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tv   Covid-19 Special  Deutsche Welle  November 17, 2022 6:30pm-7:01pm CET

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his successes in a weekly coven, 19 special. next on d. w. a budget code, it is a thought they were gray here. with soaring inflation and rising fear prices have worse than the global economy. already devastated by the covet pandemic. the challenging situation has inspired many people to come together and help each other. cooking and eating together plays a vital role. welcome to the coven. 19 special. in argentina,
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a legendary soup kitchen that was founded in 1989 managed to keep it stores open and stopped. many from going hungry. a father in columbia invite the schoolmates of his son who has a physical disability to their house so they can come together. but 1st, we had to gonna wear thorman hook, elijah amado, rescues food and distributes a to people in the near by here in the town of info and ganna is ashanti region. elijah armando is coordinating the re packaging of surplus crude. during the pandemic. mission has been spending even more time mobilizing his food for all africa organization. the non profit rescue surplus food from all over the country. the food was going to be destroyed. it still perfectly good to eat, but was labeled incorrectly in its country, or meadow is going to redistribute it to people in
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need. when kobe 19 hit, adult work became even more vital. he expanded his organization and focused on providing emergency food a to god as most vulnerable people. i bears the onset of all the people last, the adults in the ad lives old. and that created a need for support, especially support in day we ultimately seen shelter and then at least a medicine football through our it called in 19 magazines are visiting program in carven by providing food and mid seen. they live lieut. support fool, one marble people had getting mostly those affected by the poverty pandemic.
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the corona virus pandemic has posed a serious threat to food security in gonna, before the pandemic, an estimated 1200000 people were food insecure. within 2 years that number had doubled, with no end in sight. inflation and rising food prices are making a difficult situation. worse. food for all africa was founded in 2015. the non profit is west africa's 1st and largest food bank at o. his team have made up their mission to quite hunger and tackle food waste. since the started the pandemic, they've recovered nearly a 1000000 euros worth of food from supermarkets, hotels, and farms. they've helped feed more than half a 1000000 people today the team is headed to a low income community, about 50 kilometers from one of their warehouses well over good,
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modern audio. many families here struggle to access food. today, adams team is prioritizing elderly women there among those most hard hit by the pandemic and to be react, considering our mothers was 60 years and above and according to the w, a true i'm about half of the game is, are severely oh, i'm moderately fully secure, which i remotes is a monga. mothers was to see yes and above. they are mostly affected. so we want to support them re though, for the bugs. and that can also trigger down to via children and even dug on children. it's a happy moment for the community these food donations will make a huge difference for the recipients. so yeah, then am i think of when kobe haiti to affected me financially, not sudden,
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it was hard to find any food, a tool to eat what you know. so these food items will really help us about why a crack even amid the worsening economic crisis, donna's government has been unable to provide food relief to the most vulnerable people have been left to fend for themselves. that i was pleased when the food donations can put a smile on the faces of people in need. i feel very inspired, i feel fulfilled. it makes me see that indeed good banking is a solution pool. immediate, and meghan see innovation in our communities. helping those in need. it's work. the former chef is determined to continue oklahoma. oh, in the arts and tinian kappa. so glen, as i raised a soup kitchen with
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a long history of feeding, some of the cities poorest families managed to keep its doors open during locked downs against all odds. but sadly, the woman who found at the see kitchen lost her battle with the corona virus while serving the community that she was so devoted to andrea. amanda has 7 brothers and sisters, her father carnis. armando is the builder and her mother gladys are agony. as was a homemaker in 1989 when argentina was buffeted by hyperinflation, her parents opened a soup kitchen in their home, despite their own hardships. gladys, the devout catholic, was in charge. she called it the organized community. or yeah, am some families here had very little so they decided to make a populous jew, so there would be something to eat every day. yeah. yeah, yeah. first there were 30 people and then 50. and today we provide meals to $135.00
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families, then it is single family. as an alignment of during the pandemic, the soup kitchen was able to remain open thanks to the volunteer work of gladys and her neighbor, gloria setello. the state helped with food donations in march 2020 the official lockdown, but many people in the area out of work. even though gladys, his own health was failing, she decided to increase the number of meals to a 150 a day. the shaggy ag, if if he or she wanted to continue, no matter what sort of that out. she wanted to work in her soup kitchen and support her children as she always said, asia. that's how she was seen. she always wanted to help him, but it seemed but actual we grew up with that vision that her desire to be there for others as young. and they seem breakdown up, but i love the math. eventually their children convinced gladys and carlos to start
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isolating to protect themselves from the virus. they only went into the dining room on the way to the bathroom and dreyer, her brothers and gloria took charge of the soup kitchen. but on june 14th 2020 gladys and her husband were hospitalized with cove at 19. gladys died a month later since then, carlos has been running the soup kitchen on his own. by the magic in the food court ruled a year. why? she didn't worry about her own health. lennie says she doesn't matter 2 or more was continuing her work. carrier dinner but she knew people needed her as she go and it wasn't only my wife so many other people believe the same thing in them. or be known more than 10000000 people in argentina rely on soup kitchens. many of the cooks, he worked in those kitchens,
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die during the panoramic. that's like lot. his son franco took part in a campaign to declare cook's essential work. it's much like doctors and nurses. after the campaign, andrea and the other assistants begun to receive half the minimum wage to keep the soup kitchen running. it was vital recognition for their work. since on the way for me, i was thinking of my family 1st idea, but also of all the people from the neighbourhood. but everything was suddenly closed and many people had nothing to eat. and i, but i'm helping keep a place open that serve meals to paypal. meant a lot to me and what they were water for. gloria. the soup kitchen was also a source of hope. but i say i landed will manage, made my children. they give me strength for the future. worse i get. and of course, side of the paypal her come here to a local me. the elder could isa is a street cleaner. her 12 children also went to the soup kitchen. now she is here to get food for her full grandchildren. a full mouth we'll need. it's like
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a little nest for all the children in the neighbourhood. for every one's going to sit them. there was nothing like this before. and now we have a place where we can eat the name of whom new allan b. gladys was a wonderful person, done. she was our angel. well, our protector on the no, no, no quote the whole. meanwhile, the group runs more than a soup kitchen. they also offer a literacy program for young people and adults, and there's a center that gives free legal advice named after gladys are back on the other. staying in south america, a 1000 kilometers from coin is iris in northern argentina nymph been by our people . the pandemic is, of course a threat to this indigenous population, but they doing their best to protect themselves from the virus using their own methods. the and
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by indigenous community of when take remodeled dos is located in the sparsely populated border region between argentina, brazil, and paraguay. so far, no one here has contract coven 19. but they're worried that the traditional medicinal plants they rely on to protect themselves are becoming ever harder to find. oh god, i use our ne don't plans to treat respiratory diseases law, but there are in so many around an alley because so much of the forest here has been filled by loggers. what do you eat? and there have been more and more forest fires. the last few months, when the foreign is burning, we can breathe as well. it was a coven, 19 infection, but would make it worse and worse, hug. so of course, we're worried in the little bit. in recent years, multinational corporations have occupied vast areas of indigenous lands to produce pulp for the paper industry. according to the u. n,
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the pulp and paper industries are among the world's biggest polluters. supplies of drinking water are now under threat. the introduction of non native pine trees has also increased the risk of forest fires. isn't wrinkles now in single act, the community lives confined within 5 hector's land, and he surrounded by tree plantations. so they labeled on top of that. the forest foss season is just around the corner. they own? yes. home. yeah. an outbreak of coven 19 in an indigenous community that lives surrounded by pine forest. could be very serious. so the people that won't be able to treat themselves or leave it, they live really far away from hospitals and other health care facilities. argentina's government says it has introduce measures to protect them by people
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in the home. yes. well, i'm in the mid after medical staff and essential workers. indigenous communities were one of the 1st groups to be vaccinated. their vaccination rate is 90 to 95 percent. the court blew, despite efforts to get the vaccines to isolated areas, many members of the in by a community did not want to be vaccinated. they prefer to rely on traditional medicinal plants and their knowledge of nature passed down through the generations . the earth has belong to us for generations and we take care of it because we can only live and survive together with nature as a people we were here long before any one else. ah, the community here hopes to protect itself from the corona virus by sticking together and relying on ancient traditions. oh,
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do you have the question about the corona virus? send it in and our signs reported derek williams will draw on the latest research to answer it. right to us at pivot producer at d, w dot com this week j l wanted to know does your body wipe out the virus entirely or does some remain in you even earth to recovery? some pathogens remain in the body at low levels, more or less permanently after infecting you and, and they can flare up and cause symptoms even years later. that's the case with viruses. in the herpes family, for instance, which go dormant and cells long term by hiding their genetic material in hours there, it can persist for for long periods. and because the infection isn't active, it's basically invisible to your immune system. but in the right circumstances,
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like if you're exhausted the, the viral genome can be triggered and infected cells begin churning out virus again, causing for example, cold sores or, or the painful blister is known as a shingles. this kind of infection is called a latent one. and although herpes viruses and some other viruses establish latency, as far as we know, stars covey to, and other corona viruses don't work that way. but, but that doesn't mean that pockets of them can't persist in the body for a lot longer than you might think. and, and they do, and some people, especially the immunocompromised. there's been plenty of cases where researchers continue to detect sars coby two's genetic material for months after an
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initial infection long past the time when it should have been cleared. and studies are ongoing into what that means. exactly. one thought is that persistent pockets of corona virus in the body might, at least in some people, be linked directly or indirectly to long coven symptoms. if even small amounts of virus were still replicating in an otherwise mostly cleared patient, but could be in theory enough to activate an immune response, for instance, that, that might cause inflammation, which in some cases could lead to problems like my brain fog or, or persistent fatigue the ones that often afflict long haul worse, but, but that theory hasn't been proven yet, and there are other explanations out there for why. even otherwise healthy
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people can come down with the wide range of symptoms that fall under the umbrella term. long covert ah! after suffering from kevin 191 woman in berlin has had her life turned upside down . her day to day life is dubbed by severe concentration problems and overwhelming fatigue. nothing is as it was before france series, my coven. we were taught from germany. ashland sta, estes acropolis, you know, the worst part is the weakness in your body. it's overwhelming. after a few seconds, it's so bad that you feel like you could collapse la. quinta much when you feel like you just have to sit down and put your feet up. it's like the brain can't keep up any more, was fine. i forget things, even something i said just a 2nd ago, or what other people said to me, numbers and names, just go. my name is monica. and my name is monica. i'm 60 years old. and since
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august, i had coven 19 symptoms. 5 years after about 10 days i tested negative again and felt great in comparison. i thought everything would be okay. that's why i was active for 2 days and felt nice. 100 percent better hub about that after the 2nd day, i noticed i'd over done it in the following days. that feeling of weakness came back and it's been coming and going ever since 6 foot off when i'd, i'd, pervading daily life has become very difficult. especially shopping early going out is very hard for me, but i now have a fold out chair to sit on on so i can at least sit down at the checkout the i can't stand for long periods of time. yes. but what i have to think about each step i take, what can i manage? how many steps can i handle are were with them. i have a small bicycle without pedal cigar, so i could at least move around a little bit on ya as well, ma'am. art
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a friend of mine took the pedals off my bike, the dying. it's like a bridge to the outside world for me. for me. they are. the worker thought it wasn't bird as it gives me the chance to get out and do a bit of shopping. incomplete other essential tasks that would wendy, thank you aren't as a when we have to cough i try to manage my energy with them so i can get a little bit of something done every day for a board status. and i hope i'll be able to get by with that long term and still get to experience the outside world a bit. you're gonna garvin ignore the camera when i come home. i'm happy to be here again. i am. i'm happy that i made it. remain for hall and i feel proud that i can still accomplish something yard as a slight are yeah. unfortunately, experiencing an 80 or 90 percent crash is not so nice for him. i vehicle 20 our
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core. everything becomes very weird. even reading of difficult letters don't seem to be where they belong. god with him go and he brought words appear back to front tooth. when i look at this text, it's not easy to decipher. i prefer not to look at it at all. i wanted him cooking oh, be, come on fun. how can someone forget everything from one day to the next? i don't understand it at all. it takes bombay writing as really important to me. i and because i wanted to write to a doctor, he was familiar with the problem and mr. hoffman at bassetti of it's of a quorum. but then i hope to get help right off of and some understanding maker i and may be some tips on finding myself, a doctor who had experience in this area of the, of hong but in adam, the interactions with doctors were quite difficult for me even though they were very unreceptive and even ignorant. the are one part bentley. they didn't
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understand what my problem was. 15 god, they thought nothing was wrong with me. the harmon dock on the handle, my lab results were normal. my blood pressure was good and my pulse was normal to oh, everything looked great for us. so they thought, what's her problem? he reflects the fog of him. the most important thing for me is understanding what's happening to my body will come to suffer. what's going on with it? what causes me to fill the way i do now apply for yourself. you buy research to launch honestly, but i still can't really understand it. i mean, i'm not a doctor, so i don't know why i can look up all the terms on google it again, but i'd rather have a doctor who can say to me, yes, you have this all that. and maybe you can do this all that to treat it because you have her think it's the additional book by molly won't get help since it's an illness that isn't treatable. ok. but maybe every day life could be made a bit easier abroad. no, i'd murtha valued i, i'd just like to go out dancing again to move my body and be around people to fine
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to experience new things and meet up with friends and acquaintances. i'd really like to go to places and see things again. i just won't be having to go away most i find what i that's my greatest wish for it. just to read over roof. i went in for well by as i am lou sh. more than 1000000000 people around the world are living with disabilities. the closure of schools and other facilities made their lives even more difficult. one father in columbia, his son needs round the clock head, decided to launch the cooking based therapy group at his house. rubio fernandez, his life changed with the arrival of his youngest child. he quit his police job and devoted himself to francisco who need to round the clock care. when the pandemic started, the 2 found themselves cut off from the outside world. but then ruby fernandez,
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had an idea key in a 2nd here in my kitchen in my house, i started offering cooking classes for people with disabilities here. this is where the magical project was born with the cooking adventure we have for children with disabilities. year after the lockdown was lifted, the therapy kitchen project found a new and larger home in the sensory life center. trained therapists and caregivers could now join in let you go to some of them with the, with the children, my super motivated, but the kitchen of mr. fernandez was too small for the entire group 0. so the decision was made to move it here. budget that we started with the dessert project and that worked out beautifully as you move on to the therapists and caregivers at the center say that therapy kitchen is helping their patients put the lockdown behind them. learning to cook brings them both physical and emotional benefits.
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will test, they must, they make lots of progress, fear they get out of their routine and feel like an active part of the community often may feel they're not good at anything, but here they can do things for themselves. so no more d zamora is also benefiting she's visually impaired and lost her job during the pandemic. her therapist recommended joining the cooking therapy to help lift her spirits. their particular the physicals. it's hard to find a job around her. i'm with a disability. it's twice as hard for them as it, but then it got worse. alice, the 1st people they let go with the ones who shouldn't have been thrown out as their most vulnerable, because i'm will let others. daisy mora uses the classes to learn new recipes and cooking techniques. it also helped her get back on her feet after the lockdown. what gaskin was other than was almost for. we don't want to be pitied with us. we
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just like every one else. we may do things differently, but we're the same for what goes on human beings with the same rights, but with different ability service implement that before the classes are free of charge for participants. rubio fernandez volunteers here. part of his police pension goes towards buying ingredients. is what i'm is under the gulf. i said you're simply h o k. k is faculty, not that up here and be that you are hello. yes. it, yes. so it just came in. i think i've been me at another up yet, but a lot of my from other up here. okay. the recall for the owner, kin killer in. i'm which as of the fox, you're the dishes they prepare are sold at local markets. the income then helps maintain the kitchen for rubia, the therapy kitchen has given him a new vocation, couldn't okay. you're saying, look you up in the a boy look remedied. i'll just put on as much as i policy on this policy. kin noise,
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since he given a fussy to fiddle with when we set the fact building. ruby or fernandez has shared this experience with his son francisco, who feels his father's love and the affection of the other participants. ah, that's all for this episode of the coven. 19 special. see you again next week till then stay healthy. ah ah, with
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