Land d. W. Looks at how the people of paris are dealing with ever stricter rules under the countrys coronavirus lockdown. Im sorry kelly walked into the program the epicenter of americas corona Virus Outbreak new york state has reported its highest death toll in a single day nearly 800 in the last 24 hours now despite this grim milestone President Trump has tried to reassure americans that the u. S. Is heading toward the final stretch in battling the virus but the pandemic is still pounding new york city where even a cathedral has been drafted into service to treat the sick. Beneath the stained glass windows this church is getting ready for a different east to crowd a significant weekend in the christian calendar President Donald Trump assured americans there is light at the end of the tunnel. Or would have many easter is together in churches in the future. Were getting closer you see the numbers were getting much closer to getting our country back to the way it was. As new yorks death toll climbed pos 6000 the states governor moved to reassure residents we are flattening the curve thank god thank god thank god turn card. And think a lot of good people who are been working very hard that is a moment in time dont get complacent thats what were doing thats working keep doing it thats the good news and that good news has a big carob. Were still in the midst of it Governor Cuomo has directed all flags be flown at half mast in on our of the lives lost as the sun sets on the states deadliest day yet a sense of solidarity reverberates around the city. Law. And for more lets bring in journalist michelle lamb who joins us now from new york city and you know michelle as bad as those numbers are new york authorities have said the official death toll might actually be an undercount why is that. Well theres been lots of speculation why the numbers of reported are not accurate and some people are saying that some people just havent been in the hospital in new york city and in particular there are several people at 2 residence their primary is here in manhattan and their secondary homes are in upstate so im assuming they are making reference to there might be an undercount there could be people who left the city 19 and did not know that until they got to their secondary residence or there were some people who were not fortunate enough to make it to the hospital out weve seen that this virus has impacted so many different people and theres so many different circumstances there are some people who live in new york city alone and they dont have families so each day were learning more and more about the death toll. You mentioned that you know a lot of people have been going to their 2nd homes outside of the city theres been a lot of criticism and a bit of blowback regarding that trend you know individuals in those more local communities saying that the people from new york city are bringing coronavirus to them in that context how is the Health Care System in new york city and also outside of the city coping right now. Well right now i feel that the city is working closely with the state to pool resources to basically put together a more effective plan when we 1st heard about the 1st case the person who works in the medical care facility she came in from iran and she sells isolated and then from there we start seeing number growing gradually in the beginning im most of us here in new york really didnt know what to do should we wear a mask should we not wear a mask and at 1st we were told not to wear a mask then to now wear them to help reduce the numbers so i think how they have come together in different areas is you know what everyone wear masks as a precautionary measure and each city is taking the steps to protect their citizens the National Guard troops have been called in in order to assist in dealing with the coronavirus what is their role going to be. Their wall is to basically help with separating those with copd at 19 and those who are just going for rather regular medical treatment. The hospitals quickly begin to fill out you know some people when they hear what the symptoms are and where you know and in the season where people have symptoms that are just you know common cold or flu or maybe its allergy season but theyre like wait a minute do have copd at 19 so just to ensure that we can keep that person low they have the National Guard helping to separate and theyve also set up temporary hospitals if you will and central park. Michel just briefly before we go everyone you know is under this 2 week stay at home order now how are people come coping and what is usually one of the worlds busiest cities i mean if you look on social media for example you have these hashtags which are trending such as new york tough whats the mood. New york state. You know people are just basically reaching out to each other using video chat to just make the social distancing a bit more bearable i live right by central park at about 7 oclock each day everyone goes to the window we cheer we clap and then its in support of you know the Health Care Professionals who are risking their lives but also when you look across the way you see a neighbor that you havent seen before and you wait when youre like ok well youre here today its kind of like a ghost town we look down a street thats usually heavily populated and theres no one there so at this moment were encouraging the Health Care Professionals its also giving us a glimmer of hope. Michel them joining us from new york where there is some evidence at this hour even despite its deadliest day in the coronavirus that the curve might be flattening thank you so much for joining us for that reporting being here. Well elsewhere and staying in the United States senator Bernie Sanders has ended his president ial campaign clearing the way for joe biden to become the democratic partys nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in novembers election in a live stream speech the 78 year old said that he could no longer continue in good conscious to campaign in the face of the current Global Pandemic sanders still expects to have a progressive influence in the partys platform but says that he will support. Whenever turning to some of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic the Global Health toll is approaching 90000 with more than one and a half 1000000 confirmed infections since the outbreak began south korea has reported its smallest one day increase in new cases since february only 39 new infections were registered in the past 24 hours and in india officials are sealing off corona virus hotspots in the capital new delhi and in neighboring state the number of cases rose to over 5000 the number of confirmed Coronavirus Infections meantime in germany has risen to more than 108000 with a death toll of 2107. France has been under partial lockdown for over 3 weeks but with the number of infections still on the rise social distancing measures are likely to be extended president emanuel mccrone is due to address the nation next week to explain the path forward in paris those who break the rules face fines even prison time are paris correspondent lisa lewis shows us what life is like under lockdown. I think youll find to this 30 square meters for weeks now but i do have the right to go out once a day for one hour to do that i need to fill in this form with the day be exact about time and the specific reason for example im allowed out for Urgent Medical appointment or if im summoned by a judge that today i have to buy food. Bakeries like this one have been allowed to stay open despite the locked they have considered essential services but even here business has suffered. For our turnover has gone down by 40 percent and we had to put half of our 12 employees on temporary unemployment and we dont know for how long this will go on report marcus on the ground right away it has taken some people which is time but now most of the french understood the rules of social distancing thats quite an achievement for people renowned for their lack of discipline more and more people paris is normally bustling city but not these days the lockdown in france is stricter than in some other European Countries and yet not all the french are following the rules. In some parisian suburbs and certain regions people are just not observing the lockdown that negates all the effort by everyone else thats why were cracking down on such behavior weve already given out hundreds of thousands of fines from breaching the rules costs 135 euros or 200 euros to senses one person was caught infringing the lockdown 10 times in a row and condemned to 3 months in prison more cuticle than. Doctors agree people should comply with the locks and they say its the only way to slow down the spread of the virus. Plus we have run out of a veil of beds in intensive care units and have to make tough choices people over 75 years are generally no longer taken in at those units at least thats the case at hospitals here in paris and in eastern france as theyre not equipped to do massive testing and hand out masks to everybody so for now the locked on one of the train places. The government has already announced the lockdown is likely to be extended further. Right i better get myself. But before i go back into isolation is one thing i can do with my fellow corinthian even if we have to keep our distance dine in the evening applause all the heroes in this crisis the Health Care Personnel supermarket patches and of course my local. Sound clapham heard in so many cities these days meanwhile we want to tell you that saudi arabia has announced a unilateral cease fire in the war in yemen coming into effect today the move is believed to have been motivated by the global coronaVirus Outbreak who forces aligned with iran have not said if they will observe the cease fire. And streaming Service Disney plus has passed the 50000000. 00 paid subscribers mark it has received a recent surge in users after becoming available in parts of western europe coronavirus lockdowns are also likely to have provided a boost to business. Also sports news now in liverpools society oh man i is one of footballs most wanted forwards a new documentary shows how his success on the pitch is equalled by his Generous Charity work so this village in senegal is where it all began for liverpool striker your money and money is never forgotten his roots he pays for his communitys education and medical care. And. We need. Now theres a firm about his life style your money made in senegal in which he opens up about his childhood. But its paid off many won the Champions League with liverpool last season. Is always though the business is by choosing the. Right people. But the coronavirus pandemic has put everything on hold the 27 year old misses his daily football routine. You know. Money has donated 47000 euros to his countrys Health Care System to help them fight the coronavirus so whats next for saudi money and. More of city they do this for. If theyre going to look perfect a dream that started in senegal or. Youre much indeed having a news im sarah kelly in berlin dont forget you can always get the latest on our web site www dot com and you can follow us on social media thanks for watching 60. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona. With 19 special next on d w. Not nothing. Well i guess sometimes i am but i said laughing with you that we should have been fixed deep into the german culture of looking at stereotypes a quirk in your sink a future of the country that i dont want. You to see we take it as grandma there you go its cold out there no i might go join me to meet the german bund d. W. Paused. As the death toll of coburg 19 keeps rising scientists are still uncertain about where this deadly virus came from in the 1st place its believed that it jumped from animals to humans so far congolese and bats that were sold at the web market in china are the most likely candidates for the virus doesnt stay with humans there are signs that its also spreading to other animals a tiger at the bronx new york city has tested positive for cope with 19 developing a dry cough a couple of lions also show signs of the infection. And there are reports in hong kong that the dogs have tested positive without having any of the usual symptoms Scientists Say that cats are very susceptible to the virus and the people around the world are now worried about what that means for them and their pets and farmers also want to know how dangerous the virus could be to their livestock pics chicken and ducks at least im not likely to get infected and what about the rest. Welcome to our covert 900 special here in new use i want to get jones in berlin good to have you with us what droll do animals play in the corona virus pandemic which species can get infected which is immune and whats this mean for our interaction with pets and farm animals lets ask professor. Suttle must lie to hes about rather just and the president of the free Leffler Institute which studies Animal Health and infections which can be transmitted from animals to humans good to have you with us on the program let us start with pets a lot of people now are wondering whether their pet could transmit the virus what do we know about that so far. Hello phone in stories what we actually do now is that cats can get infected experimentally and by. Exposure we know very little of transmission because all the instances that weve seen so far they clearly hint to infection of the pads by their owners this is biased or not ours to infect the owners so the the owner is more dangerous for the pet than vice versa what does this mean for the interaction with with our pets i mean we hear terrible stories about some owners already putting their pets down because of this no theres no reason for doing that at all i mean of course i would stay away from my pet if i am sick myself and as is particularly true if im sick was a coronavirus too so i should really take caution in that aspect on the other hand its still very clear that this is a socalled anthropos over knows this which means that humans are the ones that infect the animals and not in this particular case the other way around so what does this mean for life stock and we already heard that picks up probably not so says susceptible to the virus but what about coulson how would a pharma know that his cow for example is infected. We have Experimental Evidence that picks chicken and ducks are indeed not susceptible to infection we have no Experimental Evidence of any other of the of livestock and for producing animals that are colleagues all over the goal actually testing these animals as we speak and we hope that we have more information on that in a couple of days actual so if not knowing everything yet also worries people of course certainly consumers is that any advice you have for consumers for example when it comes to milk. At the moment we have no indication that any foods really presents a risk for a condemnation or for transmission of the infection and as i said before i mean picks are not susceptible chicken and ducks are not susceptible and from what we can deduce from that previous. Was from 2002 it was very i would be very surprised to see that cattle are indeed and that in fact that this is under experimental. Examination at the time as we speak of course were still trying to learn more about this new coronavirus professor mitten like to thank you for now we have more questions for you said dont go away because 1st we want to look at how scientists a working to find out how the virus was transmitted to humans in the 1st place. When it comes to the transmission of infections from animals to humans to Global Wildlife trade plays a major role take pets in some parts of africa in asia theyre considered a delicacy. But theyre also a source of viruses among them the corona virus. One study found that a corona virus found in bats shared 96 percent of its genetic material with the virus behind the current pandemic known as sars kovi 2. But this particular bat virus is unlikely to have infected human cells directly what is more likely is that the virus jump to humans via another animal one prime candidate is a pangolin the corona virus found in pangolins has similar surface proteins which dr receptors to the virus currently infecting humans but other animals are also potential transmitters to search for the source of this pandemic is still in full swing. Back to professor on the freezer he left the institute on Animal Studies what is the significance of bats carrying so many viruses and how does this knowledge help us deal with a current outbreak. So apparently bets are a good reservoir for different kinds of viruses not only coral are viruses we actually dont know why this is the case that they can control the virus better than other species do might have a special in human system which is able to control the viruses but so far its unclear what the basis of this reservoir function really years by but we can state is that there are frequent events that viruses actually jump towards humans from the bed rest of war of course were all trying to find a solution to this crisis and your infection studies actually found that ferrets are a good model for humans why is that i mean ferrets are animal that are being used as a model for human respiratory infections for quite some time and probably they are also susceptible to infection by this asteroid of viruses to. The good effect that they are a propagate the virus they excrete the virus and they also are able to transmit to other in contact ferrets so we can actually use them for is to see the influence of for example makes a nation or education 2 words reduction of virus replication or virus excretion or transmission. Of ident of course sars coronavirus to is not the 1st virus to jump from animal to humans how can we prevent this from happening in the future. I dont think we can ever completely prevent this jump from the animal to humans i mean we have increasing contact was animals there and the human population is increasing we are entering habitats usually were prohibited before and then we have organization and we have globalization i mean what we could do is to put more emphasis on discovering these. Spillover events as they call them early and then try to control and contain them as early as possible toward that they actually then have to expand in something as we see now you know a professor met in light of there from the institute thank you so much for your time your ira. And its time now to turn you to your questions questions you sent us on you tube facebook and twitter or via email our resident corona expert Eric Williams stands ready to provide some answers. Is it safe to dry your hands with a hot air hand try your after washing them. Like me initially you probably think off the bat that a hot air hand dryer would be a good way to dry your hands during a pandemic after all you are touching anything that could be bearing germs in the air coming out is heated so maybe that will damage viruses that produce that body temperature it sounds like it makes sense but think again a study i found that was published a couple of years ago by u. S. Researchers showed that the air flowing out of the hand dryer in a public restroom increased the circulation of microbes dramatically compared to ambient uncirculated air in the same room and if you stop and think about that it makes sense after all where did the air blasting out of the hand dryer come from it was sucked out of ambient surrounding air filled with arrows who lived droplets and its a public bathroom so where are those droplets coming from. Theres still a lot of debate about this and i really cant claim to be an expert on the topic but i certainly dont want to go anywhere near a public restroom equipped with hot air hand dryers at the moment. What do we know about hydroxy clora queen encoded 19. Hydroxy chloroquine is a drug used to prevent and treat malaria thats currently also in testing for effectiveness against covert 19 you know there are anecdotal accounts of patients who took it and showed improvement and it has so far shown some a thick a c. Against stores too and so its in the lab but just because it has an effect in the lab doesnt mean that will help in a real clinical practice a big reason and theres a lot of hope surrounding the medication is that its been proven safe to use for a very long time for us and. And in particular is betting big on it theyve given up whats called emergency use authorization which means it can be given to patients that have run out of other Therapeutic Options drug makers are already ramping up production but real evidence that it can help either cure or prevent a qubit 19 is still very thin on the ground and we dont know things like for example whether if its taken in combination with other medications it could potentially do more harm than good so there are still a lot of question marks. W. S Derrick Williams there answering your questions until be back to do the same tomorrow about 900 special for more on the pandemic to check out our social Media Channels and our websites thats d. W. Dot com which has dedicated to cope with 900 pages in 30 languages i want to get jones and berlin thanks for joining us and before we go heres a reminder there is no need to have your pet put down because of the pandemic also dont abandon your pet as has happened in many parts of the world already Animal Rescue teams from lebanon to bolivia up picking up cats and dogs apparently abandoned by their owners who feel they are very family members could get infected and pass on the virus a big thank you to the rescue teams and hopefully those pets can soon find a new. Way of. Doing. This. Job. Market. Top of the morning world. Made in germany. Next on. Europe. What you know. What divides. What binds the continent to. The answers and stories of plunging. Spotlight on people. In 60 minutes t. W. Vogue. Mug or just love. Food for the russian soul. So many different walks of life some are. Ugly and twined but all of them come straight from the heart looking for a c. E. O. 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