enhanced audio operator can react to almost every action on the pitch with the 20 sound effects at his disposal it's all done on this magic pad i see we have already got 7 slides i follow but with listening soledad they can always see the stadium. go and chances penalties you name it operators like faulkner are ready for everything even for counter attacks right up so-called attack we have this last album here i like the one right now it's running across the full support of the something i then go past for royals and all the schools i want the go i spoke with. sky germany had to dig deep into their archives to replicate the noise as. each

sound played as a match specific because everyone using a team has its own unique sounds in the stadium i was it was machines which we had to remove the referee whistles any board noises as well as interjections from coaches and players for the basically our caucus and then i would often know where to be done i the sound is then mixed with the my feet coming from the stadium. this is what a goal. with the fan noise option for example it sounds like on life t.v. you. can hear the disappointment at a mischance. everything plant down to the smallest detail like my grandma sometimes we have to wear resonance to make the sound richer when a small team plays in a big stadium for example with the. sound on. sound off. hand noise is not exactly everyone's cup of tea.

but for fans watching the been mislead off from home during the pandemic they can choose to bring their match day atmosphere into their living rooms even if it's not quite the real thing. that's news update at this hour stay tuned for our $1000.00 special that you can always get the latest news and information around the clock on our website. or follow us on social media at the nearest imperator stand in for lent thanks much for watching. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19. w. . hy and games did you know that

17 through their lead up to world wide so that we can include but it's not just the animals little suffering it's the environment we went on a journey to find ways to shoot if you want to know how and when clicked the priest and the cultures changed as he says listen to our. pod cast on the green. since the beginning of the pandemic numbers are playing an even larger role in our day to day lives which is better standing 1.5 meters apart or 2 meters what exactly is the hour rate do i have enough masks and how long can i wear one for. the numbers inform decision making how many kids

can be safely in one classroom or how many people should i be allowed to meet with . between new and changing numbers coming to us every day what's important and how do you keep your head from spending. with so many statistics associated with a coronavirus pandemic is impossible to give on top of them all or even to understand them well if all these numbers are leaving you know allow us to help you out by explaining a few of the key ones. the 7 day incidence indicates how many people tested positive within one week measured per $100000.00 inhabitants. for example let's assume a city with 129000 inhabitants has this number of positive tests in one week we add

up all the positive test results. and then the 7 day incidence is calculated 48 times 100000 divided 512-1000 inhabitants giving an incidence of 37.2. the number allows you to ascertain the current infection rate in other words how many people are currently infected in a region and since it refers to 100000 inhabitants one can also say so to speak what the percentage of new infections is. of value is considered problematic for a region once it becomes difficult to identify all contacts and infected person has had in germany that is a 7 day incidence above 50. the effective reproduction rate are describes the average number of people an infected person passes the virus on

to an r. value of 2 means that one infected person passes the disease to 2 others meaning the virus spreads exponentially if the effective reproduction number is less than one the number of new infections decreases. or you can talk incidence of the 7 day incidence offers in initial estimate the reproduction rate gives you an idea of the dynamics how quickly the infection is currently spreading from one person to the next. knocked. the gaze fatality rate indicates how many people who tested positive die from or with the virus. if for example one out of 10 people die is the case fatality rate is 10 percent. if we take a look at the latest case fatality rates from different countries we see a very inconsistent picture with the world average hovering around

a case fatality rate of 2.4. if the number is important for considering how threatening the infection is for an individual patient but it also has notable problems on the one hand the number of unreported cases is very important and the number of undetected cases also depends on how much testing is going on in other words you might get a distorted picture if you test very much or very little if you look as if you need to test it and that's the problem with many of the key statistics depending on your test capacity the figures change nevertheless the measurements provide valuable information. if you're in short it's about relative changes and you can see those quite well in these figures. and the goal remains the same all through the pandemic super vente health care systems from becoming overburdened.

let's speak to maria barber also who is a mathematician at the frank the institute for advanced studies thanks for joining us maria so many numbers too many for anyone to really keep across safe can you help us out here is that one number that we should be paying more attention to the know the others. well there are really many numbers concerning independent make and care have been many coming across during the months. we are currently paying very much attention to numbers which indicate disability of disease like hospitalization and i.c.u. requirement. so people who are in severe conditions because of disease disease and does are numbers to us which inform us a bit more about. this a very key and health care requirement roger did only numbers concerning the

detection so like 7 days incidents or r.t. number so you say that's where you're currently focusing on that's the number that's most important change or time. this this change of course we have been tracking down the sensually since the beginning of dependent because it became quite clear to dizzy disease that require or might have assumed severe course and hand up in deaths or require us because asian and health care and does is of course an indicator which which is not stable depends very much. on the health care capacity of the country but i believe it's less affected. tracking capacities or testing the t.v. team in the country. so we have all these numbers they are number 70 incidences and stuff to the general public need to be across these numbers i can understand why

governments decision makers finance people what about i can we just stay at home and do as we're told without getting caught up in the thickens. well i guess it's probably the 1st time at least since i'm aware of and as surely the 1st time did people became so informed about the meaning of that production number were even seventy's instance where any disease. does numbers are reported for a number of diseases but usually are kept in the in control systems in health care facilities so people who are working wouldn't so now if they went into a community and i guess it was because of making people aware or making people. aware of this a very dependent make of their weight spreads. but of course and then the number of the numbers that we get or the more numbers that he gets dissed can make people more confused

a might not know what they are looking at it's there are some indicators like overproduction number or wish which is not like temperature measurement it's depends on under cases that are reported it and this are in case of cold feet for sure are not all cases which we have out there you know i suppose misunderstanding the numbers could cause more problems than not knowing the material and have memory of over also thank you so much for bringing us your expertise from the front that institute for advanced studies thank you very much. now is the pasta the program where you get to ask the questions you've been submitting them through our you chew channel so now let's put one of them to ask science correspondent derrick williams. should people who have already had coded 1000 continue to wear masks. i

answered this question a few months ago and the guidelines haven't really changed but it gets sent in so often that i guess it's it's maybe time for a reminder the short answer is that a lot of aspects of covert 19 immunity are still pretty hazy because people simply haven't been recovering from it long enough to provide solid long term data based on what we've seen so far with the disease people who get infected once do acquire some immunity for a period of time the big problem is we still don't really know how long on average that period is so for some framework it makes sense to look at what we know about other corona viruses that infect humans and and studies there have revealed that immunity can wane pretty swiftly a number of them convincingly show people can be really infected with some of those pathogens within a year of catching them once so far there have been

a few dozen documented cases of that also happening with covert 19 but as as proving reinfection is quite a complex challenge the real numbers are almost certainly higher in some of the documented cases the people who got it again showed no symptoms the 2nd time around but but in others they got the disease worse and we still don't know whether they were infectious to others so until we have better data guidelines from health authorities like the c.d.c. recommends that you continue to wear a mask especially in. indoor public spaces until we have more information and you should assume that masking up is still in effect of way to protect not only others but yourself even if you had covert 19 once and recovered from it.

and you can submit a question for derek through you chief of channel d. to be news now i know we've already thrown a lot of numbers at syria in today's program but bear with us here we have just a couple of more for you because with the vaccine production starting up around the world if we asked you to our social media channels if you would take a job against cobbett 9 teams they are the results the largest proportion over 40 percent said they'd rather wait and see before taking a vaccine so the 8 percent say they offer pads to take the vaccine and around 16 percent said they would not be willing to get immunized against covered 90. was a bad as mentioning that our ologists a immunization is the only way to get a grip on the coronavirus pandemic but it seems there is still a fair bit of skepticism around the vaccines we've seen developed in recent months well that's all from this edition of the comet 19 special for the latest developments on the corona virus pandemic go to our website d.w.

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