Opinion is divided with that they used by medics can slow the spread of in fiction we look at differing attitudes in europe and asia. Also coming up as india struggles to enforce a nationwide lockdown thousands of day pour out of cities as with dries up. Im anthony held welcome governments around the world a scrambling to find ways to limit the spread of the coronavirus many have imposed restrictions on peoples movements italy is in its 4th week of strict nationwide lockdown while this might be helping in the fight against the coronavirus it is also bringing the countrys economy to its knees with people losing their jobs and earnings fears a mounting that in italy dissatisfaction could quickly turn into an wrist. Italys streets empty like they have been for the past 3 weeks. Police are on patrol to ensure citizens only leave their homes when strictly necessary. The lockdown has altered daily life in italy and brought the countrys economy to a halt all nonessential businesses have had to shut down many people have lost their jobs or have seen their salaries cut some are now unable to afford even the basics of thirtys and individual citizens have stepped in handing out meals to those in need but these initiatives are hardly enough and the risk of social unrest in italy is growing the mayor of naples has warned that the lockdown cant continue indefinitely. But we will soon need something close to normal Economic Activity. Otherwise not only will we have thousands of coronavirus deaths but we will also have millions of Unemployed People be youll need each local body like you know organized crime. It can spend money and it can spend it faster than the government. Will stop in sicily police are patrolling supermarkets after reports of shoppers refusing to pay italy isnt the only nation with a lockdown is hitting the poor hardest it might again prove to be an example of whats to come in other countries paralyzed by the coronavirus crisis. For more were joined from brown by correspondent zuma gupta how serious i feel is that the longer the lockdown goes on the more this time could foster crime and go on wrist. Yes i mean the concern really is as that package pointed out when you look at the entire country the concern is more in the south and thats because the south is traditionally the poorer part of the country it has high incidence of unemployment and its also where you have the presence of those organized crime gangs or groups that are ready to take advantage of very desperate people so we understand that shes a close these this is updating in suffering even those what ball did can steve legal work thats dried up and they dont actually have access to any of those benefits its not as easy for them and so you have these reports of supermarkets where people are just going in and taking the food in so the police have to stand out there to make sure that doesnt happen youve gotten points of people begging at banks or little rooms because they need money to support 5 so this can be to other issues of social tension in unrest and its precisely in such a situation that you have these organized crime gangs stephanie and the mafia where the experts who study these groups say that you know theyve got the liquidity theyve got the money now to offer very unreasonable loans off of these loans in exchange for recruitment into the criminal activity on top of that they could be tapping into that that people have full protective gear in selling that he quit but for more money. Same in italy as a shop north south divide how is the crisis playing out differently across these different areas of the country. Well you look at the Health Response me up north thats where the biggest cost is where was the biggest emergency but that traditionally is where you have a well Cost Health System down south its not as well equipped and there is concern that even the clusters were to explode there could potentially be really dangerous now were already seeing increasing cases in regions like campania with needles located as well as in cornea and in sicily and the hospitals there are not as well equipped and the fortys they are seeing they need more protective gear they need those mosques they need the goggles and all the put in the camp to protect those who are currently working to help those that have been infected the key concern is also the presence of the virus in can homes for the aged whether vulnerable and those working their old sort of protective gear the authorities are asking the Central Government for that synagogue in iran thank you so much all governments around the world are scrambling to find ways to limit the spread of the coronavirus many have imposed restrictions on peoples movements weve also been told to wash our hands and keep our distance from others in some places especially in asia people have been ordered to wear masks some european governments are now also telling people to cover their faces but opinion is divided. Facemasks the years theyve been part of daily life for many in asia and now for parts of europe theyre about to become so to us trees decision to make it compulsory to wear the masks in supermarkets sparked a debate in neighboring germany. The town of vienna has now become germanys 1st to announce similar measures though given the shortage of face masks the city has encouraged people to sow their own its a move large be welcomed by the residents. I think its good the more thats done the better and the more everyone does it the sooner it will be free of the virus i have 6 simple masks at home and then push comes to shove also my assumed. I think its a good idea in principle the problem is that there simply arent any masks makes. The World Health Organization is among those saying theres little Scientific Evidence showing that basic masks once not intended for medical use affectively prevent Healthy People from catching the corona virus but some experts advice that they could be useful as a barrier to stop those infected from contaminating others. Nontruths masks for nose and mouth are relevant for the protection of others if someone is infected and masks keep the virus droplets from flying out when someone sneezes or coughs mr voight. Up to now the insistence by many western countries that the widespread use of masks is not necessary has surprised many in asia that people have worn face masks for years because of air pollution but in this pandemic theyre practically a civic duty in europe that attitude is now increasingly gaining ground. Time now to take a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic span is recorded the new deadly diff toll of 864 and a total of more than 9900 related deaths germany will extend restrictions and slowing the spread of the virus beyond easter citizens are urged to keep contact with others to an absolute minimum even during the holiday china has reported numbers of asymptomatic cases for the 1st time it says 1300 people who showed no symptoms have tested positive and the captain of a u. S. Aircraft carrier is calling for help to quarantine his crew of 4000 the Theodore Roosevelt is docked in guam in the pacific with the disease spreading rapidly on board. And here are some of the other stories making news around the world. The German Government is funding start ups with a rescue package with 2000000000 euros finance minister all that shot said that that many innovative Young Companies are already struggling with liquidity and find it difficult to secure the loans they need to support he thinks so as not to endanger their existence and years of research and development. Is in ukraine passed a historic land reform bill clearing hurdles to one lock and 8000000000. 00 i. M. F. Loan package Wearing Masks and gloves against the coronavirus they lifted a long standing band on the sale of farmland. Britain has turned a London Exhibition Center into a temporary coronavirus Field Hospital hospital it will treat up to 4000 patients struck down by code 19 who were previously fit and healthy secure patients and those with Underlying Health conditions will be treated in regular hospitals. And in the us las vegas or thirties have converted to a parking lot into a temporary homeless shelter amid the pandemic the measure has sparked outrage with critics pointing to the thousands of empty hotel rooms in the city there are an estimated 6500 people without permanent housing in las vegas. A current of our slowdown is on the way in india the country is urging those who can to deny to hope the pool employees have been asked to keep paying wages for their household stuff and people who work in shops but for the countrys day laborers the lockdown is a crisis equal to the coronavirus epidemic itself. Here in new delhi mohan washes and polishes his auto rickshaw every day the rickshaw is his pride and joy its how he earns his living and he has 4 children to support. But now hes been grounded and are indias nationwide lockdown nearly all transport services have been shut down. Im going to have to borrow money from someone i need food for my children borrowing money is my only choice. Mohan lol and his family live in southwest new delhi in a poor district he dreamed of helping his children rise to the middle class to get secure and well paid jobs. His income wasnt enough to cover the cost of both food and School Uniforms so the family had already taken out a loan now food costs are rising and the lock down is slated to last 3 weeks. Down is extended things will get very hard i dont know how well manage god alone knows if well survive. This laundry work or also doesnt know how who get by his middle class customers arent venturing outdoors theyre staying at home during the lockdown hoping to avoid infection. Because of the koran a virus were not allowed into the neighborhood that means i have no work were not allowed in the district and cant go to our customers my wife and i used to go there all the time now we cant. Go back in his own neighborhood its day 7 of the lock down he and his wife still have food some wheat and rice from the state they have the equivalent of 4 year olds left which theyll spend on vegetables and milk if they get sick they wont be able to pay for medicine. Indias day laborers are the backbone of the countrys economy with millions out of work and costs soaring they cant make ends meet many are leaving the cities in defiance of the lockdown in delhi the police are trying to push them back. To get me going to mean this is. Going to mean where employment desmond everythings coming up to but i did go where. They can cut not this is the we got to beat it was moving down. The exodus from new delhi shows no signs of abating day laborers help supply the city with food and other necessities so their absence is already being felt. Is from the world sport is that the wimbledon tennis championships have been cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic close to half a 1000000 people usually attend the tournament englands Lawn Tennis Club this year for the 1st time since world war 2 the championships will not take place. Relies on warm summer weather and had been due to start on the 29th of june. And while european footballs governing body your wife says the Champions League and Europa League will remain suspended until further notice you have to host a Video Conference with its 55 members today to discuss the coronavirus crosses all International Matches that were jus to be played in june of all save being put on hold that includes playoff matches for the now postponed euro 2020 and qualifying matches for the womens euros 2021. Well World Football governing body faith is working on what it calls a football Marshall Plan to limit the financial damage done to the sport by the coronavirus pandemic faith is likely to dip into its reserves of 2 point 7000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars in order to help associations leagues and clubs that are currently starved of revenue by the interruption to play almost all domestic and International Competitions are countless suspended due to the pandemic. This is the news a quick reminder that our website is there for all the latest news around the clock you can find it at dot com for now im asking you how to live thanks for joining us. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona update. 19 special and next on d w. How does a virus spread. Why do we panic and when were. Just 3 of the topics covered and weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the coronavirus 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. British what a strange picture to us humans were used to only seeing ourselves governing the world if we withdraw quickly takes over. These monkeys in thailand as well. Eventually being good for the environment satellite images seem to prove just in italy people have been living in lockdown for weeks traffic has nearly stopped sent nitrogen dioxide levels have clearly dropped and other studies suggest that germany might even reach its climate goals as the corona lockdown causes the economy to produce much less c o 2. So. Good for the planet this is the news with special coverage of the covert 19 pandemic in berlin welcome. Steve out of work thousands of Flights Canceled empty streets because people are working from home instead of driving to the Office GlobalEconomic Activity has been put into an induced coma bad for the World Economy but from a climate perspective the coronavirus pandemic is not entirely negative environmental activists might actually with joyce measures have been implemented immediately that drastically cut emission emissions measures that otherwise would have taken years to come into effect. Images from space chinas pollution shown in red shrunk dramatically between december and march. 6 smoke has given way to billings. Thanks to closed factories reduced capacity power plants and fewer cars on the roads beijings residents have been enjoying some unusually fresh spring ad and then the air in europe is better too depending on how long the crisis goes on for the a guru think tank estimates that germanys Greenhouse Gas emissions could be 40 percent lower this year than last. Tourist hot spots are also enjoying some restaurant then its normally bustling with over 20000000. 00 tourists each year is virtually empty. The water in its many can now usually doll and murky as a result of the many boats is clear. Kraft are responsible for around 7 percent of global Greenhouse Gas emissions but the booming business is currently very International Flights have been reduced to a minimum german carrier looked tenser for example has cut 90 percent of its Long Distance flights in many countries lockdowns a set to continue for some time others are on the threshold of that as china however is beginning to wind its economy back up again and that raises the question when the lockdowns end will it be business as usual. Will its joining me now is neurons and these from our environment. We just saw some of the positive effects in inverted commas of this pandemic on the environment so will we or should we go back to business as usual. We need to go back to what were doing before but in a different way its really difficult to talk about Silver Linings or to kind of celebrate these lockdowns because of course were in the middle of a pandemic and this is a much more urgent crisis than the Climate Crisis that were also living and you can understand people celebrating this partially particularly when we talk about air pollution now air pollution is one of the worlds most deadly killers it claims more than 7000000. 00 lives each year and it shaves off on average about 3 years of our lives in particular the People Living in the global south then africa and asia now what this means when weve got locked down which have reduced pollution that we can see partially in china and it really is that in the short term at least people are able to breathe better the question is how long can this be held on for and one to look down lift you know how will the economy really be reshaped in a way that doesnt lead to just more smoke more smog being produced you know rather puts things into perspective as if the shutdown also causes a drastic cut in c o 2 emissions to a degree that germany might even lead its climate goals for this year prematurely is that shutdown or a shutdown of that magnitude of what it takes to reach climate targets. Its one way of reaching them but i think most climate experts would say its not a particularly good way of doing so there are Clear Solutions that would enable us to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions and meet the climate targets countries have agreed on in a way that doesnt require people to stay locked in their houses or to a hoax Economic Activity the most obvious of the flu some do is to transition from fossil fuels to Renewable Energy sources like wind and solar power and on top of that change how we consume food how we to reduce the amount of for instance beef thats being a term that required raising rain forests and raising large numbers of cattle that belch anything and other Greenhouse Gases. So the key point of read it from what the climate experts are saying is to find ways to reduce the emissions without causing the harm to to the economy to humans that these locked down the currently doing but as it does do you think that what once the Recovery Period after covert has started do you think that fighting Climate Change will go on the back burner for a while. I think were already seeing that happen and its hard to predict how that whole played out once the pandemic is over which will hopefully be of soon as possible what were going to see this year for sure is Climate Summit being canceled or postponed or i mean potentially held over skype and video. But a lot less effective if the clear answer we can see governments have much bigger priority is to deal with namely reducing the spread of the virus and on top of that we also have the issue of the kind of momentum behind change being lost so even climate activists the School Strikers protesting like. Having to do that over skype its a lot less in the Public Domain its a lot less on peoples minds because rightly there are other more pressing issues to deal with. Now the corona Virus Outbreak is actually changing the way we think about a whole range of things including how we treat nature intensifying us come in for particular criticism many of many new viruses have spread from animals to humans some say that in that in growing vast quantities of a single crop in monocultures all stripping the rain forest off its what humanity is laying the groundwork for outbreaks like this one is that true as you are people just using the Current Crisis to further their agendas or as they indeed a direct connection between say the rain forest and the corn of virus. Theres a direct her connection between human activity encroaching on ecosystems and the effects on pandemics whether that was the case with this particular coronavirus it is too early to tell theres some suggestion that the virus spread initially from bats through penguins and then to humans we know that the center of the outbreak in china was in a wet market where youve got lots of animals being traded sold illegally for meat on top of each other its very easy to spread from animal to animal now that can all accelerate and what were seeing clearly from course from a college of course from scientists to protect these rain forests to protect nature and even if we cant necessarily link it to the Current Crisis to be aware that this will help prevent future pandemics as ignorant and from our environment desk thank you very much thank you. Ok time now for your questions answered by our science correspondents Derek Williams locked away in his office at home keep your questions for him coming via social media by a comments on our you tube channel and if you more the of fashion via email today we start with the weather. Does hot weather help stop will slay the virus. Most of the most severe or corona Virus Outbreak so far have been in places that were still in the midst of winter but where spring is now on the way we dont really know yet whether when things heat up in the Northern Hemisphere it will slow the spread of covert 19 but there is reason for cautious hope that it might related coronaviruses have been shown to have seasonality but the w. H. O. Has more than that at this point we very much just have to wait and see. Once the knife span of the coronavirus. A Study Released a few weeks ago in the new england journal of medicine looked at exactly that question and came up with some ballpark figures that 1st looked at how long the coronavirus remained in the air and found there were still viable levels of it after 3 hours the researchers also looked at materials like stainless steel and plastic and found that the virus survives on those surfaces for up to 3 days on cardboard it only remains viable for around 24 hours its important to say that those tests they took place under strict Laboratory Conditions so you cant really transfer those results one to one in the real world but they do provide a kind of rule of thumb. Can a virus spread when money changes hands. Paper banknotes and bills are not all that different than Services Like cardboard so yes you can expect the virus to survive for a while on their surfaces so in theory yes money is a possible vector for infection but but dont forget that you can. Cant catch the disease through your skin and the virus has to get into your respiratory tract and it does that by your hands when you touch your face so if you avoid doing that and wash your hands thoroughly after conducting any monetary transactions it should be an effective way to limit any risk. There are that science correspondent and that concludes our covert 900. 00 special for today for more on the pandemic do check out our social Media Channels and our website thats t w dot com of course which is dedicated covert 900 pages in 30 languages now before we go lets spare a thought for animal friends in zoos around the world with a lot downs in full force it seems the animals are missing the visitors. Anyone who doesnt appear like camera crews for example is greeted with delight at these and images are from germany about zookeepers in the u. K. And the usa that animals are feeling the say. Lets hope well be back soon. The truth of. The return of the market. 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