Transcripts For DW Tagesschau In 100 Sekunden 20240712

Its a pleasure to be with you although we begin this broadcast with the continuing fallout from the deadly coronavirus which continues to spread like wildfire around the world and has now claimed the lives of more than 1000000 people but experts caution that the true number is probably a lot higher the Johns Hopkins University Database recorded this very tragic milestone the database shows that the virus has spread to at least 188 countries and say tallaght is have been rising through most of august and september after weeks of gradual decline many countries are seeing a resurgence in coronavirus cases including here in germany where experts say the crisis is far from over. And id like to take you know to dr Margaret Harris she is the spokesperson of the World Health Organization in geneva a very good day dr harris now with the corona virus pandemic ravaging the globe a death toll that now tops 1000000 a potential vaccine months away should we brace ourselves for things to get a whole lot worse before they get better. Well we should remember that every one of those 1000000 whether its one person or 1000000 people has died because they came into contact with these fires they will agree theyre in a party they were singing in a choir they were doing normal things and they had their life taken from them often a very sad and lonely death away from friends and family so yes we have to take action now to stop it from getting a lot worse dr should the focus according to the w. H. O. And according to your expertise be on developing a vaccine and drugs to treat the virus or should instead the emphasis be on covert testing and tracing the emphasis should be on a little bit less were saying is do it all say yes the side has to racing i want in 24 sevenths i mean my belief in humanity has. Every day when i see the what the scientists are doing but we as cells everyone of us have to be responsible for stopping the transmission and yes and Health Systems and Health Authorities have to be increasingly testing ensuring that theyre tracing every person making sure every person who is infected is put requiring teens and making sure everybody has a contact itself isolating and following those people and making it possible for people to take the actions we know and stop the transmission now of course one of the