there are different forms of time. time, ah, a phenomenon, a dimension, if we know we won't live forever. an illusion. about time presenting futures past starts april 14th on d, w. ah . 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 them, bob way 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 cried, and so i thought, when, if not now i'm in truth, 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 wide spread bankruptcies. but pamela show this of the berlin club commission fears the 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. does it does the 2? yes, night clubs were able to ratchet down from a 100 to 0 percent. they have no choice on corner what, but it's clear that from one day to the next, we can't suddenly go from 0 to 100 percent to full not points and hope. the hospitality industry is also reeling due to the impact of the corona virus and covered restrictions. revenue dropped about 40 percent over the past 2 years. the adding a restaurant in the center of berlin meant 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 or couldn't get into the to go business r o in the still goga shift answer, flag. those 2 things actually helped us a lot of that. but restauranteur who didn't have these things, it didn't 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 life. i can a wrong scott, them i am for can from oh, sorry. oh, well, i will, 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 for the all of my, you just have to look in your see how many shops you're empty. so i'll talk to people who are on reduced working hours, or who work in department stores. my opinion,

it's time enough already. has the yet the safe means which is in the end when moving into an endemic situation will have to live with. just like the flow and other illnesses on a concave as it, as a thin i'm, i'm a bit torn items. i think i think it's good to get back to more freedom with enough down 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 side of either 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 realized that missed after 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 to death for life. dock 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 it out by now. he's never been navy. that it would really be a catastrophe, because i know cut us 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 a who way to work place a hotel would king the 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. if they to demolished he has to close last october because business was done due to covey 19. has he joe leo seen in the imperial hotel opened in 1967, and i was born that same year with the same age, gentle seeing the hotel and boom times and now seeing it close makes me sad. fact. 90 percent of the hotels business come from foreign guests, but i was strict border controls, put paid to debt management, decided to lay off stairs. oh, well that you're thinking around that there were 48 people and bream survey. how about each? what after the pandemic started our guest numbers dropped, so we didn't need so many staff any more. before the hotel closed,

we were down to 17. the, to the hotel was a least able to retains its chinese restaurants and re open it in a different location. and jenny kung was able to keep her job with her colleagues. she now seals foot online. now the owner wants to open a new hotel in a suburb in 2024, with a focus on different types of cases. i told her, during the pandemic, many people had online meetings and worked from home at yahoo. we expect a further decrease and business travel. so we want to concentrate on tourists to your home. you went through it about the imperial is now the only hotel in taiwan that has had to close due to the pandemic. moni 100 have shut down in past 2 years . the sherwood is the latest located in taipei city. yes, hosted many political leaders for more than 3 decades, but closed its door in february, theresa s breast, fear that the continuing,

bent and foreign visitors were he, the industrial hard pa can and cannot. i won't have that on campus because they see that things are not going well and tourism means young people don't want to enter the industry. i cannot always if it does this and then when we open the borders again, only older people will work on it too. when i say papa melanie entering and the lack of young talent will be a big problem plans center, she got one of my meetings. i joined the warranty. no only hotels, but oh, 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 mean in the, for 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 i'm, i'm just, you know, how there just aren't any tourist savvy that they may,

i was always, i concur jones's many restaurants. they used to have a long lay. now do not even require reservations. so the landline that's new, the house used to be very crowded before the pandemic. the may, i thought 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 by streak and she rules have he the tourism 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 to coban 19 patients remain infectious? oh, this is of course not a hard and fast number because every one 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 develop 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 there. healthcare authorities like the u. s. centers for disease control. draw some distinctions based on how severe your case of coven 19 was. 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, a negative ant engine, or p c r 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. escabido, hardy for current young online shopping innovations, helped him reduce the risk of infection during the peak of the pandemic. she regularly or does 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 the time. one line should be the steadily growing in zimbabwe, and it has brought many services closer to citizens. in the comfort of their homes, couldn't masula, founded the familiar ran set up a fresh in a box? customers can order fresh vegetables, fruits in some additional food items, online. all innovation has made 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 mickey this, but you normal. i'm a 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 until corvette lockdown started. now that his short hour or 2 more than a 1000 for fresh in a book said, adapting to it, fast changing environment is not always been easy. and the pandemic has brought many challenges. i predict ability of policies is also been quite crazy. so sometimes you're locked down, sometimes you're not locked down, you know, vaccinations going in or you're not through 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 books, major source of video table and being able to sell online, helped a sim from produce that would have otherwise, gone to waste because of course it logged downs 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 bit of socializing, which did is not direct contact. we're going to have to find ways of survival in a space where we're not as closely knit as we used to be. the coroner virus pandemic and may have brought many challenges for families in social innovators. but it is brought a many good lessons and 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 started 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 in the idea of creating a garden in the distorted during the pending when we were on coup 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 can stop ourselves from going yester crazy way and decided to start at garden element. but it also me that sense because certain food items were hard to come by in, in this, by lucas husband in the public space in front of our house. you know, it seemed like a good place. i thought 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 up to at least then we could start learning how to be gardeners that heavy boise idaho. where the up the up in did a with yeah. they were a few things. diego gutierrez, 1st needed to learn but now his harvest. so 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 were fled to the city, to escape the violence in other parts of columbia. from the city authorities assigned mary ella pardo, a plot of land and she's been farming it ever since where it's coming back us umbrella. but i had an it guy. i'm used to walking 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, now i turned 66 in february, so that's important. in red. working in the field is good for my health and class, my mind eyes for how nor la manny medina pardo once learned how to farm from her father. now she's passing on that knowledge to her grandson luis,

another little another. 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 move 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, where we value the harvest from the gardens helps 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 think a lesson in the month. i'll do this as long as god gives me the strength there yet . bang on me had the night. i am so thankful for my garden claim. yvonne 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 sybian 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 our itching to get back to leslie. oh, i think he's brilliant. nothing is exactly what we mean. oh, it's absolutely wonderful. we've come all the way from wales to see this. i live on in thought. we were them all to will be fine with. i think i caught cobra the last time i went to the 50 foot, though not to so really looking forward to it. very excited. and i fear any more with the thought back to normal journey. live after 3 locked downs and months of restrictions. the west end slowly bouncing back, but for many smaller, independent theatres, a 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 an

intimate fit all of our lives. work it was now come to a point where what we were dedicated to doing was both illegal and toxic good group . busy my give us and 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. just as of you quickly hold fast forward to today and restrictions lift it in the state is back in action or has in german drama, tom fool, my girl job for german girls or even the king or suede was booked tongue. 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 performance . it's, i know my duty an audience sizes are also down significantly on pre pandemic levels for some that's due to kind of a concerns. others are simply out of the habit po phase. this could have a lasting impact on smaller independent datas. one that offer the great big block buster theater experiences like under the weather 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 than 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 all 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 fall unity. 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. a with, with

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