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a different direction more vaccinations are resulting in fewer hospitalizations hope is especially high tonight in england today the u.k. prime minister presented a blueprint for lifting the walk down if all goes according to plan and if the virus doesn't veer into more variance by the start of summer public life in england will be back in business back to normal that will come later i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. we're sitting down to what i do believe is a one way to freedom i teach us that next time and i think the way of testing the sense that the threat remains substantial. kind of make the right choice and right all viruses created 19 with these tapes that he was tied back into without a laptop and a ready to do. will give way to

a screw and they some of the be very different and do comparably fact the hype has got it right. also coming up here in germany new coronavirus cases are going up not down yet today across the country hundreds of thousands of peoples and teachers did what has been a no go for months they went back to school. i'm not worried about that then shocking affection for us as a family over 40 kids but i do think that we have a joint responsibility as a society to stop the fire is from spreading and i'm disappointed that politicians have been speaking to solutions. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day counting counting the costs of covered 19 counting the days left in this pandemic on this monday february 22nd the number of deaths from covert 19 in the united

states will hit 500000 half a 1000000 americans have died in the past year that is almost equal to the number of u.s. lives lost in both world wars and yet in both the u.s. and here in europe there are signs that the pandemic may have peaked as vaccination rollouts pick up pace public health officials say hospitalizations are dropping the trend in england so good that today a plan was announced a plan to exit the lock down by the summer u.k. prime minister boris johnson presented the plan to parliament today it calls for england to ease lockdown restrictions in 5 week intervals starting 2 weeks from today schools in england will reopen by the end of march up to 6 people will be allowed to meet outdoors on april 8th shops here dressers and gyms will open their doors again barring any viral setbacks on may 17th most restrictions on social

contacts will be lifted and beginning june 21st just in time for summer all social contact restrictions will become a thing of the past today the prime minister cautioned that and end to the lockdown will not mean and to coded 19 take a listen. there is that with no credible route to a 0 nor indeed a 0. 0 and we cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that debilitate our economy our physical and mental well being of the life chances iraq children and that is why it is so crucial that this road map should be cautious but also irreversible we're setting out to what i hope and believe is a one way road to freedom and this journey is made possible by the pace of the vaccination program. how the function rollout of the promise to say it has been

remarkable and i will pay tribute to everybody involved it is the light at the end of the tunnel but if we're going to get there we have to tread very carefully so i'm glad the prime suspect today of course of this big irreversible of assessing the data and following the evidence those are the right principles and i have to say it's a welcome change from some of the language that promised as used in the past all right let's go to the u.k. now for reaction to bring in dr john campbell he's a health educator based in carlisle dr campbell is a familiar face to our viewers here and to his followers and you tube where he has become a trusted voice in all questions about the coronavirus or campbell is good to see you again the prime minister he wants this lockdown exit to be one way has the u.k. vaccinated enough of the past population to make this course irreversible. not yet

but it's on a track to do so the reduction in cases we've seen since the peak in early january have largely been as a result of the lockdown but tomorrow we're going to reach 18000000 vaccinations in the u.k. the vast majority of which have been a single 1st notice vaccine which we know confers a lot of benefit and a lot of safety this new data came out of scotland yesterday that shows the fire some pfizer and the oxford vaccine are both protected against a very real honest and death in the older age group so even though we might get more cases what vaccination is going to do is break the link between cases and the inevitability of its severe illness and deaths will follow so that it's quite possible that the r. value could go above one when schools reopened that's quite possible but as more and more of the critical people the risk get vaccinated deaths and hospitalizations will continue to go down i think not spend inevitable as a vaccination is increasing as a saying up to 18000000 vaccines in the u.k.

tomorrow are you know this is the strategy that we are expecting as an impressive number dr here are you saying that that the policy of one injection one shot instead of waiting for the 2nd injection that has a policy been successful. i think very much certainly was data from public health scotland this morning and he showed up but based on 1200000 people then we now have data from who've been vaccinated as scotland and people who had a single dose of the pfizer injection one single dose $650000.00 people out applied to him and those 84 percent less chance of hospitalizations and severe illness and with notes that astra zeneca vaccine it was even better it was a 94 percent reduction in severe illness now we're pretty sure it also reduces transmission both vaccines reduce transmission we're not sure how much probably around about 70 percent but we've got the factors that they reduce transmission and the region severe illness that's the key thing is going to take the pressure off the health service less people are going to suffer less people are going to get

surveyed sick and less people are going to die and we know that these happen after one dose and the the data from israel is also sharing after one dose we get good protective advocacy effects and the 2nd dose is really a boost the dose so if we give that up to 3 months that's going to increase the long jeopardy of the immunity that we get perhaps but we don't really know soon you're up to a year of expecting although we are expecting to do another round of vaccinations probably in the autumn in the u.k. but this is largely driven by the new variance are you sure about that are you saying that it's it's a given now that we should be planning for another round of vaccinations like booster vaccinations late in the year. well we say need a primary vaccination that everyone's going to need a 2nd vaccine by the u.k. struck to get it's going to be 33 months after the 1st stars the u.k. is currently preparing 2nd generation vaccines that should be efficacious against

the u.k. variant the brazilian variant the south africa variant which are going to potentially be an increasing problem so the expectation at the moment is yes that most people will require a 3rd vaccine perhaps sometimes next winter as a boost to 2 to give full efficacy again state that the new variance one pillar of this plan of course is the backs of nations the other is massive testing is that the correct do work that we need. well. we offer example schools that are back on the on the 8th of march i'm not going to include twice weekly testing for for people at school now i think it's important but of course testing is absolutely critical on people taking action if they get a positive test there's no point testing it people then don't self self isolate for 10 to 14 days and indeed consider isolating their contacts so testing sounds good in theory but it depends very much on people following through with the isolation

and the discipline that requires that's why i've always been slightly more uncomfortable with testing but yes the government is certainly taking it forward as a pillar of the way forward it definitely definitely part of government strategy let me ask you before we run out of time the prime minister mentioned today coded status certificates perhaps to help restart international travel he mentioned concerns over privacy possible discrimination are you in favor of those some certificates. well that the government is going to consider base when it goes into phase 3 that's the 17th of may personally i think it's inevitable certain countries ready insisting on it greece for example is going to insist on it for people going to that country so whether we agree with it or not is somewhat iran. victor international travel it will be imposed on as there is precedent for this yellow fever vaccination is required for many possible africa so it's not something that is completely new and i think it's going to become so that if international travel

is going to be essential the cases how far this is rolled out domestically will it be necessary drop a green card big pass to get interested in it to go to a theatre to go to a restaurant that's going to be a topic of debate this summer personally i am reasonably comfortable with it ok dr john campbell is always at the campbell is going to get your thinking and your insights we appreciate it tonight thank you thank you ben. well what england will do in 2 weeks' time germany did today hundreds of thousands of people's a teachers went back to school across the country this monday and that despite signs of a 3rd coronavirus wave in the making the number of new infections here in germany is increasing a difficult and delicate calculus here getting children back into classrooms and out of home schooling versus possibly spreading the virus further do the benefits outweigh the risks. the day has come after 2 long months of closure and no face to

face learning day kids in schools tentatively reopen in 10 states across the country here in badly it's back to school foot these primary school today and. it's mainly youngest co-chaired grades one through 4 that are heading back to class and most will either go for just a morning or the afternoon or on the tonight days so they off us students into school at one time most students are required to wear masks with the entire school day including in classrooms. for parents even if the infection rate nation wise is on the rise again this initial reopening comes as a relief after months of homeschooling. from this is worth i think it's high time especially for younger kids i'm not a viral g.'s but from what i have read so far it seems that they are less infectious and don't suffer from heavy symptoms.

with been waiting for this for a long time and despite a relief that comes with the reopening of the schools i'm disappointed that schools will only be open for 3 hours a day this isn't proper school and the kids are the ones who is suffer as a result of talking to me a few i'm not worried about the danger up in affection for us as a family or for the kids but i do think that we have a joint responsibility as a society to stop the virus from spreading and i'm disappointed that politicians haven't figured out better solutions that. those solutions could include vaccinating teachers more quickly as part of the 3rd priority group they are not yet in line for a job and to date no vaccine against kovi 19 has been approved for use on children . for more now i'm joined by tina morton she's the education minister at germany's state of mecklenburg western pomerania good to have you on the program i know that

schools across the country reopen today including in your state you were part of the decision making there to reopen schools the 1st day has come and gone how will you sleep tonight. well actually. for education ministers over the last 11 months sleeping wasn't always as easy as it normally is it's a very hard decision to open schools why they're still going on and it's always you know we always have 2 sets of parents priorities we have to balance one it's the health of the shooter and the teachers and the other on is the human right for and to education. we know that the number of new infections in the country has stagnated in many places now it's even. when you were considering whether or not to reopen the school how did you factor that into the equation.

well of course we are not opening the schools just open the gates and that the kids and the teachers and we have very strict strict measures of hygiene and very strict regulations we do have of course the masks everybody has the mask also during the lessons we have all kinds of measures but i must say for me as i said it's always balancing the priorities and one priority is to have the kids learn and there are. been at home from months over the last year and the last 2 and a half months the schools were mostly closed and especially the small kids and you just had it in your car to small kids they have to learn how to read to write to do math and you don't learn it at home at the computer when you're 6 or 7 years old so

for me it's very important to have the kids in school with all due measures and careful but it's very important that we don't lose specially the kids who don't have as much help at home whose parents can't help or won't tell those kids it's very important that they have a presence at school school is also contact with the teachers but also contact with the kids among each other i know there's been to some talk here in germany that there was not enough done to make the learning at holme as productive as it could have been would you say that the experience of having children at home so long was that was that a disaster or a missed opportunity for the country. well i must say that i wish we would have been faster before the pandemic to drive this

very important duties line zation of schools for faster ahead but since march last year we've really bigs steps to digitalize the schools to help teachers to get trained to to do distance learning home schooling whatever you mean and we in our state we introduced and very fast learning management platform video conference is happening so we take big steps i wish we would have been faster for 3 now big leagues are being tain't where the kids are learning at home but nobody can can say in that hearing aren't going at a computer by yourself at the same as at school so we are not crisis is whatever we do it's always only 2nd best and for me the big leap we are taking and ran out we have not reached the perfect the perfect goal to have all kids being

equally well equipped for distance learning but we have taken big steps and well it's a big crisis and it's terribly difficult for the parents at home i know that homeschooling home office at the same time it's a huge challenge and we are going to get out of this i hope is better equipped school. ok but. education minister in germany state of nicholas berg western pomerania we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you very much. for the 1st time in many months hong kong has eased coronavirus restrictions allowing restaurants gyms cinemas to reopen people using these facilities have to

register their details through the official coronavirus track but many but not many are downloading it over fears of government surveillance used to be called reports . after themed free 11 weeks movie lovers can finally return to the cinemas hong kong is easing its most trenchant social distancing measures the news including theaters sports facilities and theme parks are reopening restaurants can extend our dining hours until 10 pm hosting up to 4 gasper table however it's not back to the old days people can only enter those premises by using the official contact tracing app or registering their personal information after. one use a standard generated by the government to leave home safe up break or to visit on time and then you and sent a notification if they had been in the same place as occurred at 900 patients but

there are concerns over privacy as many fear the app may pave the way for this little surveillance in the china's true city. the tracing out can also read other data on my phone i'm scared that the government might accuse me of opposition if my friends will send me political messages. i want to see because i don't trust the government at all so. i would rather order home delivery of than dine in to avoid using the out of. order. i'm not worried even if they outranks my life i don't have any secrets to hide as long as i don't break the law. i don't contact tracing it's effective when thousands of people are exempted from quarantine at the border every day. fighting the pandemic is smaller than the public health issue in hong kong but more critically is a matter of trust especially in the political climate of repression some medical staff and shop owners are also skeptical including frank. posters in his restaurant

called by cause of the app isn't following the new rules even though his restaurants should be subject to more restrictive business hours and have passed that he could mean a 40 percent loss in revenue for him. and. my customers i bore it about whether the government and the industry can handle this a personal information properly where they can be stored or deleted as promised there's no trust worth a channel to do that so far. try and i want to. to activate the app uses have to agree to information being shared with floyd forces. logically investigations and related purposes if needed normally the footprints influence would be automatically erased every month but they will be kept by the government for at least 7 if a person is in fact the governor emphasize that appose us no privacy rights as it

always thought that out on your system but it seems not enough the rare showed a majority off the public only in less than 20 percent of the population have found that they have. their priorities a plenty to go further they plan to add more functions to the app to enable automatic tracing the tooth and even detects taxi passengers traveling history. 41 years ago moviegoers were talking about a film that spoke volumes about the plight of the modern day rat race 9 to 5 projected on to the big screen the tiny lines of those legions of underutilized and underappreciated office workers the movie's theme song of the same title was sung by dolly parton now this all has new relevance today in 2021 some say because the plight of the worker has not improved in the last 4 decades yes the analog economy

is now digital the office workers are now the hustlers of the gig economy most important people today work more hours to earn money with less spending power compared to 980 so when dolly parton recorded a new version of 9 to 5 for a super bowl t.v. ad for a website design company it raised eyebrows and some are is dolly glorifying the 21st century rat race take a look at that t.v. commercial. where it came. into. only. thing. that gets them to get is it made. me. all right working 5 the 9 is in 9 to 5 plus 5 and that's a very long work day we decided to invite martha chicken auto to talk about this

uproar with this martha is an expert on work life balance at newcastle university in the u.k. it's going to have you on the program so did that see the ad to touch a nerve with you and yes i think we need to think carefully about how we train workers life knowledge days were struggling more and more we were crushed balance and more can long hours. and so thinking glorifying and having a work a day work but also having a site needs to be taken carefully and there's lots of reasons why we might have side hustles. first of all it could be trying to make ends meet it could also trying to be a way to escape. home burnout one of the things that has happened during the condemning is that when there was a bus trip and very lucky to work from home parents who have not been able to need the house for both work and personal reasons and therefore you end up working very

long or. well let me ask you this what do you say to someone what do you say to someone who maybe has a c. has an office job during the day and then goes home in the evening drives for because they need to make the extra money that's a long work day how do you tell them to find the balance. and i don't think it's an issue for them to to do that the 2 jobs and one of the key things about work life balance is to make sure that the workers feels in control of when they're switching between different life to make it so it is work and personal life or work and another work for example. one of the responsibilities that workplaces need to have for example for but also employers is to make sure that if employers are working multiple jobs. where does that the responsibility for their well being lie if i have done a in a hour shift somewhere and then i jump in my car in

a month over drive no more and more the implication if i'm retired and i end up having accidents he's going to be in college responsible and i think that is one of the issues that we have to see rikki klieman is your platforms having to take responsibility for these issues yeah that's a very it's a very important point unfortunately martha we're out of time but hopefully we can get you back on the show another time to talk about this martha chechen auto with the newcastle university in the u.k. tonight martha thank you thank you. well the day's almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either good news you can follow me a british t.v. every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that everybody.

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