stories from a bastion of biodiversity. lulu soon in 45 minutes on d. w. m. what secrets lie behind these walls? discover new adventures in 360 degrees. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d w world heritage 360. get the out now. ah. have you lost your job or changed professions in the last 2 years? you're not alone. welcome to archiving 19 special for many people. the corona virus pandemic spelled financial disaster in argentina. more people sled into poverty.

while it's 12 richest families, right? 10, billions. also on the show around the world, firms were forced to close, including private, thus operators in zimbabwe and from welfare recipient to ice cream entrepreneur and inspiring story from south africa. though the country is still battling new cove at variance life here is slowly returning to normal. crowded venue life music, good to pipes. that's the weapons wouldn't m t 0 and his bands have been missing for almost 2 years. south africa, strict cove at 19 restrictions have kept things quiet during that time. it really feels good for them to open up even though things with the weird. but i'm happy to see that everyone is enthusiastic. most importantly, one is dive of being tied. so we just have to be outside and see if we can make it work, i guess will never be normal, but we'll establish a new norm. but of course, we have to vigilant and still take care of us off,

but i'm feeling positive and got a feeling people out and about here in cape town, seem to share most ignore the rules and don't wear a mask while indoors. this despite rapidly increasing numbers of infections, but even viral adjusts unlocked, ringing the alarm bell, because about 80 percent of the population have already developed some immunity, mainly due to previous infections. the big round of natural infection and increase in coverage of vaccines is really, really been, ah, very helpful is tisha. those 2 things that the immunity is important. boosting that community, the vaccines, natural immunity and, and vaccines is very important with really needs to get most people vaccinated this, especially as early day town than you or me, concept variance be a for, and e, a 5 begins to emerge. both strains were discovered by saw the african scientists and data suggests they transfer much faster than other people that were just infected with on the chrome. be

a one that was the original one. they can easily get the rain fact, it would be a foot and be a 5. so we know that this previous immunity from previous infection, it is not very protective from 2nd infection. but we do expect that this immunity to will be protective against hospitalization and death as long as hospital to remain relatively empty by role of just say there is no need for boss to remain empty to. that's why they are not calling for title cove at regulations in south africa. south africa was one of the few african countries to pay social assistance to people who are unemployed and had no other source of income. during the pandemic. the amount was small, roughly 20 euros a month, which spoke to controversy. but it helped many survive and a few to even start a new business. you vent photography. that's what's tandal,

max would. it's before the pandemic struck, but after almost all events were cancelled, he had to find new subjects to photograph he saved about 40 euros from his covert grands to come up with creative ice cream design. the pictures posted on his social media channels went viral and he decided to open an ice cream parlor at his mother's house. you know, idea, this is a stupid idea. you know, we just have to try it out and, and we'll cut as it's so crazy and interesting and it makes me feel that i can achieve anything on, on good days. he now makes more than 1000 euros up to 200 customers, find their way to his home in the way to a township. and almost everyone here heard about the place on live. going my head. i got it on facebook, on social media,

on instagram as well, and i found it on social media. and when i found out about it, that was like, wow, this is some really cool. flip during section about the little amount of money mark. if you can see all of our marketing with your finance, social media in 3 months or more from social media, i tell a lot of people that they should try and utilize which media frenzy, because it's pretty. the family house now turned into a business here in the kitchen where we made could have been and i was spending time here. i get to spend more time with my family, and it's the time where we create our beautiful products. tandoori now employs his sister, a brother, and neighbor, and his proud mother. he decided, lemme take

a chance, let me see this or wait and do it did way. here we are to day his in a position to feed him, had to fit himself and help out in the family. because my kids, when doing anything it, i think we all await us. there's no jobs in south africa. they have been to school by tom the can get employment annually. wow. tando is, are the type that i wanted to, or report trip also wanted to be his own was. so this is a blessing. since the business is growing fast. so wait, a creamery is now looking for a commercial space to rent, much to the liking of tundras mother who wouldn't mind regaining some of her privacy at home to under already has bigger plans. he wants to add waffles and smoothies to the portfolio and even stopped some food trucks. for some, the pandemic created business opportunities like employees. if ugandans start up

rockets, health, the tele medicine company offers health services via phone or internet connecting patients to doctors and hospitals. at this call center in uganda, doctors consult with patients virtually dr . davis musing goosey wants to improve access to health care and uganda. in 2015, he founded rocket health one. we figured out that we needed to redesign a solution that really solves a lot of these problems like long waiting times are the coastal care the quality. okay. so by putting together look at health services that starts with you just being able to have a voice call or a chat, or a video call with a medical doctor. we thought that you know, that cuts out your travel time immediately you get that the help that you need as

soon as you need it. and then also being able to integrate lab services and pharmacy services also means that you can save more time by getting k in the comfort of your home or your office, or at school. many people in uganda don't have access to regular health care. some just live too far away. pandemic related locked downs, made visits to a doctor even more difficult. and in person visits, also pose the risk of infection. one of the 1st confirmed covered cases in uganda involved a health care worker in the months that followed many front line health workers were infected, most stayed in their jobs, but worried about their families. doctors working from home can help take the pressure of overcrowded hospitals and reduce the risk of corona virus exposure for doctors, patients and their contracts. it does give you some formal protection because you're not, you and your plant are not in that you're not sharing the same space. so you can

have people stay where they are. and you have this one other doctor that i had a telephone able to still provide them with the same services that they would have . what if they actually went to the hospital? i think it benefits both doctors, beach in their telemedicine world. and those that are actually practicing medicine . and traditionally in june 2021, the number of covered cases in uganda rose sharply that same month, rocket health recorded more than 75000 telemedicine consultations. the company also collects laboratory samples from their clients and delivers health care products and medicines, directly to clients in kampala and the surrounding region. clients appreciate that. they can even access health care from work. it's convenient and saves time. so sophia knotty, rhonda,

that was bit of minutes late 2 to 3 hours with broken, killed and want to make that coil. i'll talk to that doctor in case there is any lab that has to be done though, said someone take that is, as i continued doing my day to day walk, davis boozing goosey says less than 10 percent of cases requiring in person consult . but when the need arises, doctors can send out an ambulance or ask the patients to come to the company's clinic. the doctor is pleased that his company is taking off, but the sudden surgeon demand for remote health services during the pandemic also posed a challenge. we saw our number of encounters and patience was serving will by 500 percent within a period of one year. so it also put a lot of stress and strain on us to be able to keep up with a demand that people are now heavy on. what we have seen, even as the post pandemic, such this upside is that

a lot of people that had that initial experience with rocket hills of clinton, you to use tele medicine. but for people like deepest music, goosey and rocket health company, the ideas tested during the pandemic presented a business opportunity and helped expand access to health care. uganda staying in africa, we move on to zimbabwe. at the start of the pandemic, the government here bound to the operation of privately owned omnibuses to help prevent the spread of covet 19. only the statement company could still transport passengers dw correspondence critical h. miss van hearing explains what that's meant from many communities here in zimbabwe capital herrera, the lines of people waiting for a bus are long. it's been like this for more than 2 years. for student george to

the city, getting to university every day, isn't easy. he has to get a ticket and to see and steer clear of the many pickpocket. what i wanna talk about is very difficult to get to work on time or to school. vasa, it's very difficult. all of the busses here are expensive. but even if you can one years dollar a ticket up, no one can afford that home back to work because we don't have that kind of money up in so, so we're waiting for transportation, we can afford it. but there isn't much of that. what is the affordable but as why need a ticket? he can't always get to his lectures on time. at the start of the pandemic, the authorities band, private commuter omnibuses, popularly known as calm bees to help contain the spread of coven 19. you know, tended joe also lives in the area. he used to be an assistant in a carpentry shop after the pandemic kid, the transportation shortage made him late for work several times. so he was let go

. now he spends his days by the roadside, hoping to earn a few dollars, playing card, games, and billiards. with about $100000.00 jobs were lost due to the ban on comedies. there's little to fill the days for many of the young people who are now out of work. some take drugs to no tend to, joe says that's not for him. i already make them up as ever. we are in the to us dollars betting on game, and it's not enough to live on hulu. i why? it's not enough to feed my family. he only been a while many moody out about 20000 companies were grounded by the government's ban . many may never go back in operation about their owners are struggling as are the drivers and other workers with level of oh, in chatham, honda used to own for buses. he had to sell 3 of them,

leaving him with just one. he can no longer operate the van on private omnibuses plunged him into poverty. he used to earn at least $240.00 us dollars a day with his operation. how did you let him? now? he's barely getting by working as a car mechanic. michael, my dad and i know i don't, we have to survive somehow. i'm of i, i started selling spare parts from my boss. so when someone asked to buy a part, i just disassembled it with my boss and sold it before the pandemic. i used to repair a computer for other owners, but that's over now to and what things are looking up in early may, the authorities yielded to public pressure and announced plans to allow private companies back on the road. so getting to work on time might soon be a lot easier. again. d w

science correspondent derek williams has been keeping you informed about the latest conveyed research. this time of you are asked what happened to the delta variance? has it been eliminated by omicron? is delta now gone forever? and what do health care authorities? and scientists think mutated variance of coven 19 have have out competed, and succeeded one another. since the beginning of the pandemic with a key metric and the equation being trans, miss ability on the kron is a lot more infectious than delta and earlier variance were and other epidemiological factors being equal viruses that are more transmissible than their fears can out, compete them astonishingly quickly infecting the vulnerable at, at such a rate, that slower variance just don't stand much of a chance. and we've seen it 3 times already as, as this graphic from,

from germany's disease control authority shows um, over time, the original virus was replaced almost completely by the alpha variant. remember alpha, which just a few months later, last out to delta, which has now been replaced by our micron. and genetic sequencing has turned up almost no delta cases in the country since the end of march. and it's not just in germany. the cdc in the us also no longer considers delta of variant of concern on there's so little of it circulating that in mid april. it was downgraded to what's called a variant being monitored because authority say delta currently doesn't pose a significant threat to public health. there, but the delta variant has not disappeared completely everywhere. in fact,

there are some voices in the research community that think a delta descendant might at some point make a comeback. in a recent study in israeli team tracking variant genomes and waste water in the city of fear shiva, they've continued to detect delta in small amounts and hypothesized that if it remains at current levels, even if they're very low, then there's a chance that as early as the summer it could possibly surge again as immunity. wayne's in the population. of course, it's impossible to predict the future, but it does seem pretty unlikely that delta will at some point, really bounce back. and once again, pose the danger world wide that opposed back and in 2021. and if one of delta's descendants does it will likely be so different from its ancestor

variant that it'll deserve a designation all its own. boom. oh, now we had to south america for a recent study conducted with support from the gem and free trade. a bad foundation shows that 12 of argentina's richest families got even rich had during the pandemic . while almost every one else ended up poorer d. w correspondent to an a handrail. re blasio has more this suburb of the argentinian capital buenos iris is home to sociologist or ross, yoko, god know, and his family. i know it's breakfast time names of argentina's, richest families make up their morning routine. there's jammed by the peggotty company, sugar from black here. their cable services come from nope tape,

and their phone and tv from a company owned by rubencheck jojo of sky. just a few of the 12 wealthiest names whose wealth skyrocketed during the pandemic. fema is one. the guy emma, has she was, it's an increasingly unequal world. luckily, when are you to a lesser alcorda, the richer getting richer to one and the poor who are getting poorer? so corporations control the market, legal moiety, which allows them to increase their walls, the consent to the learner. because horatio wife is happy to have her job as a librarian back. she had lost it in the pandemic and started studying named monte was edith leanne double motivated me to keep studying just in case of but mostly of covered comes back even more the pent, i mean, we didn't have my tional. can't ample boyd, i'm mucho the pandemic as further widen the existing gulf of inequality between wealthy business owners and the average argentinian. how non lecher is

director of the argentinean center for political economy. he and his team looked into who and argentina benefited from the pandemic. they found that the biggest prophets went to corporate networks, owned by just a few super rich families. he was on the hill up and danielle may fall the pandemic in these rich families on $29900000000.00. i lan yoshi, that wealth strengths slightly at the beginning of the pandemic. it, i mean, you know, shall i? but in february 2021, it was more than $32000000000.00 and a later it was $36000000000.00. and in that and the same in me, chanel is his study, found that following a brief slump, as the pandemic hid these companies raised prices and still sold more. but some here in point osiris, say, the profit growth of big companies should be kept in perspective. christiane rayos

is an analyst with one of the country's main equity firms. he monitors the share price performance of corporations. in argentina, these share prices are constantly falling and rising. that's because in april 2018, argentina's economy saw dramatic slumber. some companies still haven't recovered. india going logo, electricity doesn't up all these days. i can't buy me too, but i an from the changes the jobs element, it's only enough for awful, which i cook for my children. oh, i don't cook away. i used to want this egg, everything's got more expensive. felucca meets chicken pastor rice, everything awful. if we had a what i seal co gog. no, and his family are also suffering from price increases. the pricey ingredients they see on cooking shows are weird, treats the costs of food and clothing have sort since the pandemic so much so that many middle class argentinians are also worried. oh,

many people worried about falling into poverty during the pandemic. they wondered how they'd feed their families if they lost their jobs. oh, what else they could do to earn money? some came up with new business ideas in columbia, there's a saying nothing sells better than an m, panada. philippe, up on dano, tells us how these savory pastries go. one couples through some hard times. the sun isn't up yet in bogota. but nelly hormonal perez is, she's already been busy in the kitchen for 2 hours before the pandemic. she and her husband worked in a restaurant in the colombian capital, but it had to close during lockdown and they both lost their jobs. the couple only recently immigrated from venezuela and faced financial ruin until em panada saved them. i thought a better man was there. we still did during the pandemic layman a bit,

that we only had $30000.00 pesos left. well, that's around 7 euros iowa mandel. one night while i was sleeping, the idea came to me, my body. i got up at 3 am and told my husband, darling, i'm going to sell and panata this weekend in the savannah, my and the banana. now she starts working at 4 am every day. her m panata business has become her biggest source of income. i do out a little bit more to it really helped us get out of our financial crisis even though we can pay our bills and our rent again. i was at b c august. that's how it started until things stabilize. not back a meaning that now i do the selling probably. and my husband also has a job again. did i give me political to get him though i hoist dabbling. in recent days, the rain has made shells difficult, but nellie remains optimistic. she sets up her stand on the street and before long

she has her 1st customer. bye bye. now don't call yeah, the pay strand, chicken make these and canada as rich and quite filling. just like at home you pass importantly. import banding. nelly says her emperor, not a business is one of the few good things to have come out of the pandemic. call me back. i yeah. them both. that business has been good since the start j o being my and we sold a lot of them and then they were at some point i realized i have my own small business and i've made it. i've built something for me. good. okay, york on 3 colombians love their empire. not us during locked down. many missed this popular st. food. so they started buying, pre, made, frozen, and put out as at the supermarket to heat up at home. that's been a boon for food producers like semen, pharaoh. oh yes,

definitely. i thought it was a huge challenge for us. we had to increase production and for that we needed more capital. of course. yes, but i get a copy to algebra. so then we also had to deal with the financing or get a po for kayla. scuse me, and we were growing ridiculously fast with kind of especially a discount change like d one or just oh, the way the places people shopped at most during the pandemic. gotta give my life davidic with his company bought new machines and hired more stuff. jose a tensor found a study job here her grandma lot and perfect. when from in we can make over 50000 and bananas in a shift. it depends on the client's order and the production manager. running 3 shifts we can produce up to $120000.00 per day. that i thought of making m panata seems to be a secure business model and columbia. whether premade or from

a st. food stall. emp, an others have helped many in columbia get through the pandemic. and that sold for the shell. thanks for watching. please join us again next time until then stay safe. with

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