Funny response the e. U. Commission president criticizes Member States for that matter solidarity the coronavirus sweeps across the continent. And burning fast people turns its locker room into a t. V. Studio to help keep kids active during self isolation. Welcome to the program the United States now has more confirmed cases of corona virus than any other country including china almost 86000 people in the u. S. Have become infected and nearly 1300 have died the crisis has hit the American Economy hot fueling a record surge in unemployment claims the countrys biggest city new york is struggling. These are desperate days in new york with more than 3 and a half 1000 new cases in the last day alone medical facilities a critically overstretched a long line of worried people wait outside this hospital in the borough of queens just to be tested for the virus. Almost any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the Current Health care system. Thats why the authorities a trust a cli stepping up their response this hospital in manhattan is setting up a makeshift morgue getting ready for a wave of deaths or more thats creepy. Trickle. Down a temporary mark. If it is a powerful. Im scared to be here thats something where im as determined President Donald Trump insists the battle will be won we are waging war on this virus using every financial scientific medical pharmaceutical and military resources to halt its spread and protect our citizens and know that we will achieve victory and quickly returned to the path of Exceptional Health safety and pres barry for all of our citizens other emergency measures include this 1000 bed u. S. Navy hospital ship due to arrive in new york harbor on monday to ease the pressure on the citys own hospitals. Normally packed times square is now eerily deserted with no tourists in town and do your because he didnt government ban on working and socializing in public. A city already in fear knows that the worst is still to come. With the situation then in the u. S. With correspondent all of the silence in the washington welcome all about why is President Trump so confident these crises will be results soon. Im not even sure he is that confident of what hes really trying to do here is to sell hope and optimism to the American Public of course and also to the American Voters because he knows that his reelection is at stake and you know you have millions of americans who feel very much insecure of this time are scared of course of the Current Situation of unemployment all of the spreading virus the pandemic and so every day President Trump deliver instance a press conference in the White House PressBriefing Room that by the way he hardly ever used in his presidency and that he has now turned into Something Like his campaign really if you will with the major message being always like its all going to be good its all going to be ok were going to go back to work soon and the stock markets will go back up again thats another very important aspect of course here in the United States so experts and his own Health Experts in the white halls see that differently but his voters like it and you can see that in the job approval rate of President Trump thats as high as it has never been in his presidency. The u. S. Like the rest of the world is facing an economic crisis unemployment claims last week with the highest recorded ever. You know thats right and were now in a situation where more than 3000000 americans filed unemployment but there are some respected economists who believe that this is not just the beginning that this number could go up to 46000000. 00 within this crisis so the worst is certainly yet to come not only with regards to the pandemic but also with regards to the economic fallout of the pandemic and thats again very threatening for trumps reelection bid because hes always made the case that this is the most successful economy and the most successful stock market of all times this is basically essentially trumps take and why he should be reelected but this all is turning into the exactly opposite except that they have an unprecedented 2. 00 trillion dollars into because we will this is this is the hope anyway this rescue package that cleared the senate and is expected to be voted on in the house on friday is this going to be enough to ease the strain not just on the Health System but on the whole of the u. S. Economy. Right its its again unprecedented its money that is urgently needed and as you say its mostly needed as a kind of emergency relief so to compensate people and businesses that are suffering from the situation right now from the last dollars across many Economic Center is in the United States but if you look at the Health System that in particular in the efi center in new york that Many Health Workers there described as catastrophic where french trucks are used right now to store the bodies of deceased patients in the hospitals well then money of course is necessary and would help but only if necessary material is available and new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo desperately is calling for 40020. 00 later for instance hes also stressing that the Health Care System is running out of supplies very soon so money is certainly not the only problem here its also the fact that the material is not available in the market. All of a solace in washington thank you will have the worlds more than 500000 confirmed coronavirus cases here in europe so this crisis is likely to hit the block harder than the previous economic and migration crises the European Central banks already announced unprecedented action to support e. U. Members and businesses the Member States comments agree on how to distribute the financial burden and this is resurrecting old fault lines between north and south protective gloves now a regular feature in the European Parliament the assembly is largely empty any piece who do attend are taking extra precautions on the agenda forging a common e. U. Response to the Coronavirus Crisis when you really need it and only one spirit too many initially gave and only from me response. And when europe really needed to prove that this is not only a share with the union too many initially refused to share their umbrella an umbrella some e. U. Members remain reluctant to share that includes funder lions home country germany even as the pandemic storm intensifies across the block thursday 6 hour Video Conference with the e. U. s 27. 00 National Leaders and did without agreement on just how unified the economic response should be especially when it comes to sharing debt across the eurozone and if we reject come in all debt this is an old system that has not been used in the cost to. The countries hardest hit by the pentameter so far italy france and spain are among 9 e. U. Countries in favor of socalled corona bonds opponents including the netherlands and finland prefer the european stability mechanism set up in 2012 to respond to the euro crisis the e. S. M. Can lend money to members in trouble but with Strings Attached now euro zone finance ministers have 2 weeks to figure out the details a long time in the life of the rapidly spreading virus lets take a look at some more of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic 3 months into the outbreak in the total number of confirmed cases has passed half a 1000000 the death toll is more than 24000 france has reported the 5th highest number of covered 19 deaths and its death toll is still climbing its jumped by a quarter in just one day and German Company boss says it has developed a coronavirus test for use in medical facilities that delivers results in 2 and a half hours twice as fast as the tests. In other news the u. S. Government has announced a 15000000. 00 reward for information leading to the arrest of venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro you know when kerry was the u. S. Justice department charges president maduro and other senior venezuelan officials with Drug Trafficking crimes washington accuses majoritys allies of converting venice right into a criminal enterprise and stealing billions of dollars you know chachi you see escalation of the u. S. Governments campaign to oust him his u. S. Attorney general william bach the indictment of Nicholas Madero and his codefendants alleges a conspiracy involving an extremely violent terrorist organization known as the revolutionary armed forces of colombia the far and an effort to flood the United States with cocaine. Will d. W. South america correspondent nicole servage has been following the story from the colombian capital but she explained the background to the u. S. Charges in a way this was a very natural next step for the u. S. Government to take but an extremely important one nonetheless because for the 1st time Nicolas Maduro isnt only being called complicit hes being identified as the leader of a drug cartel a position from which he allegedly orchestrated large scale drug shipments between venezuela and the United States for 20 years the u. S. Dont seem to eager to get their hands dirty on all of that so what theyre likely seeking with this bounty is for members of my party and the military to defect and have his support system crumble that might allow one the man who is widely regarded as venezuelas legitimate president to move in seize power extradite him to the United States where he would then face justice. And bachata people everywhere are finding creative ways to learn or to keep fates on the restrictions imposed during the virus pandemic in germany the countrys biggest Basketball Club alba ballin has been helping kids who are stuck at home to do both more and more tuning into albas sport lesson every move. 10 year old levy is at home alone just no schools closed in berlin last week but that doesnt mean he has to miss out on lessons beth nissen is not. Giving to best to throw the ball from your wrist so that it flies in a good curve to make it go forward from behind your back means we bend our wrist and try to throw the ball over our but. I dont know. How the sports lesson runs when you cue every working day from the players dressing room with a 120 coaches at the club alba know what theyre doing but theyve had to quickly develop the knowhow of a professional film company what with their dressing room being turned into a t. V. Studio 5 days a week the new. Guys who chose the new. Form d of. The service. Earlier. Also for college. And some oh. Everybody knows that the online lessons have had millions of clicks alba berlin are succeeding in the Digital World if not on the Basketball Court levy seems quite happy with it despite having to stay at home. My dear mom i hope you keep it going its really exciting and you can learn a lot about basketball. Ciao. Well despite appeals for people to avoid panic buying joining the corona Virus Outbreak thats exactly what people have been doing it can be hard to find things like disinfectant pasta flour especially toilet paper in german supermarkets but if you can get the real stuff you cannot get a total roll shaped cake jim a baker has started making the cakes as a joke now hes selling 200 a day and helping he says 40 staff work. In well people in britain have been paying tribute to the health care and Emergency Service workers whove been on duty throughout the Coronavirus Crisis. Residents came out of their homes to join in with a nationwide round of applause and to say thank you and of the capital london monuments including the tower bridge much better than the blue used by the National Health service for its browning. Covert 19 special is up next on. News and information on the website at the top of the. Pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our daily update. Special next on d. W. How does a virus spread. Why do we have it and when will. Just through the. Show its called spectrum if you would like any information on the drawing of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you go your podcast can also find us at. Science. We have a simple message for all countries. Theres. A simple message yes a simple solution or not sure and certainly not all countries have been employing it the fight against corona virus has multiple fronts testing tracing infection chains racing to create vaccines and treatments or seeing what already exists and what could be adapted to treat the Novel Coronavirus how should countries prioritize. Im gentle and those are the kinds of questions we want to answer in the. 19th special its the same one scientists and government officials have a grappled with since the beginning of the outbreak now back to the message to test test and test south korea was one of the countries which followed the World Health Organizations advice most diligently and managed to flatten the curve heres how south korea did it. So 3 in hospital has created a new system for testing patients suspected of suffering from the corona virus coded 19 after an initial consultation patients enter a booth to have samples taken and talked to a medical technician using an intercom. So only young have developed a fever and other cold like symptoms and decided to get a test just to be safe. If you dont know that you have it pandemics parents even if youre a little anxious its good to have a test at 1st i was scared when i heard about it but it wasnt as painful as i thought and it was actually kind of interesting. To do the sort of the brainchild of dr kim saying gil really designs were quickly put in service on march 10th the booth helped medical workers process patients 10 times faster than the traditional procedure. Prior to the introduction of the system patients were treated in large negative pressure aims which take a long time to sterilize them ventilate its inefficient and doctors and nurses have to meet people face to face and were nervous about exposure and tie it this physical separation is safe and enables print examinations. Dozens of hospitals in south korea and abroad have expressed interest in implementing a booth testing system although these prototypes are not scaled for manufacturing dr kim has shared his know how. Testing has been a key pillar to south koreas response to the corona Virus Outbreak seeking to flatten the curve and reduce the number of new cases without implementing a complete lockdown test kits manufactured here have been exploited to other countries to strengthen their response to the pandemic. Drive through testing has also been an innovative way so korea has battled the corona Virus Outbreak despite fewer coronavirus cases in south korea in recent days medical intern part john sue argues for rapid testing. The number of confirmed persons is gradually decreasing. The most important thing to get rid of the epidemic is to identify the suspect to patients as soon as possible and have them self isolate overseas necessary treatment if you have even a little fee for suspected symptoms its recommended that you go to the hospital and get tested when done people its about after examining thousands of patients drive through and booth testing have only uncovered a few cases of the coronavirus but they have offered a lot of reassurance to a nervous population. Joining me now is al edwards he is a professor and immunologist at the university of reading in the u. K. Now south koreas method seems to be working so why arent all affected countries doing mass testing if they can. Its a really good question i think that the video you just saw gives you some glimpses as to why testing itself is a very valuable tool but its quite labor intensive and it has to be done really carefully because if you do testing in a way that isnt properly and safely controlled there is a risk that you can also spread the virus or put your Health Workers at risk when they take those samples so its a delicate balance and it needs a lot of manpower well because of the complexity of this task we can imagine that not all countries are able to enroll this kind of nice testing what would you recommend for those countries so i think the most important thing is to spread the resource you have wisely so whats really important is to 1st of all prioritize people who are in hospital and also Health Care Workers because these are the most Vulnerable People and also the most exposed people and by prioritizing the use of your testing results and by using that smartly as possible even if you have limited testing results its still incredibly value and it gives you so much data and so much information about whats going on. What about home testing kits could they help at all yes theres a number of different technologies and tools out there. These can even be a simple i have one here at this little plastic that could potentially be used at home this kind of technology is going to be incredibly useful but it does have to be used very carefully so when you do a lab test you have the best possible accuracy if you do a home test theyre not quite as accurate but theyre more convenient so you have to make sure that you use the best possible science and medical practices to use these tests effectively rather than just using them without proper consideration. Now testing is of course one issue but how much of an issue is for example Global Access to vaccines and treatments going to be are we in danger of seeing a 1st come 1st serve the prochoice which could prioritize rich countries for example yeah and i think thats already happening to a degree with testing even the better of countries are getting 1st access to Testing Technology and unfortunately i could see the same thing happen with their opies theres some really good news and some positive news which is that people seem to be incredibly open to sharing the information they have about improved treatments and thats vital so everybody has that knowledge but whether we can see the same sharing of resources im not so sure about whether that resource in terms of ventilators or when vaccines start to be manufactured whether people will share them around im not sure whether thats going to happen well have to see information sharing as well as resource sharing its going to be vital thank you very much edward he is a professor an immunologist at the university of reading in the u. K. Thanks for your insights now vaccines seem to interest many of you as youve been sending us your questions in the last few days our science correspondent Derek Williams has some answers for you take a look. Why will it take so long to come up with a vaccine the problem with developing any pharmaceutical product is that it has to go through an exhaustive Testing Process with the vaccine you 1st have to identify good potential candidates and that when astonishingly quickly this time within weeks of identifying the virus and sequencing its genome researchers begin talking about candidates but thats just the start you next have to test your candidate for safety usually you do it 1st in animals and then in increasingly large groups of humans but only after a candidate has proven Safety Developers usually begin looking at actually how effective it is so even if and when youre a candidate fulfills all of those criteria you still have to ramp up production to manufacture hundreds of millions or even billions of doses now there are ways to speed the entire process up a little bit for example by by running some of those trials in parallel rather than one after the other but that approach has drawbacks to and thats why most experts usually predict that we wont have a vaccine were ready to distribute on a wide scale for at least a year and a half. Why do people talk so much about a vaccine is a medication more important. Medications are of course important for limiting the impact of the virus on patients around the world but long term to defeat the disease we need whats called herd immunity and the best way to get that is through vaccines if we dont develop vaccines experts currently estimate that between 50 and 70 percent of us would have to get covert 19 before herd immunity kicked in and stop the pandemic naturally but along the way it could potentially kill millions of people so a vaccine offers a safe alternative to achieving immunity in a large percentage of the population and donts of prevention is really. Worth a pound of cure thats why although treatments are very important long term that seems our even more so is that research on how existing drugs affect 19. A range of potential drugs that might one day help treat kovac 19 are being trialled around the world but we dont really have many results for any of them so far the World Health Organization is looking at 3 candidates in particular that have shown some promise 1st its examining the effects of a stablished antimalarial drug song coronavirus symptoms that each oh sponsor trials are also ongoing for combinations of antivirals that have already been approved for treating h i v and finally one of the most promising substances is a compound called rendez if here it was originally developed as a potential treatment for ebola but it didnt work out for that disease as well as hoped retrospective testing however showed that it did affect replication in the summers virus so hopes are high that it might also affect that pathogens close relative to new coronavirus the best thing about all of these candidates is that most or all of the development has already been done for them so production could be ramped up quickly if they did prove effective and these Clinical Trials we should know soon if any of them or. Before we let you go we step away from the sobering world of tests and vaccines 20. 00 in lighter fare one restaurant in hanoi has created about Corona Burger so far only available in vietnam but it looks set to take off the world wide its a beef burger in a green tea stand by a shaped body the Restaurant Owner is there lighted with his creation he says business is good i know hopefully remind customers to wash their hands before eating. And there are swiss confectioners reminding us of the season but also of the times when Chocolate Easter bunnies a decorated with little face masks. And that was our d w 19 special for more do check out our social Media Channels im john thank you for watching and stay healthy everyone. What unites. Different. Looks. What binds the continent to. The cancers and stories aplenty. Why dont people. Go to africa. In the morning shes a student in the afternoon a reporter. Is taking your camera works. 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