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

dr margaret harvesters speaks for the world health organization and joins us from geneva welcome to detail dr harrison so how would these do these does this discussion is going to work do people turn up with a sort of list of likely drugs and then work through cost benefit time calculations . good evening and thanks for having me on your program know how it works is at the moment all the research is said looking at what's out there what what if we're talking for instance about their what their picks have been used in other outbreaks similar outbreaks use with viruses have some sort of track record with viruses and how you then use them ethically make sure that you can do the research but do it if they play something we were able to do during the current the polar outbreak in the democratic republic of congo and which in fact yielded to risk information. showed us that with their work there are projects that work so right now the question is what's out there how can we research it how can we research is as rapidly as possible to get some results which tell us that this thing works what does

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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 idiot and balance shock announcement that she will step down as head of matters c.d.u. party throws the field of potential chancellor candidates wide open but finding a successor poses a major challenge for the c.d.u. the political crisis in germany comes as the rest of europe looks to berlin for stability through the tumultuous post brags that era. a chief political editor michelle knight joins me now michelle or a new party leader is not going to be chosen anytime soon how will this will this uncertainty and delay in waiting weaken the c.d.o. party. but already has because the succession plan of angle medical didn't work out and it was the one who was supposed to unite the party to hound behind a clear vision of what being conservative that's the see in the c.d.u. party is all about in the years and decades to come and now she had t

of measures to deal with the corona virus but what more needs to be done i put that question to dr margaret harris of the world health organization in geneva everybody is 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 and 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 hanna's from the wanted though and i think engine eva 2 other news officials in bangor there's say a boat carrying the refugees has sunk of the country's southern coast at least 14 people were drowned 70 were rescued an estimate

dispatched a team of experts to china to help combat the crisis we spoke to just folks from one dr margaret had is about the organizations global response to the infections everybody is 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 less 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 and pay a lot of attention but really listen to the right advice have excellent hand hygiene make sure that they look after their health make sure that they do all the things that will protect themselves appropriately but not panic. simple advice straightforward and you can keep track of all of coronavirus coverage at dot com and on twitter page. at least 14 during the refugees are dead after a boat carrying them sank in the bay of bengal they were part of a g

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

sure 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 reb

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

dr. 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

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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dr. fauci about that, but the american media are willing to stop asking questions. at least margaretrennan pushed back on that a little bit. >> they have no credibility once whatsoever. >> laura: on any issue! >> we know this, not even their own people believe them. when you get on twitter, you can see the chinese saying everything is a lie. a director's entire family movie director and entire family died in wuhan. the director of the hospital died in wuhan. the guy that tried to blow the whistle died in wuhan. we've got big problems in china anecdotally, at least, so how are we going to believe the numbers? >> laura: we are putting the numbers up, but how do we know coronavirus confirmed cases 75,000. let's put them up on the screen. total deaths, 2007. i guess we are not putting it on the screen. but 2007. okay. we can't believe china given what they said about the reeducation camps. we have muslim uighurs being thrown into these camps because of the concern they might procreate. there've been a couple of media outlets that have done great work about that. i'm curious as to why tom

died but he's yet to publicly mention dr lee by name adrian brown 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 50