surprise yourself with what is possible. for me. and. talk to people who follow along the way. how is the world's most powerful. telling us. this is. coming up today the island. just over a 1000 cases of the cold of waters in a population of 24000000 so how did you do it and what for others. for countries like the philippines perhaps struggling with an alarming surge in infections that's made hospital beds. and a master stroke he. becomes the 1st japanese man.

i'm british welcome to dublin news a sure glad you could join us as many countries around the world battle 2nd even 3rd waves of the coronavirus life in taiwan appears near normal the reason it's success with battling the pandemic the numbers tell the tale a little more than a 1000 registered cases and only 11 covered related deaths for a population of nearly 24000000. strict quarantine controls and best interests are being attributed to the island's remarkable success in keeping numbers low something that was visible when a small outbreak hit a large hospital back in january located near the airport colin hospital was one of taiwan's keepers against the virus authorities have stan the 5th of confirmed cases

here for cheap men since the start of 2020 but in january this year an infected doctor to guard the fresh outbreak several of his coworkers were later tested positive taiwan based its biggest core in the virus crisis since the start of the pandemic in the. hospital acquired infections very serious and hard to control patients in the hospital need health care workers to take care of them into if they're next to each other it's impossible to just quarantine hospital workers and leave patients alone you were in. a. long work 7 demick command center histon decided to set himself up in the hospital to directly oversee communications from the command center but woman. we had to contain the virus county time. in the large hospital of more than 2600

employees and they were all 700 in patients one wrong decision coolly to the charge of the similar to the 2003 sars outbreak then the government locked down a hospital where even healthy people were not allowed to leave leading to 154 infections and 31 death. it was ok when there were only one or 2 cases in the hospital. but when there were more and more people come from positive we were definitely nervous we were afraid of getting phone calls in the middle of the night hearing about yet another new case for your chips at this time the command center reacted quickly. tracking all possible contacts and hold quarantine over 4300 people they also chose for its negative test to patients to other hospitals to decrease the workload on the staff after 14 days with no new come from places all hospital employee is have to do mass testing to convince the public that the

hospital is safe in 44 days it was contained with only 21 cases and just one death transparency and honesty is the very important and you have to give the people the reason why you want to have. a very strange encounter very strange in home quarantine and this is why we have to show the evidence that it is very very useful to prevent a future pandemic chose said no car cheese can fight alone but i would like to emphasize that important thing is the prudence of it as we have to keep by all the possible outbreak in all the countries to prevent its spread off now tell me in hospital is back to reality of normality the seris experience reminded a government and its people not to let history repeat itself a lesson not only for taiwan prefer the world in its approach to tackling this vast

breading virus jupiter is a researcher on global covert 19 strategery of the university of edinburgh and joins me now from leeds in the u.k. jay welcome know you study global responses to the koran about us spend in your assessment what has taiwan done well. well taiwan focused very early on on having an elimination strategy they were not keen on this idea of having community transmission where we've got the virus circulating in a population so had a very early very rapid and focused effort to eliminate any cases and clusters that were emerging from the initial china connection then how were they able to implement this or if actively didn't have any previous experience with tackling pandemics that came in handy well the sars pandemic of 2003 certainly came in and they they had the planning they had the pre coded

infrastructure to deal with pandemics well but above all they recognize that acting quickly. and trying to protect public health 1st of all in an attempt to recover economies after the pandemic were crucial and certainly applied those lessons to cope with $1000.00 very well it would appear that what you're saying is it's quite it makes a lot of sense to put it simply i'm just wondering why other countries could not draw the same lesson early on in the pandemic. well it's a difficult question to answer but perhaps one of the reasons is adopting an influenza approach or a flu approach which many western countries had rather than this are planned i suppose the primary difference between the 2 is that flu favors some level of end emissivity i.e. some some speculation in the population to build immunity now the problem is that

sars coronavirus 2 is much more lethal it's much more transmissible. and so that approach just simply would not work. it is also down to the fight for earlier on in the pandemic it wasn't really well known how infectious new coronavirus the new core of virus is possibly yes but in any respect that actually enforces the need to drive down cases to as low as possible as quickly as possible when there are so many unknowns exercising what's called the precautionary principle certainly has a lot of value and in the western countries we didn't really see that approach instead what we saw was a affirmative ends to the existing flu plans which were clearly not compatible with this virus right where i live there are the timing with thank you so much for

joining us jaipur terrill from the university of edinburgh. and one of those struggling with an increasing number of cases is the philippines since march of the country has been seeing thousands of new daily infections just yesterday for district some 11000 new cases the spot has taken its toll on already stretched medical resources. a covert 19 intensive care ward in manila a med this crisis the sick patients are in fact lucky to even have a bad unprecedented demand has left hospitals turning desperate people away. was among them. we didn't dissipate that it was as it was this bad and the more hospitals we called and went to the mortar the panic settled in the lower the feeling of helplessness at them and. angelo spent 5 frantic hours driving around

manila looking for a hospital that could help his sick father. it was just heartbreaking because even if we went to all these hospitals that said again i had all these writings on there and you know people were telling us that they couldn't accommodate and there were still people there you know there were still people just begging to go inside . or to be admitted to be cared for and you know eventually became one of those people as. his father died on the steps outside one of 15000 filipinos to perish in this tragedy. in recent weeks the virus has spread faster with hospitals building makeshift tents to accommodate the result. last week. last week was our washed scenario we have 400 beds in ward and 100 beds in i.c.u. what happened was i had to borrow 50 i.c.u.

beds so we had 450 beds in ward all of them were occupied and then only 50 beds were left for i.c.u. . and then 15 beds the ones i see. the government has provided extra money to expand capacity in the system but health care professionals warned there's an acute shortage of stuff isn't even think a can sound. japan is busking in the glow of another sporting achievement on sunday he dickie matsuyama became the 1st japanese man to win one of golf's major titles the prestigious mostest at augusta after the 1st 3 and a half days of play at the masters tournament. seemed to be a sure bet to win with a massive lead of 6 strokes and just 9 holes to play but his home country had to

hold its breath as the leader made a number of poor shots including one that landed his ball in a pond allowing his rivals to move within a single shot matsuyama held firm at the last however to win for himself for his long suffering caddie for his country and for his country's youth my some all. hopefully. others will be inspired by what happened here. and maybe follow in my footsteps. back home in japan golfers of all ages picked up their clubs with a slightly firmer grip this academy proudly displays matsuyama as image signature and accomplishments. japan's prime minister meanwhile sang his praises hewn on the phone on a with the prolonged coronavirus pandemic i think this when really gave courage and excitement to everyone in japan then they'd ship. gulf ingrates like tiger

woods also offer congratulations for making japan proud the legendary jack nicklaus noted the historic nature of the moment but matsuyama rarely shows emotion but after receiving what's known around the gulf in world as the green jacket of the masters champion he celebrated outwardly briefly the winner of perhaps galt's biggest prize. and that's it for today you can find more on our web site. is not just hard to read good girl no but a surgeon in delphi thousands of devotees continue to mock the festival on the banks of the ganders in northern india. for the coronavirus of those images and see you again tomorrow for the birth.

place of. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus not to take. on t w. a little gods this is the 77 percent of the platform for this new teams issues.

quite. young people to have the solutions good future comes. to 77 percent. on d w. hungry is easy. but doctors a sounding the alarm. death rates are among the highest in the world still stores are reopening with the government praising its vaccination campaign. at the same time as batting journalists from hospitals. coronavirus wards of filling to capacity but that's not the message the state wants to broadcast like it or not the 3rd wave is hitting. i agree has the highest number of people vaccinated in europe

and one of the highest covered related death rates while wide relative to its population health care workers say restrictions should have been in place sooner and should stay in place longer access to hunger in hospitals for independent media to verify what's going on is almost impossible. one doctor who dared to speak on camera about the situation inside our correspondent funny reports soldiers money for people checking into his hospital treating call the patients when we start to film the building go there and do your thing over there they ask us to film the parking lot according to staff inside the hospital is that capacity . one doctor has to take care of 10 called patients and oxygen is in short supply these are just some of the claims for hearing from inside the hospital from a doctor but we cannot verify these claims as all sorts of barred independent media

from entering that doctor is. we meet him after his shift 120 hour working weeks on the average now he says but the hungry and government says everything is under control and all of them out of it we've heard a lot from the prime minister that those who get sick shouldn't worry that they will be cured that we have extra medical staff but where are they every day we're left wondering what to do we not have time for today what did i forget. most of his colleagues don't want to talk in public because they're worried about repercussions. we need to reach the people not to create panic but to say people this is what this is about and this is why you need to follow the rules. in an open letter to the government a large number of journalists requested access to hospitals prime minister viktor orban responded in a televised interview. with now most of this is not the time to go inside hospitals and produce bogus videos and fake news. is

a photojournalist he too would like to show what's happening in hungary right now. stop filming the hospital it's a public space or it's a very common situation says martin. sam had a share after being asked this affects the people who want to know the real situation inside the hospitals. as of one we know that more than 300 people died today. o'keefe uneasy it's hard to tell the story behind those numbers. meanwhile many young people in hungary are starting to shed their masks without knowing what's really going on in hungary hospitals to them it might seem as if the pen demick is already over. to shine a light on the situation in hungary to what you know secret joins us she's a senior researcher at the center for social sciences in budapest is it time to be easing restrictions or is the crisis only getting worse with. well

my answer to me is that the crisis so. completely at its feet and hungary we have extremely high mortality rates of. her that we are going to. have that. so that was. not. yet. what i hope your insults are why if i can jump in there when when the government's doing so well with its vaccination drive. effect with that's the other thing we have a very high lux a nation of 8 at the same time people get into hospital they they are in the really terrible situation current day hungary and these maybe 2 to see factors i would say. one of them as. the.

is that the public institution. has been moved. as independent as in stuff in 2017 and since it's has seen under. control this means that we are not getting enough information and expertise cannot really tell their ideas their expertise into this the some so far is because the citizens are. probably the other if you may be the center of cuts to the host post expenditure in hungary recently not only yourself but. under the your boss governments and the 3rd was is the most out of my great. care stuff from hungary and in the past the a how is the situation with the hospitals on the military why

is that and what outside affecting the situation. well you know just because i have been put under military rule the other the other assess the situation and this means that there is either for or through. by that public because what if we control over the course and also that they send up. their opinions in the media really and the media use not let into hospitals this was not going. to ace and you know healthy for our air or the photos or the stars of nurses are doing them a thing. but it limits the information that the awfully and the media make that is you know worrying whatever the situation may be. read off from a cell usually helps but that this is

a. situation like the regular hungary and i believe this is one of the only countries in the world to refuse any sort of extension of unemployment benefits in this pandemic. yes to fund them make us win though does not only have tests related consequences but also really severe social consequences so in hungary just like in other parts of the word many people hundreds or thousands of less. but as opposed to other countries including our fellow sensory european countries in hungary no accents and so the unemployment benefits to some of me. we lost. with this was that we sorely in the developers before that and then may with 3 months of

a must must the moment like months insurance benefit that means that after that 3 months is gone you can or cannot face some sofa less this. very low and mom and center rows of the both of those. people are not 3rd at all in the state system so they are left without any properly assessed. when they are low over unemployed and this no. rate before especially those who have were in and best are in a certain facts or events on and so forth i also believe the government use the crisis to push through a motion see measures to make life harder for the l.g.b. team community. you know some of the m.o. since the measures have not much to do with coffees itself but rather the

government's political incense and to pursue. closer basham measures including. the best. think of 1st those who went out and this is to come for gay couples. and the other one is. that sex will be for ever to think their sex and their ids with the game does not pass. anything with up on them but rather an idealized god when. to. celebrate. it well estimated that the hijab the crown the latest developments in the past thank you very much. well. the topic of mass vaccination campaigns and mutation is his al very own derrick williams with today's real

question. is there a link between mass vaccination and me taishan of the virus. like other pathogens sars kovi to mutates constantly and vaccines do have an impact on its evolution but a less direct one then for example a theoretical antiviral treatment voided because the 2 work in different ways drugs work by wiping out an active infection while vaccines work by preventing them from occurring in the 1st place wiping out an existing infection with a medicine applies a kind of spore earth selection pressure the only pathogens that survive are those like these with mutations that make them resistant to the medicine and only

they go on to spawn the next generation that's why drug resistance is such a common problem nowadays because we put pathogens under massive pressure to evolve quickly in a very particular direction which is to grow resistant to a medication by deploying vaccines on a wide scale we're also having an impact on virus evolution but a more subtle one by making a lot of people resistant to infection we can drastically reduce opportunities for a virus to spread so we're also upping the selection pressure but in a different way when the supply of potential hosts grows limited because many people are vaccinated viruses that have for example mutate. to be more infectious they'll have a clear advantage and will on average in fact more people that's why more

infectious variants can supplant less infectious and sensor old ones over time and there are indications that this is happening in many places now with sars kovi to. thanks for watching as they say and seal gets a. describe

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