there are different forms of time. time. ah, the phenomenon a dimension. we know, we won't live forever. an illusion. about time presenting futures past starts april 14th on d. w. with blue in countries all around the world. the corona virus pandemic brought large parts of the economy to a standstill. many companies only survive through government aid, and some didn't make it at all. like in taiwan, where the tourism industry is still struggling. in other parts of the world like zimbabwe, the pandemic gave rise to whole new services. but

we start off in germany, where nearly all coven 19 restrictions were lifted at the start of april. it's a huge relief to many businesses, especially night clubs and restaurants. ah, the masks and social distancing measures are gone, and revelers can once again enjoy berlin night life with their old freedoms. germany dropped most of its corona virus restrictions at the beginning of april for party goes, it was a moment they'd been waiting for for a long time. and now they're ready to celebrate. now i just had carotid, so i thought when, if not now, i'm in goofy. it still feels a bit different, but it's my 1st time back. i think the sense of ease will return when there are more concerts. again, the pandemic hit the club industry harder than most,

shuddered for 2 years, only state aid prevented widespread bankruptcies. but pamela showbiz of the berlin club, commission, fears that difficult times are not over yet, gets lost and he has an owls. now that this financial assistance is coming to an end, we'll see if night clubs will survive or not lasting or the family off. we said that from the start doesn't that the to yes, night clubs were able to ratchet down from a 100 to 0 percent. they have no choice on corner lot, but it's clear that from one day to the next, we can't suddenly go from 0 to 100 percent to full not pulse and hope. the hospitality industry is also really due to the impact of the corona virus and covet restrictions. revenue dropped about 40 percent over the past 2 years. the airing a restaurant in the center of berlin managed to survive, but many others were less fortunate. state aid couldn't compensate for the huge losses they incurred consult also, so it led to massive restaurant closures for to saddam's. if he look with lots of

restaurant owners had to close because they weren't in as good a location as us not or couldn't get into the to go business r o in the us, the goga shift answer flag. those 2 things actually helped us a lot of that. but restaurant ers, who didn't have these things, sir, did you who maybe had a nice restaurant, but were on a side street without much traffic and local and they just didn't stand a chance yet. i'm. i'm fucking from scott, them. i'm fucking from. oh, sorry. oh, well, i will do, you know, there's also a shortage of hospitality staff after many people left the industry. what's the impact of the pandemic can be seen everywhere? germany's g. d. p has suffered, the economy grew last year, but by 2.7 percent less than hoped. so should restrictions have been eased sooner. i was why the all of my, you just have to look in your see how many shops you're empty. i'll talk to people who are on reduced working hours or who work in department stores. my opinion,

it's time enough already. the sized has the yes, safe mean? it's vicious. in the end when moving into an endemic situation, we'll have to live with leap. just like the flow and other illnesses on a concave as it, as it is in am, i met with torrent lines. i think i think it's good to get back to more freedom silicon often as i but just dropping mask requirements. and so many places and people coming together in big crowds, again, i'm hoping it's a bit strange and it will take some getting used to assume the single furnace. i don't, we don't always, louis germany's government decided that sectors that were hard hit by the crisis need a bit more freedom again. also with the argument that infections with the omicron variant have been comparatively mild. yet pezora told him none of us trust this slow island and we all think it'll hit again next full of people. you were worried that the authorities don't realize that often that somehow we'll get through the summer and then be surprised and the full when things get worse and we have to shut again. laugh to dr. phil, i dont misquote us on. that's

a big worry for all club operators already gonna look. we've only just reopened and already thinking about what would happen if we need to close that. gov and not. he's never been navy. that it would really be a catastrophe. mucus, i know cutoffs for for more freedom and reviving sectors hard hit by crisis or appealing prospect. but the end of the restrictions bring new corona virus waves where the long term damage could be even greater. the pandemic has also been devastating to taiwan tourism industry. the islands government imposed strict entry rules for travelers which kept infection rates law but it also denied many businesses. their customer base. more than a 100 hotels had been forced to close since the started the pandemic due to the lack of visitors. jenica is on her way to work, plays a hotel would kinda same rules she is taken for the past 20 years. by this time she

is going there to take one last look tape his imperial hotel. is they to demolished? he has to closed last october because business was done due to coby 19. has e, julio, seen in the imperial hotel, opened in 1967, and i was born. that same year were the same age. cancel seeing the hotel and boom times are now seeing it close. makes me sad. is 90 percent of the hotels business come from foreign guests, but tie was strict boulder controls put paid to that management decided to lay off stairs. how will that you're thinking on that there were 48 people and bream cyber . ha each. what after the pandemic started our guest numbers dropped. so we didn't need so many staff anymore. before the hotel closed,

we were down to 17. the hotel was a least able to returns its chinese restaurants and re open it in a different location. and jenny kung was able to keep her job with her colleagues. she knows sales foot online. now, the owner wants to open a new hotel in a suburb in 2024, with the focus on different types of guests. i told her during the pandemic, many people had online meetings and worked from home at over. we expect a further decrease and business travel, so we want to concentrate on tourists to yoko way. thought about the imperial is now the only hotel in taiwan that has had to close due to la pandemic. mona, 100 have shut down in past 2 years. the sherwood is le latest located in taipei city. yes. hosted many political leaders for more than 3 decades. but closed

it's door in february. teresa express fear that the continuing, bent and foreign visitors were he the industrial hard? how can and cannot, i won't have that on campus because they see that things are not going well in tourism. these young people don't want to enter the industry are, cannot always, if you got to the center, then when we opened the board has again, only older people will where connect to when i say power melanie entering and as the lack of young talent will be a big problem plans and to she got one of my meetings. i joined the one team. no only hotels below so restaurants is doors in tours area struggling. joe worked for years in clothing store and witness. he go down hill roof. anton. wow, man. oh, can i been here before the pandemic? we almost had no time for lunch or dinner. hang me about it. now we do this enzyme that and most of the remaining time we spend waiting for customers. now on monday, if you are, there just aren't any tourist i for a male is always

a good one curve john says many restaurants they used to have a long lay. now do not even require reservations. so the landline that smoothie house used to be very crowded before the pandemic. the my aunt, all we had to wait in line for a long time because it's very famous, but not anymore. i've had to mean tie, well, may still have some of the low was covey. 19 infection rates in the word, but streak and she rules have he that theresa industry, hard. as for jenny con odo, she in just learning new skills in e commerce, she hopes to return to a room service in the hotel as soon as possible. i many companies around the world are short staffed right now because their workers have coven 19 and are isolating at home. our science reporter derek williams has spent the past 2 years following the pandemic. and as always,

he's here to answer your questions. this time jimmy j wants to know how long dakota 19 patients remain infectious? oh, this is of course not a hard and fast number. i'm because everyone has unique immune responses to pathogens. the length of an infection after contracting, coven 19 varies from person to person. and it also depends on which variance that person comes down. with that said, i'm based on averages. healthcare authorities have set up guidelines for isolation . it's important to know that what's called the incubation period for the disease, so how long it takes you to start showing symptoms after being exposed, that that's pegged at between $2.14 days. with more recent variance,

incubation also tends to happen faster after being infected with the amazon very and for instance, most people will start to show symptoms within about 3 days. and the general consensus is that infected people who developed symptoms are most likely to infect others. in the day or 2 before they start to show those symptoms themselves as well as in the 2 or 3 days afterwards. so how long should you remain in isolation to be at least relatively sure that you won't. in fact, any one else um there, health care authorities like the u. s. centers for disease control. draw some distinctions based on how severe your case of coven 19 was. on. on its spectrum, people who had moderate to severe illness should isolate for

a minimum of 10 days with that period being extended to 20 or even more days for people who are immunocompromised because in some cases they can shad live virus for longer. and but the c, d, c, and other health authorities now also generally assume that otherwise healthy people who had only mild cases or were asymptomatic, are probably only contagious for a maximum of 10 days after the 1st symptoms appear and possibly shorter. so that's why under newer guidelines, if a patient is recovering and has no more traces, the fever, they can end isolation after only 5 days, but they should wear a mask around others for 5 more days after that because they might still be

infectious. other countries have slightly different rules here in germany. for example, you can end isolation after 7 days with a negative antigen or pcr test. without one, you have to isolate for 10 days, but the underlying logic is similar. it's that to be on the safe side. you should assume that even if you had a mild case of coven 19, or had no symptoms at all, you might be infectious for up to 10 days after you had your 1st symptoms, or had a positive test result. and for the 1st time, ah, while some industries have been hit hard by the pandemic, others have flourished. delivery services have seen huge demand thanks to lockdown and quarantine rules. in zimbabwe,

one start up not only created lots of jobs. the company also became a lifeline for people stuck at home with no other way of buying food. good. excellent. yeah, thank you so much. receiving food orders a right at the doorstep has become a convenient and safe option for some residents in zimbabwe. capital hardy, for current young, online shopping innovations, helped him reduce the risk of infection. during the peak of the pandemic. she regularly orders a fresh produce and food from the online set up a fresh in a box. it's been a life saver. am i missing a man, sir? as you can see, i have a small, a child as if me going to the supermarket along with the worry of infection and has also been the time factor. so even now that things are a little bit lesson from,

from a cupboard perspective, i still find the deliveries in valuable just to saving me time. one lane should be, is deadly growing in zimbabwe. and it has brought many services closer to citizens in the comfort of their homes. could em sir seal? founded the familiar ran set up a fresh in a box. customers can order fresh vegetables, fruits and some additional food items online. oh, innovation has made a shopping for, for the everyday individual, very, very easy. they go on their phones or the order from us, and then we deliver to the homes, obviously with coven 19 making this, but new normal. um it, during the big pat mixon, the big girls locked downs, we became ubiquitous and became 1000000 are absolutely necessary. was holmes. the coroner virus pandemic has been a real booster to the online stat up company. after it was founded in 2018. it

only served in average of a $120.00 customers a day and to quote it logged down to a started. now that his short out a to more than a 1004 fresh in a book, sir. adapting to a fast changing environment is not always been easy. and the pandemic has brought many challenges. and predictability of policies is also been quite crazy. so sometimes you're locked down, sometimes you're not locked down. you know, vaccinations going in a lot to do this lot. so there's been a lot of rules that we've had to learn to change and drop and change and try and remain compliant it fresh from free in a box, major sorts of video tables being able to sell online, helped a sim from produce that would have otherwise gone to waste because of course, it logged downs. what i've learned from the pandemic is that, you know, humanity needs to find ways of being more sustainable in the way that it eats in

the way that it grows in the way that it, as of eyes are, we are going to have to find ways of socializing, which did is not direct contact. we went out to find ways of survival in a space where we're not as closely knit as we used to be. the coroner virus pandemic may have brought many challenges for families in social innovators. but it is brought a many good lessons to consider for the future. for those who don't get their food delivered and are keen on going to the supermarket. other ways of procuring food have emerged during the pandemic. ready the columbia capital bogota now has over 4000 urban gardens that are keeping entire family supplied with home grown fruit and vegetables. and aside from providing food, many find the gardening itself. quite therapeutic sheesh.

wrecking in the garden is the perfect start to the day for the egg gutierrez, he found a small green strip in front of his house. it was the 1st city garden of its kind to be officially approved in pa gotta blow without going through implant. the idea of creating a garden in the distorted during the pending when we were on hoop duncan. so since he had wrote that him in being confined like that. so yes, some of the residents got together and, and worked out how we couldn't stop ourselves from going esther crazy way and decided to start at garden element. but it also meant sense because certain food items were hard to come by and it is by lucas, i think in the public space in front of our house. you know, it seemed like a good place that it was in poor condition. and homeless people often left their garbage on it and folk were so the 1st thing we had to do was cleaned it out to at least then we could start learning how to be gardeners that heavy boise idaho. where the up in data with yeah. they were a few things. diego gutierrez, 1st needed to learn but now his health is still pretty good. to martez onions,

coffee plants, lettuce, and cabbage all thrive on what used to be a neglected strip of land. the urban gardens also offer a 2nd chance to farmers with fled to the city, to escape the violence in other parts of columbia. from the city authorities assigned marilla pardo a plot of land. and she's been farming it ever since. we're coming back boston rather than i had an it guy. i'm used to working in the field. so i was happy when they gave us this little piece of land. i mean, has it been at least we had something to do? yeah. yeah, and it keeps me fit campbell, i turned 66 in february, so that's important and read it. working in the field is good for my health and class. my mind, i say, how la mancy marina pardo once learned how to farm from her father. now she's passing on that knowledge to her grandson luis,

and other little nothin. the initiative is supported by the cities botanic gardens . they organize special days where people can plan things under supervision. they also provide classes. the launch a goal is to promote local agriculture in longer than a more they, our goal is to provide more than 40000 people with technical assistance and training to more than 20000 people on. and we want to supply basic tools to more than $20000.00 community gardens. we study of the harvest from the gardens helped to feed each family reunion and the pressure on household budgets. whenever she harvest something, marina pato always thinks about the farm. she lost me. i don't think a lesson in the month. i'll do this as long as god gives me the strength there. yep . hang on. we had the night. i am so thankful for my garden playing with on perhaps one day he'll help me to harvest a little more. diego gutierrez believes the gardens will help pave the way to

a better future, a more sustainable vision of progress in urban areas. with limited was city and look pretty low, has always meant concrete stone and the ice pavement. but the gardens are far prettier and more productive to where does. the pandemic has brought change to bogota. the new urban gardens have made the city more green and are helping to build strong communities. ah, many sectors were forced to adapt and find ways to survive during the pandemic. for the performing arts, it was especially tough in britain. many theaters had to close. and so they saw alternative ways to perform for the public, for actors directors and everyone involved in theater. it was often the only way of safeguarding their livelihood. here in the hearts of london's famous theatre districts. the days of cove had locked downs only seemed

like their own work of fiction, in which a crowded auditorium was the stuff of nightmares. but he's theater enthusiasts and i'll itching to get back to their feet. oh i think he's brilliant avenue is exactly what we mean. oh, it's absolutely wonderful. we've come all the way from wales to see this. i've live on and thought we were them all to will be 5 if i think i caught cove it the last time i went to the 50 foot burner to so really look, reports are very excited and i fear any more with the thought back to normal journey back alive after 3 locked downs and months of restrictions. the west end slowly bouncing back. but for many smaller, independent theaters, the legacy of co that lingers each the worst thing you have to do if you are theater manager is close your theater. it just sort of was a punch in the got really looked down, saw the team at london's orange tree there to lose the livelihoods overnight asking people to come to an intimate theater and we pride ourselves and traded on up in

intimate theater. all of our lives work was now come to a point where what we were dedicated to doing was both illegal and toxic good group . busy my group, since then at times it wasn't clear whether the theater would ever reopen. 2 things seemed very stark. one was that we were going to run out of money that we would be bankrupt. and my experience of the british theater is that when theaters close, it's very difficult for them to reopen. so it was finger tips staff really in it. it was an existential threat. chosen as a future queen old. fast forward to today and restrictions and lift it in the state is back in action or has in german drama, tom fool, my girl job or german girls. i made him a king or sweden was booked to. he's got in a grip. oh, like many theaters,

they survived with the help of government support. because the case is a soaring, once again in the u. k. and car sickness is still shutting down performances. and now my do here. audience sizes are also down significantly on pre pandemic levels. for some that's due to kind of a consent. others are simply out of the habit po, faced this could have a lasting impact on smaller independent theaters. one that offer the great b blockbuster theater experiences like android, whether cinderella is still very popular. they'll spend a lot of money on her big night out, but they won't go back to bending their regular sums of money coming to see a couple of plays a week if they're not absolutely sure they're going to have a good time. but the show must go on next cove. it's taught them anything. it's how to adapt restrictions. accelerated then the online, they started streaming performances to help stay afloat. the digital content is now

not only reaching you audiences, it's an important financial lifeline. people that either can't come in the 1st place because of the pandemic, or, or find common coming physically to the theater anyway, very difficult. now have access to our work in a way that they didn't before. it's been a process born out of necessity, but it's fulfilled a long term dream. good. now and with that the stage is sent for new post covered future. where once the move on line may have felt a challenge to far, easy. now it's a ray of hope and assigned that theater in whatever form will ways find a way to angel remedy off the pandemic reeked havoc and many industries. while for others, it opened up new opportunities. it also highlighted how globally interconnected we are. just think about the interruptions to supply chain. for example. we'll return

to that thought in our next show, exploring the concept of one health. we'll see how the health of humans, animals and our environment are all linked together. until then, take care with ah, with

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