is thought to be the 1st albino jacqueline randi, to be found in columbia since her chances of survival in the wilder limit at the albino will be transferred to a conservation part once she has received full medical attention. my goodness, you're watching d. w. news coming up next is the covert special. a michael oak, who in berlin for me and the team here. thanks so much for watching. take care. and we'll see you at the top of the next hour. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing? what does the latest research say? information and context? the corona virus update, because 19 special next on d,

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campaign has been slow and uneven. while many poor countries are still waiting for shots, millions of people and the developed world have refused to get vaccinated altogether . ah, that's allowed the virus to mutate and evade our defenses. crone of iris variance the prospect of new lock downs and the continued fears for our health. these are the concerns that we'll offering with us into the new year. this is your cobra 19 special. i'm chelsea delaney in berlin. well, it seems like a lifetime ago, but germany and the early days of the pandemic was widely praised for its measures to contain the virus. but this year, germany's reputation as a pandemic success story has slipped. the country has found itself at the center of new virus outbreaks, while vaccine skepticism has proliferated. our next report takes us through the ups and downs of germany's fight against the pandemic,

and 2021. everything's closed. germany is in the hot looked down at the start of 2021. the 2nd wave of infections has swept across the country. by now, the vaccination campaign has just gotten underway. many hope that the japs will bring gradual relief to the situation. british hostile come that if i get the chance i would like to be vaccinated because i think there will be little side effects. i'm sick for a while because i'm over 70 and are, is it? during the 1st few months of the campaign, there's a priority list of people who can get immunized elderly people in health care workers being 1st in line. but the start of the inoculation campaign has been a bit bumpy. there are not enough vaccines. a new production facility is yet to be built for the german develop biotech, pfizer vaccine. the situation in hospitals is becoming more dire by spring. a 3rd wave has reached germany, triggered by the more contagious elva variant. as absolute as it was incredibly

stressful for my colleagues, that there was a lot of an aside. he only had frequent staff shortages and he wanted to do the best i could to comply with the hygiene bruce. it was an extremely 10 situation. him and the front that hurts on the situation in the crematorium is also tens, especially in the eastern german state of saxony. here the number of corona virus deaths is particularly high beyond tartar, and there were days when we had no del stem, wicked cremains in a day as young tara, from in may. the cove, its situation, has finally started to improve as infections, numbers drop, more and more regions are starting to ease their corona restrictions. to what extent can people enjoy freedom? despite the danger posed by the virus? this question remains at the center of the debate all summer. while the vaccination campaign makes good progress, that's my children are allowed to go back to school after the summer vacation with face mass, regular tests and airing of the rooms, but they're happy,

nevertheless. in homeschooling, is that homeschooling, is it fun luck? you didn't get real lessons of you had a question. you couldn't get a proper answer. contadino run for them. but the pandemic is not over. the number of infections rise significantly again in for this time. it's those who are unvaccinated, who are affected the most by the highly contagious delta variant. the rights of the vaccinated and unvaccinated now becomes a point of contention. for those who choose not to get immunized aboard from entering more and more places, germany has seen many protests against corona regulations. many of those happened in the state of saxony, where far fewer people want to get vaccinated than in the rest of the country. since november, germany is caught up in the fall and by far the worst wave of the virus incidents rates in several regions have skyrocketed. at the same time,

the country has started to administer booster shots, but experts say they are clearly too late. we have to do something and because people wait at sort decision make us wait at so long to do anything, it won't be possible to really do it without these restrictions. unfortunately, high infection rates have forced authorities to tensile many christmas markets and events in december. the 1st reported cases of the only cranberry and also causing concerns among people in germany. 2021 and much like the you the for with great uncertainty and the question of how long this pandemic were lost. all earlier i spoke to tobias kurt the epidemiologist. he saw there in that report, and i asked him, what has proved successful and what hasn't during the pandemic so far? take a look. although the vaccinations are working certainly does it. that's not the only measure, particularly if you are in a wave. so with increasing numbers of people who are infected,

we need to continue to learn that we're keeping a distance repairing that face a face mask. am and, and other things that like like bringing fresh air into the rooms. that's is certainly a very important thing. we have also learned that it is important to think on a global level the pandemic is on the global level. and if we not managed to really provide the vaccines on the global level, we will not stop future variance to develop and future ways to roll in several regions and the world. we've obviously heard criticism from scientists throughout the spent i make that politicians aren't listening closely enough to the research. do you think that's true? has that changed? our politicians are listening to the scientific community when making restrictions . it's always difficult her because the situation often was not dead clear scientific data are not available right away. but now i think we've learned over

the last 2 years that things and need to improve in germany generally there's, there's a good interaction. we saw just around the election that there was a vacuum of decision making, which i think led to a to late as start of measures to, to bring the numbers down and, and hopefully now and in the future there will be a more open transparency discussions between the scientists and politicians, however, it's also important to have good data available. and here we certainly can improve in germany and somewhat of countries for closing out one year and trying another in the midst of another wave of infections. what should be done differently, amir to come? i think we need to prepared that ways are coming and that we need to react fast and need to really have better data available and, and provide his data to scientists really can evaluate whether there is a situation really going on in germany right now. we are speculating due to

d infection rates of other countries and say like wells, this will also come to germany, which is very likely, however, when exactly this is arriving and how quickly this is developing is something that we act as of today cannot really predict well so we need to really watch the situation closely and keep the discussion as transparent and open as possible. i think one of the biggest questions we all have is if the vaccines currently available are going to remain effective as the very virus continues to mutate and do we need boosters coming up that very soon? i think that we need to consider a booster vaccination in the future and also the companies of producing a vaccine that is not modified and be probably very more effective against deal micron very ends. and so however, this won't be the last marion, so there will be more coming. and i think we will have to deal with vaccinations for quite some time. that is tobias kurt,

a professor of public health and epidemiology at charity hospital on berlin. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for having me. now, here's a viewer question about the other types of carrot, a virus for our science correspondent derek william. oh, look at the types of corona viruses are out there. hundreds of different corona viruses have been identified to date and there are many, many more out there. but the ones that interest us most are of course, the ones that in fact us, which are known as the human corona, viruses, and 7 of those have been identified so far a for only cause mild, cold like symptoms and are considered and demick, which means that they circulate widely, especially in the winter. though these pathogens are pretty harmless. now on

scientists speculate that they might have caused much more serious disease in the past, but have adapted along with our immune systems to be less deadly to day. then there are 3 much more recent additions to the human corona, virus family that can cause much worse illness from a lineage called a beta corona viruses. there's the, the pathogen that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome or, or sars. the one that causes middle east respiratory syndrome or, or mergers. and of course there's sars covey to which causes coven 19. 1 characteristic made a corona, viruses share is that they, in fact, mammals, which means that they exploit similarities. all mammal cells have in common to invade and make more copies of virus. and it also means that they don't have to

change a whole lot to, to jump from mammals species to mammal species. many scientists are pretty confident that source covey to originated in baths. like the viruses that cause sars and murmurs. now, baths are amazing in lots of ways, not least because although they can carry many different viruses, they somehow seem to remain really resistant to the diseases those viruses can cause in other species. and we think that the ability has evolved because many baths live in huge colonies where any infection could quickly wipe out really vast numbers of animals. um, some research indicates that batt resistance is down to immune systems that come to

terms with infections. basically, striking a balance with the virus, rather than declaring war on it so. so bad, don't get rid of the virus, but they don't get sick either. although the superpower unfortunately, also makes them a reservoir for, for corona viruses that can john to other mammals like us. mm hm. and that's it for this cove at 19 special. i'm chelsea delaney from me and the whole team here in berlin. stay healthy, stay safe and see you again soon. a pulse, a beginning of a story that moves us and takes us along for the ride. it's all about the perspective. culture

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