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to our new cove at 19 special we begin in germany. 50000 employees are missing in the hospitality industry. most of them found new jobs and other sectors during the pandemic ever. i salmon grant time is the how specialty. but the head chef is forced to prepare it by himself. during locked down many kitchen staff left to make up with the shortage. the restaurant now opened later on sundays. to save on the number of shifts. the hotel is hiring new staff and trainees from all over the world. though to left or not coming back during lockdown, they found jobs in other sectors i spoke to from there from our follow view. it's really noticeable. we've had to change our schedules and our ala carte menu home in

our kitchen. we took everything fresh. so we can't offers many options as we'd language. and oh, how much to rely more on inexperienced staff? that's the problem with dealing with that. and i don't know any kitchens that aren't looked at for staffing. well, but we have to somehow make the best of the situation with moving both of us and put them off for the hotels owner. the staff shortage means a loss in revenue for one that we can do. he often has to turn down large events and he doesn't do weddings anymore. even though the demand is their whole, y'all mortishaw why? 74 and what happens if there are regular guests quote been coming to us for years and we i tell them i'm sorry, and we just can't accommodate you or mark was that would be terrible. been done. we were, i'm really, sally. so are my employees all it that we just can't offer certain things at the moment or due to the staffing situation, or, i am honest, i name could shortly after russia invaded ukraine, the hotel took in refugees,

offering free rooms to ukrainian women who fled the war 5 of them now work at the hotel. it's a chance to start a new life in germany. lilia ruby is now in charge of the breakfast buffet. she has big dreams. now crazy whoo, yeah. i was a cook in ukraine, but of course i didn't prepare german dishes flores in april, but i'd like to get to know the recipes and start cooking them. yeah. which some yeah, sure. we mainly have men. why came in the kitchen? this mother natasha? this machine i'd like to change that and one day as night had shut myself in the interim yarboro yarboro chip or when i'm finished, the hotels executive assistant is the boss's right hand man. it's usually a desk job, but now he has to help out wherever he's needed. it's the only way to cope with the staff shortage after a 5th of the hotels employees gave their notice. if i'm wrong,

i'm jumping in no matter where i like it and i can't imagine spending the whole day sitting in my office in front of a computer from 9 to 5. i need the change of pace and lots of our staff are doing the same. helping each other out to retain staff and attract new employees. the hotel ensures that everyone gets 2 days off after 5 days on the job. they're supposed to avoid overtime, and at the end of the year, everyone will get a share of the profits. as well as bonuses of up to 2500 euros for people who've been there at least 5 years. the head chef hopes the measures will attract new staff to i, heater, clearing the of, and maybe some of the employees who quit during the pandemic will come back. or maybe they'll be those people who say, you know, working retail really isn't for me. gastronomy was not so bad, it was actually quite nice. i've been in this business for almost 37 years. i don't

think i'd have stayed so long if it were the worst job in the world to go from civil forever. in the meantime, he's doing his best to help the next generation of chefs as a member of the examination board of the brandenburg chamber of commerce. he supports apprentices wherever he can. another way of fighting back against the staff shortage. next to morocco. for the past 6 months, morocco's borders have been open in june and july alone, over 3000000 tourists came to visit the north african country. oh, visitors had to prove that they were tested and vaccinated. ah ha. morocco is a country with rich cultural traditions that attracts tourists in droves and tourism is good for the economy. in morocco, it wants accounted for 10 percent of g d. p. historic cities. traditional crafts

and beautiful architecture have made this north african country a highly desirable destination from the desert. to the concert line. that is, until the corona vars pandemic plunged the tourism sector into an unexpected crisis . the government made some tough decisions, but although they were bad for business, they were the right ones, says the secretary general of the national tourism confederation in casablanca, the markup to this is, or x, time aqua morocco made some very brave decisions that they perhaps, to the detriment of certain economic indicators, but they were the right decisions for the health and safety of americans. and anyone on moroccan soil focus of course on some of the famous jemma elfin are square and marrakech is normally a bustling tourist magnet. during covered times, it was practically deserted. nationwide, the tourism industry lost the equivalent of about $9000000000.00 during the

pandemic. vulnerable businesses like hotels received support. $220000000.00 have been allocated so far, 1st and foremost to save jobs. now there are high hopes that things will pick up again, citron restaurant, global rapport, sanity. it's a global approach. the pandemic. it's now enabling a sustainable economic recovery wrong will. and we're seeing a powerful resurgence in the tourism industry, and no doubt about it is that what chris said, buffy in marrakech, the tourists have indeed returned official statistics report that foreign exchange revenue increased by a 173 percent. compared to last year. the coven infection rate appears to be stable, as confirmed during an interview in august with dr. fif more lay said one of morocco's decision makers on corona virus matters. halbrook him and hell not ship. according to yesterday's statistics,

we had 1600 active cases in june. last year there were 2010000 directed in half. the viruses barely spreading any more. and as you can see, lots of tourists have returned to the torrent, not to make moroccan tourism more internationally competitive. it's joined number of countries and introducing an electronic visa is now less paperwork at the board of the immigration. morocco has also simplified it's closed rules for travelers can nurse for those wishing to travel to morocco used in eden negative p. c. r test . even if they had a vaccine pass. now we've decided that people with the vaccine pads, i don't need a chassis when she she, oh, for the pandemic, wasn't all bad for business. domestic tourism actually increased dramatically in 2021. it rose by 69 percent with foreign tourists now returning to visit numbers are expected to hit record levels was so feel

a little bit insecure. her we like since rosen was coming back to more foreigners morocco's opened the borders totally do her. yeah. or people from all over the world. so where, yeah, so i've read from on another wave of it. i had him neural any new surgeon infections would also hit the roughly 2 and a half 1000000. traditional crafts people here at the start of the pandemic. some felt it was unfair that the tourism sector was given higher priority when it came to government handouts aimed at safeguarding jobs. but they to recognize that their income depends on a healthy tourism industry. and how the tourists feel about traveling. are they worried about a new wave of infections? galvan mother isn't. i don't think people have had all 3 shots need to worry. okay, so yeah, i think covered 19 is here to stay and we'll keep spreading from justin rad command

. and we just have to get used to it and learn to live with lonestar. we're dorner, shaw, his opinion appears to be widespread. and that certainly giving morocco's tourism industry of houston or people all over the world are trying to recover from the economic damage caused by lockton. a reporter, a mako acoya, talked to a young nigerian carpenter is trying to rebuild her business. ah, burglar ron's, these carpentry shop with her dad and doing so well. when cove it heats the business reality changed, including clothes in a carpentry academy for goals, a project she is passionate about, while committed to delivering quality furniture for her clientele. bees with cove it sills decreased, but she had workers to pay cars and we had to fully shut down. that was full

lockdown. so that's a fully shut down and everything bought. we were particular bonner lesson and what equal doing up her table durned and was talking sars minova the one me i didn't get paid. i of course i did locate an on what it was more of let's just get through this lesson wireless. get to the survey and of the teaching part ended. we couldn't teach anybody, nobody could come out to learn adult plane. so it was just more survival cover. it was horrible, dusty the mean, you know, at the beginning positivity was terrible. nobody was thinking about buying furniture or so at that point. however, more people began to work from home business also moved online a little respite. at least when you're home, you tend to see all the things are over at your house. here you are so far as not so good anymore. so people are starting to get so close again. and is the

workstation everybody wants to workstation from? so we had to, well, you have to adapt. so we had to start doing more work tables to our grease, our home, though the academy dream is now stored. 22 year old at your law, an intern and university student is glad to be here. given bull was some hope on inspiring younger female carpenters. a car, a scene of all 4000 denay to so to just relieve myself, filed frank f, as in papa in in m more about making do my hand than did balance on way and half do. defalco had theory. google, i experienced a decline in her customer bees as less people wanted furniture or had plans for long term furniture. but it give them time to utilize wisely available resources, coin toss here, his us managers be closer. we did not know how prices are skyrocketing on every

farm and on. so we just launched our we have to manage the best we can still optimized clemency. and then for the outer legal says her dream for the academy is not entirely lost as she plans to have more girls in turning lenin to become carpenters like her and grow her customer reach across teeth. and internationally. he, in some sect, is experienced a bit of daring lockdown, like the book trade and columbia. that's ironic, considering that according to the o. e. c. d. columbia has one of the lowest reading levels worldwide, on average. and colombians used to read fewer than 2 books a year. but that changed during the pandemic. at the age of $22.00, in the thick of locked down and stuck at home, gabriella potter started reading books and thoroughly to with notes in the margins

and sections underline. so she wouldn't forget anything. and i both made a bank manager clock. hello, you know in 2020 i think i read about 40 books. i see and i love me 202021. i read 60 here in those me ring just journals. $35.00 according i am so far this year, i've read $48.00 or 2 lead of having studied mathematics. gabriella potter loves numbers. but during the pandemic, she developed a passion for literature. she doesn't keep the books on shelves. she stashes them and plastic storage bags to protect them. mostly books from independent publishers. jennifer, i can handle it as i found way was i find these publishes some exciting, which marquez, i'm more than what a clerical one he of is on there. unique books have created a community of readers such as kitchen, oklahoma, my others such

a passion for detail that i haven't found anywhere else. and they have especially good customer service. good until you talk to real people, that's what sets them apart on orlando. there are 70 independent publishers in columbia. they're little known among the general public. but during lockdown they posted record sales. publisher edgar blanco thinks that's down to their flexibility in his as he could. ok. we're always struggling actually. we're always trying to reach our readers in different ways and in this, i think it's empathy, right? so in the totally unexpected hammond the global pandemic, we will prepare a until knob and add that lean. our job easier is put alcohol going up on the mcgloid. books from these independent publishers give a platform to new voices on the columbian literature scene. but during lockdown, customers couldn't browse in bookstores. sales mostly happened through social media

to link daughter foods. you know, we then get it worked really well with them for many, it was a lifeline learner because it put them in direct contact with their readers for through posts on instagram, facebook and even twitter. that's how they sold book shows, victories or not for a major garage as easy as it is at the inception of commerce. yet bookstores that were able to sell directly online also did well during lockdown. readers could even communicate with each other on the stores. websites giving recommendations or reviews is, was yourself invented little causing thing. was that for bookstores, operating on a national or even international level? i don't sales went up despite the fact that the doors were clustered. both said, when we weren't expecting that a social networks also helped that are that was, i see that this was the only thing i will tell you. the selection in this bookstore

comes from independent publishers. it mostly sells political books about critical thinking and social movements. a project that requires the people behind these publishing houses and see they're not interested in making a profit while as a cape was, was got nancy sacrifice on money to get lots of books into circulation to which a lot of people seem wearing more choker. who's the all these great books behind me form what we call our independent corner or independent gabriella part i started reading as a child. her favorite book is gargoyle by andrew davidson for her books or an alternative to the internet. yeah, my letter as, as alice i'm it for, i've noticed how addictive social media can be and the tiny to distance myself from her. jessica, what that means other than that fucker love afloat, but it really helps to have a book in my hand to stop me reaching for my fine. go ahead and during that that i don't know. i know it's cliche, but it really does help push it. but oh, see, i drew out one thing and to feed her healthy new habit,

she needs lots of new books. and she's keen to buy lots more if nothing else to support independent publishers. ah, and now to mexico, 1600000 people there are suffering from long cove it. but the mexican government isn't shelling out enough money to treat the health consequences. my remora fell ill with cove at 19 in august 2020. and she still suffering from symptoms now, for a long time, many of the doctors that she consulted simply didn't believe her. the 39 year old had to spend a lot of money seeing specialists until finally she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue and your logical disorder. and muscle pain in the middle, malaria wearable,

my entire body was shaking anatomy and just walking to the bathroom as a huge undertaking. i arrived completely exhausted, shouting down. i still have days where i showered sitting down because of exhaustion. her partner takes care of most of the health work. although myra has made a good recovery, she still needs help with many every day tasks. her breakfast consists of a cocktail of drugs, and she is by no means the only one. at least she has a partner to help. many in mexico feel left alone with their problems. says are medina. so has long covered after losing both his job and his partner, he set up a self help group and also mika, no one's talking about these things about what can happen. and so your family, partner, friends, and others, start to feel skeptical and think you just imagining it no element quote is better than,

than the group on facebook now has 6000 members. although estimated 1600000 people in mexico, a suffering from long co, that the government has not made any funds available for examinations or treatment, says amadine, as group works to raise awareness of the problem, particularly among government officials and departments. medical doctor giorgio fan uti believes that the apparent lack of interest among politicians has more to do with the health service, not having the capacity to deal with the problem. eric will not fair law seek all these patients really need to be referred to the relevant health care systems and they've been but those institutions, they're just aren't in a position within to deal with all the problems that arise from this illness goes a line for me either mexico's public health institutions say they have treated a 178000 people for post code that problems and have

a 188 facilities that offer comprehensive rehabilitation. psychologist marta lopez who takes care of long covert patients, assured us that multi disciplinary medical teams have been created as well as online therapy to target the problem. apathy they appear to add a mask. one thought that value apart from providing more medical consultations with these types of patients, long covert rehabilitation courses have also been carried out by lakila facilities causes are accessible to all your and patients can simply join in from home where then mac said an 8th of course but the government is still refusing to recognize long covered as an illness. that means that public health bodies, cartwright, patients of sick myra has moved house to be closer to the university where she lectures in psychology. even so the one our daily commute, combined with the teaching is tough. it's 3 times as strenuous for her as it would

be for a healthy person. and the strain is exacerbating her symptoms. not as lemme is melissa. you're no longer the same person and that's hard to understand and to cope with it each day. a fresh sized because you know, your life wasn't like this before. but that during the sickness and everything suddenly changed, or you like and, and now you can no longer live without help from others. oh, do you have a question about the corona virus assigns, edited derek williams, gives you the latest research and analysis. sent derrick and emailed i rising to co producer at d. w dot com this week. his answering this question from seth under what? oh, is the pandemic now claiming only as many lives as a bad flu season? oh, a lot of experts hate comparing influenza to cove it because it paints the current

epidemiological picture with a very broad brush. and because there are so many vague factors involved in trying to nail down the data, starting with the fact that reporting on cobra 19 mortality has been really spotty in many places and, and complicated by factors like light clear attribution after all, just because someone is testing positive for the corona virus. when they die. it doesn't necessarily mean the virus is what killed them, especially if their elderly patients, um, similar problems apply to defining flu mortality. many of its victims aren't killed directly by infections with the viruses that cause influenza. but instead by the pneumonia that getting flu can lead to okay, i got at least some of the caveats out of the way. and you all know now how much

guesswork is involved. but let's see if we can come up with some kind of an answer to your question. based on the data that we do have to start with flow mortality according to the world health organization in the years leading up to the pandemic . influenza killed between 29650000 people annually. and really bad years. therefore, around 650000 people died of it. now cove, it, i added up the w h o statistics for weekly corona virus, deaths in 2022 and came up with around 850000 for the 1st 6 months of this year. if you double bad for the fall calendar year, then it would add up to a prediction of around $1700000.00 deaths due to coven in

2022. so roughly 3 times as many as a really bad year for flu. this is of course, oversimplified and kind of cheating because coven, 19 waves are, are dynamic, and they're ongoing, and they're unpredictable. um, you might have noticed on that graph, for instance, that the most recent statistics show the global death count from the disease is currently lower than at any other time since the beginning of the pandemic. since last april, cobit has only been killing between around 10017000 people world wide every week. it's a positive trend that is at least partly due to higher levels of immunity and populations due to vaccination, previous infection or both. but. but even if that positive trend were to hold steady in the future,

we'd still be looking at the corona virus causing at least as many annual deaths as the number attributed to flu in a really severe outlier year. and probably more, boom in the next program will show you how school children from around the world are getting back to school of student teachers and parents. prepare until then. bye bye. ah ah, with

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