well for more on the new coronavirus i'm joined now by dr margaret harris from the world health organization dr harris thank you so much for being on our program now is there any hope that with the warmer weather coming over the so over the springtime we might actually see a slowdown in the number of cases of the virus which is what we see in flu can we be hopeful good morning we don't know enough about how these fires behaves different temperatures to be up to make that sort of protection as it's very clear this is because this is an entirely new virus it arrived in the human population in december of 2019 we have learned a tremendous amount we have seen that it can be contained it can be stopped by taking strong public health measures but we don't yet know with the seasonal temperatures have any effect because we are seeing it in woman countries. now it seems that the vast majority of people who have actually died from the new coronavirus tend to be order individuals or people with prior health conditions but also men apparently are at the greatest risk of dying why is that. so it's certai

brent: for more now we want to go to margaret harris with the world health organization. she's working with the coronavirus team in geneva, switzerland. it is good to see you. you've heard fort the german health minister has said, that germany is now in the grips of an epidemic. do you agree with that language, and what is your advice tonight to people he in germany? marget: good evening. i agree with -- i do agree with much of what he said, particularly when he said don't panic. this is always difficult when someone says you got an outbreak . outbreaks to make people frightened, but the best way to get through this is to stay calm and get knowledged up. find out about the virus, and think about what you, your family, your friends and community need to do. that sounds general, but there's a lot you can do. what if you have to spend two weeks in quarantine or longer if there is ongoing infection in your neighborhood or your group or your school? make those plans now. i'm not saying run to the shops and get the food, but think about can you work from home? talk to your empl

let's bring in now margaret harris of the world health organization she is working with the coronavirus team in geneva margaret welcome to you and thank you for speaking with us today we've just heard a little bit more about the measures that italy is taking to contain the virus is it enough they've taking very serious measures. restricting movement is one way to do it and that certainly seems to work quite well in china as well it's a difficult situation because normally when you've got a virus and outbreak of very often we have a vaccine but at this stage we don't have those tools so we have to use physical the older public health measures there are some who are out there they are call calling for restrictions on travel for restrictions on trade the world health organization is not advising not why not why when you put a blanket restrictions on travel and trade the people you hurt most of the people who are most at risk of infection you prevent them from getting their food as you mentioned in your story that people are already panicking and very concerned about getting their supplies

and for more now we want to go to margaret harris of the world health organization she is working with the w h o's coronavirus team in geneva switzerland good evening to you margaret we've got these new reports here in germany and in the u.s. state of california the 1st reported cases with no obvious sources of transmission of the virus in other words we don't know how these patients caught the virus what more do you know about that tonight so when you have a report saying that this has no idea where it came from quite often you find really deep investigation then this happens quite often weeks later you do find the link so it's stages too early to say ok we don't know because there's more to find out so it's not a reason to be alarmed you can say that this is a a new turn in the coronavirus saga. no i mean obviously we always like to know where the infection came from so we can follow the link follow the courses help contain it but usually we do find sort of longer and deeper conversations generally or sometimes up to investigate some of the people around generally you do find the lin

now let's go to margaret harris of the world the health organization she's working with the coronavirus team in geneva welcome to dede what advice is the w.h.o. giving to italy at this point. well italy's doing a lot of doing the right thing checking as as your reporter said they're finding out who has been a context where the epidemiological links it's really characterizing what's happening with this outbreak and by asking people to self isolate and asking people not to move too much they're ensuring that. ongoing spread is limited we now have massive outbreaks in multiple countries people are going to be wondering is this corona virus outbreak now out of control. no we're not seeing feeling that at all and we've got some large outbreaks and we've got some concerning outbreaks but we're also seeing very strong reaction very strong actions taken by the authorities in those countries and that's what really matters we are sending teams to investigate what's going on in help help countries to strengthen the health systems help countries and countries what they need but at the moment no we'

earlier we asked dr margaret harris from the world health organization about possible vaccines for the corona virus. normally a vaccine takes years to develop we've certainly we've put together an emergency collaboration of scientists we put this together actually after the great west african outbreak of ebola because we realized being able to accelerate something like a vaccine made an enormous difference in being being able to stop an outbreak and we've got something called the research and development blueprint which allows us to get moving very quickly how if you still have to test any vaccine in healthy people and you have to test that for some time to ensure there are no serious side effects because o.b. nothing worse than having something that cause more harm you must make sure it's something that does what you want to do which is prevent the virus at the same time remain have the same time not having any serious side effects. all right time for some sports news now and friday's von displayed a soccer action relegation candidates fortuna doesn't dorf were looking to make it 2 wi

how we will stop it from going from a few cases to a large outbreak thank you for joining us dr margaret harris from the world health organization. in football you're going klansmen has stunned germany's bundesliga by resigning as coach of had a bad day and after just 10 weeks in the job the former germany and united states current twins are significant to portman for hatter who have new big money backers and were hoping to turn the side into blunders league title challengers but they're one of only one of their last 5 league games to confirm the news and after klinsmann protests his resignation on facebook. i don't expect from d.w. sports can tell us what young young players but of course a big name in football this is a bad look for. lofty ambitions it's very bad to be honest it's pretty embarrassing for the club has had no idea that this was coming klinsmann blindsided them by announcing this on facebook without consulting them it seems and opposes big questions about the club's management and also structures in place klinsmann was 1st brought to the club back in november to sit on the club'

that they do all the things that will protect themselves appropriately but not panic that was dr margaret harris from the world handle an isolation engine eva. you're watching the news coming up ahead europe's. south causing at least 7 deaths as well as of creative destruction in france for cancellations we have the details. the 1st president. of turkey has vowed that syria will be what he called a heavy price for any attack on turkish troops the turkish military has already claimed it's killed more than $100.00 syrian soldiers and province in retaliation for a syrian attack turkey supporting rebel groups in a city or tries to take their last remaining stronghold. turkey fight back against the asset regime ankara says it will repay its own casualties. must be confirmed as soon as possible. to be permanent the assad regime's aggression. president has emphasized that turkey will take the necessary measures if the regime continues its aggression its. airlifted to hospital some of the turkish troops injured in a sad latest assault on it lived a sad is trying to recapture the province from rebel forc

measures to deal with the corona virus but what more needs to be done i put that question to dr margaret harris of the was health organization in geneva everybody's working very very hard to deal with this new virus and doing a very good job what we all need to do is to continue to do a good job and what we also need to do is to panic list so at the moment we're dealing with 2 things we're dealing with a new virus and a new virus we need to learn more about and to work together to stop but we also dealing with the info to make where people are attending to overreact a bit it's good that people listen to the advice that pay a lot of attention but really listen to the right advice have excellent hand hygiene make sure that they look after the health make sure that they do all the things that will protect themselves appropriately but not panic. that was dr margaret had is from the world health organization in geneva and here in but in the future leadership of germany's dominant conservative party has been thrown into question with the resignation of chancellor angela merkel's chosen successor an i

mecca during the holy month of ramadan which begins in 4 wakes and for more now we want to go to margaret harris of the world health organization she is working with the w h o's coronavirus team in geneva switzerland good evening to you margaret we've got these new reports here in germany and in the u.s. state of california the 1st reported king says with no obvious sources of transmission of the virus in other words we don't know how these patients caught the virus what more do you know about that tonight so when you have a report saying that it has no idea where it came from quite often you find really deep investigation then this happens quite often weeks later you do find the link so this stage is too early to say ok we don't know because there's more to find out so it's not a reason to be alarmed that you would say that this is a a new turn in the coronavirus saga. no i mean obviously we always like to know where the infection came from so we can follow the link follow the courses help contain it but usually we do find sort of longer and deeper conversations generally or sometimes up to inv

well let's now bring in our guests from geneva we have dr margaret harris she's a spokeswoman for the world health organization in houston dr peter hotez he's dean for the national school of tropical medicine at the baylor college of medicine and in liverpool we have dr mohammad minea he is electra and buying medicine at lancaster university thank you oil for all for joining us on the program so dr hotez i want to start with you and i want to ask you about these dots that we've been looking at on this map because they're worrying not necessarily because of this size but because of where they're located so not necessarily a direct link now to hanoi china we're seeing travelers from a wrong now turning up in 11 on and canada testing positive for the virus are we now in a new stage of contagion here. well it's certainly a possibility and 1st of all thank you for having me on and this is but dr ted gerson the world health organization has been worried about in the reason they call the public health emergency of international concern because as as this unfolded it became clear that this vi

nearly 50000 people have been placed under effective quarantine there or more now we want to go to margaret harris she is with the world health organization she is working with the coronavirus team in geneva switzerland smorgon it's good to see you you've heard what the german health minister has said that germany is now in the grips of an epidemic do you do you agree with that language or what's your advice tonight to people here in germany. good evening well i agree with certainly something is i do agree with much of what he said particularly when he said don't panic and this is always difficult when somebody says you've got an outbreak outbreaks do make people frightened but the best way to get through this is to stay calm and get knowledged up so find out about this virus find out what you can do and think about what you your family your friends your community need to do now that sounds very general but this lets you can do what about if for instance you do have to spend 2 weeks and parenting or not if there is ongoing infection in your neighborhood or in your group or in your school so make t

earlier i spoke to margaret harris, a spokesperson for the who.ies outside asia are making enough preparations. europe has strong health systems and very good communication systems and there has been good risk communication in europe. people understand what this is and ideally, people will present early if they have symptoms or if there is any concern that they may have this virus. the biggest problem is what we are calling the infodemic, there are rumours swirling around and people are listening to the rumours and are more frightened than they should be so more often the fear of the virus is more dangerous than the virus itself. people are talking about how little was being spent on things like this... we are talking about supporting in the most fragile health system so we know of about 30 to 40 health system so we know of about 30 to a0 countries that have very fragile systems that we are working intensively with to build up their systems but we do lack the funds and the resources to get those countries ready. the who has arrived in china today

margaret harris who is part of the world health organization's coronavirus response team. dr. harris, good to have you with us. the director general of the w.h.o. also said we're in a, quote, very delicate situation and that the outbreak can go in any direction based on how we handle it. what is your assessment this morning in terms of how the world is handling it? >> good morning. our assessment is everybody is certainly doing their utmost to get ready. so what we're seeing in every country is the leadership standing up. but we also are saying look at what we should be doing. and ask a range of questions. do you have the capacity in your hospitals? have you got the ventilators? have you got the staff ready? have you got backup teams? because your staff is going to get exhausted. you need backup teams. is the training in place? are the laboratories ready? do your staff know how to take swabs? do you have big teams to take surveillance? all of these are questions that need to be asked and answered right now. >> in terms of all of that, it obviously makes me think of the one cas

this is who spokesperson margaret harris. the stage where we need to look at what's happened in china and consider all the evidence. as you know, there is a mission right now. we are not giving much information about that, we are letting the scientists get on with their work with their counterparts. but the idea that there is to have a really full, free, and frank exchange. look at what has worked, look is not worked, and what can be done differently. and also what needs to be applied to the rest of the world. across the border in hong kong, there are 58 confirmed cases. and there are shortages of hand sanitiser, face masks and toliet paper — as people stockpiling. this is the scene outside one supermarket in the mongkok district of hong kong earlier. men armed with knives robbed a delivery man of hundreds of rolls. martin yip was there. ijust went inside, and requisites have stalled around 1—2,000 toilet rolls is still empty. although, according to my family and others are turning today, fortunately the other thing that was

al jazeera hong kong let's hear now from the world health organization their spokesperson is margaret harris she says that sharp increases in the number of cases can actually help stop the virus from spreading. the authorities know who they have now widened the definition so that they can include people who have symptoms that are suggestive of corona virus and that's a good thing because that means they can get everybody who could possibly have coronavirus seem to care and also to keep them from infecting other people so it's not surprising to see such a jump when they've widened this definition and started reporting people as having cases of corona virus using that definition we are finding that the chinese authorities are indeed being fully transparent but when you look at the number of cases they're dealing with what we're looking at over 51000 cases that's a vast amount of information coming in that's a vast amount of information that people have to move forward and we're receiving that information it's a lot easier to give absolutely all the detail when you've got 5 or 6 cases 50000 tha

hardships at all just we are looking forward to a solution and to going home that's now speak to margaret harris who spokeswoman the world health organization she is live from geneva thank you so much ms harrison being with us on al-jazeera just a few hours ago w.h.o. is saying the number of new cases in china had babylon is banal we have this huge jump and you cases in the last 24 hours how do you explain this and how worried should we be about this dramatic increase. thank you for actually we hadn't actually said stabilize we we talk about numbers as having in the last few days having reached a sort of plateau but we were not saying that the outbreak had stabilized in fact we've said it was far too early to know if any idea of which direction it was going in now this number this big jump we're seeing today actually does reflect a change in reporting protocols as you mentioned earlier in your report that the authorities knew better has no widen the definition so that they can include people who have symptoms that are suggestive of coronavirus and that's a good thing because that means they can

in hong kong sarah clarke in hong kong thank you for that and now to geneva on skype with us margaret harris is a spokeswoman for the world health organization margaret thank you for your time trials more than 80 trials for treatments of coronavirus in china what more can you tell us about those and i guess how hopeful you are about them. well this is a fantastic example of the global scientific collaboration that we seeing and it's been right from the stone the scientists the experts in this area have have been working round the clock a couple of days ago we had a meeting where we brought together the people who expert in this area together to geneva we have to most of the people from china who are expert couldn't join physically but were on the phone and we asked them what do you need and one of the things they really needed was help running these trials because 80 trial sounds fantastic but what you need is for everybody to be doing that in the same way so that when we get some results we can really analyze and to give that to a maker analysis and very very quickly get some information yo

doctor margaret harris is from the who and explains why it is not described as a pandemic.ut a pandemic to describe what is going on. and we talk about a pandemic what it means we have outbreaks in all parts of the globe but also sustained community transmission first up as you are effectively reporting, there have been cases reported in many countries around the world but remember, these are cases that have been identified as people arriving in the country and they have not shown onwards transmission. this is what we are seeing in the uk at the moment. there has been very good work from health authorities and by the community because people are saying, i have travelled, i am not feeling well, and they are identifying themselves as having a case perhaps. that means you are identifying people very early and it gives you a very good chance of stopping onward spread. italy is a concerning outbreak but the authorities are doing everything they can do to stop further spread elsewhere by locking down the communities and asking people to self—isolate and stay put. naturally, it's

. >> my name is margaret harris. and i've been a social worker in sfusd for 23 years. we live in san francisco, and our sons from groan up in sfusd schools. in recent years i have seen dedicated colleagues leave the profession and had my own children's teachers leave midyear because they can't make ends meet here. i currently spend a lot of my time working with staff to troubleshoot situations that feel impossible. teachers, as you have been hearing, are crying out for help on how to support students and families who come to school stressed because of immigration pressures, community violence, homelessness and other accumulating pressures. they work hard to support their students through this stress while balancing their own pressure of not knowing if they will have a job next year. or if they can even afford to stay in the profession. yet they still spend their own money on supplies and work way past their scheduled hours because of their commitment to the kids. our kids. something that strikes me profoundly is how at times like these, a false narrative gets created t

let's speak now to dr margaret harris, a world health organisation coronavirus expert, who joins us fromelsewhere by locking down the communities and asking people to self—isolate and stay put. naturally, it's a place everyone has been visiting, so when people return there is a concern that they need to be aware that there is the possibility. i heard your previous speaker make some very good points. 0ne speaker make some very good points. one of them being, you have to have beenin one of them being, you have to have been in close contact. there is no reason to be panicking at this stage orany reason to be panicking at this stage or any stage, actually. that is very helpful advice, talking about proximity. from your perspective, how much more widespread does this need to become before it becomes a pandemic? we talk about a pandemic to describe what's going on. when we talk about a pandemic we mean that we have outbreaks in all parts of the globe. but notjust outbreaks, we are talking about sustained community transmission. as you are very effectively reporting, there have been cases repor

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