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of infections. speak. providing some relief to an stretched healthcare system. you could join us for the 1st time since the. taiwan the island has imposed its toughest distractions to counter a sudden surge in domestic cases on monday alone the island reported 333 new cases taiwan's being held up as a success story only 12 people have died and over 2000 infections have been recorded since last year the government has now ordered the closure of old schools in the capital for 2 weeks shut detainment venues and limited contacts indoors and tolls between people. empty chairs that empty tables scenes

so commonplace around the world these days of being seen in taiwan for the 1st time since the pandemic began as the island grapples with a sudden spike in infections in taipei the epicenter of the outbreak masks and now mandatory outdoors in many shops and venues will be closed for at least 2 weeks one step behind a total lockdown all foreign arrivals have now also been banned. from midnight may 19 known taiwanese without residents a difficult will be suspended from entering taiwan. will also suspend travellers to transfer in taiwan. if it was the quick implementation of a travel ban in the initial stages of the pandemic that's thought to have been key to the island's relative corona success but it isn't fiction dr is also underway in new taipei city or authorities throwing everything they can to try to stop the

virus spreading this outbreak linked to a quarantine facility for airline staff has prompted an uptick in testing and has residents on high alert ready to go pick up where i wasn't too concerned before but now i worry whenever i go out i'll wear my face mask i'm more safety conscious now . taiwan's president has called for calm and urge people not to panic buy but that didn't stop many anxious shoppers rushing to stockpile over the weekend and there's a whole store is all that is offering all mail or anything arguing at the entrances as a part of me as we went around the whole story. the government response has so far been timely and measured something the island's residents will be hoping leads the way out of the current emergency. and joining me for more from tarp is did oprah correspondent william yang with him why this sudden spartan cases. so experts believe taiwan 1st relax its quarantine regulations

for all the airline staff since last month and they shortened the time to 3 days and then a few weeks after that there began to have a cluster inspection case at the hornsey hotel that they usually get a quarantine and then it turned out that the hotel basically had been mixing regular visitors with the quarantined airline staff and so just from there like a few weeks later since last week oh we started hearing a local cases popping up in several different parts of taiwan but all these cluster cases are now being confirmed all the buyers are from the u.k. variant which means that it is passing them on a local people here in taiwan faster than the old coronavirus when they 1st entered into taiwan last year and sold that is now a big challenge for the government which is to identify the sources of these infections and try to remind people to stay home and not to go out and to see if it

dies down in a few weeks or you. saw this in our report the government has introduced tough new measures to curb the rise in cases how are people reacting to the measures. so many people were very very concerned about the rising numbers and so they immediately mobilize themselves to go to the supermarkets to stock up the food and the necessity and all the supplies and the streets of taipei the shopping centers and all the business districts have been relatively and surprisingly empty since of the weekend and today is the 1st day people have to go back to work and state went to the 3 digit on a single day and we are still seeing the streets being relatively empty and a lot of the businesses are now turning into working remotely or. vaccinating citizens. so so far the numbers are very very low

taiwan only has already vaccinated about one percent of its population and it is also struggling with these a vaccine supplies because right now the only vaccine that taiwan can offer to a citizen is the astra zeneca vaccine and because of some of the reports about the prayer blocks flooding and other side effects of the population here was not really willing to accept the vaccinations which is why of the vaccination rate it's not really up to speed and that seems kind of the subsequent vaccine suppliers are also not sure when they won't arrive so taiwan my space a very difficult time when they have to ensure that the very end does not continue along the local population at the same time to make sure that they can continue to raise the nation's rate among its population really in your entire career thank you very much for that thank you. and india has seen a further decline in over 1000 infections with more than 281000 cases reported on monday but the daily death toll remains above 4000 and weeks into its 2nd week of

the country in crisis mode india's hide meston positivity rates at around 20 percent of tests conducted signals that could be worse to come international medical need has arrived to have eased shortages. met up with the german team when they hit the ground with a new oxygen plant docks down in delhi on a hot evening this military transport planes bringing a precious cargo to a country struggling to cope with a deadly 2nd wave of the coronavirus it is a medical oxygen generation plant. sent to find germany being unloaded with care it's part of an international aid effort to bring relief the city of delhi has gone through a harrowing time people had seen then loved ones literally gasping for breath and often the supplies ran out. any attempt to boost auckland supplies is hugely about

. by nightfall the plant is taken to a provisional field hospital set up not far from the airport. 13 members of the german bund despair medical corps came with this oxygen generation plant to india. ditch by beach the machinery's assembled german position indian and genuity within a few short days the generator is ready for use its capacity is large for a city which has faced a desperate oxygen emergency i think it's important to help in young people in general the supply system is able to provide 400000 liters per day and it takes the surrounding air and furthers the are going out and oxygen can be filled up into normal oxygen cylinders starting for 5 up to 50 liters indian style for receiving technical training on how to operate the system once the german team leaves as of

today scientists from the defense research development organization and now fully responsible for running the plant. this sudden sandstone was not planned but everyone here is aware of the importance of this project. dr lawson we're going or what we call are going to remember in this particular problem it. would not repent of the german government could never started the ball go do they just want brought . many new clothes in there or where the world didn't blow. or disappeared will reduce global pandemic. the oxygen is pumped into cylinders sealed and tested and then sent to wards in the field hospital where someone passes and covert patients being treated 10000 liters can be filled in less than half an hour time is of the essence as the german team prepared to leave india

was its mission accomplished its absolutely mission accomplished and it was a great honor to be here to help people here in india was just providing oxygen due to the fact that from our perspective every little counts here and those who faced india's heartbreaking oxygen shortage can only agree they know every breath counts. next for u.s. and nato troops heading for the exits after 2 decades in the country to make that deadline of september the 11th military units up i think bases around the country the stuff that u.s. personnel are leaving behind and not handed over to the afghan military is being sold as scrap to. scrap because troops up purposefully dismantling tons of that defeat otherwise fall into the hands of militants. market

day in bodrum district afghanistan and among the offerings bits of military vehicles sliced up tents broken down tank tracks and shards of generators sold to scrap dealers for resale to the locals a potential treasure trove of once shiny and well maintained gear reduced to scrap . the trash the stuff why do they come to afghanistan. they came here to rebuild afghanistan but now they're leaving they leave behind all this crap in afghanistan. inside the perimeter of nearby airfield 90 minutes north of kabul the americans are taking apart their portion of the base as that other facilities some of what they're leaving behind is going to be afghan military. the rest is sold as non-working jump to ensure the taliban can't use it.

for a few days ago there was a big explosion outside the airport. and we later found out the americans were destroying the equipment that. if that equipment belongs to the military they should give it to the afghan government and if it's for civilians on the base they should give it to us but not destroy it now any scrap from there to be sold in the market as much as the. let's. talk about they should leave we don't have good memories of them the memories and benefits we have from them are destruction like they've destroyed this vehicle they've destroyed us too. like scrapyard owner bob amir many afghans are frustrated angry and feeling abandoned to a government regarded as corrupt. they fear a new phase of civil war. money out of the obviously the americans don't trust the afghans and they don't want us to use this stuff and make progress what they're doing is betrayal of afghans. the u.s. is actually added troops in afghanistan recently to help pack up the major bases

here and the equipment that is not being destroyed for scrap. wrapping up 20 years of war leaving behind an uncertain future and tons of junk. that's it for today there's of course other stories on deductive dot com forward slash be sure you can check us out on our social media pages as well when see you tomorrow at the same time. the fate of against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update coming 19 special. on d w. and you hear me now yes yes we can hear you and how the last

year's german chancellor will bring you an angle a makeover and you've never cards have surprised yourself with what is possible who is magical really what moves out and also who talked to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joining us from eccles last stop. in india some covert 900 patients are developing a rare but dangerous infection dubbed black fungus mukul my cosas. typically starting in the airways it spreads through the body affecting the sinuses or lungs then bones and body tissue the fungus can also attack the eyes and brain. if left

untreated it can be fatal. i've been fizzling nice to have you along it's important to note that black fungus is extremely rare in india it only affects around $100000.00 people a year according to one study that's less than one percent of the population but now big. hospitals are reportedly diagnosing it in patients every 2nd day in this ongoing 2nd wave of patients are especially at risk because their immune system is weakened and that may be contributing to the rising cases of black fungus in india . all of a queerly is from the european excellent center for invasive fungal infections in cologne 1st of all what are the symptoms of a black fungus infection. well the symptoms of cosas that infection is unspecific runny nose fever but then it might turn into specific signs and this. gets across dick an acrostic scheme will look look that is why it's

actually cold fungal disease it's not really a columnist it's a different class of fungi but it looks black on the skin. explain what actually happens to a patient what do they go through what do they experience well best founders all of whom really you know are destroying tissue imagine that there is a science it is caused by the fungus that doesn't stop there but it actually moves into the boom and it might destroy bone and then move into the next neighboring organs and tissues and it could be. there for patients are reported to me and sat well i woke up in the morning and couldn't see anything on this one i it's actually not painful because it destroys nerves is. ok it's not painful but the consequences of severe i mean can you can you treat it and can you

treat it soon enough to prevent something like that happening. well if you feel it you can treat it but it's difficult to get the right point to exactly understand what's happening because the symptoms are specific you could treat it with either surgery or with antifungals that's the end of all tics directly directed against fungi or you combine both but you need to be really really fast at all of it tell me why it's such a problem in india right now. i guess there are several reasons why that is one respect to for you the marcos' which is a well known respect or is diabetes and specifically uncontrolled diabetes means that you have very high levels of blood sure lucozade your blood. that triggers the invasion of the tissues of the of the phones. in india and the region

of message number of patients with diabetes who are at risk or mentally even without her own. another reason i say is the exposure to the fungus the fun of those lives is saw oil decay material. you'll will be more exposed to soil in the rule area of india than you are for example in the area and journey with climate is completely different. another reason. that i envision. for my colleagues in india and other countries is that they use steroids for example to cope with 19 under control and asian steroids increase

a lot of sugar they mimic a diabetic situation. that the pounds will take advantage of so all of us should people be wired in other parts of the world where coronavirus case numbers are also high in other parts of the world the real problem is not that large as we see it in southeast asia india. the reason might be that fungal infections are not that frequent in other regions north america europe for example south america has a different pattern of. like osis has so far only been diagnosed in a tiny minority of patients we don't know what africa actually. trail be very similar to. the old with a lower number of you're still it's different regions of the planet have different

funnel infections. and all of it just lastly this was something i'd never even heard of before the show is that something that makes your work difficult i mean getting the funding to research. is something that's quite fascinating it's something that's not frequent but. something like that. yeah that's true it's infrequent and for these. infections there's almost there is almost no way to get funded so it's heavily underfunded and that's one reason why we only have basically 3 drugs that we can use against these fungi which is wait a while a number that's too little and it's toxic drugs quite some of them ok we'll have to leave it there thanks for your time today all of a can easily and the european excellence jennifer invasive fungal infections thank

you very much. time to s. a more of your questions now over to our science correspondent eric williams. why aren't injected vaccines manufactured as a single unit instead of having the vaccine in the syringe separate this is a great question one that i've never really actually considered before right now most vaccine manufacturers are are filling and shipping multi-dose vials of vaccine that contain between $5.15 doses on site at the vaccination center or at the doctor's office staff then have to painstakingly draw them into syringes in a complex time consuming series of steps where we're a lot could actually go wrong due to human error and and there are a lot of other issues with the vial system not least that once the seal on one has

been broken all of the doses in the bio have to be used quickly leftovers can't just be stuck back in the fridge for use later so since everyone is getting their own syringe anyway why aren't machines just pretty filling them directly as a single unit instead of putting large batches of doses in vials 1st prefilled single shot syringes are already the norm in some parts of the world for vaccinations against other pathogens but but there appear to be 2 primary reasons why the older vial system has been the method of choice so far for the mass 19 vaccine rollout the 1st is speed with manufacturers churning out hundreds of millions of doses it's simply faster for them to squirt 10 a time into a single vial that it is to fill 10. separate syringes with

a pandemic in full swing getting as much vaccine as possible out there has been vital and the 2nd factor is cost until now single dose prefilled syringes have been more expensive to produce but but many manufacturers say that's changing and that that pre-filing syringes is actually more efficient because then you don't need millions of medical grade class vials so so when demand for cuba 1000 back seems begins to slow i think that you can expect prefilled syringes to grow in popularity because they have so many advantages. the u.s. centers for disease control is no longer recommending face masks for fully vaccinated people but the c.d.c. says mosques are still recommended in crowded settings like buses planes and

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