Restrictions leave to wrists stranded we hear from german travelers stuck in peru with no idea when they can come home. Im called to ask them thanks for joining us we start in the United States where the death toll from cope with 1000 now exceeds 3000 more than a 3rd of those victims are from new york state whose governor has issued an urgent appeal for medical volunteers andrew cuomo called the number of deaths staggering so far and 80000 for medical professionals have answered cuomo call me while a u. S. Navy hospital ship has a arrived to help relieve pressure on the citys hospitals. A welcome sight for new york as the battle against the coronavirus ramps up. A u. S. Navy medical ship with a 1000 beds docked in new york harbor on monday. The mayor spoke of the citys frayed nerves with hospitals are already stretched to a breaking point weve all been through a lot these last 2 weeks. And we needed this boost we needed this hope thats being created by our brothers and sisters the u. S. Navy marine corps central park in the middle of manhattan is the latest site to be taken over by a Field Hospital but new york has been caught in a war of words President Donald Trump says that medical equipment already in place should be enough for the city but the mayor and the state governors say they both need more help from the federal government to be ready for whats coming. It is a fundamental longer. To only prepare for today. Thats why in some ways we are where we are weve been at behind this virus from day one you have this scientist in the data projections show you a curve. The curve goes like this youre over here prepare for the high point of the curve and do we know when you can do it the night before. Medics have become the heroines and heroes of the day and monday was Even National doctors day but in new york theyve had no chance to celebrate there on the front lines in a city or the coronavirus death toll is rising rapidly. Spain has europes 2nd highest coronavirus death toll behind italy and with more than 7700 fatalities now spain has also surpassed china with the elderly and high risk Nursing Homes in spain have been overwhelmed by the number of infections there are reports of dire conditions with dead bodies left in beds for hours banned from visiting relatives or fearful for their loved ones our correspondent john Philip Schultz has this report from seville. What is happening behind these windows concerns many spaniards almost 2000 nursing home residents have died after contracting the corona virus every day more homes are affected and more dangerous uncle has parkinsons and lives in a nursing home in Southern Spain a while ago he learned that the 1st cases of corona virus had been diagnosed there too since then he tells me the residents of the nursing home and their relatives have become increasingly worried. So what are they doing to do with a difficult situation. I cant work has complained about terrible conditions in many homes they say theres not enough protective clothing and that hundreds of their colleagues are infected authorities are investigating reports that some workers went home after the 1st cases were identified leaving residents forgotten their bets the dramatic situation in many Nursing Homes has shocked people here in spain the spender society takes pride in its Strong Family ties and in taking well care of people possible criminal neglect and the feeling of hopelessness among family members has started to affect the south. And a lot of spaniards fear that the situation in Nursing Homes might get worse in the coming days. In the nursing home where often more dangerous unclear lives the management has set up a whats at group now that i file and the other relatives feel a little bit closer to their loved ones. Lets bring in young Philip Schultz you filed that report for us from spain you mentioned in your report that spain is a country that takes pride in caring for its Elderly Population how is it possible for the situation in Nursing Homes there gets a bad. I think the main problem here in spain is that the government has realized way too late the true extent of the problem lasted when dozens of Nursing Homes had already being infected with the coronavirus and regarding the abundance of people in the Nursing Homes i think we have to wait and see the outcome of the investigations that are going on still also nurses and family members that say the. Stuff in Nursing Homes is doing their best regarding the horrible conditions at the moment and that partly also the government is trying to blame us for their own shortcomings spain and now has the 3rd highest number of chrono virus infections worldwide and actually 13000 of those infections are Health Care Workers just gifts not via what the situation is like there right now. Yeah i think there is a contradiction of feelings here in spain at the moment when i go to a supermarket for example one of the few places where this still some social interaction i see a lot of worried and sad faces on the other hand there is also some sense of hope some hope that those very strict measures they must show some effect soon there was a representative of the House Ministry yesterday that gave a press conference and said that they hope that the peak of infections will be reached this week but still the situation is quite bad and especially within families we have to keep in mind that the economy exaggeration gets worse and worse and worse every day this puts a lot of pressure on families they say that the Economic Cost is about 50000000000 euros at the moment already thought about 30 seconds by just one asking you mentioned those new restrictions in spain in a lot down for weeks what exactly has been implemented now. Well the restrictions become very strict now basically only essential workers can go out any more essential work house members of the medical teams social work. Troops supplies and also journalists we are still allowed to work to provide the public with information our john Philip Schultz giving us the latest there in spain thank you very much. I lets take a look now at some other corona virus developments we started italy where the country is the country with the most deaths it will extend its long down now until at least april 12th the talons of been under lockdown for 3 weeks already the World Health Organization is warning that even though the focus is now on europe and the u. S. The coronavirus pandemic is still quote far from over in asia and the Pacific Region Brazils Health minister has defied president enjoy your bowl so narrow and urged brazilians to practice social distancing that something both in our own has downplayed hes also downplayed the pandemic and he opposes regional lockdown measures and mean more and tanzania have become the latest countries to report their 1st coronavirus deaths as part of the global and demick right to kenya now where people are starting to get used to stringent restrictions on daily life due to the outbreak the government has brought in an evening curfew now but theres been criticism of the way that the police have been enforcing it. Life in kenya has slowed down since the 1st confirmed corona cases 2 weeks ago the usual traffic jams are gone and many restaurants and offices have closed. Last friday the government introduced a 7 pm Curfew Police were ordered to arrest people who were not part of essential services such as Health Care Workers of food supply is the result was that people rush to buses and other means of public transport to get home and beat the traffic. And ill be for the actual curfew reports emerged of police from grassing and. Local t. V. Showed chaotic scenes of police dispersing people with gas at a ferry port mombasa. The law society of kenya has filed a complaint against the curfew and the police weve challenging because few because we think because who is notable for the way it was done was kenyans do not have been lucky or. Driving themselves home or a walking public transport system. That what people in nairobi have mixed feelings about the question. Because these are all good thing to do is trying to assist many people and you know most of these people are going to have been no knowledge about it over the border in future. So i will not go there because the suffering and tragedy has doubled theres corona and this Police Brutality is wrong if you dont look as journalists were still allowed to move around after the few of the rules are very clear and there have been reports over the weekend of todays culture so were going home early but were not taking any chances. Our quick check now on some of the other stories making news at this hour ford and General Electric will produce 50000 emergency ventilators in the next 100 days a joint carmaker g. M. In the race to repurpose factory lines to produce ventilators hospitals across the u. S. Are urgently seeking the devices as they deal with an onslaught of coronavirus patients. Amazon workers in the u. S. Are worried about getting infected theyve accused the company of not providing proper protections and are threatening to strike business for the online seller has been strong in recent weeks as people do more of their shopping from home. The largest dutch flour merchant says his industry could lose between 2. 30 euros due to the Current Crisis and its in the height of what would be flour season but most of the harvest remains unsold and has to be composted. A painting by dutch master Vincent Van Gogh has been stolen from a museum in the netherlands thieves broke into the singer large museum near amsterdam which is closed because of the corona virus the painting from 884 is valued valued at up to 6000000 euros. Corona virus travel restrictions across the globe of left large numbers of restraint of thousands of kilometers from home many have to rely on flights chartered by their National Governments to get back some 175000 germans have been repatriated since the start of the pandemic but that leaves another 25000 still stuck abroad and for one group of tourists in peru its not clear when they will be allowed to leave and life under lockdown is not easy. I hope hes dying with coleraine then quickly back inside the hospital in the tourist time of cuzco in the andes where theres a curfew in force. At meal times social distancing over 70 tourists is staying in this hostel some may be infected with the coronavirus none of them are allowed to leave time maybe for a month or even longer German Tourists tease book find is one of them. I think it was the 24th of march that was when everything was closed down full Lockdown Police in front of the door street blocked off nothing coming in or going out since then the supply of food and water isnt completely stable to people here have a fever they are sick and showing typical covered symptoms. Side of. The square in front of the cathedral deserted it used to be buzzing with tourists most of them here for the same purpose to visit the ruins of much of picchu it was here that u. T. S. Tennis holiday fun came to an abrupt end. His calls have been attacks kind of racism towards europeans some supermarkets. Stuck in cuzco and unwanted its a plight shed by many tourists who hope that governments can soon arrange flights to get the might. Well finally how do you teach kids to stay safe in the times of krona virus one solution and listing the help of their favorites muppets elmo and cookie monster from sesame street have joined the fight against the pandemic the pair features a new musical Public Service announcements teaching kids how to sneeze carefully how to wash their hands thoroughly the videos you see here they are airing around the world on t. V. Channels and on Online Platforms theres a bit of getting clean and getting into the group. Last minute. Youre watching news im carl kasell well be back with more news at the top of. Combating the pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Special next on d w. How does a virus spread. Through the town. And weekly radio show its called spectrum if you would like any information on. Or any other science topic we should really check out our. Podcast you can also find us and. Science. In times of corona data might be one of the key weapons to curtail the pandemic the data on our smartphones for example that can show nearly every step we take every step people around us take scientists estimate that one infected person passes the virus on to around 2 to 3 people on average so what if we used all the data that we already have on our smart phones to track people infected with the coronavirus and more on those who have contact with a carrier prevent more infections build Something Like a digital. And south korea that seems to have been one of the keys to keep their infection curve flat surveils can data trucks help us find the Current Crisis. This is the news welcome to our special coverage of the global covert 19 outbreak today want to take a closer look at south korea the country was hit hard by the coronavirus but now it has seen a steep decline in new covered 19 cases compare that with the numbers in germany they are currently nearly 10 times as high. Here come the number for germany in recent weeks it appears south korea has largely reined in the disease and without closing down public life to a degree with seeing in europe and elsewhere now how. Nobody knows exactly but making use of Internet Technology to share come from patients occasions and travel information directly with the public seems to have helped quite a lot. So 3 a seems to be battling the corona virus coated 19 effectively without implementing a complete lockdown in addition to rigorous and innovative testing for the virus online applications and social networking have been crucial to encourage ongoing Public Participation in the battle against the corona virus every day south Korean Health authorities send Text Messages to everyones smartphones the advisories remind people to avoid large groups practice to meter safe distancing and regularly disinfect their homes leaving the windows open. So Korean Health authorities emergency alerts share the locations of new coronavirus patients people can then follow the links to detailed patient tracking data Web Developers like ryan home have collected and aggregated that information to more user friendly websites up the provide to the troubled history of each patient. Thats in the text so even if he. Read that place they dont really know where exactly to locate it so i try to put that out on the map so that people can. Officially see where its a thick look at it so that they know if theyve been to the place the south korean public has become a bit complacent as the pen demick drags on so websites like this may help remind people that the risk of infection is still out there and possibly nearby there are lots of people like thiel in korea. Because they think they didnt have any contact with the patient but with this website they have a better idea of that they can really deal with situation since their creation in late january in early february independent coronavirus patient tracking web sites have received millions of page views offering users reassuring information on. When the corona virus became a threat i downloaded the app since started using them to understand the situation you can see where infected people have been and avoid going there it helps to stop the virus from spreading. So 3 has managed to flatten the curve and reduce new cases of the coronavirus in recent weeks although Health Officials here still worry about potential new clusters. Well from Seoul South Korea im now joined by Professor John one son associate professor at the bar school of Planning University College London professor after a peek at the beginning of march south korea has kept new infections very low you say besides that Testing Program thats due to surveillance how yes tracing through to Surveillance Technology played a pretty part in this fight against the corner as if the country has pretty be complicity with testing if you dont know who to test the Testing Capacity has only limited use so to find out who to test disobedience technology was really cool so the cool east to find though it would be one in every single one patient to come from the patient contacted in the past so ted way you can find out who this patient fighters from and to who this patient could have been itas to what kind of data exactly has the government there gathered. Because the initial data is the interview of People Experts interview interview patients who too is king rarity but then this entity just quote your work at all says to police state. Resources overtake through police and 30 credit card train station move like point. And this is cities so this movie a form every every move i Ponder Service networks have information about where mobile phone has been through g. P. S. And intensive sieber connection and the 2nd a critic cars is again the banks can tell you. When detestation happened so combination of these 2 will it gives you a lot of cars so for example if a keshia was patient for example everest every single customers or potential patients they had to be tested and using credit card or of course you can find out all the while the critical scanners and then c. C. T. V. This can give you even more finite movement to data. To the patient to talk to in the past who the patient to pointing to poor example and i saw one. That he did only think profess a this it is dangerous when a government contract every step of its citizens it is certainly is so this is this is an emergency manager who will only when the only when the president of troops it does tend to put it is a control access to these authorities or with data through police so when this situation is over they dont have the data dont get us to stay longer professor dont want song joining us live from seoul in south korea thank you very much for this and what. If you think you. Know that answer a few questions about how south korea handled the fight against the virus but fresh questions around the global outbreak arise every day. Your questions most important and you have sent us plenty Facebook Twitter and email and to answer them at least a part of them every day heres our science correspondent williams. If we start Data Tracking are there any assurances in place the Technology Wont be used against us in the future that depends a lot on the country i think where you reside any assurances put in place will have to come from governments now theres no question that digital surveillance measures like cell phone tracking that are used to trace the contacts of someone who has been infected are one of the most effective ways that we have now to find out who else might have been exposed but the big fear of course is that once given the right to track their citizens in this way some governments might continue to do it once the Current Crisis is over and it needs to be addressed and the legislation expanding the rights of governments to track their own citizens so striking the right balance between outbreak oversight and data privacy is not going to be easy i think. What data can be used to track the spread of the coronavirus. Well nowadays practically all of us leave a kind of trail of digital bread crumbs behind us as we move through our lives if you had g. P. S. Or bluetooth turned on on your phone for instance then that can provide pretty specific information as to your whereabouts or who you might have come close to other information that can be used as for example when or where you might have made purchases with a bank card or a credit card and then of course in places that are directly monitored by c. C. T. V. You can employ facial Recognition Technology to pretty precisely determine exactly when someone was where in south korea which has so far had some of the greatest success at containing the virus without resorting to draco nian measures like lockdowns tracking the Previous Movement of people who tested positive has relied on the companys. Of all those measures. Can big data help us avoid a 2nd corona virus outbreak. The short answer to that is no the only thing that will stop cold 1000 for good is herd immunity which hopefully we will acquire through a vaccine in the not all too distant future however there are many ways that big data techniques can help us better control any future outbreaks they can help us recognize when one is beginning at an earlier stage to start with and dell also tell us a lot more about what measure is being instigated all over the world at the moment actually work best so even if it doesnt solve the coronavirus problem for us big data it is providing valuable information all the time on how we can hopefully solve the problem ourselves. And that was covered 19 special coverage for today for more on the pandemic to check out all social Media Channels and our website thats the w dot com which has a dedicated cove of 19 pages in 30 languages. At the end of the show we leave you with pictures from a back tomorrow in long body into lees region hit hardest by the Novel Coronavirus streets that. Empty countries sacrificing almost all folds of Business Activity to fight them and. Their crowded again base of tracking will be an issue to avoid the 2nd wave of the pandemic and to stop governments and companies from tracking every move. A dirty business with billions of euros katanas much of the rubble used to make incomes come thailands. 20 among the future plantations the starvation wages in extreme unhealthy conditions the german manufacturers lobby claims. Which units are pressure all the way down to farmers. Closer to the. Bomb d. W. 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