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A way around the clock. Im phil gal welcome to the program the number of corona virus cases around the world is approaching a 1000000 the United States is worst hit with more than 200000 infections the death toll in the last day alone rose by 884. 00 a new record President Trump is warning america that there will be a horrific few days ahead the epicenter of americas corona Virus Outbreak the streets of new york deserted but ambulances are a constant presence on the streets the states death toll has doubled in just 3 days. A refrigerated truck was brought in to help this Brooklyn Hospital deal with a sharp rise in fatalities. Hospitals are running out of medications some hospitals dont have protective gear for staff or family members or patients that come to the hospital for running out of medications were running out of atlanta and but even running out of oxygen which is something that isnt to have posted until. The white house is projecting that the virus could claim up to 240000. 00 lives across the country despite this pandemic authorities urging restraint and if you are going to wear a Face Covering when you go out please understand please dont need an in 95 mask and if you take one of those in 95 i ask you maybe taking it out of the hands of a Health Care Worker who desperately needed to care for Patients Union leaders are warning that frontline Health Care Workers are at risk. Youre here to say that our members are afraid to go to work because safety protocols arent being damned that is what i were calling for hazard pay youre trying to keep ourselves safe were trying to work are safe were trying to keep our community. Health care workers who didnt get access to a mosque are now stuck at home so i havent really been given too much direction besides just wait it out say hello. Or its going to wait it out and then you get worse you know if you you cant breathe you know you actually start adoration for. President trump is warning americans they face a very tough and painful 2 weeks and he has not given to understatement. Well journalist james ronald joined us from new york and gave us this assessment. I think you can say that the mood in new york city is becoming increasingly concerned i think that goes nationwide as well in the last 24 hours theres been a discernible shift in the emphasis on the scale of this crisis for example previously President Donald Trump he was talking about you know the possibility of the big q it being found coronavirus and bad thing that the crisis was going to be long lasting. And was going to tank the economy for such a long time now that has changed in the last 24 hours weve just had President Trump speaking to the nation again and he said its going to be vicious the predictions the projections for the total death toll from the crisis that are come out of the white house. Suggest as many as 100000 or up 2240000 people could die and that even if we start to bang the social distancing rules then everybody does stay shut up in their apartment not just here in the worst part of the country the tri state area of new jersey and connecticut and these other. Other parts of the country like florida new orleans. Starting to show biggest signs of epidemic there. New york britain. Biggest increase in corona. 2500 people. In the u. K. The Prime Minister bars johnson the Health Minister Prince Charles will tested positive. Emergency Field Hospital to deal with the surge in new cases. Reports from. The finishing touches to londons newest hospital 4000 beds to treat 1000 patients and isa pressure on Britains National Health Service which has far fewer bets intensive care units. Than most of its european neighbors what you see here is a Mass Mobilization taking place right across the country but also these new hospitals. Volunteers and paramedics and people returning to help 20000 retired doctors and nurses return to work most of them could be needed to cover this new hospital meanwhile Critical Care beds across london. Doctors and nurses are bracing for a continuous tsunami of patients and theyre frightened of whats to come they dont have the proper equipment to protect themselves and there is a serious lack of testing one in 4 hospital doctors is self isolating at home at the moment because they cant get tested just at a time when they are needed the most so far only 2000 out of half a 1000000 frontline n. H. S. Staff in england has been tested for the virus now the government has promised to use all spare coronavirus tests for medical personnel. British industry is doing its part in the crisis instead of vacuum cleaners dyson is now building thousands. As well from the world of farm. Despite these efforts experts say there wont be enough. Time that people and britain are still proud of their health. Here. Before christmas in china and we should be paired before. The west to come to a peak is expected to reach the u. K. After. Next weeks will be the most crucial test. Since its founding after the 2nd world war. Well here are some of the latest developments in this pandemic of British Airways is to suspend 36000 staff of 4 to 5 cabin crew and ground staff will be told to stay home this years un Climate Summit has been for spoke of the cup 26 talks for go in november have been pushed back to next year and brazil has reported its 1st coronavirus case amongst its indigenous population from the ethnic group in the amazon rain forest has tested positive well many countries lack protective equipment such as face masks for medical staff and for ordinary citizens one country which has managed to avoid this problem is tough so how did they do it and could that approach be emulated by the. Reports from taipei. This handmade face must cover can be washed and reused for a day or 2 amid shortages like for so many others here face masks have become a necessity in josies everyday life the virus with bradford drop i have to take a bath in my Office Every Day so its more than a wire hour that i share a fan base with more than 30 people in it made me feel half a pill without wearing it. While getting a mosque can be no easy task in many parts of the world its another story here in taiwan to ensure the safety of its population of 23000000. 00 taiwan imposed an export ban on such a call mosques as early as january the government then began rationing mosques to 3 per person per week and soon after made them Available Online nowadays you can place an order for face masks with an up Purchase History is recorded by hand National Health insurance card so that it can be 35 before sales for those who dont want to order Online Software developer kyung fin john has developed a real time must map to track facemask stocks in pharmacies. People can check their availability before heading out this is among the dozens of online tools that have mushroomed on the island during the epidemic an exhibition of Public Private partnership and mutual trust. Its not difficult to create such a map but the key to the successful rationing system is that the government is willing to share its data with us taiwans well established Health Care System is our advantage the data of over 6000. 00 pharmacies across the country has already been connected to the official database its enormously beneficial once the data is open to society panic can be eased as a result. By collaborating with other programmers across east asia his map was also adopted into a korean version to solve a similar problem facing south korea. 10 days after placing the order josee picks up a surgical masks at a convenience store. Instead by conning people can buy in a really fair price you can buy 3 man left there one euro and this is really cheap if like a social equality for us you can achieve our like the healthy for right for everyone and you can have the math to protect yourself and that is invaluable in these difficult times taiwans Health Care System and the ups that serve it not only helped provide musks but much needed comfort and stability. Well. Is that government advice about. Something that people have just for themselves. Well recently taiwan government. Wearing policies because there are some off important cases on the island has now reported over 300. 00 infections confirmed cases now so on the government its now requiring the citizens to weigh in moscow while theyre saying and taking public transport and this can be done because. A steady supply of the mosque. On the island that one can now manufacture 10000000 mosques a day on this road and not only how one can cater to its domestic demand but also how it is now trying to help other countries in other well government Just Announced yesterday that they will donate 10000000 mosque to the most needed countries including the u. S. And europe and 7000000 the mosque will go to europe to help medical workers over there and 3 masts for. Very good price one of their instances of people trying to profiteer from the situation. Now. Didnt happen in taiwan taiwan. On controlling the price. From the very beginning. That there is. Not just sell oil price otherwise they would be fined a prosecutor and this is what the. Government is trying to stabilize surprise. Because this is the most needed our supplies. And. After was all mosque a medical problem thats centrally managed by the government so on the government is small the tearing the whole production line off the mosque from manufacturing distribution to cells and the monitor and surveillance all the governments so. Simply there is no free market in taiwan right now and taiwan hanspeter prays for it. Just took us briefly through. The most of it told the most critical masses to control it and then make taiwan has imposed very only want to control life back in january taiwan has cut off just like they cut off the flights between Mainland China and taiwan and also to impose travel restrictions to certain types of people so right now all foreign visitors to those cities like us are now banned from entry and the government is also respecting the overseas travel essential personnel including medics and military so theyre not allowed to travel overseas and also students and hospitals and theyre not allowed to leave the country right now so this is a measure to cope with the and i mean. For that. Time. This is de w. s life from back then as more of the top of the hour the around the clock on the website i leave you now with a look at some of the worlds normally busy streets and public spaces silenced by the pandemic of the day. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour carona update. Covert 19 special and next on d w. The global corona crisis you can find more Information Online f. T. W. Dot com and on t. W. Social Media Channels. Goats all conquering empty streets in a british village what a strange picture to us humans are used to only seeing all selves governing the world if as soon as we withdraw night so quickly takes over. Is monkeys in thailand as well at the corona crime. Eventually it being good for the environment satellite images to prove just in italy people have been living in lockdown for weeks. Nitrogen dioxide levels have clearly drugs and other studies suggest that germany might even reach its climate goals. Down causes the economy to produce much less c o 2 so. Good for the planet this is the news with special coverage of the. Welcome. Flights canceled empty streets because people are working from home instead of driving to the Office Global Economic 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. Thick smoke has given way to building skies 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 that it too depending on how long the crisis goes on for the poor 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 dahlan 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 is set to continue for some time others are on the threshold of them 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 hes from our environment desk we just saw some of the positive effects in inverse 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 for 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 would be reshaped in a way that doesnt lead to just more smoke more smog being produced rather puts things into perspective out in the shutdown also causes a drastic cut in c o 2 emissions to a degree that germany might even reach its climate goals for this year prematurely is that shutdown or a shutdown of that magnitude 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 guzzler missions and meet the climate targets that 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 solution the 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 number the 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 backburner 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 a soon as possible what were going to see this year the sure is Climate Summit being canceled or postponed or i mean potentially held over skype and video. But a lot less effective as a clear answer we can see governments have much bigger priorities 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 these School Strikers protesting lycra to invoke 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 has 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 wood humanity is laying the groundwork for outbreaks like this one is that true edgy are people just using the Current Crisis to further their agendas or as they indeed a direct connection between say the rainforest and the core of our us theres a direct her connection between human activity encroaching on ecosystems and the effects on pandemics whether that was the case with this particular current of our earth is too early to tell theres some suggestion that the virus spread initially from through penguins and then to humans we know that the center of the outbreak in china was in a wet locket 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 calls from ecologist calls from scientists to protect the rain forest to protect nature and even if we can assert a 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 for. 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 our comments on our you tube channel and if youre more the Old Fashioned type via email today we start with a weather. Does hot weather help stop will say the virus. Most of the most severe 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 in that at this point we very much just have to wait and see. Once the knifes ban if the corona virus. 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 the virus spread when money changes hands. Paper banknotes and bills are not all that different than Services Like cardboard so yes you can expect a 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. Derek williams that science correspondent and that concludes our covert 19 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. 00 pages in 30 languages now before we go lets spare a thought for animal friends in zoos around the world with lockdowns in full force it seems the animals are missing the visitors. Anyone who doesnt their lights camera crews for example. With delight at using the images are from germany both zookeepers in the u. K. And the usa their animals are feeling lets say. Lets hope well be back soon. The. Result of the markets. The momentum of the morning world. 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