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With thousands of intensive care beds still free doctors are warning the system could get to be overwhelmed if there is a 2nd wave of infections. Im get out of as welcome to the program corona Virus Outbreak in the United States is fast approaching a 1000000 confirmed cases the death toll there has now surpassed 50000 thats around a quarter of the global corona death toll so far despite these grim milestone pressure is growing in some states to ease restrictions the governor of georgia has rejected warnings from Infectious Disease experts and is allowing many businesses to reopen including some web social distancing is almost impossible to enforce. On the day the coronavirus death toll in the usa rose above 50000 thomas putting was allowed to reopen his barber shop a barber in atlanta for over 50 years he now has to wear gloves and a mask while he cuts his clients hair. Off one of the voices say for quad news morning oh wall did it 6 brought a good hair theres a bird for how much lobell. I gotta pay rivet got to pay my barbers the bloody big hill. Its not only barbers many businesses in georgia have been allowed to reopen like tattoo studios Bowling Centers and gyms cinemas and restaurants will follow on monday but not everyone is following suit this gym will continue to hold its classes on line. Whether or not we open today or one day or 2 weeks didnt really matter unless our clients are still cant come in in addition to georgia the pioneer other Southern States in the us are planning to ease restrictions on experiment that others view as risky states with a democratic governor are mostly sticking to stricter measures. And as stressed as we are about getting back to work reopening up businesses we know that if we do it too fast a 2nd wave is likely and would be even more devastating than the moment that we are in the debate on the right time to reopen is emotionally charged in the us like here in wisconsin a large number of troops supporters across the country are protesting against the restrictions. Youre you know. Your freedom thats your right you know why should my freedom. For the protests are financed and supported by right wing organizations yet these protesters remain a minority according to polls 2 thirds of americans fear restrictions will be eased too soon like these nurses at a counter protest. Who laid out 1300 candles one for every coronavirus patient who died in a wisconsin hospital. To take a look at the latest developments in this pandemic russias virus Response Center says the country now has 80000 cases british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to return to work on monday after recovering from covert 19 he spent 3 days in intensive care recently and officials in the chinese city of where the virus originated say all corona patients have now gone home north korean media is not commenting on outside speculation about leader kim jong uns Health Reuters News Agency Says china has sent a delegation including senior doctors to advise on kims condition rumors that he is seriously ill following a heart operation satellite images from the north and north korea monitoring site appear to show kims private train the resort town of one son on the east coast for more on this story im now joined by agent Foster Carter Senior Research fellow in sociology and modern career at Leeds University in the u. K. And it is notoriously difficult to get reliable information about the state of affairs in north korea several Media Outlets are now quoting sources in china saying that kim has actually died what are your sources saying about kims health. I should hasten to say that im an analyst i dont have any better or different sources than anyone else im trying to put together as many people are the pieces of a chick so puzzle we dont have enough pieces of me certainly dont have any picture on the box to guide us. Anything anything is possible it is interesting that he missed a key meeting that was the 1st alarm his fathers birthday at the 15th the big holiday suns day they call that hes never missed stopped its also interesting to see any other so definite fact his train has been seen that one sign on the east coast as you said that is not in the air where the irish report said he had the surgery i do think anything is possible i think its right to talk about it even astri insisting that we only have we have unconfirmed rumors because if he if anything is wrong with him im an unknown committal not at the moment because we dont know then we can be fetish sure that that is a very big deal for north korea its a very resilient state its managed to successions before but as absolutely nobody in place now so we will just have to wait and see he may pop up and surprise a soul and those of us to speculate it may have egg on our faces as a sop and before but its a very big deal if there is something wrong with them if there is indeed something wrong with him it is unclear who would succeed him as a leader whos the most likely candidates and what if there is no clear transition of power. Indeed so well long ago this was a communist country where there were supposed to be some heredity im there all those who think that they are normal service in that sense could be resumed some committee could take it but i dont think so because they have gone down the offical route stated pull it out of course but they call it the pick 2 months a sorry day to bloodline off to the young people kind of ranch in texas which is sacred so its got to be in the blood its being its called you know father to son to son nice hes got children we say but every little indeed he has got a sister came you know joe shes very able see is has a more public role recently she issued 2 statements in her own right but its a very sexist of its confucian patriarchal culture and shes very young too so that would be a very big deal as a hot uncle kim jong il program got time to go into all the details he was a little 7 Ambassador Well away from tokyo and in several east European Countries i think most recently the Czech Republic very able again but leaders acceptable its really hard to know they could easily be a power struggle the army which was much more powerful than his father kim jong il the new kim jong un has reigned but they might make the its very best and whose time to be on the new patent law story. I dont fault the kata thank you very much for this analysis thank you quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines today more than a 1000 firefighters are still battling forest blazes and the radiation contamination tends to noble exclusion zone in all the new crain the wildfires have been raging there for the past 3 weeks causing extensive damage to buildings. After 3 weeks of total lockdown dubai has lifted some of its coronavirus related restrictions public transport started to run again and some shops were allowed to reopen some measures remain in place including an overnight curfew. Hundreds of venezuelan migrants including elderly people and pregnant women have been stuck at the colombian venezuelan border unable to return home as the venezuelan government closed the busy Border Crossing near the colombian town of kuta. For more nations are beginning to ease lock down saying looting germany the number of coronavirus deaths remains relatively low and around 13000 intensive care beds are Still Available but although the number of covert 900 patients in hospitals is going down doctors are warning that people must not get complacent. Protective gowns 2 pairs of gloves and a special mask it takes had physician ghana marks a long time to get ready before he can enter the intensive care unit at a Concert University hospital is a huge one we know in spain and italy as minister 15 percent of medical personnel got infected and many died. Patients with covais 1000 are currently being treated here that means theyre on artificial respiration sometimes for weeks and as doctors here stress theyre not exclusively people from high risk groups. And yet by one sent them we have patients here who are not 18 years old some are only in their sixtys. And they didnt all have preexisting Health Conditions some were pair fully healthy before woman michelle says she is one such patient the 52 year old thinks he was infected in austria hes being treated for covert 1000 at a hospital in bavaria for nearly 3 weeks he was on a respirator fighting for his life. This was it was like a bad dream at one point i remember hearing someone say to me you have to fight you have to survive. This hospital has become a center for cope with 19 patients until recently the situation here was extreme with more than half of the 280 beds taken by corona patients now the numbers have started to go down. The last 2 houses in compared to the peak period we now have it wont half the number of cases so thats giving us some time to catch our breath. As to its original catching their breath and hoping the number of infections doesnt start to go up again at the University Clinic in auckland doctors say the situation is still far from normal there head physician says nows not the time to relax. Before we know were hoping we wont see many new cases and that things can maybe go back to normal with a smaller number of patients. The worst Case Scenario for us would be a 2nd wave of infections and over the good side of it if a 2nd wave does come the team here is prepared even though treating covert 1000. 00 patients takes everything they have mostly it takes time because after weeks of artificial respiration those who recover have to learn to breathe again on their own. One tool to cope with future Coronavirus Infection waves his smartphone tracing many countries are developing the technology and germany has just decided to change tack on which type of app it wants to use following widespread privacy concerns German Health minister against ban told the newspaper veterans on talk that the government now favors not story of peoples data in a central database indorsed on the form part of the report or our 2nd is tracking that story for us he joins me now how are corona tracking apps supposed to work. But Contact Tracing is seen as a very Important Mission in tracking and isolating the coronavirus now the idea behind these apps is that as we move around in the outside world the bit at the supermarket or on public transport our smartphones will record food we get in touch with it you then get diagnosed with coded 19 you can then anonymously contact the people youve been close to and they can go into self isolation now of course the big debate here is about the Technology Used to record that doctor and whether its being stored on the handset or if its being sent to essential central database so which technology has a germany chosen now. Well as late as friday germany was still supporting a paneuropean centralized model where the dancer is stored on essential ice service but last week hundreds of scientists theyve written open letter saying that this model could lead to status of failings says today in the Health Ministry and shawn said that they have now refers to the decision and they wanted to go for the decentralized model where the data is only stored on the devices now this change in tack importantly puts germany in line with apple and google you might remember a few weeks back the 2 tech giants joined forces to create the infrastructure that is necessary to create these apps not forget that 99 percent of smartphones in the world run either on apples i. O. s or googles android operating system all a very brief a. O. L. Welcome expect to have these apps on our phones. Well in germany its still a way away we dont necessarily know when its coming out of israel us already hasnt this but importantly but importantly. Criticism and transparency are the 2 important issues here some people might not trust their governments others might not trust the tech giants so if we dont have trust this project might fail also there are important for us thank you very much. And that sets from me and the news team here in berlin i have an update for you at the top of the. Lake. Was a muggle which is. Food for the russian soul