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tv   Covid-19 Special  Deutsche Welle  May 20, 2022 8:30am-9:00am CEST

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could be within reach, ah, what is it really is possible to reverse aging researchers and scientists all over the world for in a race against time. they are peers and rivals with one daring goal to outsmart nature. more life starts may 28th on d, w. with oh, have you lost your job or changed professions in the last 2 years? you're not align welcome to archiving 19 special. for many people, forced to class, including private bus operators in zimbabwe. and from welfare recipients to
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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. the crowded venue life music, good to pipes, that's the weapons wouldn't antigua and his band have been missing for almost 2 years. south africa, strict cove at 19 restrictions have kept things quiet. doing that time. if you leave those go for the to open up even though things are still weird, but i'm happy to see that everyone is enthusiastic. most important ones died of being tired. so it just happened to be outside and see if we can make it work. i guess will never be normal, but will establish when, you know, of course, we have to be vigilant and still take care of myself. but i'm feeling positive and got a feeling people out and about 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 viola just unlocked, ringing the alarm bell,
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because about 80 percent of the population have already developed some immunity, mainly due to previous infections. the big ground of natural infection and increase in coverage of vaccines is really, really been a very helpful is tisha. those 2 things that the immunity is important. boosting that community with 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 crunch. supp variance be a for and be a 5 begins to emerge. both strains were discovered by south african scientists and data suggests they transfer much faster than other people that were just infected with on the chrome. be a one that to have the original one. they can easily get the range fact, it will 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
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to will be protective against hospitalization and death as long as hospital to remain relatively empty by religious say. there is no need for boss to remain empty to that's why they are not calling for title cove 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 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
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. 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've no idea that 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 we have to one on good days. he now makes more than 1000 euros up to 200 customers, find their way to his home and the way to a township. and almost everyone here heard about the place on live going. my we, i had, i got it on facebook, on social media, on dog instagram as well, and i found it on social media. and when i found out about it, i was like, wow, look cool for doing section about the little amount of money mark,
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if you can see all of our marketing with your social media in 3, if this is word of mouth. so more social media, i tell a lot of people that they should try and utilize social media simply 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 candour now employs his sister, a brother, a neighbor, and his proud mother. he decided limitation chance. let me see this or wait and did 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 yet,
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i think we all await us. there's no jobs in south africa. they have been to school by tar, the can get employment annually. wow. tando is, are the type that wanted to or report to a pause. so wanted to be his own pause. so this is a blessing. since the business is growing fast. so wait, a creamery is now looking for commercial space to rents, much to the liking of time to his mother, who wouldn't mind regaining some of her privacy at home. donder already has bigger plants. he wants to add waffles and smoothies to the port for you. 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 by a phone or internet connecting patients to doctors and hospitals.
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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 or 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 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
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just live too far away. pandemic related locked downs made visits to a doctor even more difficult. and in person visits, also posed 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 off overcrowded hospitals and reduce the risk of corona virus exposure for doctors, patients and their contacts. 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 hockey plastic 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,
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beach in their telemedicine world. and those that are actually practicing medicine . and traditionally in june 2021. the number of coven 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 natalie randa, that was bit of it's late 2 to 3 hours. we broke and killed and want to make that coil. i'll talk to that doctor. in case there is any lab that has to be done. do say someone take that is as i quoting again, my day to day walk,
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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 patients that was having grow 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 the demand that people are now heavy on. what we have seen, even as the pandemic such this upside is that a lot of people that had that initial experience with rocket hill tough clinton, you to use tele medicine. but for people like davis music goosey and his rocket health company, the ideas tested during the pandemic,
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presented a business opportunity and helped expand access to health care and uganda. staying in africa, we move on to zimbabwe. at the start of the pandemic, the government he had bound to the operation of privately owned omnibuses. to help prevent the spread of coven 19. only the statement company could still transport passengers. d w correspondent cripple. age must fan here, he explains what that's meant for many communities. here in zimbabwe is capital herrera. the lines of people waiting for a bus are long. it's been like this for more than 2 years. her student george, to the city, getting to university every day isn't easy. he asked to get a ticket and to see and steer clear of the many pickpocket. what i'm wondering about, it's very difficult to get to work on time or to school. vasa,
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it's very difficult. all of the busses here are expensive. yeah. but even if you can one years dollar ticket up, no one can afford, that won't be it because we don't have that kind of money open so. so we're waiting for transportation. we can afford what i do. 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. to no tended jo 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
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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, jo 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 has been a while many moody out about 20000 companies were grounded by the government's ban . many may never go back in operation. what their owners are struggling as are the drivers and other workers. oh, oh. oh, when chatty, i'm 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 live? now?
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he's barely getting by working as a car mechanic amicably, dad, and i know i don't. we have to survive somehow by my, by i started selling spare parts from my boss. so when someone asked to buy a part, i just disassembled it for my boss and sold it before the pandemic. i used to repair a computer for other owners, but that's over now to what things are looking up. in early may, the authorities yielded to public pressure and denounced 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 convey to research. this time of you are asked what happened to the delta variance? has it been eliminated by omicron? is delta now gone forever?
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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, alma 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 peers 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, very it remember alpha, which just a few months later, last out to delta,
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which is now been replaced by our micron, m, 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 come back in a recent study and israeli team tracking variant genomes and waste water in the
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city of beer 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 along. ah,
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now we had to south america. a recent study conducted with support from the gem and free trade. a back foundation shows that 12 of argentine as riches families got even rich, had during the pandemic, while almost every one else and did up poorer d. w correspondent, alejandro. re blasio has moved this suburb of the argentinian capital. gwyn osiris is home to sociologist or ross, yoko god know, and his family 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. that cable services come from nope, tape and their phone and tv from a company owned by rubin, china of sky. just a few of the 12 wealthiest names whose wealth skyrocketed during the pandemic feel
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is one that i am a, has she was, it's an increasingly unequal world, legally, winery, to a lesser aloida. the rich are getting richer to one and the poor who are getting poorer. so corporations control the market, legal moiety, which allows them to increase their wells the consent to the learner. biggest 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 either the hon, 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 journal 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 argentinian center for political economy. he and his team looked into who and argentina benefited from the pandemic. they found that the biggest
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profits went to corporate networks, owned by just a few super rich families. she was on the hill, abandoned me, a yellow me for the pandemic in these rich families on $29900000000.00. i land yasenya that wealth strength slightly at the beginning of the pandemic. it, i think, you know, shall i? but in february 2021, it was more than $32000000000.00, and a year later, it was $36000000000.00 and enough 20 say me and me shanae lewis. 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 said 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,
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argentina's economy saw dramatic slumber. some companies still haven't recovered. india going logo, la chang, he doesn't up all these days. i can't buy me too. but i an from the changes the odd jobs element, it's only enough awful, which i cook for my children. oh, i don't cook away. i used to want, this is called everything's got more expensive. a felucca meets chicken pastor rice . you they everything awful. if we had a hor, darcia'll co gag. 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
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a saying nothing sells better than an em panada. phillip hey, 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 now lake 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. it was there, we started during the pandemic. i blame you a bit that we only had 30000 pesos left. well that's around 7 years old 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,
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i'm going to sell and panada this weekend in the savannah minded 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 if we can pay our bills and our rent again was at b, c o b, that's how it started until things stabilize not like a meaning that now i do the selling probably, and my husband also has a jump again. did i get new political to get him or who dabbling? in recent days, the rain has made sales difficult, but nellie remains optimistic. she sets up her stand on the street and before long she has her 1st customer. oh, they have one as on polio, the pastry and chicken make these and panada is rich and quite filling. just like at home, you pass importantly. same what bambi nelly says her m panata business
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is one of the few good things to have come out of the pandemic. one be picking her them both on business has been good since the start j o being me 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. okay, i'll go me. good. okay, york on 3 colombians love their empire, not us during locked down. many missed this popular street 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 yeah. i mean, if we did, 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,
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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 condemning, gotta give my life davidic with his company, bought new machines and hired more stuff. jose a tensor found a study job here very well a lot and perfect. when for me we can make over sure to 1000 and bananas and 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 particular making m panata seems to be of secure business model and colombia, whether premade or from a st. food stall. emp another's. have helped many in columbia get through the pandemic death. yeah,
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and that's all for the shed. thanks for watching. please join us again next time until then stay safe. ah, ah ah, with
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