Special next on d w. They will not succeed in dividing us out not succeed in taking the people off the streets because were tired of this dictatorship. Taking the stand global news that matters. To. A Global Pandemic means the sex workers of the world are facing difficulties. Protecting both their health and income is a hard balance to strike. This is my only job that can earn enough money to support a family ah ah. To the lock down i lost all my in crime. Scene and i thought. When you arent there is no effective way to protect yourself from the coronavirus. What should we do here spray times from head to toe with disinfectant so its not profitable. I just really have to wait until almost almost everything is open. And then i go because i want to call myself as well. Someone in my dungeon you know why im not insured. Like few other professions their health and livelihood are on the line and the varying degrees of legality and within which they operate provide another layer of vulnerability many in the secs were community struggling to survive. Im chris cuomo and welcome to covey 19 special here on the w. Potential if you give me a logical super spreaders thats what some german politicians called sex workers during the corona Virus Outbreak a label thats cost some pushback now that brothels and other stablish mines are reopening we look at how the pandemic has been impacting a business that is the very opposite of social distance. Sex always sells they say supposedly crisis proof profession but its the very opposite of social distancing so the Coronavirus Crisis has made life tough for those who make a living selling their bodies the virus threatens the very core of their business. Yes it is im asking you some of my guests have weakened immune systems vicious i especially if theyre a bit older i might makes you think what if i were to infect them 2nd lot of. Germanys brothels have to close for a while amid a lockdown thats recently started to ease but many of the countrys estimated 400. 00 thousands. Workers live in a precarious Economic Situation anyway the lock down made their lives more difficult. In kind of a clock and they havent put any money aside from their work was banned from one day to the next thats very difficult. To support center for prostitutes is doing what it can to help women get by. But not all brothels have been allowed to reopen across germany yes. There mom lets encourage. If you use the proper disinfection materials what can go wrong the beauty salons are open the dentists are operating so. Truth. At this venue efforts are being made to make sure surfaces are clean but doctors say such measures wont keep customers or sex workers safe this is again a concept is this hygiene plan is well needed considering how close the contacts are and how difficult it is to trace the customers i really doubt it will work is mine its a. Meanwhile covert has rekindled a political debate about prostitution 16 members of the German Parliament launched a campaign to get it banned they say the countrys liberal laws have not protected women as they were intended to. This new title 18 years on why no it has totally failed geminis the process. Where our target country for european and worldwide trafficking of people the Sexual Exploitation mention hundreds some take the 6 when i was a boy to. Other politicians say all about never does is push the problems into the shadows beyond the reach of laws on the coronavirus is proved. Right now we are seeing that many women who cant work anymore because of the context of being kept like animals exploited by their customers and thats what would happen if we tried to outlaw prostitution. Its an old debate with new relevance because of the virus for now what most of the women say theyre worried about is staying in work and staying safe. For more lets bring in tell you know and i may she is the executive director of the coalition against trafficking in women welcome to the Program Countries are reopening their economies should sex workers also be allowed to get back to their jobs well this question is rather complicated because you are assuming that prostitution is work like any other which we dont agree on and also this is not about simply women and prostitution that we are talking about were talking about a system of exploitation situation and prostitution in germany which as we all know is legal has contributed to a vast commercial Sexual Exploitation that includes countrywide. Brothels that make money. The trafficking and exploitation of the most Vulnerable Women from Eastern Europe and the global south so the question that we need to ask is. Brothels not reopen because we know that brothel owners and brothel managers are part of. A global multibillion dollar system. Of severe exploitation of human rights violation that the human eye says them in and contributes to. Our physical psychological and other harm tend to have coronavirus restrictions like closed borders had any impact on the trafficking of women and girls. Well the coronavirus has has really. Put a spotlight on what happens to the most vulnerable so i am in the United States we see the inequality economic racial and other inequalities that have been exacerbated by the corona virus it is exactly the same scenario for prostituted and sex trafficked women in germany where the borders are closed women are on the street. And again you know if prostitution were a job like any other people would register. Germany estimates that up to between 20400000 women and a few men in trans women are in prostitution only 39 have registered with the government that says them think that the German Government that says that the laws will not eliminate the stigma attached to prostitution and also they truly fail to examine who the human beings are who are being bought and sold by them and its also how are you going to. Exercise Safety Measures that that all of the Health Institutions have given us under the krona guidelines when it comes to exchange and bodily fluids and all of the their sexual acts that are involved in prostitution it and i mean really impossible of the coalition against trafficking and women we have to leave it there thank you for speaking to us thank you. Next up are your questions about the Novel Coronavirus and our science correspondent sterrett williams as random. What about people testing positive weeks or even months after a 1st positive p. C. R. Test what does this mean. Some people continue to test positive for the virus long after coming down with the disease and to be honest we still dont really know what that means the problem is that a p. C. R. Test only detects source code to use genetic material its r. N. A. But it doesnt say anything about whether or not that d. N. A. Is coming from viable virus to find that out you have to culture a sample from the positive patient which is is laborious and time consuming because the sample is potentially infectious but where thats been done the indications are that the virus that p. C. R. Tests to tact in long term positive patients that those viruses are not able to replicate so many experts now think that although some people play really take longer to get the virus out of their systems that doesnt mean that theyre infectious for weeks on end. Is there a risk that a covert 19 vaccine could trigger an auto immune disorder like. You know no matter what you answer on a question like this someone is going to end up screaming at you so im going to go with the World Health Organizations website on the issue of Adverse Reactions to vaccines which would include things like the development of an auto immune disorder after being vaccinated the w. H. O. Says that very rarely serious adverse effects to vaccines do occur but despite that there is no question the benefits of vaccination very much outweigh the risks so could our theoretical kogut 19 vaccine theoretically trigger an auto immune disorder yes i guess so but the chance is likely to be very slight. And the upside of acquiring even persia lim unity ticket 19 through a back seeing would be huge assuming of course that the vaccine candidate it has been properly tested. On june the 15th travel restrictions on germans leaving the country will be lifted is it also reopening its borders to e. U. Nationals. In the course of its lockdown germany introduced bans for for most nonessential travel and some of them will continue through june 15th although cross border traffic routes have already been reopened and the checks are no longer really systematic the countrys interior ministry has stated that its now planning to also lift those bans on that date for travelers from other e. U. Member states as well as as from britain from iceland from norway from this from china and from switzerland as long as lock downs and travel bans have also eased in those countries German Health officials will be keeping a close eye on coronavirus related activity that was so so theres a chance those plans will change if things also change on the ground somewhere in europe its still a pretty fluid situation. And thats also thanks for watching. Into the conflict zone with 2 incidents to. 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