his successes are in a weekly coven 19 special. next on d w. ah, if you ever have to cover up a murder, the best way is to make it look like an accident. raring to read. you've never read a book like this. literature list under german must reads, ah, ah, the new ami concept variant be a point 5 has triggered arise and infections in portugal. but in many countries, the pandemic appears to be leveling off right now. what have we learned over the last 2 years? that's the question we'll be looking at in this weeks cove. 19 special. how was the

grown of iris impacted the education system in the philippines? but 1st to germany, where we look at the challenges faced by nurses and care workers, they both the brunt of the pandemic. so have working conditions now improved. we hear from the staff themselves. right. wow. you've, you've been with a future piece, coke. really sick? who cares? the performance rounded off a 2 day meeting of berlin's health care professionals. they're sick of the working conditions in germany's capital. so these health care workers have got together

with air or working in care homes for the elderly or disabled. for the leak va, loan spent many years caring for the mentally disabled. during the pandemic, he wrote a book about the conditions in the home where he used to work, interviewing many of the workers there. a number of them have now also turned their backs on the profession. the hall to albert, i'm carrying for the residence. one on one is hard work and increasingly not as what's coming up short. so it's getting harder to find people wanting to do the job . we have to look hard to find new caregiver, somebody on many move on quickly because the pressure has gotten so high. the hobbits blasphemous. i exclaimed. walk along. oh, i'm going to come new trainees need incentives to stay in the field for the long term. but that's where the problems begin with. last on a 2nd i was been on, is asking, and when you train some wine and you 1st show them the ropes, i then work with them and then let them work on their own. when didn't of not be

for these 3 steps that are essential and training are just not happening. i said it's often it's still a hybrid of online courses and face to face training given god. and we've seen a wave of people quitting you. but right after training were put to work on warrens that are understaffed and many burn out after a year or till 9. so i on get off a heights. we spoke to one trainee who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals. this good news can clear out. as a student, there aren't enough teachers and just not enough staff to guide us. i wish we never did the training. we need to soon come, every time you go to a new ward, you have to figure it out all yourself and some of hostem. you're always afraid you'll make a mistake and harm a patient. it's emotionally stressful at every time of my leave, despite the difficult conditions, every one here has gotten together to exchange ideas. they want to stay in their jobs and improve the health care system. they think the new union bank agreement is

an opportunity to do just that. skip guns, concrete down specifically, we need to have the right support for working in these delicate situations. whether it's caring for people during birth, or while facing serious illness or even death science. we need supervision more. i need to have the sense that i can live up to the expectations that people have of me because this is a great profession. and i know how important it is. i think it's important that i'm able to give adequate care to the people who put themselves in my hands within mentioned dizzy me and her tone berlin's health care workers are serving as a role model for the health sector nationwide. right now, health care workers in western germany are on strike, and the activists think your message will continue to spread in the coming months. okay. ah.

so how did the situation in germany compare with the nursing profession elsewhere under says and care workers in other countries also push to the limit d w me the flicker spoke to how it cotton. he's the ceo of the international council of nurses. sch, we just learned about that and not stop is always a top issue for nurses to remain in silica, high quality care germany has over the last few years, tried to attract people from abroad for the health care field. what do you think about those initiatives? no, just germany, we have seen an increase in recruitment from other countries, particularly from high income countries. looking to recruit from low, low middle income countries. this is becoming

a significant problem. it's getting increased global because effectively what those high income countries are doing is the cost of educating there on workforce what that means. another country has paid for the education and then see those nurses recruited from them and they are writing questions about should we be compensated by for this? ultimately, this could potentially also leave those 3rd countries with less efficient workforce, right? we absolutely help saying often the effects can be quite dramatic on the countries the health care work is it might only be a small number of workers, but they are coming from 2 already has fewer nurses ahead of population, right, inequality, distribution of nurses around the world with 10 different similar ratios of nurses

population. so the impact can be very severe in terms of being able to continue to provide health services and also not forget when your colleagues li, additional pressure on those. ready state meaning that they might then exit the workforce they otherwise would have. are there any countries that come to mind where you think they could be real role models for the rest of the world when it comes to welfare of health care workers? i think countries could do more to have more nursing voices in top leadership positions. so the politicians, policy makers making these because these big decisions about their country and global help make sure that they are getting expert advice from the nursing profession, which is the largest section of our health care workers. health care was around the world, 60 to 70 percent. nurses, you know, in a might strong health policy and have great health systems if you're not getting

that nursing advice. thank you very much for the interview and for your time howard . my pleasure. thank you. ah. this is what remote learning looks like for 17 year old raquel every day she hikes along the teeny park river to collect the homework assignment. papers covered numbers in this remote part of the philippines. 3 hours, east of manila are down, but her school, like most in the country, has remain closed for over 2 years now. with no internet connection,

children in her village have no choice. but to study alone. wilma, finding some of my classmates and would rather be climbs and tell them to make money for others as friends knew their assignment on my number. they didn't complete them any more. and michelle obama, let's face it. they can quickly owe money this way up either and a minimum delanie la, raquel saw many friends drop out of school during the pandemic. some even got married. the philippines have seen one of the toughest locked down for children worldwide. this public school in a poor suburb of manila is ready to resume face to face classes. the moment they get the green light director, cecilia regalato is deeply worried about the learning loss and the dropout rate. she says the longer children stay out of school, the less likely they will return most especially those who is kept class and

don't comply with the requirements are poor. that's why i'm telling my, my teachers not times of crisis. ah, to keep. the rule in ukraine has affected my depression and massively increased my fizz, whatever you're attacked. these fears just add to the thoughts already spinning round and my head done is let it all starts spinning even more than hints will quantity of cancer abnormal meant rumbling, ah, cloud of am an undeserved creaks minute see these images of the war? i ask myself and in my do i feel so bad? it's mittens as others are doing much, much worse. and that triggers mess of feelings of guilt. food even though this illness isn't my fault, hunker down for mr. kung. oh, dan, come out on a tight and became a time of extreme suicidal thoughts. i was literally waking up every morning and my

1st thought was like me, i don't want to live anymore. and i and i went to bad thinking the same thing and often spent gung promise for wake up in the morning and think. i could just stay in bed counting because don't have the motivation. you don't have the strength to get up the cough all because you thinking everything is crap now anyway, of his got out in the shy so ah, does i did that are danny routine, of course, collapsed is the corona virus, and i was precisely just sitting on my couch thinking, oh, great, now just moved to a new town and i hardly know anyone here for my my only chance now is to lose myself in depression of the transmission when to persons are fully and 100 are not going on to time to time are it time i was consumed by fear? if like me, you have an anxiety or panic disorder, you can totally develop a fear of in fact, sam ange dick on that sam resulted in panic attacks. and a big fear of dying attack, resolute heared at, on how to my master tile, and from toward, ah, my mind of anthony paint or draw that always helps me to calm down skim one even if

i sometimes think that didn't turn out so well. but i know that the whole point of art is that it doesn't have to be perfect. perfect then was mm ah. ready skirmish nothing, nothing is more important than talking, having someone who listens, who takes you seriously, and that's a great, great help in the course of wasa. middle of allegation gave me to modern middle by now i can sometimes joke about as good when part of me is feeling bad because i'm not necessarily a good. so i'm kind of with a very common disease. no one should feel ashamed in monterey and most and with every voice raised, one more person is talking about it on and maybe there'll be someone in his mind story and says, hold on if he can do it. and then so can either for lack of mud important questions off when that osmotica mojitos or

do you have any questions? d. w science correspondent, derek williams has the answers. i will keep him up to date with all the latest research. ok with 19 send an email to cove it producer d w dot com. today he us is another question from of you at since hun encoded 19. it feels like i've had one infection after another caused by other bugs. is there a connection? i talk to a few people who believed that contracting coven 19 made them more susceptible to other pathogens. and since recovering, they told me they feel like they've been sick from other stuff practically nonstop . i'm. those reports are all anecdotal. pho, and, and rigorously checking the hypothesis of whether or, sorry, covey to is also somehow to blame for post code infections with other microbes.

that would be a big challenge. first and foremost because it's obviously going to be difficult to distinguish between any post covered, acquired illnesses and symptoms that might be caused by long covered estimates differ, but a lot of studies have shown that somewhere between 10 and 30 percent of the people who had about of coven 19 have recurring long covert symptoms for weeks, or maybe even for months afterwards. in other words, sorrows, covey to has done something to their bodies that makes them continue to feel lousy in some way, and figuring out exactly what's making them feel lousy. whether it's the after effects of the coven infection, or maybe a new infection, with something else entirely, that can be influenced by many factors. so many factors and fat,

that proving direct cause and effect would be really hard. um, there are, however, some indications that in some people, at least getting coven 19 can affect the immune system and ways that likely make it harder to fight off other pathogens. for example, in a study published last october, researchers here in germany looking at hospitalized patients, discovered that in them levels of key immune system cells, known as dendritic cells dropped. they also found that the effect was long lasting and that the den drelick cells that were produced appeared to be functionally impaired. now, then drelick cells spread the news about any recent invaders to the immune systems shock troops. so if they stop doing that effectively as the study authors

say, then it could have consequences for fighting off subsequent infections caused by other microbes in theory than at least yes. having coven 19 could make you more susceptible other bogs later. but exactly how much would also be different from person to person. m. paypal on the canary island of la palmer, a facing a double challenge in the fall of last year. a major volcanic eruption devastated the island residents are still dealing with the consequences now and with the aftermath of the pandemic. we're a major volcanic eruption on la pine my in the canaries, the 1st in 50 years on the island lava poured out of the combat be ha volcano,

for 3 months. some 3000 properties were destroyed. displacing 7000 people. the estimated cost of reconstruction on the island is more than $840000000.00 euros. and all this, in the midst of the corona virus pandemic, the hard work of reconstruction has begun. over $900.00 workers have been employed just to clear up the volcanic ash, the public body entrusted to carry out the work by the governments of spain and the canary islands is guessed plan. i will not be philosophy local. the most difficult thing was to see people totally shattered and seeing the psychological impact of losing their home. somebody. i put myself in their place, saw the anxiety. they're still suffering that you're in the middle of a pandemic. that is not yet over on the it still with us and will continue in the future. you're in the, if you see it on

a full little homes and homes are slowly being salvaged. this house was covered up to its windows in ash, visitors as well as locals come to see the devastation. in some places, the lava has solidified to create a wall 70 meters high, and it spread out over 3 kilometers on its journey down to the sea. on one side is lush vegetation, on the other lava cuts off a motorway covering entire neighborhoods, including a local health center which had been vidal during the height of the pandemic. the motorway itself is also blocked, extending journeys to the south of the island by an extra hour and a half. one resident told us how she struggled to cope with both cove it and the fallout from the volcano. i had called a delay half year ago during the time that they will k no, it was slight combine in 2 things after dad to a hard time off cove eat. we had to been at home because it was

a lot of sulphur and there was no oxygen enough and a lot of asia and it was so dangerous to get out. it was the importance of keep that security at home, that isolation blast the noise of their will. k not constantly, day and night. it was like a sound from the deep day. it was impossible to restore. we now were in our brain, our head. it was so challenging the islands health service already in overdrive having to deal with more than $11000.00 cases of co at 19 since it's outbreak also has to deal with health concerns posed by the volcanic eruption for a flood of a little mental health and well luckily, at the time of the erection, la palmer had good epidemiological data. there were fewer covered cases. as a result, we could allocate time of the epidemiological control of the people coming into the island as well as residents who had contact with others,

or were even sharing living spaces. we see the growth you were looking for. we concentrated on making sure people met our health measures area if the fuselage wink of it is very difficult to tell people who have lost their homes. people who have had to move in with neighbors to wear a mask and comply with health measures in order to avoid infections that but i, me, the level of out of that of you. no one can say how long it will take for lap. hi my to fully recover while covet cases have decreased. the island is still on a high risk alert, especially for people aged 60 and above. and although rebuilding work has begun the immense amount of volcanic ash that is spread out over the island. in addition to the disruptions to working schedules due to coven has made rapid progress, very difficult. but so for this week,

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