become at all hitler say the director and help me become a forgotten film. fine levy from style and arnold funk between hitler and hollywood. in 232, they settled into the icy wilderness of greenland to create a life threatening film project that became a major milestone in their lives. love, seduction. ice cold stores or 2 words on d, w ah, for almost 3 years now, japan has been shocked to the outside world instead of thousands of visitors enjoying the sites. there are hardly any paying. ready guests, but that full set to change on october, the 11th when japan will drop all restrictions on foreign tourists. it's

a glimmer of hope for tour guides and hotel owners. welcome to the coven! 19 special will also be visiting the united states, where the pandemic has led to a rise in obesity among children. but fast china right before the 20th national congress of the chinese communist party. many chinese are angry about the countries restrictive 0 coverage policy, which is wreaking havoc on the chinese economy, including the tourism industry. passenger numbers here paint a gloomy picture of domestic travel, and this flight headed to one of china's top tourist destinations. upon arrival, passengers greeted with the familiar sight of people dressed in hazmat suits standing by to swap them. this is the city of yan on in northern

shenzi province. it's famed for being a war time stronghold for the communists during the chinese civil war. a must visit for party faithfuls, but it states us as a red tourism hotspot, hasn't shielded it from the effects of coven. 19 travel coves meddling showing as a folk singer. and like many people from the anon, relies on tourists to make ends meet summer fuel visitors from all over the country of decline. so our income is also fallen, especially for artists like us. life is very hard to, you know, to her, to sing a said she hopes, visitor numbers pick up over chinese national golden week holidays. it's a peak, 7 day holiday period, mocking the founding of modern day china. but the pandemic has hit hard over the last few years. local resident wednesday, why said it was hard not to notice. the change runs over 3 years ago. tons of people came here from around the country and even from abroad to see this historic

site. since the pandemic travelers decreased tourists don't like to wear masks, and they don't like the idea of not being able to go home. if there's a lock down ahead of the communist party, congress authorities are tightening restrictions even further. and president g, who's expected to secure a precedent breaking 3rd time has doubled down on china's 0 cove. it approach to ensure stability, despite warnings against any one who questions the restrictions. there are plenty of signs of people cracking this covert testing booth was spotted recently sprayed with graffiti saying give me freedom or give me death. in this video circulating on chinese social media, a man jumps up angrily when security tell him to mask up. while he's sitting alone in his own restaurant. joe mozilla from research from chevy in china. says people looking for a quick relaxation of as it comes off to the posse. congress, i likely to be disappointed. the main concern here is about medical resources.

right. and the government is very concerned that if it were to abandon copays 0, you would certainly have overwhelming of hospitals are not in the medical resources to go around. what we may see. ready is after she is firmly ensconced in his 3rd term and in one sort of the political aspect to serve and squared away. there may be some additional room for policy experimentation. first, on a small scale emitted per scuffle on a larger scale, it couldn't come soon enough to place his lanky anon. nationwide tourism fell by 28 percent in the 1st half of this year. according to china's tourism ministry. many people's livelihoods he had depend on a turnaround. sooner rather than later is china's strategy. the way to go, or is it better to relax the rules in spite of hi case numbers, many countries in europe go through the summer, coven 19 wave,

relatively unscathed. d. w. reporter alexa maya spoke with epidemiologist, viola, please eman from the max planck institute for dynamics and self organization. and as to how we can protect ourselves this full hope. this is a monday, a missing grades. man. you monitored the sum away very closely. and so what did you observe and what conclusions did you come to miss it? and i keep missing one of the relatively clear results is that on the summer wave looked similar across many different european countries. and that it receded without any significant change in behavior. in other words, it went away on its own due to increasing immunity among the population. galveston on to how were you able to determine that agenda based on case numbers, you won't find hospitalization will and would it impact soon? phone number of infections and hospitalization. those with the most money, all figures now along with mobility data and various surveys. you know, there's

a range of data to draw on. we still don't have the perfect data set here in germany. for example, we don't know exactly how many on reported cases there are, because there is no representative surveillance in germany often by, based on various indicators of we can assume and i'm reported case number of between factor 2 and 5. that is 2 to 5 times the number of reported cases up as people who wouldn't on. yeah, we still, in the pandemic on it all has curve it become endemic. one is good news to i'm and can't really pinpoint a day when a pandemic ends and a virus becomes endemic. but one of the criteria is clear that the wave receipts without having to introduce any big restrictions or changes in behavior. and i've been most this is like lucian's, have you been able to draw for the fall and winter with regard to a possible new way to get in?

there are various scenarios for the fall and winter in the 1st and most optimistic scenario is that the current i'm a con variant won't be replaced by a new one. we're assuming that there is a large number of people who to their knowledge haven't had cov, it studies have shown that a surprisingly high number of between 40 to 60 percent of the population. i'd say by now it's more likely to be 40 percent. people are surprised by that because of how many people they know who had it, but there are a lot of people who are older or who had to protect themselves more for health reasons. it's a large percentage and many of these people have successfully avoided the virus. there are many reasons for that. you know, because of the measures that have been in place, you have people know how to protect themselves. and these people are often part of a larger bubble of people who are taking precautions, trying to avoid infection. we're avoid the risk of passing on an infection. people who took precautions to try to avoid infection. yes, there's

a fair number who manage that minutes and i didn't get what you and your race. what would you recommend? a false vaccination or specifically a bridge to shot adapted pharma on a few to him for it was in my, you know, i get a lot of questions about the vaccines and new variance, but i have to take a pass on that. i'm an epidemiologist, so i look at the spread of the disease. it's better when we all stay in our lane and only comment on areas in which rain expert, otherwise it leads to a lot of misunderstandings. home. i'm happy when for ologist don't get mixed up in epidemiology and vice versa. a movie. i'm not under a real a paul. it's about a sub variance of the on the chrome virus and circulation. the z dot. can you tell us about that? or what have you observed, elizabeth bennett, is that we don't, you know, which of the future scenarios is most likely in terms of invariance. it's possible

that we'll still be dealing with the current arm across very and in which case we don't think that the winter wave will be much worse than the one we saw in summer. people will get infected because not every one has been infected or because their immunity is slowly wearing off. that's one factor. we still don't know a lot about it. so we might see a lot of people calling in sick to work. that raises the question, should we continue to mandate that infected people remain in isolation for a set amount of time? that is an important discussion because isolation isn't simply a restriction, but it also gives people a way to protect themselves against infection. and so it's also a way for employers to ensure that an outbreak doesn't immediately instruct the entire team, but that the impact can be a bit more spread out over the winter. i was, i 1st went into fishing biscuit for tie it into what please one, feel it raised a man. thank you for speaking with us. now. thank you. lou in the united

states pandemic locked downs meant many children weren't getting enough exercise, contributing to a nationwide problem with childhood obesity. now doctors in cities like new york, a seeing the consequences and sounding the alarm. kevin can finally get back on the basketball court. it's where he spent most of his time before the cupboard pandemic. what about them again? oh, as central goss, i do activities like shit around stuff like that. hang on a fence. they both friends like these kids right here and yes, i like that. but from one day to the next, everything changed. schools and sports facilities were closed during the lockdown. even the basket hoops were removed so that no one could play here for me over the road. oh, cuz like i said, i don't really know. i know as a table,

a fit like an ain't my knowledge only activities with hon. low. so i was miserable in the house. i was home alone with the time mama's, our work now fixing our surf. ah, the little boring though. the only thing i really had on the hook up in our hair was my dog at the time, bugs and games. kevin's mother miracle is a single parent. she works at a nearby hospital during the pandemic. she had little time to look after her son. she was shocked to see how lonely he was, and even how his body had changed. the hardest part of the potomac was seeing my son. when i come home, i in the same spot, i left him distorted snacking more. of course, he's sitting home, watching television. there's nothing to do. you can go out, study in unhealthy for on a few pounds. you start to see in a way get, i've probably responsible for some of his weight to it because i was too exhausted

. the cook healthy milt are, is too exhausted to stand on lines to wait for, you know, to go inside of a grocery store. and, you know, i was just exhausted. during the pandemic, the proportion of overweight children rose dramatically on particular the in poorer areas. and among minorities in the u. s. o, u o u, dr. serrita duper confirms this trend. she's a pediatric cardiologist in the brooklyn burrow of new york and specializes in the care of obese children cameras. everything just got exaggerated during co it. so the kids away went up, kids were already very obese, and they got much more abuse that kids world pre diabetic godaddy. these, that rate of diabetes went up a locked in this community. the people had high blood pressure, the blood eyeglass drawn, and people became totally be conditioned. they were not doing any exercise the dogs . serrita duper is trying to turn things around. years ago,

she founded the organisation live life to live, right? the group offers fitness and nutrition courses to children and parents. during the pandemic, the courses went online. but now everyone's back outside on the field. i think the doctor knows how dangerous obesity is for children. if a 10 year old child is one and a half diamonds, his weight, all his organs are aging. he is not an almost 10 year old. his body is like of 3040 year old. his heart is very stiff. it's serious. i'm even seeing liver dysfunction . i'm seeing kids get fatty liver, that kidneys are not functioning good. i've seen patients going to early heart failure. kevin has managed to get his weight under control, but he didn't do it alone. noticed that, but yeah, online videos from

a new york non profit called active plus, taught him how to get back in shape through simple exercises, but help me to live indefinitely. thread him on knowledge. all i different work out to do. i said it a push of so i set up definitely. jack sped. am i not an artist of i even cardio. i know you can do cardio home at the top. for kevin, his experience during the pandemic has made a real impact. he now wants to study kinesiology and sports medicine, and teach others how to live healthy. eat right and stay fit. he now knows 1st hand how important it is, and also how difficult it can sometimes be. oh, do you have any questions about coven 19 asked science correspondence. derrick williams is here to answer them. just send your questions. teams. covey producer at

d. w dot com. this week he answers the question: what makes a virus? 13 thanks. animals turn into one that infects humans. oh, i'd say that this is largely dictated by 2 factors, evolution and opportunity. so let's look for a 2nd. at those 2 concepts in biology, evolution is the process of change in inherited characteristics in the population over the course of time. now, viruses, strictly speaking, aren't alive, since they can't replicate without a host. so evolution in them happens a little differently than in living organisms that can reproduce all on their own. first of all, um, it can happen a lot faster because during a viral infection, replication occurs at

a really fast rate. and some viruses like the ones that cause h, i v or, or flu. they also have high rates of mutation, which means that they change constantly allowing succeeding generations to adapt quickly to, to, to changing circumstances. and, and that includes adapting, for example, to make a successful jump from one species to another. like we think, for instance, ours covey to adapted to jumped from bats to us. maybe with a species in between, an ability to adapt quickly to new circumstances through evolution. sort of automatically makes at least some viruses, highly opportunistic. i'm about one out of every 7 of the 1400 or so known human pathogens is a virus, as opposed to

a bacterium or a fungus or, or some other parasitic organism. around a 3rd of those over 70 viruses and total are viewed as what are called emerging or re emerging pathogens. so, so viruses that have been able to make the jump from animals to us. in the recent past, what we call though not act viruses, and all the evidence indicates that the number of emerging zone diseases has climbed rapidly and the last few 100 years. that shouldn't come as a surprise, it's pretty squarely on us. we, homo sapiens are now found and pretty much every corner of the planet, no matter how remote and our drive to exploit resources everywhere we go, brings us into ever more contact with reservoirs of different virus in ever more

places, climate change and, and human destruction of natural habitats and, and intensive animal farming. they're all making zonati events more likely. and most experts agree that even more viruses and other pathogens will make the lead to us in the future. which is why there's widespread agreement that we have to get better at preparing for outbreaks in order to stop them from becoming pan dennis before they start. boom. ah, because it 19 has claimed the lives of millions worldwide, and many who survived is still dealing with the long term consequences. bass, physical and psychological. in alan, my coven series people tell us about their experiences with the virus. today, we're in gone as capital a crock. my name is justice lee,

otherwise i lived in that cra, and i had coverage in february 10 to 10 to one i. our diagnose for typhoid by the treatment was not you know, curing. they're supposed die for it. so i suspect that it could be, that was, i went back to the hospital to get their requests will invest and it was in by how the symptoms of that is the main city to my heart. and then at that point, my temperature went up. but it is, i've noticed that west range, so i stayed full 4 days in the hospital. initially i saw that doctor. and then i felt that might read mentors for me, that in the household. and i don't remember any doctor coming back to me in their isolation and in the parent died by the nurse his way or valley carrying.

nobody likes to me, you know, solution, sol, being in their solution. if you are not psychologically strong, no alone can make a breakdown. so i felt that that feeling of oh, that is this thing in your system that is killing people. and you cannot predict what will happen to morrow and so on. ah, that thing makes me apprehensive. i may get back get copied again. it would be a news as come off to me yet. if i said i didn't have that yet, i would be lying because mine happened at rhonda same time. somebody who was also in the media died of poverty. so i, i that i had had that fear. so friends said are by you justice,

you always in your muslim dal, double mosque. you always wash your how did you get it? so these are the empties. i keep doing ok because handwashing has been part of me from childhood, took me more than a month glass to recover and i full sometimes feel their pin ma'am. so or do i do have since those form quoted i have those reactions from the resignation. i've seen people who bought it and report of it, so all of the live that my free thing, god, who said me, even if i book called and they did sidney. when i bought it, lou capital tokyo is a major chill restoral. at least it was until 2020, when japan's government closed its borders to the outside world. that was

a blow to the millions of japanese who made their living in the travel industry. now almost 3 years later, tourists are being welcomed back to japan, a ray of hope for tour guides and others in the world's 3rd largest economy. normally this area of tokyo would be bustling and a rickshaw drivers wouldn't have to wait for customers. the census g temple is at the top of most taurus lists when visiting japan. but right now, most of the visitors or japanese, many shops are closed temporarily. and the souvenir sellers are only making a fraction of what they use to anyone living from tourism in japan has had to make do with a lot less turnover. since the pandemic that includes chad fi in the american offers bicycle tours of tokyo.

there was always these promises that the boarders would open up, the boarders would open up. oh, it's going to be next month. it's going to be in the fall. and so okay, fine. you know, i'm not going to get a real job. i'll keep, you know, just plug and along so that when the boarders open will be ready to go for bicycle tours. but that never happened, and it, a year became 2 years. and then 2 years became 3 years. and here we are. all chad enjoyed taking customers to tokyo's more peaceful spots. one of the highlights of his tour, the got a cookie temple in the western part of the city. it's also known as the birthplace of the monarchy necco. the lucky cats are world famous. a must see, especially for young tourists in tokyo. so usually when i bring my gestures,

this place is packed full of people, not just cats, but lots of people are, are visiting this very famous temple. but as you can see, there's nobody here just me. but that could be about change because from october 11th, japan is dropping restrictions on individual visitors who are so vital to its tourism industry. they account for 85 percent of turnover in the sector. since june, japan has allowed groups of visitors and guided tours into the country. touchy yuki kaba, leads french speaking taurus around anna shima island. it's also home to a famous shrine for a small donation. visitors here receive o me cookies, little strips of paper that tell your fortune. hello,

good, good. so what does the tour guide see in his future? ah, the pretty say who could be deserve for 1st of georgia? as long as coven 19 remains a thread, we have to be vigilant. and then we'd have to perhaps introduce further measures to protect ourselves. poor honda, what they moves you'll sunny day. people in japan tend to be cautious when it comes to coven. 19 masks are part of everyday life, and most people voluntarily wear them. many question whether japan will really see an onslaught of tourists when the restrictions end, keeping the borders closed for so long has actually hurt the tourism industry massively. and i don't think it's gonna start up really fast. right? again, before the pandemic tourism in japan was booming with record numbers of visitors.

it's hard to say whether americans, australians and europeans will readily come to a country where people continue to be so cautious. i find that the pandemic is still far from over. ah, that was this week's coven. 19 special next week will be reporting about a vaccination that's needle free. scientists in india have great hopes for it to join us for that and more. and until then, take care. ah ah ah ah

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