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portugal was hit hard by the army concept variant be a 5. now the way for subsiding, what can we learn from portugal experience? first to south africa. many has lost their livelihood steering the pandemic record . numbers of people are now homeless. di w's and case reports from cape town. and you had a magic when a boom, this soup kitchen is run by a charity for homeless people in the middle of cape town. semi english hasn't had warm food for a while. she's been living on the street for more than 4 years. i dumped up one day by i'd at the gross. there's no you don't move in. there's no way that you can move forward in life. there's no way that you can build yourself up in life while you're still in the cities. because i thought i that name yet absolutely didn't work. english story is not an isolated example. in cape town,

it's one of thousands cam cent makeshift. say it is like this. have been much rooming in the city of cape town. there about 7000 homeless people in the city, much more than before. lockdown, the city's mayor called sit and up searching homelessness, triggered by the economic fall out of the pandemic. little did exploded actually in the reason for that is simple. this. there was a whole strata of people in society who were just barely making ends meet. and when lockdown happened and the government just literally switched off the economy overnight. all of those people follow village and below them was nothing. there was nothing to catch them. and so they fell into extreme poverty with that came huge anxiety and mental illness, depression, and, and with that come substance abuse. so you just get into this terrible vicious cycle. the city runs a safe place program for homeless people,

but currently they're only about 50 free spaces available each night. the rest is occupied. cape town wants to create hundreds of additional spaces, but the may assess the lack of support from the national government makes it impossible to solve the problem. the core of the problem here is that the health care system is not capacity enough to deal with the scale of this problem. we are picking up the pieces at the end of this. all of these other failures that there's been a poverty failure. there's been a oh, domestic violence failure often that the system has not coped with. there has been a mental breakdown failure and then a substance abuse failure. and so we are left here trying to pick up the pieces through law enforcement mainly. and in the past, our intervention is mainly been through law enforcement. we are changing that to say our intervention now will be led by this. and they are people who prove that these programs work like jamie hendricks, who just needed a 2nd chance. a bit of money. i'm becoming lloyd. oh

boy, what do you do with hotel? hendrix shows us his pants in the shelter. he soon wants to move out. his neighbor lives here because his pension is too little to afford to rent or how did you end up on the street? i ended up on the street through. i live over dixon, drug addiction of been on and off the street since 2017. when my father passed away, that's basically our landed up on the street. my father was helping me, but you know, if people know that you had to put him in a dixon problem, you know, they reluctant to take it into their homes very. but thanks to the social workers here, he managed to get his addiction under control. you know, being in a shelter gives us hope, i hope of a better life. back at the soup kitchen, semi english would also like a space at a safe shelter. but so far it hasn't worked out, she says,

when you live on the streets, it's hard to build yourself up. in china, the state calls the shots. many wish beijing will do a little less. but for now, the government is sticking to its 0 cove, its strategy. back in april, some residents in shanghai were locked in their homes by workers and protective suits the lockdown lasted for up to 60 days. some people were so frustrated that they started shouting out of the window. i set up an interview with william kirby professor of china studies at harvard university in the u. s. he's recently written in the journal science about his concerns over the country. 0 cove. it's just a g. hello, professor cabbie, and thank you for joining us today. spider, be with thank you very much for the invitation. can i start off by asking how

sustainable do you think china 0 cove at policy is? well, just to give, trying to credit, to begin with china's 0 coverage policy has without question saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the 1st year and a half to 2 years of the pandemic. but it, it turns out there is no such thing as 0 code. ah, that the question is really not if but how china begins to live with cobit rather than continuing to impose into the slot downs on its population. and how long do you think a lot downs will go on for? i think they will absolutely go on for political perhaps more than medical reasons until the 20th party congress of the chinese communist party in november and likely to be in november of this year. and a change in policy now would appear to be a repudiation of the policies led by president. she can ping another factor

complicating china's return to the pandemic is the relatively low vaccination rates in it. elderly population, any 82 percent of its over sixty's are vaccinated compared to more than 95 percent in some of its neighboring countries. what, you know, the, the health care system and the way that the structure of that health care system could have exacerbated the challenge is china is seen recently in regards to curve . it were chinese health care system is disproportionately reliant on urban hospitals, which are make up only a tiny percentage of the health care institutions that are available to people to visit. but a disproportionately, as the majority of health care visits are to hospitals. and here's a great risk, and i'm sure this is part of the 0 cobit policy, that these would be quickly overwhelmed with individuals, particularly of the elderly who tend to be largely under vaccinated in many cases,

unfair accident. china has opted against importing vaccines in favor of its own sign, in fact, jap, but research has found the sign of act office, little protection against the emma con variant, now dominant around the world. where as m. r in age abs light. biotech do, is there a way out of the pandemic for china that doesn't involve death and disease on a large scale and what is it? i think the way out of it is to begin either through a. there is a chinese company that is a trial for an m r n. a vaccine like madonna and pfizer. i or madonna has been waiting if i understand correctly for more than 2 years for approval of its vaccine. in china, the approval of much more potent vaccines to protect the population. this is the logical and, and i think a central way out for china, it will be expensive, but at the end of the day, it will be much less expensive than this. endless round of testing of quarantining

and of what downs do you think we will see an end to vaccine nationalism in china? i do. i do. i would be very surprised if there were not a move in this direction after the 20th party congress. but it is a remarkable thing that politics determines timelines more than medical practices might determine. thank you very much, professor kawisi on time. thank you very much pepper and it's a pleasure to speak with go to a bella. thank you. o portugal was the 1st country in europe to be confronted with the new army. kron b. a 5 sub variant infections skyrocketed in may. now the numbers are falling again while the rest of europe struggles with soaring levels of infection. so what are the portuguese doing right? one more when carlos light, 1000 voice fills the air of the globally father in lisbon. everybody listens,

the melancholy sounds of the traditional portuguese music. i once again attracting big crowds. the pandemic seems far away. there is no social distancing, no masks, just music, ah, in portugal we are some drunk realty about it, because more than 90 percent of the fortune people it is vaccinated. so we try to come back to our way of living on the of course, sometimes we have afraid when we see the news in something like that. news as such as that, about the new army cronsa variant be a 5. it spreading so quickly that infected numbers in portugal recently reached an all time high, but with less severe illness. covetous less of an issue for hospitals at the moment, while many patients have tested positive that actually been treated for other

diseases. still, the spike and infections brought higher covert deaf rates among the elderly. now that case numbers are declining epidemiologists like manuel carma gomez, are able to evaluate the severity of the last wave. the logo of infections goes by, army, gro was so big, so much bigger than previous variance, that it's no wonder if you were a great, the absolute lumber offsets that double expected. and i will show you the, the, in the time in my slides. but if you did, though, the number of cases that there was into account, then you have loop belly b, which is the percentage of cases beth die. and look, bear with me as really made very low after or be grow. actually it's so level that is comparable to susan, all flu or even wealth. karma gomez says that then you on the chrome sub variance very likely evade the antibodies that people have developed at least 15 percent of

cobra cases in portugal. ari infections due to the many waves fueled by new variance. what impact this may have on human health is not yet clear. experts agree new waves will be part of our new normal? well, one thing for sure, or we can count on is there to we are going to stay with this virus at reasonable. reasonably, i levels of situation in the population for quite a long time. here are these visors, those knobs seem to have the seasonal l at the similar, similar to other was beautifully flavors. it's throws me severely, be so high that even if people start living out doors white in the summer, if there will still be transmission. he's hoping for a new generation of vaccines that not only prevents severe disease but also suppressed transmission. in the meantime, it's mindful that people remain alert. karma gomez says that while cove it's still cannot be treated like any other respiratory disease. people should learn to live

with a situation which is what these tourists are doing as they enjoy wine tasting and traveling again. we waited for 2 years to come here we've, i think this trip was cancelled in one way or another at least 4 times. and when we had the opportunity to come this summer, we decided it's okay. we've been vaccinated, we've been boosted, and so we were going to come regardless. and coven is very bad in washington dc. so it's sort of how to maneuver through the, the bad parts of it as have many others. he and lisbon to the globe. if father has plenty of bookings into coming months, got to lush like thou is happy about that. for now, portugal is in cruise control. oh, do you have any questions? uncovered 19. a science correspondent derek williams has the on says, based on the latest research and analysis, send an email to cove at producer at d,

w dot com this week if you wanted to know, can the corona virus infect wildlife pet full because the particular protein receptor that sars covey to uses to break into cells is, is very common in the animal world. it's no surprise really, that the virus can infect them to, to date. it's been detected in roughly a couple of dozen different species of the list includes pats like like dogs and, and hamsters, but also animals in zoos like like lions and tigers, in the wild, according to the centers for disease control in the u. s. animals as diverse as giant, and eaters, and, and more mis sets have tested positive for it. and in at least one wild species in

north america, white tail deer, researchers appear to have confirmed that the career virus is now really pretty widespread. different studies indicate that at least in some places in the u. s. in canada, a huge number of deer have probably been infected. since the pandemic began, a regular question that i've been asked by pet owners is whether they can give it to their paths. and the answer is yes, they can, and at least in some rare circumstances, the pads can give it back to us. a new study documented one case from last year, for example, where investigators said that a veterinarian and thailand likely caught coven 19 from a cat that sneezed on her during an examination, after its owners became ill with the disease. subsequent genomes sequenced from virus samples taken from the owners,

the cat and the that proved to be practically identical, which is a strong indicator that the infection chain stretch from the owners to the pet to the veterinarian. but there are only a few other instances where, where animal to human transmission looks to be the culprit. in general. it appears a lot more common for us to give it to them. the idea of us infecting animals with the virus has scientists really worried for a couple of reasons. and the 1st is that it means that wild populations of them can act as reservoirs for sars cove you too. and places that are basically impossible for us to really monitor. and if we can't monitor them, then we won't know how the virus is evolving. it's entirely feasible that new variance could evolve an animal populations then jumped back to us with

new and perhaps more frightening characteristics. in fact, one hypothesis is that that's what happened with all micron. the highly mutated source covey to variant that merced on to the scene, seemingly out of nowhere that proved to be much more transmissible than its predecessors. now, we don't know if it evolved in animals, but it might have, and other variance in the future could theoretically do the same. ah, regardless of how each mutation develops, the virus continues to make people's sick. so many african countries are taking pause in a joint clinical study called anti cove. it's monitoring drugs used for other conditions to test their efficacy against convent

in ivory coast, the number of covey. 19 infections is slowly dropping, but the staff at the abbey john military hospital is still taking precautions there . continuing to test for coven 19, and the hospital is also taking part in anti cove. a pan african clinical study. doctor sienna lee come again. tay is on the research team the linguist blumenthal at the milton. we're experimenting with treatments in order to find a drug that is effective against 1219 law. it we still haven't found one because comp locally. in 202013 african countries and 26 african and international organizations joined the initiative. the goal is to find treatments that will prevent severe cases of coven 19. this patient is infected. she has fever and other flu like symptoms. with dr. come a got

a is hoping to enroll her in the study with she's not pregnant and has no chronic health conditions. so there's nothing that stands in the way of her taking part. go, luca. wow. well, i have to go into quarantine. yes, you want to stay at home and, and no missing. she'll have to remain in isolation for 14 days. but 1st, she needs to sign a declaration of consent about some patients are hesitant to join a study maker because we've had a few patients who didn't want to take part. we understand that it's their right to decide that it. ready to pass that and sometimes people get nervous when they hear that it's an experimental study. they again, do think they think they'll just be a guinea pig in it. and if they want the author, but most patients understand what the research is about to damage and think mama vehicle. this is how

a sonnet is persuaded by the explanation and signs the consent form. though it's a fucking it's, i agreed because i care at my health. i love the treatment will help me recover little quickly and be back with my family over to when i found one interesting aspect of the study is that it's looking at existing medications in ivory coast a malaria treatment is also being used. it combines chemical when and paracetamol as active ingredients. the study is flexible depending on how the patients respond . the regiment can be changed into fabica on the funding. it's interesting because no restrictions have been imposed. yamuna can come with if an interesting therapy turns up to morrow. we could incorporated into the study and affinity kathy on fennel that gives us a broad range of treatment options that we could investigate in this project. been

what the study began in september 2020. and since then, the drug regimen has changed several times for the participants. time can drag weiland isolation. how a son who is in constant contact with doctor commodities team to make sure that she's not having any complications with bloom at all. they call me every morning to ask how i'm doing with the medication work or if i'm getting too tired is good. i feel like they're taking good care of me, musical switches and in, on coping the consortium plans to continue the study until it finds her treatment regimen. that's effective in several countries. yeah. my nose mo, unfortunately it looks like we have a way to go. it's possible we'll find a treatment and then we might have to revamp the study to adapt it to the local population. su and, and that was what the average plants are now under way to bring this study to

brazil and india for many, the pandemic ment, starting over from scratch artist, especially with forced to get creative and find alternative sources of income like one exceptional artist from germany fire art, as sabrina vonne hom regularly comes to the beach in barcelona to practice her skills. she's originally from southern germany. she used to do up to 4 performances every weekend, travelling all over germany until the pandemic head and her work completely dried up that had gone f might in 15, really fall into a deep hole. as an artist, we were the 1st to be shut down and the last to start up again. the fire once you pull yourself out of your home, you have to decide what to do comp. no,

music festivals, no folk festivals, no company events. the pandemic destroyed her livelihood of fate, suffered by many other artists. when her husband went to work in spain for a while, she saw the opportunity to reach out to an international audience. she didn't want to discuss up as if i'm in a consignment when it's something you've been doing since childhood, on playing and instrumental dance, et cetera. it's somehow in your dna, when not suddenly taken away, you feel angry and sad. always you feel like ripping other people's head, so 5 of them. but when that emotion pauses, you start thinking how you could do things differently. that's the process i went through, just going out of his grandma, starting over in another country. in the middle of the pandemic, wasn't easy. sabrina wolfram, had to leave behind her home in germany. and now shares an apartment in barcelona. she says it's an open, international city, brimming with life and creativity that's helped her to get back on her feet again.

but when she watches recordings of her performances before the pandemic, she realizes there's still a long way to go about long run that is missing, but slowly i'm getting better know, and i'm getting requests for work for come on the key the so you can use a crisis law, which was actually pretty awful, but not only for me how much not. and you can see it as a new challenge, but maybe you can even emerge from it's stronger. but 1st, she has to pay for her rent each month along with her cell phone, internet food, and the advertising for her shows. you. i, you, yes, it's one of them is of you know, can help us. that's why she's also found herself a job working 20 hours a week at a call center in a dutch bank and barcelona with the fact that she speak several languages is an advantage. made my eyes out. no, still, no, of course it's a big change as

a company. i'm now an employee, webster. i haven't worked with someone else for 15 years. my but, and a really nice team as much money. all my colleagues, a gray little on the bosses are also really nice, but, but make i avia. look what it's still a big adjustment. one is as when the cult employed you think differently, i guess i'm constantly looking for solutions thinking how can i optimize this or improve that to help him and he wants to make the decisions yourself. man, man, i tried it, it was abs female. even if getting back to regular performances hasn't all been smooth sailing. sabrina voice mom says she's never regretted taking the plunge from barcelona. she's already managed tickets. signings for shows in my yorker asthma. either. i thought it was easier than i thought the people here were very open. i just like the city itself. it's very international and you can get by with english not just spanish or cut along. i've been there but and now i'm getting holes. when people on foot and slowly starting to get bookings at i feel so yes, it's a challenge, but it's also a big opportunity that i have without

a crisis. i have probably never ended up here either very threatening from mr. hagel, at the moment, she only sees her husband back in germany for a few days every 2 weeks. she says that's a sacrifice she's had to make, to avoid losing her dream job in the pandemic. and that's all for this week. so you next time with blue. ah ah,

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