Im called asked and welcome italy remains europes epicenter of the corona virus pandemic and at this hour is holding a minute of silence to honor its victims more than 11500 people have died so far from covert 19 we take you to those live pictures now as italy commemorates its victims. Thanks. For looking again of my fixtures there in italy i do believe that actually the the mayor of rome and apparently all the mayors across the country are out side to all of the victims wearing a sash. The one you see there are t. V. Channels going quiet flags at half mast as well again the latest numbers from italy more than 100000 people confirmed with cases of the virus nearly 11600 people have died italy now taking one minute to pause at midday to remember those victims. We want to bring in our correspondent from rome sima gupta now sima youre there youre watching this moment of silence really is striking to see the way that italy has shifted since the outbreak began a few weeks ago residents were on their balconies they were singing and now its silence. You know absolutely right karl i mean we had sitting on balconies applause for Health Care Workers trying to say keep it up everything will be all right well get through this lets support each other but today really i think a sign perhaps of the song but the reality that everyone is facing these staggering figures of the number of people who have lost their lives those that have died with cove with 19 more than 11500 people and off that 11500 there as well 61 doctrines a sign of what the Health Care Workers put it that selves at risk in order to help those who need it bulls in this very dark time so youre right the Town Councils around the country all memory to this bullshit remembering the victims but ordering those Health Care Workers as well all of my flags flying at half mast and its not just your duty but of course the classic in city as well those who take the a flag down and half mast in solidarity with those suffering from this pandemic not just here in italy but also around the world so yes a song but movement indeed its its a tough fight ahead as the numbers of deaths continue to be staggering 812 in the last 24 oz that have died with covert 19 even though obvious or distressing that the number of inspections. Seem a residence theyve been under a Strict Lockdown for weeks now and it was supposed to come to an end this friday now its been announced it will go on until Easter Sunday is that a blow to morale how are people coping there with this long walk down. Well one just has to look at the psychological stress for a lot of people i mean those who have jobs still and can work from home yes they are trying to juggle things with their Children School as well just to manage everything well being stuck indoors and coming out just to shop for groceries and he said chills but thats it theres a little bit to real stress were seeing more and more cases of people stories of people not being able to even have enough money to buy groceries particularly in the south of the country where we do see a rise in the number of infections but also its the part of the country that has the highest Unemployment Rate and so you have many people whine bolted illegal clandestine work at the back of course has dried up so people dont have enough money to buy food this is why the government stepped in with this announcement of 400000000 euros being handed out to Town Councils 8000 Town Councils throughout the country to be had to those who need the most vouchers food is just that they get food to feed themselves and their families seem a good to reporting for us from rome as italy pauses of midday to honor the nearly 11600 people who have died from the outbreak there so far thank you very much. I move now to spain which has europes 2nd highest death toll with nearly 8200 deaths the country has also surpassed china now in its number of victims but the elderly there at high risk Nursing Homes in spain have been overwhelmed by the number of infections there are reports of dire conditions even dead bodies being left in beds for hours banned from visiting relatives or fearful for their loved ones our correspondent john Philip Schultz has this report from sybil. 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 effected nothing 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 the 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 that bets the dramatic situation in many Nursing Homes has shocked people here in spain the spender society takes pride in a Strong Family ties and in taking well kaleb people possible criminal neglect and the feeling of helplessness among family members has started to break the cycle 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 without fail and the other relatives feel a little bit closer to their loved ones. Lets take a look now at some other chronic i. Developments the World Health Organization is warning that even though the focus is on europe and on the United States the virus endemic is far from over in asia and the Pacific Region indonesias president yoko we dont know has declared a National Emergency as that countrys number of cases rises to more than 1500 germanys foreign minister has a Foreign Ministry has confirmed that e. U. Countries have sent medical equipment to iran thats the 1st time a transaction has been conducted under a trade mechanism created to circumvent u. S. Sanctions and russia has reported its largest one day rise in new cases some 500. 00 bringing the countrys total confirmed infections to more than 2300. 00 in the United States the death toll from cove in 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 there are staggering so far 80000 for medical professionals have answered almost call meanwhile a u. S. Navy hospital ship as a rive 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 few weeks. Time we needed this roosts we needed theres hope thats being created by our brothers and sisters the u. S. Navy the 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 blunder. 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 will curve. The curve goes like this youre over here prepare for the high point of the curve and do we now 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 their on the front lines in a city or the coronavirus death toll is rising rapidly meanwhile of a states such as michigan louisiana and new jersey also reports a spike in coronavirus cases and brace to become the nations new hot spots and all of this is happening while the u. S. Is still struggling to get testing ramp it up and to better coordinate the efforts to combat the pen demick but president still no charm dismisses and the criticism of the federal governments describing the job they are doing asked tremendous on monday President Trump urged the American People to vigorously follow the fertile social distancing guidelines that were extended through april he said he was not thinking about opening the u. S. Economy very soon instead suggested he might be toughening up the measures in the coming weeks. Check now on some of the other stories making news around the world ford and General Electric say theyll produce 50000 emergency benta later in the next 100 days they join carmaker g. M. In the race to repurpose factory lines to produce ventilators across the u. S. Are urgently seeking devices as they deal with an onslaught of virus patients. Workers at an Amazon Warehouse in new york city of staged a walkout over Workplace Safety thats after one employee at the facility tested positive for the corona virus one warehouse worker was fired after publicizing the protest on social media. The tokyo summer olympics have been postponed for a year but knots a new law banning smoking the japanese capital is one of the worlds last major cities where people can still Smoke Cigarettes at restaurant tables but not for much longer on wednesday the 1st of april a ban on indoor smoking will take effect it was originally meant to make a limb big dining smoke free but officials now hope the measure will have the added benefit of slowing the spread of coronavirus. Though tokyos streets are more quiet these days its restaurants and bars still beckon after hours most welcome smokers but thats about to change a bad schedule to make the city tobacco free in time for the now postponed olympics comes into effect on wednesday Health Experts warn that smokers are likely to be more vulnerable to the coronavirus but that hasnt persuaded these patrons to quit. Of course they know that smoking increases my chances of getting the virus but i cant just stop its an indulgence. If i get the virus i get the virus theres nothing i can do about it than. Sorry. Impact on customers i guess fewer people will come initially theyll come as usual but if they cant smoke will gradually stop coming. Thats exactly what city authorities are hoping for with the number of corona virus infections on the rise they say people have to stop going out and socializing at bars and nightclubs. Constant these locations fall under all 3 locations for close contact that can result in a high risk of infection. Closed spaces with bad ventilation densely packed crowds of people and close distance between people. The governor has already asked tokyos residents to stay indoors but her requests arent binding and as much of life continues as usual medical experts in japan are calling on the government to declare a state of emergency before its too late. Youre watching the news from berlin love more news for you at the top of the hour in the meantime all the latest news and information on the coronavirus endemic available 24 sevenths on our website at www dot com or twitter at the news im confident. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news for. Our corona update. Coded 19 special next on d w. How does a virus spread. Why do we panic and when will all this. Just 3 of the topics and weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the crawl of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. Science. News. In times of corona might be one of the key weapons to curtail the pandemic the data on all smartphones for example that can show in the every step we take every step people around us take scientists estimate that one infected person process the virus on to iran 2 to 3 people on average so what if we used all the data that we already have on all smartphones to track people infected with the coronavirus a move on those who have contact with a carrier prevent more infections build something. A digital box in asia and south korea that seems to have been one of the keys to keep their infection surveillance candidates are trying to help us find the Current Crisis. This is the news welcome to our special coverage of the global covert 19 strike today want to take a closer look at south korea comfrey was hit hard by the coronavirus but now it has seen a steep decline in new covert 19 cases compare that with the numbers in germany currently nearly 10 times as high. Come the number for germany in recent weeks it appears south korea has largely reigned in the disease and without closing down public life to a degree were seeing in europe and elsewhere how. Nobody knows exactly but making use of Internet Technology to share confirmed patients occasions and travel information directly with the public seems to house quite a lot actually. So theory is seems to be battling the coronavirus kovac 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 hone have collected and aggregated that information to more user friendly websites up provide the travel history of each patient. Thats in the text so even if you. Read that place they dont really know way exactly to locate it so i try to put that out on the map so that people can. Officially see where its exactly look at it so that they know if theyve been to that 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 a lot of people like the thiele in korea. Because they think they didnt have any contact with the patient with this website they have a better idea of that they cant really. Deal with the 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 still started using them to understand the situation you can see where infected people have been and avoid going there so 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 bob school of fleming University College london professor offer a peek at the beginning of march south korea has new infections very low you say besides the Testing Program thats due to surveillance how yes tracing through to Surveillance Technology played a pretty part in this fight against a corner. If the country has been to be complicity with testing if you dont know who to test the Testing Capacity has only limited the use so to find out who to test disobedience technology was really cool so the cool east to find though that everyone 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 who this patient could have been by just 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 in but then this entity just quote your work at all says to police state. Resources overtaken through police and thats a credit card transaction move like point. And this is citys so theres no better form every every move by Point 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 well it gives you a lot of cars so for example if a cashier was patient for example everest every single customers or potential patients they had to be tested and using credit card or course you can find out all they want to click on steamers and then see if the t. V. s 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 and so on can i just interrupt you did dont you think professor it is dangerous when a government contract every step of its citizens it is is certainly is so this is this is an emergency manager who will only run the only when the president of troops it does then to put it is a control access to these authorities or with a towel through police so when this situation is over they dont have the data dont get us to stay longer professor dont want to join us live from seoul in south korea thank you very much for this important. I think you. Know that answer questions about how korea handled the fight against the virus but fresh questions around the globe arise every day. Your questions most important and you have sent us plenty Facebook Twitter and email and to answer them at least the 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. And 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 lock downs tracking the Previous Movement of people who tested positive has relied on a company. Of all those measures. Can big data help us avoid a 2nd corona Virus Outbreak and the short answer to that is no the only thing that will stock over 1000 for gerd 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 19 special coverage for today from all on the pandemic to check out all social Media Channels and our website that city w dot com which has dedicated cohabit 19 pages in 30 languages. 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