and the impact of the triple mutation on the country how can the rest of the world how work can be done for the people and how can india bring the situation under control a special edition of d.w. news on the coronavirus crisis in india starts april 30th at 11 u.t.c. and d.-w. . if you think the profile of the patients that we have at the moment is a young patient between 30 and 50 years old with a period of stay in i.c.u. have been longer all this is it is the only. disease knows no age it is very sad unfortunately from one day to another it can take you away it is so sad. we are more scared this time and there are many young victims so to me this way looks more dangerous than the last one. indeed our feeling is that the patients are

younger than they were during the 2 previous waves a year ago in october and november the warm. welcome to a covert night in special monica jones in berlin and all of a sudden i'm also in that age group that's address remember when we were told to protect the elderly because the virus is especially dangerous for them and that was right of course but it lol to many younger people into a false sense of security the result even though all the people are mostly vaccinated by no hospitals continue to work at the limit like here in berlin. we're at the intensive care unit in berlin scully tests hospital half of the patients here suffer from cope at 19 dr thomas kuhn and this team have their hands full and the beds are filling up. one of the. puzzles and slowly you can see that there is an increase at the

moment when not yet in a situation that brings us to the edge of what we can do with your crown but we know that if the numbers continue to rise we could certainly have problems go through the hellish program we have incurred in recent weeks the number of covered patients in germany's i.c. use has been rising sharply again by now at the peak of the 2nd wave of the pandemic has almost been reached intensive care beds are becoming scarse and the workload of staff continues to grow. intensive care nurse tim cook has also noticed that. america now in this 3rd wave it is particularly noticeable that the patients are getting more seriously ill and they are ill for longer and also they need a lot of care that means the situation is very challenging and very stressful for us you really need time to relax when you're off work. but it is not just the sheer

increase uncovered patients that worries the teeth that patients health is deteriorating fast and this 3rd wave of the pandemic they are also an effort to get them before probably also because most people over 80 years old have already been vaccinated. everett age is now much younger compared to the 1st or 2nd waves and we see that very clearly we don't really have any patients who are over 80 years old anymore they are almost non-existent if you would you know to what extent german hospital could pass. these are breached varies greatly from region to region some are already completely for others are still coping one thing would help more vaccinations. we won't get out of this without back scenes they are very important but it is also important to stick to hygiene measures to keep that distance and observe current coverage for strips of each and everyone must take

this been demick seriously and can do their part to make get out of this is quickly as possible the troops will come if the number of patients continues to rise other important treatments would have to be postponed in some areas and germany that is already the case the situation many doctors agree is serious. the patients are getting more seriously ill their health deteriorating faster and they younger on average than in the 1st 2 waves let's talk about that now with ravindra gupta he's professor of clinical microbiology at cambridge university good to have you with us so let's let's start 1st of all with the average age in this report we heard that it's mainly down to the fact that the older generations are vaccinated by now is that all there is to it. yes i certainly think that there will be an element of the fact that the elderly are protected with vaccines of course in the 1st wave the elderly who also very vulnerable so certain proportion of the most

vulnerable may have been affected diet so that leaves a small fraction of susceptible elderly individuals and and they're all that is probably part of the explanation but they can't speak the whole truth because we know that this is a phenomenon that we see in many parts of the world even in pots where the vaccination rate is much higher so there has to be something else to it. yes but of course the priority is of call is based potentially and it's been a factor because. in previous waves there may have been a disproportionate impact on certain age groups in terms of who is infected. and and also what we call a survivor or some people who are infected will have died and some would have survived. you know the epidemiology is very difficult to tease apart here because a lot of this is about transmission paths and circulation of virus within certain

age groups behaviors of course because. all the older individuals and certainly people of a certain ages and those with conditions. in shielding themselves and so minimizing the social contacts whereas younger people have continuing social contacts to a greater extent so there are many different factors that could get translates could get that could feed into this observation and what would explain that those patients that we're talking about are not only younger but they're also getting more seriously ill does this have anything to do with the new variance. there's nothing conclusive at the moment in terms of the sort of analysis of this but these are very difficult studies to. ducked properly and robustly so i'm not confident that we will get a good answer to this the you know there are there are changes happening in viruses

the variants do have mutations in them it is possible that they increase forests and fictive at sea and therefore generate more more virus particles that may. cause great is ease and people who previously would have been less impact yes it may induce different types of antibody or so responses which may contribute to damaging inflammation as a result of the infection there are many possibilities as to why. younger individuals on now observed to become to be sick and and potentially more sick than they used to and of course i mean you hinted at it it also has to do with behavior and the 1st symptoms of an infection very often they can easily be mistaken for a common cold and people younger people and i'm talking about people who are up to 40 and 50 who go to where. they're at in such an age you don't expect to get that ill do you think that they simply wait too long before they get help.

where it's possible that certain individuals who are younger feel that they are not going to get worse and they've been when that is the problem part of the part of the sort of rhetoric or the sort of narrative around it 19 was that young people don't get they don't die that that's clearly wrong we knew that the 1st way for. the last year even that that young people do get they do toys young children can get sick and have severe disease so there's no absolutes and the other problem is of course you need to know what the denominator is how many people are infected in that age group and that's really quite difficult to understand because many people don't have testing so to actually accurately understand what the percentage of infection is in that age group is extremely difficult. and finally my what are the implication. for both the health sector because younger people tend to be physically stronger which means they stay longer in intensive care in order to

hopefully get well again and what does it mean for society because we're talking about people who are largely making up the workforce. yes again i think that we do need to remember the percentage of people who get severe disease in across age groups is still very small so most people who get infected will be fine you are seeing of course increasing cases of severe disease in young people but that's probably a reflection on the fact that there is a lot of transmission going on in that age group and the fact that they're not bucks and it's so i do believe but extending vaccination to younger age groups is a priority. i think that's clear because of course the number of productive years life lost potentially from young people dying is very significant and these things need to be taken into consideration and i have professor gupta from cambridge university thank you so much. time for your questions now and it's over to our science correspondent. why should people who've

already had covert 19 also be vaccinated aren't they protected as your body fights off a pathogen that forms what's known as an immunological memory of the disease various vaccines on the other hand deceive the immune system into forming this memory by faking an infection using a range of different tricks to do it in fact some vaccines trick the body so effectively they cause an even more powerful and lasting immunity to a pathogen then a naturally acquired infection does but several studies including one from january that's been cited quite a lot they indicate that naturally acquired immunity in most people who caught coke at 19 appears pretty strong even months after recoveries so isn't that

enough well there's a big if involved we still don't really know how long immune memory to stars tovey to will on average last and that goes for both that scene induced and disease induced immunity both currently look good for at least 6 months and counting but but based on what we know about other coronaviruses there's a good chance immune memory will lapse over time which is why health care authorities recommend getting vaccinated even if you've recovered from carpet 19 because it's a safe way to refresh your immune memory and will hopefully that lengthen the window of time remaining immune in fact a few. studies have shown that in people who recovered from cope with 19 even a single dose of vaccine often boosts antibody response beyond what the 2

dose vaccine regime causes in people who have never had it so it should make you even less prone to get the disease again at least in the short to medium term. and that's it for today thanks for watching stay safe. every day counts for us and for our planet. the ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how to make city scream. how can we protect habitats. we can make a difference in. the wind u.s. environmental series in the 3000 on w.

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thanks to. all we can be the generation that ends it the good malaria must start so millions can live. from empty offices and shops to healthier buildings and more green open spaces the coronavirus pandemic is up ending our city centers and we'll look at the opportunities this might bring for urban renewal and also coming up. cityscapes as an art german artist you want it was fun bismarck used carefully crafted steel and cement to create his noise stopped a revival of demolished ruhr valley architecture. welcome to the show well

depending on where you live your experience of the kovac 900 pandemic will of course the different but i for one can't remember the last time that i went to a cafe or a restaurant or even spent a moment in the shopping district simply because we don't go there anymore with everything closed and most commerce now taking place online well as a result vast stretches of the city have literally pled out and this raises a lot of questions. once the current crisis is over we'll ask cities become more green than gray will we only work or will we continue to live there. could empty stores be revived with completely new functions. architect kristoff believes the current crisis is an opportunity to bring diversity to city centers.

the current crisis is actually a catalyst to deal now with the shopping precinct all over germany because change is going to come there's a reason why they're in such a sorry state or differences in shopping precincts like this one in frankfurt were already in financial difficulty before the crisis struck but since the pandemic shoppers tourists and commuters have stayed away whilst online retail and home offices are booming retail spaces are now shuttered the demand for office space is also decreasing shopping and business districts of dying. from the functionality is the deafness and development destroys the city the european city thrives on social and functional diversity a street like this needs people living and working and doing business. all. we had together with mike youssef from the frankfurt city council

plans to transform the room a whole neighborhood in the city center it still takes some imagination to envisage the new district the plan includes a generous green area and will serve a range of purposes at the moment it's a commercial and ministry area but the idea is to build $20000.00 apartments close to schools retail sports facilities and commercial estates the aim is to diversify and place more importance on avenues parks and courtyards in this respect the future rumah hoff will be reminiscent of late 19th century urban planning we don't want to just recreate that period we want to take the qualities that make up those districts and are very popular and implement them here that's what drives us . to be. people who live in small city apartments need green

spaces but how can this work in the inner city how can we create affordable housing space is in short supply and simple tiny asli preserve green spaces. and joining me to hash this out is my colleague mike a clear welcome mike and i'm just wondering do we have any answers to some of those questions is there hope that our inner cities cities could become more livable in the. thing there is absolutely hope because what should we do with all this emptiness and in the cities and not only in the bigger ones also in the smaller towns they have the situation is even worse but at this point the owners of these large store surface stores are still in limbo they're still not willing to lower the rents this is the situation now but town planners and architects as we saw right now. already working on creative solutions also full pocking carriages for

example there we have a good one in new and back in bavaria space was missing they had to build something new so they decided to use the roof of a car park and now we have one of the most beautiful cannot gardens in town with a huge garden hopefully we see right now and a big wall to protect the children of course has been planning in the past that was always more like traffic management traffic will disappear with a commercial of course and it's terrible for all those people who losing their jobs now but it's also an opportunity a very good chance for the communities to reclaim more space ok but you know as we heard in the report i mean this idea of diversity in the city center is bringing the people back into the inner city that's really what typical cities in europe have always been about in the past and yeah you're right we had it all by the loss

of in the last decades and gained over crowded expensive cities disastrous traffic and gentrification of course. everything was focused on consumption but i think it's always in the mix and a very good functioning neighborhood is the one with kindergarten senior hopes with small shops get a response restaurants and all in a small distance and what we have now despite the pandemic still have is a housing market housing market that's out of control that's of course not only the case for inner cities but that's also the same for these suburban shopping complexes absolutely shopping centers the huge small don't have much of a future here in europe we see nation and the united states they know the problem very very well they have a couple of debt malls and shopping centers and their reasons for being in calif.

gornja they are currently repurposing one there will be shops and offices still also apartments culture and small facilities so what's you know with what we know now what's stopping us from repurpose in all of these empty buildings as fast as possible really. yet here in germany for example we have a very difficult building regulations those regulations were written in the time of course when space was not of issues and of course nobody was talking or even thinking of home offices and so there's a clear line between living and commercial space but hopefully this will change very soon well obviously hope is a good thing we've got lots of it and it'll be interesting to see where we are a year from now and thanks very much for those insights micah kluger because of course the transformation of urban centers for the future leads perfectly to the idea of learning from the buildings of the past in germany our history was fun

bismarck's his project noise start recreates demolished structures from germany's ruhr valley area for a new kind of reckoning with the architectural choices through the ages. a miniature city on the move. not architectural models but own sculptures of buildings. 21 striking buildings typical of the industrial region for artist bismarck the journey from berlin is part of the project there are bunkers schools swearing pools and many residential towers typical of the 19th sixty's and seventy's high rise buildings with names like goliath and giants all the originals have long since been demolished. or toned down. the art cities destination is. a major center of the

steel industry and europe's largest inland ports. it's an unusual cargo frank john even though it weighs tons. the structures are perfectly positioned in the new home at the juice book nord landscape park which has been part of the arts trail since 2010. the sculptures reflect industrial history. there's india. public buildings that once belonged to this industrial landscape because they were built for the people who worked in industry here even the churches as work numbers increased so did the construction of churches and now they are. maintaining to churches is more expensive than demolishing them so these decisions were

made for financial reasons. and china talking. a team from the burning studio is responsible for the detailed work on the 1st songs. and for ensuring their foundations are precise millimeters matter everything has to fit perfectly. going on a building here the north and the put its own front on these are not exact images they are our interpretations we try to capture the aura it's not a precise downscaled version there is abstraction certain details remain others are left out when translating into other materials you also have to change things a bit o. . business and then after. 10 days of construction noise is finished

the sculptures are intended to provoke debate. let's see if you're kind of architecture we need in 50 years 50 years ago we thought we needed this but now we turn to evening them was it a mistake to tear them down these questions are always relevant they never get old and ideas about what is beautiful and what is ugly constantly change to. the graveyard of a vision of the future these downscale buildings are testimony to dramatic structural change in the region. and to finish up here's our grab of some of the other culture news in brief beginning with news of one of pop's biggest female stars dozens off britney spears friends demonstrated outside a los angeles courthouse on tuesday to end the pop star's conservatorship case

which in 2008 led a california court to place her under a unique legal guardianship largely governed by her father will spears's request to speak directly to the court has been granted for june 23rd. and the best series and programs have been nominated for this year's bafta t.v. awards in britain with steve mcqueen's and fellow g. film series entitled small acts about the lives of west indian immigrants in a london all of the 19 sixty's to the 1980 s. the. film series leading the way with 15 nominations and of course binge worthy t.v. has been helping many of us to weather continued coronavirus lockdowns so that's a good chance to see how the chips will fall there and will be interesting and maybe even catch up on a series or 2 now on that note it is time for me to sign off so all the best from

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and d.-w. . this is the news live from berlin another tragic pandemic record in india the death toll from cope at 19 has caused 200000 infection numbers are rising and the crisis is being compounded by shortages of oxygen medical supplies and hospital staff also coming up. u.s. president joe biden is set to unveil a sweep.