child and daily thank you minear and stay safe. we're turning to south africa now which has reported a sharp rise in the number of corona virus infections nearly 20000 new cases were reported over the weekend on saturday the country recorded the biggest increase in a single day since the start of the pandemic the government is urging people to respect social distancing and other measures to halt the spread of the virus but as agree increase reports from cape town that is proving difficult for some communities. cape town one of the a.p. centers of the coronavirus pandemic in south africa but there's little evidence of it in the few abides by the mandates to wear a mask and social distancing is unusual. you see. so in that me no i'm not there for you because i. know you. understand so i'm so used so i'm not scared because you know we're going to but overcrowded neighborhoods is just where the virus is rapidly spreading many people here feel the economic fallout of the pandemic is a greater threat than the disease itself that's why a

that countries can't stay single dog forever so let's get some analysis here and talk to dr mohammed minear he's a viral it just at britain's lancaster university and joins us now in a very welcome thanks for your time this afternoon would you agree with the british prime minister that it is likely that europe is now experiencing a 2nd way. well to some extent if we look really onto the data we can see a significant increase in the number of cases in many countries like germany spain especially in the gut only region and in belgium as well so if we really look onto what has been happening month before we can see that has been a significant reduction and that's what we classify the 2nd mate that we see substantial decrease in the number of cases for 14 days and then it if it start appearing that it is the 2nd of a and that's what we are observing so certainly there are concerns on the 2nd yes and why it is happening do you think is it just stand to countries easing the restrictions they had in place before. well the important thing here is that when we put the lock downs locked on do not. fa

dr minear thank you for joining us 1st of all what does this mean for us if this virus can spread through this airborne airborne route. and yeah well if it is economics by the world health organization that this was can transmit to other people through we have bought that mean of meserve jeanne you know or daily life which is already pretty much distorted that means that we probably have to wear face masks in the or we have to work really effectively onto the ventilation. conditioning because there's a collision indoor would probably mean higher ups for your to the wires and we also probably need to think about commuting maybe trains and the bus is going to be traveling with or didn't know the open and so on so once it is it were nice message and use it acquired ok so we're talking about even more precautions here in the w.h.o. says it's still emerging evidence behind that spend more than 200 international scientists are convinced that this is true so why is the world health organization being cautious. i think one of the major problem is being misinterpretation of the data because they a