then you can get reinfected but disease is much much milder so i've cinc you will be similar for sars kovi 2 you will be immune for about a year and then maybe you will be reinjected but you may not even notice it or would just be a mild common cold type of instruction i think that is most likely the outcome so many experts say that the current great house says the summer of the 2nd wave may be karelia not on. more than joiners excited people have officially. salut no symptoms those who didn't even register is sick and that means all students who are already somewhat i mean just the virus and their number is constantly rising will this will be enough to build the still hold her he. can wait. so i think my from my calculations we need somewhere between 50 and 70 percent of the population to be mewed to prevent spread of providers to achieve the herd immunity that you are saying there and i don't think that we're going to achieve that in this 1st wave of infections i think we do have more people infected then we know because throughout the world the testing is not uniform and it's not extens

it would seem really encouraging is that i think there are over 60 kompany is working on for sars kovi to a vaccine using all different technologies so we have all sorts of approaches that we can use to develop vaccines these days we're not limited to just one or 2 kinds and so i think that really improves the likelihood that one of them at least or maybe 2 are going to work so i have pretty good confidence that out of those 60 different approaches and i was looking at the list last night it's amazing how many different kinds of vaccine approaches are being taken one of those should work since we have people who have contracted the virus and recovered wait here which is right there on to the original but cells are something that everywhere we can in fact that is one of the approaches that's being tried we can in a very fast approach we can take antibodies or serum from those people who are recovered we can give them to other people to try and resolve the infection but that's not a long term solution other companies are isolating the cells from those patients that make antibodies and pe

but help has come for some in the form of the german air force specially equipped planes have flown kovi patients from italy and france to hospitals in germany in all more than 200 sick people have been transferred from european countries even in the time of corona germany sees itself as a good european. if. we want to and he will show solidarity we've proved that in the past but this is a crisis that affects us all in terms of health and economically and financially that's why we must take care in these times that the e.u. states together. but when it comes to financial help germany is less ready to offer everything that is asked for the e.u. has agreed big support package it's worth more than 3 trillion euros to counter the economic effects of the crisis such as the huge hit to european tourism but italy france and spain would like brussels to go further and issue corona bonds a new form of shared debt many german politicians worry that would put new burdens on the german taxpayer is a key that. this crisis is no reason to bring in through the back door financial instruments that invol

tokyo and 6 other prefectures in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus there's been a surge of kovi 19 cases in major cities with over a 1000 infections in tokyo alone speaking on monday prime minister shinzo of a said the state of emergency could be announced as early as tuesday and could be in effect for about a month he also announced a one trillion us dollars stimulus package to counter the economic impact of the pandemic people. german chancellor angela merkel said the country is ready to help the european union get back to economic health once the coronavirus pandemic is over michael said it was in germany's interest that europe should emerge strongly from what she called the use biggest test since its foundation but she said it was too early to think about lifting the lockdown measures. back in the chancellery after 2 weeks in coron 1003 negative current virus tests german chancellor angela merkel made her return. in my opinion europe the european union is facing its biggest test since its foundation populations are also facing a huge health challenge. all the e.u. member sta

shared 96 percent of its genetic material with the virus behind the current pandemic known as sars kovi 2. but this particular bat virus is unlikely to have infected human cells directly what is more likely is that the virus jumped to humans via another animal one prime candidate is a pangolin the corona virus found in pangolins has similar surface proteins which dr receptors to the virus currently infecting humans but other animals are also potential transmitters to search for the source of this pandemic is still in full swing. back to profess them in light of on the free trade lefler institute an animal studies what is the significance of bats carrying so many viruses and how does this knowledge help us deal with a current outbreak. so probably bets are a good reservoir for different kinds of viruses not only coral are viruses we actually don't know why this is the case that they can control the virus better than other species do might have a special in human system which is able to control the viruses but so far it's unclear what the basis of this reservoir function really is i but w

study was that actually surgical mask a block many of the aerosol particles as well so even if sars kovi too is airborne a surgical mask could still provide some benefit obviously not as much as it would against the large risk but it could still provide some benefit right and as you mentioned earlier surgical mask or any kind of mask really they're in short supply right now a lot of people are turning to d.i.y. mask what kind of mask makes sense in your view for the general public. but i think any mass is better than no moss but we know that materials that are a bit thicker probably have better through a trace in performance so a cotton mask across mask is probably better than a scarf but we we actually don't know that much there haven't been that many studies on the different choices and i think dust now one of the pirates sees now you already mentioned that a mask condron plays measures like social distancing or washing your hands but there's a lot of discussion now in in europe and bowed to an exit strategy from the lock down can face mask help us return to an almost normal life so ar

analogy but towards really encouraging is that i think there are over 60 kompany is working on for sars kovi to a vaccine using all different technologies so we have all sorts of approaches that we can use to develop vaccines these days we're not limited to just one or 2 kinds and so i think that really improves the likelihood that one of them at least or maybe 2 are going to work so i have pretty good confidence that out of those 60 different approaches and i was looking at the list last night it's amazing how many different kinds of vaccine approaches are being taken one of those should work since we have people who have contracted the virus and recovered last year which is right there on to the original but cells or something and use that everywhere we can in fact that is one of the approaches that's being tried we can in a very fast approach we can take antibodies or serum from those people who are recovered we can give them to other people to try and resolve the infection but that's not a long term solution other companies are isolating the cells from those patients that make antibodies

these are some of the questions we'll discuss in this edition of kovi 1000 special here on the w. news i'm chris caldwell in berlin is good to have you with us now the longer the shutdown is in place the more pressing becomes the question when constrict social distancing measures be east here in germany public officials are yet to decide on an official strategy so let's get an expert's view to be escort is a professor of public health and it in the ology at berlin's charlotte a hospital welcome to our program to be yes let's talk about the weather 1st here there have been some including the u.s. president saying that rising temperatures are bad for the virus are they. well if you look at areas reporting factionalism if you see this bird that the virus that there's really no differences between regions of war and reaching the colder so i think the virus is really not affected by temperature it is true that you are in the cold weather season to skin in certain insect you throw this more susceptible for getting in it's actually that may be a factor of it don't think that it is really

daniel represents that road i minded us community and says she's afraid illegal gold miners will spread kovi 1000. but only if the virus enters our land we're worried we want to have enough to tendin a company all our members we have more than 50000 indigenous communities in this country and we're very worried about that we don't have enough doctors for what could happen here last week a 15 year old boy died of covert 19 he belonged to the gentleman mean community there's around 20000 illegal gold miners in general mommy territory which stretches at the border between brazil and venezuela in the 1960 s. and eighty's illegal miners introduced deceases such as missiles among the general mom indigenous community here it killed around 50 percent of the population many here fear the same thing could happen again and that's why members of the indigenous community have blocked the access roads to their land. we are worried about the coronavirus in our community that is why from now on our security people will be here to inspect the entrance of our community people from outside were not be allowed t

for qatari or fish oils this is a pivotal moment as a country battles kovi 90 the emir set a member have a death than he has instructed the government to take all necessary steps to contain the spread of the virus. a company affiliated with qatar's ministry of defense teamed up with a u.s. based laser and optics firm that partnership produced saver his highness to become of the tiny requested the ministry of defense to source and manufacture a ventilator and design holdings. to execute this project and as you can see in our in the law today we are in the very final stages and we're starting manufacturing the ventilators we plan on manufacturing $10000.00 units a month to support qatar a majority of the components are manufactured here and house so from raw material to manufacture of the components and some components are you know obviously. are sourced from outside africa and assembly takes place here ventilators have become central in the global fight against co the 19 manufacturers are ramping up output to cope with the growing demands. the pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down

airline hard rescheduled it for the end of this month but we know this is going to take longer because kovi 19 is spreading i found out about the repatriation flights and decided to return. to story repeats in peru where french spanish and belgian citizens all buses bound for an earful space this weekend. the german government has repatriated nearly 200000 of its citizens including this group in south africa on friday all flights have been grounded there but an exception was made this week. actually think it's a good thing to turn the princess people. because. that way we also know that for the health system for africa. governments have been relying on commercial airlines but with fewer flights every day the block is resorting to a mix of charset and military planes e.u. institutions are also helping to cover costs and their passengers of more than one e.u. country they focused only on tourists not a you citizens living permanently abroad we had brought home more than 350000 europeans 50000. 250000 remaining. and many operations on the way things become more difficult every day in january d

s permanent hospitals kovi free while the message for people who suspects they have cancer is still the same go and see your doctor we have got the facilities to treat people cancer can be a much bigger danger than coronavirus and we'd much rather see people with cancer is at an early stage the effect of coronavirus in the u.k. cannot just be measured on a daily death tolls there's also the a measurable cost in terms of bereavement and social and economic hardship but with the peak of the pandemic only just here the long term effects on the u.k.'s health could yet be worse paid partridge r.t. . r t spoke to coral sykora i don't call it just on the dean of medicine at the university of buckingham in the u.k. he stressed the importance of starting to prioritize those in need of urgent treatment. 1st of all people stay away because that's right and stay home protect the n.h.s. save lives that's been the slogan for the last month that pet chris 5 to go to the g.p. that would get them into the diagnostic partly operated surgeons have been idle for the last few months everything's been on ris

not money properly brazil has become the latest country to record more than a $1000.00 deaths from kovi 19 it's the hardest hit nation in latin america but president of all scenario is ignoring advice about social distancing one fine day he visited a bakery way he met his supporters a suburb of the philippines capital has started mass testing residents for called it 19 a big focus will be on people from or of communities without access to good health care the government has been criticized for delaying plans to stop mass nationwide testing the world's top oil producing nations have agreed on the need to stabilize the price of oil which has been hit by the corn a virus spend demick it follows thursday's agreement by opec and its allies to cut global production by 10 percent in other news the 1st person to contract in the democratic republic of congo in more than 50 days has died in 3 days' time the d. r. c. was expected to declare an end to the 20 month all break and chad's president says his country's troops will no longer be taking part in military operations outside its borders the ar

holiday on friday he visited a bakery where he got close with supporters in the past also naras combat kovi 19 to a small slow and maintains the economy and jobs must prevail testable has the latest from when a size. this friday he was seen again leaving the presidential palace and going to a hospital in about a bad round he went inside a bakery started mingling with people hugging them taking pictures among other things he was not wearing a mask and he was not decimated respecting space or social isolation so the world health organization as i recall mandates as we know what joey wilson i do has been saying he says that the economy should be a play a very very important role in the site against coronavirus that it should not be abandoned he has opposed lockdowns in major cities in brazil so we know that he staged this has you know way put him in a very strong drastic confrontations with the governors of sao paulo for example of rio they join nato that have imposed lock downs in their city he called them criminal lockdowns because he did not defend not believe that vic's are positive that t

reopen the economy on thursday but a record number of americans more than 2300 have been killed by kovi 19 in the past 24 hours and new york is still on the frontline of the pandemic with the highest number of reported infections and das and even though new infections seem sort of snowed in recent days hospitals say are at breaking point. and france has reported a huge jump in the number of coronavirus that's 1400 fatalities on wednesday and that's taken the nationwide death toll to more than 17 fouls. now u.s. president donald trump has faced criticism for failing to coordinate with states during the pandemic particularly when it comes to providing medical supplies and equipment for frontline health workers unable to buy enough of what is needed new york has have taken matters into their own hands as christensen army reports. at a time when most new yorkers are staying home this warehouse is bustling with workers they once made signs and displays for major fashion houses but now they have a new job producing face shields used by medical personnel treating coronavirus patients boss mike

gear new york's mayor is urging people to wear face masks in public as the city remains america's kovi 1000 hot spot a quarter of the 1000000 cases worldwide come from the u.s. our white house correspondent kimberly hockett has more from washington. as the number of coronavirus cases in the united states continues to rise so does historic unemployment as a result the u.s. president announcing 350000000000 in small business loans to help small businesses retain employees who are staying at home right now as a result 1 of social distancing the u.s. president also saying americans can expect guidance soon whether or not they should be wearing face masks when they leave their homes now there is in the midst of all this still strict social distancing guidelines and stay at home orders in a majority of u.s. states that is something that is in place to try and help stop the spread but it is not just the united states that to struggle in with the increasing number of coronavirus cases iran of course is also being hit hard i asked the u.s. president whether he thought this might be a time to ea

now over how to handle the corona virus outbreak the president has repeatedly don paid the risk of kovi 1000 calling it a little flu for israel has latin america's worst outbreak with nearly 2003 ported deaths and the u.n. envoy for yemen says the country's warring sides are close to reaching a formal truce negotiations have been taking place for the past 2 weeks after the saudi u.a.e. coalition announced a unilateral cease fire a spokesman for sodger arabia says assad's wanted to support the u.n. efforts to reach a political solution and help to stop the spread of the corner fires those are the headlines coming up next on people in power. as corona virus continues to devastate the united states the race to the white house goes on joe biden has all but secured his place is the democratic nominee but can he beat donald trump joining us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. alaska's far north as one of the world's last pristine environments but now the trumpet ministration wants to let the oil companies through here as campaign is take on the white house and the

france as a teenager from senegal was 68 the former journalist and agent is a 1st person to die from kovi 19 in the senate. if he is postponing national elections in response to the pandemic the poll set for august were to be the 1st since prime minister and nobel prize winner came to office in 2018 the election commission says a vote will be rescheduled when the crisis eases ethiopia has 26 confirmed cold 1000 cases. you're upset with the headlines on al-jazeera up next year it's the listening posts to serious. every year 50000000 tonnes of electronic waste is thrown away the majority as anybody can be done in developing countries right now electronic waste is the most traded as of this with retracing the tech through the criminal organizations making big profits and asking why the west is turning a blind eye. manmade on the waste trail on al-jazeera. to extract precious to take on a concert tracing is one of the hardest he works in south korea how to talk to. charlie try to talk to. me if one of our is pandemic ok to wait for it you know that's nothing. hello i'm richard gere's bird and

charismatic endearing and passionate leader the former journalist and agent is a 1st person to die from kovi 19 in senegal. in kenya a funeral has been held for a 13 year old boy allegedly shot by police in forcing a virus lock down hussein mario says his family was standing on their balcony at the beginning of the nighttime curfew on monday when police opened fire is son died after being shot in the stomach police are investigating the incidents but human rights watch says the use of excessive force by kenyan police good undermine the fight against corona virus in new york what is really a bone with a bang was that in the separation is being carried out in the wrong way it's like robbery because the police arrive yelling and people see this they run skewed to make messes with the beast and rob. people but also 30 case in our homes even though people have children we're fighting corona during the day and we have to deal with bullets during the noise. police in south africa are also being accused of heavy handed behavior after using tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a protest by health

to try and stop people gathering to celebrate the last day of its new year festival the country's kovi 1000 death toll has passed 3000 all into city travel has been banned until at least april 8th but the government has so far avoided a full scale lockdown more than 47500 infections have been confirmed in iran. in lebannon the cabinet has approved financial aid for knowing and those lost their jobs during it but the coronavirus outbreak there is deepening what was already the country's worst economic crisis in decades is in a harder has more from. it's a desperate time for a growing number of lebanese those willing and able to help are stepping in by providing food to the poor a nationwide stay at home order to contain the coronavirus is putting further hardship on an already struggling population we have so many calls would imagine people starving there were no we were starving only food people asking for medication people asking for milk for their children and diapers i wish that we can get that done for them but we are so limited with raising money is hard in a country where accordi

lives that's transport for london workers so really many different sectors on the front lines facing kovi keeping the country going it lost their lives in the country they're showing their appreciation for those people. it's thank you very much indeed for all of that while meanwhile the british are the least england to want businesses to reopen if the virus hasn't been totally contained its source mori analyzed data from 14 countries and information from more than 20000 people 76 percent of britons are against the reopening of the economy if the virus isn't fully contained canada is the same while just over 60 percent in spain agree as do 59 percent of americans in terms of those wanting to reopen the economy 60 percent of russians would be in favor with the same number in china 53 percent of italians and half of germans the survey also asked whether people would be nervous to leave home after the economy reopens we're just over 70 percent of britain said yes as does 70 percent of the chinese whereas a half of germans said they would be scared around 40 percent of russians or discuss all

medical care new york's mayor is urging people to wear face masks in public as a city remains america's kovi 1000 hotspots we're now conducting well over 100000 corona virus test per day over at that $100000.00 test a day and these are accurate tests and they're moving rapidly which is more than any other country in the world both in terms of the raw number and also on a per capita basis the most the f.d.a. is also authorized the 1st coronavirus antibody test developed a cell execute step that will help identify people who have recovered and to understand their immune response and their immune system. and the economic fallout continues to deepen with an unprecedented 10000000 americans losing their jobs in the past 2 weeks the u.s. has a quarter of the world's 1000000 cases of the virus concern about a reserve of infections in the epicenter of the corner virus outbreak in china has prompted a warning to people in the city of one to stay indoors sarah clarke has more from hong kong latest figures we've got coming from china's health commission we have 31 new cases reported on friday in 29 app

without proper kits dr osama was the 1st doctor in pakistan to be killed by the virus he'd been treating kovi the 19 victims many who had arrived from neighboring iran she being one of the worst hit countries it's not known how many health workers have been infected across pakistan many with since exhorting florentine yourself why so late to islamist if you but don't you the government is least concerned about the safety of mrs their wellbeing even as they pay a wide role in health care and sadly this one knows for 99 patients on normal days and if the situation gets out of control how they going to cope so they must tell you more nurses to tackle this crisis china has sent medical equipment across the border the help is vital but nowhere near enough. this hospital police gave a go out of only to show respect to stop and to try and boost the morale. of the medics here and it's hospitals across pakistan didn't take moving several to save lives. i just are. a further 10 people have died since in asia. in the country's death toll to $191.00 the president has urged people not to travel during the