Fun seats. For. Interactive exercises. Everything is online. And interactive benjamin to free 50 w. This is not enough this is under to be both going on looking just like. I dont think im up or that there was something im doing what you cannot die of god im not going to. Do it dont. Defiance over south african president Cyril Ramaphosa strict lock down. What the protesters say his measures are leaving millions of people struggling to support themselves. Like many other africans theyve been left with a choice hunger or infection. Only a tiny fraction of the continents total population is infected according to official figures some 24000. 00 confirmed cases but Health Systems are fragile poverty is high and many more face starvation. And. Africas got so much more to deal with than this virus unrest famine even deadly had diseases and severe measures to contain covert 900. 00 leaving so many people fighting to survive that includes south africas huge migrant population a nation wide lockdown means those running businesses need to apply for permits that are mostly off limits for farmers. To corona outbreak is a battle for survival for this and bob weir and family in downtown johannesburg. Because of this those who wish. To for. The future of the most important is. Really. A 5 week lockdown brought most businesses to a grinding halt including the restaurant where and cars are more local milo eked out a living for the last 9 years. But he needs a parma to sell something that he doesnt have forcing him to sell illegally. Because im an illegal immigrant. To get the permit to sell it when this spill. Outside my building so that even when the police come. Inside my building. The countrys Informal Sector provides up to 2 and a half 1000000 jobs. But the government put strict restrictions in place during the lock down and threaten some with legal action. There were lot of exclusions sashes and documented in my agreements and people with that existing trading payments this is a problem because members of the size who were already vulnerable before they lock down are the ones who are now paying the highest prize for the lock down. Army and police guard the streets stay in nice to enforce social distancing on arrest people loitering. Meaning both selling and buying in the Informal Sector carry a massive risk. Im fighting here for my brother was well or even thanks for losing my will come. Its pretty tough going to be no food were not going to work trying to support each other less than he can be in this country within 50. Camomile hasnt had a good day. Hes only earn 3 euros to feed his family. To forage. For food. Business. With the lockdown extended until the end of april and food already running short for many. Say social unrest his old buddy sure. The pandemic may have been slow to reach africa but the number of cases is increasing fast jumping by over 50 percent last week there are now almost 24000 confirmed cases across the continent Northern Africa has seen a significant outbreak with hotspots forming in morocco and egypt south africa has worst affected with some 3000 official infections that high numbers do in part to the countrys aggressive testing regime thats critical to protecting south Africans Health is stretching the bar trees to their limits Africa Health expert and entrepreneur and a stock or joins us from cape town you helped pioneer africas 1st hiv treatment rollout to botswana youve advised numerous governments hows the constant dealing with this outbreak. Well as youve just been highlighting the systemic deficits that exist in the content in terms of tackling a gargantuan pandemic such as this. As we you can see treatment is not an option right if you compare the kind of resources and infrastructure and you have intrigue sample europe where they are struggling where they have about 4000. 00 beds per 1000000000 people thats 4000 Critical Care i. C. U. Beds per 1000000000 people africa has maybe about 5 bad per 1000000 people if you look at certain countries like south sudan for example you have a population of 12000000 people with 4 ventilators according to the i. R. C. So we have to get prevention right and that is why youll see in most african countries in particular the example of south africa leading with a very aggressive lockdown is really the way to prevent this thing from taking hold because if it does take hold as it has in some of our northern european. Counterparts it would be absolutely devastating and so as difficult as these issues are these are structural challenges that have long existed and i think over it exemplifies why we should for address them earlier but since covert is here now its going to be a delicate balancing act between making sure we get prevention right while taking care of the vulnerable populations what about preventing the unrest though i mean thats going to be the main challenge here weve got millions of people facing hunger locusts of have destroyed entire crops in regions and now these lockdowns. Well yes exactly and i think knowing that theres always the scarce resources to deal with health of also scarce resources to deal with things like food hunger providing electricity or energy to people and so when you have scarce resources and you have such a massive why skill challenge is the 1st thing you need is data to understand where you have the biggest deficit so that you can deploy your scarce resources most effectively and i think the imperative therefore right now is for african countries including south africa to really be able to quickly pinpoint the spots where theres going to be trouble based on poor fundamentals being in place lack of water lack of electricity high poverty etc and get in there to provide the social mitigating programs that are required so that people can actually add here to the criteria that will ultimately protect us all talking about David Brinkley youve launched a mobile app to stop the spread of covered 1000. 00 how could it ease the situation. It gives you real time information about whats evolving so it allows you on terms of the population side to screen people joe map whether you found a key actual case or someone who suspected also to find i had risk populations people who are at risk meaning theyre not infected yet but they have diabetes or hypertension and we know those are predisposing risk factors and to be able to therefore protect them from from getting infected by making sure for example they self isolate etc but more importantly its given you data on whats going on in the community in real time sort of apple if people say we dont have water or food this is a this is in essence a director of red hot telephone line to say get in there and provide the things so that people can actually act here so for example if you dont have water you cant do the hand washing if you do not have electricity you cannot keep disposable food in your fridge for long enough you know to to be able to actually not have to go out frequently to get it and then if you dont have work because of the lockdown you dont have money to afford food or electricity so if it really is imperative that there is a holistic approach its not just viewed as a clinical issue you should social determinants are as aggressively dealt with as the clinical issues suckle thank you very much for joining us. My pleasure. Now to our viewer questions on a crowded virus our science editor Derek Williams has the answers for he. Came up with this lockdown idea. Of those lockdown feels like an unprecedented step to us at the moment confinement is actually a tool thats been used for centuries to contain epidemics many of the measures that were seeing today including things like like closed borders Contact Tracing or social distancing were 1st attempted in the late middle ages and renaissance italian city states desperate to mitigate the effects of the play throughout the centuries since lock downs have been employed time and again when infectious deadly diseases left societies with no other recourse. Can we eliminate the myras completely. This would be the ultimate goal right but dont expect it to happen any time soon weaver radek aided Infectious Diseases before just think smallpox we even managed to eradicate and others do not act coronavirus sars after it broke out in 2002 but theres a key difference between that and covert 19 people who get covert 19 can infect others before they start to show symptoms themselves so during the incubation period that wasnt the case with sars covert 19 is much more transmissible and that characteristic is whats going to make it very difficult to get on top of this disease most experts agree at this point that covert 19 is likely with us to stay. Which country in europe has the most cases of covert 19 currently spain has more confirmed cases of the. At 19 then and the other european country although more people have died from the disease in italy but we should always really take statistics like this with a grain of salt because both testing and Record Keeping vary a lot from country to country we havent agreed on any International Standards for for who is to be tested and we dont even agree on what constitutes a death by corona virus so its important to remember those differences when trying to compare whats happening in one country with whats happening in another. And that was out of a 1000 special floor of the pandemic to check out all social Media Channels and our website g w dot com did as a dedicated section of the crowd of virus in 30 languages ive been fizzling in berlin thank you very much for joining us. A legend celebrates its 70th birthday the v. W. Bus. It can handle any kind of job takes families on vacation and travels around the world. 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