Plus the German Government gets a boost in the polls for its handling of the crisis more than 90 percent of voters back the restrictions on the plant. Im Claire Richardson welcome to the show more than a 1000000 people have now been infected with the coronavirus around the world 50000 are dead kovan 19 is hitting spain especially hard with more than 10000 fatalities the virus is also creating an economic crisis nearly a 1000000 people have lost their jobs since mid march and Health Care Workers are overwhelmed desperate for more essential protective equipment. Stretched to breaking point the wards are philippas hospital the now the county so coronavirus patients lie in the corridors just north of barcelona medics have turned the Hospital Library into an intensive care unit spain is one of the worst hit countries the number of coronavirus deaths is no jumped to more than 10000 after a record 950 deaths in the space of a day. The Health Workers on the frontline say they are being put in an unthinkable position. We are lacking the staff at the moment and the few staff that we have available are in a dangerous situation themselves and at risk of becoming transmitters. Got infected because of the lack of protective measures as we dont have enough resources there are fewer and fewer suitable protective masks. In these ideas of markers when somebody is doing things really badly and we need them to rectify their speakers if they dont do so people double the number of infected Health Workers if we continue like this there would be enough professionals to take 8 of our patients. But there are glimmers of hope the recent new infections in spain appears to be slowing and people are recovering here at a hospital the northeast of the country doctors discharged a 93 year old man who is made to feel recovery after 5 days in isolation. Spain has been in a nationwide locked in since the middle of march and the standstill is hitting the economy hard 100000 people have lost their jobs and spains recorded its highest ever monthly rise in unemployment the government says it will have to work on relaunching the economy once the epidemic is under control Health Officials say data shows the curve is stabilizing but despite the slowdown in the rate of infections the fight to contain the virus is far from over. Well here are some more of the latest developments in the pandemic here in germany more than 1000 people have now died from the corona virus there are nearly 80000 confirmed cases a cruise ship that was stranded at sea with covert 1000 patients on board has been allowed to dock in florida the dam had been turned away by south american countries and the u. K. Says its aims to increase its Virus Testing capacity to one 100000. 00 per day by the end of this month a British Government has been criticized for not testing a nuff. Around the world to the corona virus is hitting a both rich and poor but the knock on effects of quarantines and lockdowns are impacting some more than others lets take a look at how this crisis is affecting life for the most vulnerable. In india a nationwide lockdown is in place but its impossible to follow in the crowded slums of delhi. That means that many people are cut off from work and food yet still at high risk for infection. Authorities are accused of heavy handed tactics footage of Migrant Workers being hosed down with disinfectant has sparked outrage. In london thousands of Homeless People have been forced to defy orders to stay home. Charities are coordinating to provide shelter and food and hotel chains have booked single rooms to allow some Homeless People to self isolate. In ukraine the opposite problem frustration and a lack of confidence in government travellers returning from asia broke out of airport facilities where they were under quarantine. The u. S. Has become a major hotspot with the largest number of confirmed cases the epicenter new york city where hospitals are struggling with waves of corona patients while images of bodybags coming out of the hospitals have shaken the country. We asked our correspondents around the world to give us some insight into how the pandemic is affecting them and to those around them. To me it seems that people in the u. K. Are getting closer together despite social distancing in my own neighborhood weve created a whats a group so that elderly people and those who get sick can seek help our unused and ever is helping a local soup kitchen so many kitchens for Homeless People in london have had to close since the coronavirus and now were taking turns with cooking stews and vegetables that will then be warmed up in this local church and distributed to Homeless People and take away containers. In some look at these neighbors have formed chat groups to keep each other informed about the availability of grocery and other important things in their vicinity and generally people are stressed and why did about their jobs and careers because the economic slowdown that has happened after the lockdown has triggered anxiety about their future. Deserted streets empty restaurants closed shops in the u. S. Capitol to stop the spread of the virus more and more states are ordering their residents to stay at home but not everyone complies if you days ago police in neighboring maryland interrupted a Church Service where 50 people gather its and none of them were social distancing the old thirtys can only help that such attitudes will change soon as people understand whats at stake it seems the nice weather makes it even harder to follow the rules i myself often go jogging here at the river rhine and each time i notice that barely anyone keeps enough distance from others. Sometimes i even see larger gatherings even the police doesnt seem to be a deterrent. In israel people have been asked to rear face mosques or any type of fabric or scarf and going outside it besides the very about the coronavirus people start to vary as well about their financial situation with more people losing their jobs at least temporarily and unemployment figures up from 4 to over 20 percent. Since the beginning of the crisis staying at home is challenging for everybody these days but now imagine if you live in a shack in the one room shack with a lot of people at a very crowded space this is the reality for millions of South Africans and although the lockdown rules of the 3 weve looked extremely strict many people are simply not able to comply. And south america the coronavirus pandemic has hit brazil the hardest almost 7000. 00 people have been infected and that includes the 1st corona virus case among brazils indigenous population president scenario is under fire for his handling of the crisis last month he referred to covert 19 as quote a measly cold hes also the only major world leader continuing to criticize lockdowns designed to slow the spread of the virus. It was a deliberate provocation by president jaya both on our own visiting a supermarket surrounded by shoppers right in the middle of the Coronavirus Crisis both himself may be infected with the virus this is why he chose to mingle all the same. People who thought i should have the corona virus as a former athlete i dont need to worry. I wouldnt notice anything at the most a touch of the flu or a cold or do you want for 3rd of our families must be able to feed themselves thats why we should now all be returning to normal people in rio de janeiros biggest shantytown took the president at his word after days of isolation residents went back to work shrugging off the dangers of the virus. The local mayor fears he may soon be dealing with an epidemic. It will be a disaster weve already been fighting a tuberculosis outbreak has been swimming to residents dont realize that they would be safer staying at home. Across this is escalating. Unlike bowl scenario brazils provincial governors acted from the start shutting beaches schools and supermarkets scientists are warning that the crisis is just beginning noise. We estimate that the demick cure in brazil will peak in 2. 00 to 3. 00 weeks the infection rate is constantly increasing. Across brazil coronavirus victims of being buried and young people are among the dead. These scenes have sparked protests residents have been banging pans in anger a whole scenario he eventually backtracked on is we have a mission to save lives think the issue without threatening jobs we have to focus on both the virus and the economy. In an apparent hugh turn also narrowed now wants to fight the virus but too late to prevent him losing many supporters who now see him as irresponsible. Well now lets look at some ways cover 1000 is impacting the business worlds jobless claims in the u. S. It doubled over the past 2 weeks to nearly 6700000 people that number exceeded even the highest estimates of economists and represents 6 percent of the u. S. Workforce especially hard hit are the restaurant and retail sectors. The European Union is rolling out a huge Relief Program for Member States struggling economically chief underlying unveiled at the 100000000000 euro fund on thursday and 9 that was the grim assessment of economic minister paid to alter my hour on thursday meyer said europes largest economy it could see annual g. D. P. Shrink by more than 5. 7 percent eclipsing the last downturn. Also here in germany the number of deaths is lower than in other big European Countries chancellor Angela Merkel struggling conservatives have rebounded in the polls many had dismissed america as a lame duck leader but now most germans are backing the governments handling of the crisis their big worry is the economic fallout. Almost 2 weeks into the new freeze of public life more than 90 percent of germans still agree with the contact restrictions in place. Of simply accepted thats the way things are now no problem. As you can still buy everything but of course i miss my friends. Confidence in Germanys Health system has even slightly grown since last week to 77 percent overall while 22 percent say they are less confident the system can cope but for through. The Health Service is working despite all this is great as an old person i remember who times and when no one knew that. What germans currently worry about most is the economic damage the crisis could bring. 3 quarters of concerned ovarian concerned for the economy overall less than a quarter worry about their own personal situation. Solidarity in europe and beyond is also something most germans would like to see now. Well almost 2 thirds feel it is right for politicians to think of germany 1st at this time of crisis 95 percent would like to see solidarity within the e. U. And 64 percent say rich countries like germany should now help poorer regions. But despite the uncertainties surrounding the rest of the season some german clubs are slowly returning to training chalco players are out of isolation and back at the Training Ground although social distancing precautions are still being taken that means individual exercises or drills in pairs are the order of the day a reset dortmund and and vosburgh are among the other going to sleep asides to have returned to training under similar conditions the league is suspended until at least at the start of may. Club braves are said to be declared champions of the Belgian Pro League after it was announced that the remainder of the current season will be cancelled. British had a 15 point lead at the top of the belgian table before play was interrupted as a result of the coronavirus pandemic decision sees belgium have become the 1st country to cancel the rest of the professional football season. Youre watching to dampen your news of dont forget our web site is there for all the latest news and information around the clock thats new dot com thanks for joining. Us. Combating the pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour corona day. 19 special and next on d. W. How does a virus spread. Why the repairmen and trend will. Continue through the tactics and the weekly radio show its called spectrum if you would like to me the information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you can get your pod cast you can also find us at dot com the ford slash science. Orders are now. Really silver is the weapon against coronavirus other strain of the coronavirus and has been able to eliminate it within 12 hour. Jim bakker the televangelist has now been sued for selling these fake coronavirus cures the fraudsters are wasting no time to make money from your fear the hoax likely originated from a widespread spread belief in silver Antibacterial Properties some tooth brush brands have the mantle to in order to boost sales but scientists agree silver has no effect against the corona virus in fact exposure to colonial silver can be toxic. Well other fake remedies against covert 19 and fake news about the outbreak are flooding the internet right now so lets have a look at whats right and whats wrong about this is your covert 19 special indeed of your news im going to head off a symbol and welcome times of crisis always great times for fake news and propaganda and the more ridiculous the claims it seems the more traction again on social media be it tips like Drinking Alcohol to kill the virus and fight the disease as tempting as it may sound for some it is it or religious claims that corona was a punishment dished out by god or Mother Nature now team fronted obvious science has put together a selection of some of the most outrageous fake news about covert 90. Whatever you do dont try this at home this cape widely shared on whatsapp is just one example of the many coronavirus related stories circulating online the problem as the disease continues to spread fake news is going viral. In india a picture purporting to show an italian boy taking his life after all his family members died from coronavirus went viral theres a fact check revealed that the footage actually shows the suicide of a woman be full of the outbreak. And this photo doesnt show dead bodies on. The streets of italy its actually an Office Installation in germany. Also doing the rounds conspiracy theories among them the just south korean series forecasts the corona Virus Outbreak back into. Just one of many stories describing the pandemic as a premeditated inventions. Platforms like facebook are rife breeding grounds for the spread of fake knees the social networking giant is among several companies pledging to take stronger action to prevent the spread of misinformation others to a doing their bit to make sure people are getting the right information about corona a Service Called africa check recently to rebuff a South African man claim that a vaccine against corona virus could be developed. Much of asia seems just over the hill and most of europe is in the battle against covert 19 africa is bracing for impact fake news is not helping societies that to prepare for the onslaught lets bring in vincent. Deputy kenya africa chicken joins us from nairobi vincent how much of a problem is corona fake news in african countries right now. Thanks for having me coronavirus misinformation is a big big problem and the reason is that the more people believe misinformation then they will not follow the instructions are going to wash their hands only practice social distancing and they will not stay at home so these things mean that if they dont Pay Attention virus spreads more and on top of that you have people trying certain fixed yours or medicines that have been proven not to work weve seen in nigeria for example that people have been poisoned by chloroquine because they heard it could work for them and whats the weirdest piece of fake news youve come across so far or the weirdest i have come across is that if you take some orange peels and you boil and you inhale the steam youre going to cure corona. And we know thats not sure because your body temperature internal body temperature never really d changes all you end up doing is burning. Why. Are people actually believing this kind of stuff well people believe misinformation particularly out health because its tied into the people are of the range of diseases that are difficult to cure and so this gives them hope when you give them a little hope they will try and see if we cure is doable by medicines fake medicines if they have to. You should notice that really we dont see a lot of fake news about the disease like malaria because we all know its curable and medicine is clearly accessible. To people across africa generally trust the governments to take the right measures of false starts misinformation are on fertile ground. People are are burra less trustful of the government and the reason they are is because they know who the government really can do the most to protect what we have seen is a bit of dissatisfaction with the measures the time being taken so for example in kenya we knew that for example the number of tests have been rising but these are concerned that they are not enough and also the fact that a lot of people live in an informal economy in kenya so they have to go out every day and money and its very difficult to tell people like that to stay at home and so by so late unless youre providing them with money so that they can stay inside. Who benefits from these fake news a lot of people benefit there are people who wants to group their influence online and theyll spread it anything but his fate whether its about coronavirus or politics it doesnt matter then there are people who want to actually make a business selling fake cures so that you can actually spend your money to to buy a fake urine or to do things that are not true for example or in shapiro water and then finally youve got people who want. To drive political agendas or theyre going to capitalize on peoples fears to spread stories and that way spread the agenda thats probably the system is wrong and therefore you should form because i have a solution so there are people doing its digitally online they have. To come logical results others have commercial reasons and some have all the degrees and sense and they see the deputy kenya at the time at african 2nd thank you very much for joining us from our own father. Oh its time again for your questions keep them coming on you tube facebook and twitter all send us an email today our science correspondent dr williams will do with some of the most viral and fake news stories unfold claims about the coronavirus. Is this famous genetically modified to be used as a biological weapon this was one of those conspiracy theories that was bound to pop up in the midst of a Global Pandemic right i mean there have been too many books and movies with that as a plot line but a team of researchers that studied the genetic makeup of the virus recently published some compelling arguments for why it wasnt engineered but must have naturally evolved 1st they said source code to most closely resembles coronaviruses found in bats that dont cause disease in humans and of course and evil scientists trying to build a superbug would have started with one thats already been proven to make a sick 2nd in our computer models the changes to the stars code to genetic sequence that allowed it to start infecting us just dont look like they should work very well they arent mutations that any bio engineer would have chosen if they were trying to build a super bug because the models would have said they dont really work so no the coronavirus was not designed by humans. Can supplements like fish oil zinc over to mens health. Supplements or an area of nutrition where theres very little consensus in the Scientific Community under ordinary circumstances much less in the midst of a pandemic the idea that you can somehow boost your immune system i mean what does that mean anyway the answer to this question is a resounding no the only thing that we currently think will prevent you from catching the virus is if youve had it already and developed antibodies that will prevent you from getting it again im not so. I think you should stop taking your fish oil or your vitamins just dont expect them to keep you from catching covert 19. There is agreement that knots of smell is a sign of a severe case of paid 19 can we hear more about that. Recent large scale study in britain that collected data from hundreds of thousands of people reporting on and up showed that from those who eventually tested positive for the disease around 60 percent had that symptom to a greater or lesser extent that certainly sounds pretty convincing the only problem is that losing the sense of smell or taste is also closely associated with other respiratory infections its a lot more common than you might think thats why as of this morning at least the w. H. O. Was still reviewing the issue and hadnt yet decided to add the loss of smell or taste to the official list of symptoms of corona virus infection but that could very well how been in the coming days if theres enough evidence to support it. There are there from Science Department answering your most pressing questions and that concludes our covert 19 special forces day for more on the pandemic do check out our social Media Channels and our website thats w dot com which has dedicated covert 900 pages in 30 languages now before i let you go ahead lets go back to africa where musicians are fighting against the coronavirus together with local Health Authorities before most across the continent and getting vital messages across to the public in songs they sing about washing hands wearing face masks and voiding the fake news trucks. But. They do you. Get. Picked up annoyed. You know nobody knows what i did a good life i grew. Up i bought it i did it tell it like do it in. Europe. What unites. What divides. Looks driving force. What binds the continent together. To get answers and stories aplenty. Spotlight on people. Next on d w. Small acts can inspire change the people making homes. Go africa interesting write. Join them as they set out to save the environment learn from one another and Work Together for a better future. Minicamps to you all for tuning in africa. In 60 minutes on d w. I. Am not proud of they will not succeed in defining the subtle not succeed in taking the people off the streets because were tired of the stick trying to shift. Taking the stand global news that matters d. W. Made for mines. The global corona traces you can find more Information Online at g. W. Dot com d. W. Social Media Channels. Hello and a warm welcome to focus on europe i will are about below glad you could join us french cuisine is famous the world over so you may be surprised to hear that its at the heart of a culture war living the good life in france includes cullen airy delights such as meat cheese and fish the food is so treasured that it was named