And beethoven is for. Beethoven is for. Beethoven 2020. 50 then a verse 3 here on d w. Well its connected by flight paths defying distance to bridge gaps between continents and people. But planes also made it possible for viruses to travel faster than ever before that turned a local outbreak into a Global Pandemic the Airline Industry was knocked out of the sky around 90 percent of Flights Canceled globally some airlines couldnt survive. Things are slowly taking off again and the future of aviation looks very Different Health screening has become as important as security screening social distancing in ones crowded airport terminals and on board may be the new normal but how will the new normal ensure protection from a deadly virus that hasnt gone away. Welcome to special indeed all the news i want to get johns and then and the last time i traveled by plane was in lots of 2 had just started to spread in germany and planes were soon grounded well now restrictions are being lifted and people are slowly taking to the skies again but is it safe. Birds chirping at the e used largest airport powerss shelter god. In unusual silence where 1300 flights used to take off and over 200000 passengers transit each day when they want to apply we saw a 98 percent fall in passenger numbers since the lockdown measures began to be eased we felt things moving a bit last week we had an average of around 10000. 00 passengers per day which is about 20 percent more than the previous week its much less than last year but we see an increase and some movement on the passenger side so for me or anybody. In china where the pandemic 1st broke out the low point was mid february with only 23 percent of the normal flights that is known stabilized and around 60 percent compared to the Previous Year but the industry fears passenger numbers will never reach the same levels. Of a campus as it were over passengers need a good reason to travel at the moment. We expect new measures from the government starting june the 15th. We now have passenger restrictions until that date and we expect a resumption of flights in the Schengen Area on the 15th. When you are there much and then is also money but before that happens passengers have to feel safe it would take years to equip aircraft with new seating plans and may never happen given the air carriers tight budgets for the time being travelers will need to bring a lot more patients with them in delhi baggage is disinfected outside the terminal all passengers are checked for temperature negative corona tests could be added to the list for passengers boarding in some countries. Sitting on this flight is socially distanced. The flight attendants uniforms are also different. The experience rights to just sum it up and you know i mean this is yes it is over all different because we are not used to coming to work like this. And the job isnt over once the flight lands this cleaning team in delhi has to completely disinfect the aircraft. So is the coronavirus the kiss of death for air travelling or can we reduce the risks of catching a dangerous disease and bring in professor Ashok Srinivasan from the department of Computer Science at the university of west florida good to have you with us and understand that you are the Principal Investigator of new research on pig destry and dynamics models and that has recently been used in the analysis of procedures to reduce the risk of disease spread in airplanes in terms of health how risky is it to fly well if you look at one specific flight or one specific good on up or that a flight risk of infection is not pretty high oh it comes from going to so many problems and so many flight its inevitable a sometime or the other there will be a major outbreak on the flights so Nothing Happened and sought all souls so there are most of the flights going in fact or anyone else but there were a few flights where a lot of people got infected so so the risk of getting infected on a plane isnt higher than lets say ah on a trade show in any room that is closed. Yeah. I dont want to give exact numbers because in a new outbreak its always very difficult to predict whats going to exactly happen but because a lot of them get a flight so you have a high probably of some outbreak happening over the whole system well lets take a closer look at sars cove 2 virus because obviously one way to reduce the risk of catching a virus is social distancing that is pretty impossible on a plane isnt it. To social distancing is not a all or nothing thing its not like for example there you go talk about the 6 feet threshold. If youre much closer the product of infection of much higher and sometimes you can get you can catch it even if you have thought that abi so others can do certain things you know for example some outlines removing go a bit of people in the middle c. So that includes sort of the sensing a bit if you look at a passenger you know they can then boarding they can actually try to maintain distance for example if you board lost you can try to maintain distance of the previous person and have some control over what happens so if everybody boards last then the plane will never take off and leaving out the middle seat is is obviously not very Cost Effective for the airlines you did a lot of research certainly in in the way that humans behave. In sort of Narrow Passage ways and he used from which is one of the worlds most powerful Super Computers how did this computer help you with your simulations of what were your findings. Well one of the observations are that Human Behavior is very hard to put it so if you look at if you look at one particular simulation ought to to be simulations and try to see what really lumens do you have probably going to capture all possibilities have made it into a child pick an extreme ever could the capture that you need to look at all possible ways in which humans actually behave so we do a google simulation bit of millions of simulation so that pits a lot of competition and foot so a doctor that even we have to use a supercomputer because we want to look at extreme events where some unlikely situation these 2 major infection outbreak. Given that a lot of people are starting to fly again because planes on the longer ground you already said its a good idea to be the last on board that might not always be possible if anything else we should to bear in mind a step in a particular safe seat or a row specially when we think of adventure elation and and droplets that carry biases and theyve been floating around. Where the typical model of just that sitting in the. Seat is most dangerous because one is you of course the people who actually walking and i and also the absolute clinician most of the planes take the ad from the window site into the site it does Something Different but on the whole it tends to move towards the person and i get infections in because infection probability and assad opaque yet yes go on. Well and saw so pretty though. One of the major outbreaks actually equally spread between. 2 and a middle seat so its not guiding to if you sit in the eye youre going to have a higher probability of the window youll have a lower probability. Of modeling support and some common sense that we know would be a little safer than the no rights i know what i book next professor sreenivasan from the department of Computer Science with you this is of west florida thank you so much for your time. Ok ereka time for your questions now over to our science correspondent derrick williams. When we have a vaccine how can we provide enough shots to inoculate everyone is there a plan to coordinate efforts around the globe. There are now over 120. 00 different covert 19 vaccine candidates in studies going around the world and based on a range of technologies some developers are so confident of success that theyre theyre already making plans for large Scale Production the most likely scenario is that well need more than one successful vaccine to meet Global Demand and it could well be that different demographics like like children or the elderly respond better or worse to particular vaccines so so this shotgun approach is actually being viewed as a positive thing. Is there a difference between p. C. R. Tests and denies the tests. The p. C. R. Or polymerase Chain Reaction test is a method for for multiplying and tagging small amounts of genetic material like like r. N. A. From a swab sample taken for example from your nose or your throat when the genetic material and markers it carries are amplified a machine can detect it p. C. R. Is the primary method used to determine the presence of sars cove 2 so whether someone has an active covert 19 infection. Elisa which stands for enzyme winged abuse or bent acid is whats called a syrup logical test its a blood test for detecting antibodies made by your immune system in response to the virus and they take a while for the body to produce so so p. C. Or tests tell you if youre prudently infected while elisa tells you if you might have had the disease already at some point in the past and produced antibodies against it. And Eric Williams will be back to answer more of your questions tomorrow now there are some kinds of flight we might see more often in a pandemic the demand for groans to deliver medical supplies is it to fly higher this winged foot copter can carry about 5 kilograms and fly well over 100 kilometers an hour it is being trial to at the moment to see if he can bring cargo like over 1000 test kits and personal protective equipment to remote scottish islands. Thats all fog of an audience special thanks for watching and before we go a helpful reminder for those of you planning to board a plane soon again be sure to bring a white with you would to disinfect surfaces plastic zip bags or personal items like your i. D. Card wash your hands as often as possible stay in your seat and wear a mask and in either case have a safe flight thanks for watching. Assassinations in minsk 20 years ago 3 prominent members of the opposition in belarus disappeared without trace. Now a key witness and exactly to the murders has come forward. Because information leaves little doubt. The order to kill came from the highest office or a ts. Next on. 3 didnt know or didnt what do they dream of at night even. As cleaners they see the face of horror. On their job censoring for the social media industry. In manila there are thousands of socalled content monitors day for day they scream terrifying images from online platforms. 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