your story we are trying. to understand this new culture. you want to become sitting. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. using the crisis as a springboard with digitise ation in germany progressing and seemingly glacial speed some startups are now promoting digital projects that are likely to outlive the pandemic also after 7 years of wrangling over goat cheese the european union grants traditional choose from cypress protected status and we take you to a bug area where hotels that once crowded golden beaches are now sitting empty.

and pursue. the program the coronavirus pandemic has made painfully clear that germany's digitalization is lagging far behind many companies were ill equipped for employees moving home offices schools all but unable to offer digital learning but things seem to be improving with some startups using the crisis to promote digital projects. the cafeteria is empty no one can eat here because of strict guidelines that are likely to remain in place for a long time and yet hundreds of employees in this frankfurt business complex need their lunch and they'll get it thanks to a new app designed to order lunch while strictly adhering to social distancing guidelines customers order and pay by phone their meal is ready for pick up and the lock box just minutes later for the company behind the app the pandemic create it's

just the right environment to launch. the crew of our isp and demi came as a shock for us initially as many of our clients are restaurants and much affected by the lock down but now we have seen that the crisis is actually an accelerator for digital technologies demand for digitalisation is up and for us that's a big chance. the pandemic gave a boost to the start up behind the app because going digital provided a lifeline for its customers such as restaurants that would have otherwise lost even more business although some see they would have invested in new technologies anyway like leading cater our own mark is in yacht and. we've seen that the world is changing much of what our guests do ordering paying is already happening digitally that's why we have to sided to roll out his commits technology in all our

restaurants so. as new technologies bring change to established business it remains to be seen what the long term effect might be. for more on the state of digitisation in germany to chance that really met up with ferdinand fish no economist at berlin's university of applied sciences so they're going to because certainly it put a lot of pressure on germany and german businesses to speed up. the pace of digitalisation is it working. so far i would say digitalisation is not in a bad shape but by international comparison it's not looking overly good so it was a good idea definitely to have in those programs that have been put in place to dampen the effects of the pandemic to have some digital components included in the sense that some support measures knowledge support. in germany which supports venture capital for example financing to start ups and these kind of things so that's going definitely in the right direction we need that so germany is now in

the midst of this 3rd wave of infections the vaccine rollout has been a bit of a disaster lockdowns are being extended what is the outlook now for the german economy. it obviously all depends on how the pen demick evolves right but given most experts expect that. substantially over the next few weeks and months. but the. projections for the. 3 to 4 percent and also for next year so the losses in terms of production that the german economy incurred last year will be recovered at the latest by the end of next year and in that sense it looks like the permanent effects the permanent damage of the of the pandemic is not as pronounced as the 1st as to be expected 1st. we've heard reports for example from the us of trillions of dollars worth of stimulus to help support the economy through it the pandemic have europe's stimulus efforts gone far enough. it's quite

obvious that the european government has done much less in terms of stimulus packages to dampen the effects of the pandemic which is in part ok because the labor market works differently we have much stronger labor protection laws for example we have these quotes spinsterhood short term labor schemes which the effect on. disposable incomes in germany and the european union so in essence these top measures to support income which are large part of the programs in the us are not as necessary in europe but there are still obviously as we talked about in the 1st question need to support infrastructure needs to support digitalisation and these measures should be pushed further ahead than we have what we are currently seeing. economist fatin on fish now speaking to digital just chelsea remaining there and now for some of the other global business stories making news. 19

assertions in france will impact economic growth that's according to francis finance minister bruno lemaire who says it's too early to say by how much this week france went into its 3rd lockdown as the country seeks to push back a sort of wave of covert 19 infections united airlines has said it will immediately start hiring pilots beginning with a group of $300.00 to be ready to meet growing demand for a natural it is the latest sign of recovery in the u.s. economy delta airlines said this week it would no longer block middle seats as it had done since the start of the day the s. and p. $500.00 the broad based u.s. stock index has crossed the $4000.00 point mark for the 1st time that after a strong economic data and surprisingly robust jobs growth led to a rally the index now stands at $4900.00 points and closed for the story can't. mar be curable goat cheese has been keeping

crowds busy. for the last 7 years now the u.s. granted to hold a traditional chinese from cyprus protected status that means that only produced on the island can be marketed abroad on the name and that has significance earning a record of a quarter of a 1000000000 euros last year alone me is the island's most important export. they call it white gold and now after an almost 7 year campaign the people of cyprus can consider it theirs and theirs alone. from mid april when european union will officially consider hulu me a product unique to the mediterranean island the decision won't only provide an economic boost to the country it's also being seen as a symbolic gesture that could bring together traditionally feuding greek and turkish cypriots referring to the cheese in both languages cypriot president nicos honest as the artist tweeted a milestone day for hulu me or holy him and for our country

a shield of protection is now in place adding that it was to the benefit of all cypriots greek and turkish. the saltine cheeses already cyprus is top export with the new case wheat in germany and greece its biggest buyers producers hope its new protected origin status will further cement its image on the international stage. we're going to offer before we think that this new designation will boost the value of the product and it will once again be recognized around the world as a separate product. eaten in a salad or honesty or for cypriots how louis is more than just a cheese it's a cultural identifier whose reputation and distinctiveness will now be enshrined in law. it is to bog area now and it's troubling mix of one of the higher score of ours and factories in europe coupled with

a low vaccination rate now that is devastating news for the country's big tourism sector you know funny for char marna one of the tourist hot spots of the area where until recently gold and beaches have been attracting an ever growing number of foreign visitors looking for in no cost getaway now many hotels built during that time are empty and for sale the golden beach is. part of. and about 12 percent stems from tourism that was the number before corbett hit. before the pandemic this was the picture of a perfect holiday spot see saw on beaches today the priorities have changed it's all about providing a secure and safe holiday. but who will provide that drug amir is war ski has been in the tourism industry for the past 10 years renting accommodations

mostly to tourists from abroad he expects that as long as p.c.r. tests are necessary to visit bulgaria most foreigners will stay away and it's. 50 euro per person so it's more than the cost of the accommodation if they have short accommodation so that's a big challenge and that's the risk in. the coming of foreigners he still has an advantage over because tell us that what he says domestic tourists have increased some are relocating their home office from the bulgaria cities to the beach no people are more interested of apartments than of hotels they. think that the apartments are safe young people are having their own place they stay by themselves if they want to clean for them if they don't want to we don't bother them they have their own kitchen or nurse tell a different story there was a 80 percent drop in the number of foreign tourists last year compared to 21000 as

long as their governments do not advise or support foreign travel it will be difficult to keep these hotels running not so long ago there was a travel ban here tourists from britain germany and neighboring romania appreciated a cheaper version of their beach holiday but now instead of bookings hundreds of hotels are up for sale. works at the national tourism board in sofia she says without government investment many coastal properties will not survive she says it will take years to restore the tourism industry only in 2025 maybe we will do the levels of 2019 until then it is the responsibility of the government and needs devotion to the national economy to. recover and to develop after years of making its economy dependent on tourism

bulgaria faces a choice with elections coming up the government says the solution to the current problem is simply to get people back to work but that is exactly what's lacking right now. as tourism changes it is yet unclear how bulgaria will adapt to our growth. and finally a man from the u.s. state of georgia the last laugh after a workplace disagreement and rasff later said a mechanic shop owed him $915.00 after he left his job there but rather than sending a check his former employer dumped 91000 all and grease cover pennies in his driveway . company has stepped in to help mr clayton cleaning the pennies and even rounding it up to give him a 1000 bucks in cash. sounds like a good deal. for more check out a website. slash business or follow us on social media. and from me and the

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put the pedal to the metal let's ride. was it a mistake to send our children back to school. the number of infections is rising rapidly among kids and what do we do we prioritize teach us to get vaccinated sooner children are still at the back of the queue. but kids can also get sick with covert 19 and seriously 2 what's more they can also develop what's known as long coded meaning they can suffer a long term damage regardless of whether they have shown symptoms after their

initial infection or not at their crucial age were development it could impact the rest of their lives. so are we doing enough to protect our children because they could be much more at stake for the young in this pandemic and we have so far wanted to admit. welcome to over. 19 special i want to cajones good to have you with us now we all know the feeling of being out of breath going up the stairs for example that's quite normal usually but not in times of covert 19 and not when kids are affected what does long colwich do to them a condition that keeps 9000 patients down for weeks even months beyond the initial illness and italian study on long coded children surveyed kids and teenagers 5 months after being diagnosed with cope with 19 only 42 percent of them had fully

recovered 36 percent showed one or 2 long covert symptoms while 22 percent showed at least 3 symptoms symptoms such. sleep disorders breathing difficulties muscle and joint pain plus exhaustion headaches and in over a lack of concentration basically all symptoms that ultimately stop kids from being kids full of energy and life francis simpson is a lecturer in psychology and counseling at coventry university in scarborough she also co-founded the companion lunk obit kids and she joins us now good to have you with us you and your children had 19 last year when did you know it was 19 given the testing was still scale as. that's the really question we became ill at the beginning of march and at the time of the sea that the narrative was very simple about you know. there was either. a flea like thing with a cough and

a temperature or. you know if you tend to vulnerable all that you would under you know in hospital being by places and so when we got this you know i got l. with a range of symptoms that was like you called my door so i had slightly different symptoms my son hunter says again initially you know i didn't really put 2 and 2 together. and it was only when i lost my sense and taken at the time that wilson unknowns. but when i do that in iran at the time of the pandemic it was the most. the most or time in google and i thought ok printer and she's got that i think this must be wearing a virus. and i promise i'd speak to doctors about it they said oh no that's not so it was very it was very difficult to get people to actually believe that was that was that was and of course everybody was googling back then because we knew so

little about it so when did you realize that you might actually suffer from what we now know as long profit. so i have for may i just didn't seem to make a recovery so that wasn't particularly a time i think after about 6 weeks i had a brief recovery. and then i was ill again but it felt very you know described as like a roller coaster of different symptoms coming and going. and the occasional day to day and then worse they just felt like i wasn't really getting better and it felt such an unknown. illness because of all these days that my daughter was really call it for 6 weeks. and then she. didn't really get better she could she need for tea. you know north korea and other symptoms i mean just lay

thought just so we just saw pictures of your daughter and your son just now as you were telling us. we just say that what we now know is long cold it that it manifests itself differently with children than with adults. well we've done some research with long kids and we've we've sort of stumbling actually a lot of the symptoms are very similar. but children tend to have an increased amount of gastric issues but then we have found children and do not with . you know appendicitis you know or our scientists we see quite a lot they like symptoms you know the inflammatory multisystem disorder we see similar symptoms to that but we're also seeing. new to newer psychiatric symptoms you know so things like. nancy. so

there's a real gummer of different symptoms and children kind of mana fast but differently and there's a lot of the same symptoms that are out there are certain features that seem to be delayed in the pediatric cohort there is of course still very little known about long cold even with adults and that is probably why you co-founded a contained known as long as the kids what are you hoping to achieve with this contain. well it's both a campaign group under support me. so i joined forces with sammy mcchrystal and he was the founder and we joined forces in october because you know we were part different support groups and campaign groups for the adult can you see and realize that there was this there was just a lack of anything for children and the children out it was just being lacked out completely of all discussions so we came together really to provide

a group or parents because it's really difficult place to be quite often the parents are elam's out and have children who are l. an illness to be being denied or parents sometimes feel like they're being. light it or it was so it was really just allowed to come in and find other people and then from that we started they were ok we need getting the message out that we need people to know because we are not going to see a change in the support for our children unless we actually raise awareness of it that was not so frances you and your children would you say you have fully recovered now. difficult to say i much better. the last really i mean i was real until about 10 so from march. and then i and i took some time off work to rest. and now i

have a relapse. twice a month. of a few days and i have to go you know take off but after wrath i'm quite aware of you know when right and my children know they're not better they they have relapses whenever they do anything that. they were back to school. last week to see how they're going on and they've been you know since a nation at well francis and send a thank you so much for sharing your experience with us all the best to you and your kids of course thanks for being on the program and. well last year no one dared to hope that we'd have a vaccine the so soon and while most of us embrace this fantastic achievement we also wonder if there could be any und wanted side effects it's time for your

questions now yes our science correspondent derrick williams. could a vaccine cause a positive p.c. on result. just a quick reminder 1st that p.c.r. stands for polymerase chain reaction and tests that employ the technology are considered the gold standard for for detecting the viral genome in swab samples now because some vaccines use information from that genome could they also trigger a positive result this question comes up all the time and the answer is is no believe me if it did then you would have heard about it because millions of vaccinated people would have suddenly started testing positive for coated 19 after getting shots that would there would be no way to distinguish between them and asymptomatic carriers it would be chaos but nothing even remotely like that has

happened no if you get back a positive p.c.r. result it's almost certainly because you've been infected even though you might have coincidentally received the vaccine a day or 2 before hand don't forget that it takes your body around to we to build up a significant immune response after you've received the 1st dose of a vaccine and in that time people do catch covert 19 quite a few i get e-mail from them all the time the science behind why vaccines can't cause a positive p.c.r. result is fairly complicated but basically boils down to the fact that none of the currently approved vaccines used a full version of the real virus to kick start an immune response instead

they're based on short specific stretches. from the stars tovey to gino that that actually degrade pretty quickly and so they're not attacked it by p.c. your only replicating buyable viruses so if you test positive it's time to talk to a medical professional the vaccine is not a blood. and eric williams will be back to answer more of your questions again tomorrow before we go and this is not an april fool's joke if you're anywhere with a mask requirement you will know the problem every time you want to eat or take a sip of your drink you have to remove it potentially putting yourself and others and risk well is a possible solution the nose only mouse it allows you to take a bite while maintaining at least some level of protection and 0 dignity it's been invented by researchers in mexico with street food is particularly popular although

it's better than nothing the w.h.o. points out that a mask that covers the nose mouth and chin is certainly best. and that's all for this edition of our special for me in the team as always thanks for watching stay safe.

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