Is european politicians are brouwer the infection tracking apps and development right now with personal data is at risk of being late. Good afternoon from our to internationals world to center here in moscow its kevin anything for the next 30 minutes with our latest round up and lets begin with a quick check of the latest global coronavirus figures. Total infections now stands at more than 4800000 fatalities topped 316000 while the number of those whove recovered stands at more than 1800000 around the world. Britains Opposition Labor Party is demanding an investigation into coronavirus deaths in elderly care homes which it describes as mishandled about a quarter of the countrys coby fatalities have happened in residential facilities labours deputy leader says people have been tragically let down should be there should be some investigation into that and kiss down to earth requested that because every single day is tragic and weve had medical experts on to have said we see that the virus into our care homes and the guidance wasnt there for care workers i think theyve been tragically let down on friday it was revealed the number of care home residents in britain who died from the corona virus was actually 50 percent higher than previously estimated the new data emerged after the Prime Minister was called out over what the labor leader described as unexplained deaths the new research has revealed there have been more than 12000. 00 covert related deaths in elderly residential facilities since the beginning of march we talked to Michelle Rowlands who lost her mother mums got a temperature. And then they sort of advised me that shed had a cough the day before as. I said well these are very symptomatic of that coronavirus 09 cino ever. Has she been tested its not were not testing out. That the preceding days basically on the friday night i get a call. Weve got the test back shes been tested for cape it 19 and the tests come back 3 horrible because she cant going see you cant hold their hands you cant look at them you cant you know. Anything. I have to really. Get my mum. That was the last time. And we talked about the date we were looking towards when the weather was going to get warmer and we were going to get in a chair right. And she was so to keep her or 2 until morning 10 oclock frankel from can say lum accounts to. One still all i couldnt. Is so sad isnt here well its not only of course a problem in the u. K. But over the United States around a 3rd of all coronavirus deaths are among residents or staff in the country 7700 care facilities american journalist and regular r. T. Contributor Dave Lindorff told us about the loss of his mother in law to cope with 19 at a care home in new jersey. My mother in law had dementia so you know she needed to be in care like that unfortunately when needed fiction started to spread around the Nursing Homes all over the country including where my mother in law was ended up with a 100 the last time i looked at 114 patients infected out of 150 patients. That the jays clee everybody there and. They didnt have masks were adequate masks were the nurses were for the patients so there was really no way to keep it from spreading the infections really should never have happened and thats i think a really hard thing. That the reason may happen you knew was because the Nursing Homes didnt have the adequate tests to be able to isolate people who had it from people who did the Nursing Homes were getting 2nd priority for distribution of the available tests and the masks so they went 1st to the hospitals and i see use because they had so few 70 percent of the nursing home started run as for profit part theyre owned by pure profit corporations and so theyre squeezing. The staffing in order to keep the profits up and the cost down and thats another reason why this is so bad. Homes crisis later in this program in spain. Extent of the problem with the majority of coronavirus related deaths happening in residential facilities again full the elderly. Several European Countries are drugs they are lifting the restrictions and the pink summit to a season draws close but theres still big concern over a potential 2nd wave of infections with all Health Organizations top official in europe saying it may be inevitable this coming winter. We know from history that in pandemics to countries that have not been hit early on can begin in the 2nd week people think lockdown is finished nothing has changed the full Disease Control package has to be in place to avoid opening the floodgates to more infections france is appealing for unity across the e. U. Own reopening borders then as our europe correspondent peter all over explains next the today. Since friday restaurants here in berlin have been able to reopen their doors albeit with social distancing in place waiting stuff have to wear masks just working in the kitchen chefs cooks and other kitchen staff they dont those guests are advised that if they can wear a mask they should but obviously you cant wear a mask when your eating pubs she should bars and the like remain closed here in berlin though what weve also seen change over the weekend in germany is when it comes to borders all restrictions for travel from germany to luxembourg have now been lifted weve also seen an easing of some of the restrictions that were in place for travel to switzerland austria and france from saturday you know loud to make business trips and also travel for family visits as well across that border the interior minister horse and they have office said that he hopes to see all restrictions disappear by the middle of next month and that date of june 15th has been set up as a potential date to see travel to germany from countries like the United States and russia allowed again also coming back over the weekend was the ball does league at football has finally returned albeit with no funds in the stadium on coaches and stuff having to observe social distancing certainly good to see even if union berlin went down to nil a time to buy in munich football fans happy though bought not everybody so elated with the progress thats being made in opening up countries in. The lifting of corona restrictions we saw another weekend of demonstrations against those measures here in germany and elsewhere across europe with tempers flaring. Up. As. Another nation thats making moves to lift corona restrictions is italy theres going to be an easing of restrictions in place there coming from monday but just said he cant say the italian Prime Minister has been highlighting what is a well a big problem for all politicians making these decisions at the moment that if you open up the country with out a vaccine well youre putting people at risk whatever you do. Were confronting this risk and we need to accept it otherwise we would never be able to relaunch and we cannot afford to wait for the moment the discovery and the distribution of the vaccine we would find ourselves without social and productive fabric heavily damaged so weve seen some nations making decisions by themselves as to open up their borders to other Member States in the European Union france and the french government is saying though they want to see a more unified approach they want to see everybody essentially singing from the same song sheet when it comes to opening borders across europe forms good to this and saying it is essential for us to coordinate decisions thats a european level especially with the area but that is not the case today and the unilateral decisions by spain and italy do not make it easy for us to work in solidarity well as we enter another week expects tourism to dominate the agenda again here in europe how come asked the. German foreign minister is expected later on monday to hold talks with representatives from spain italy greece austria other nations as well to discuss the possibility of German Tourists heading to those destinations its all up in the air at the moment and tourism such an important industry youve got to remember for a number of european nations should there be no tourists from say countries like germany arriving at those destinations could have huge potentially catastrophic knock on effect for the economies in those countries keeping an eye on that of course here on r. T. You know those to come back to the present for many of us is likely to be a long time yet before life is of the thing like back to normal as it was so into the circulation into the vaccine the circulation so you could tell looks at how were all adapting to our new world the social distancing them. 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So yes its a new normal but with a little imagination maybe a way to be hot oh and the fashion game has changed this is Spring Summer collection has got a distinct our medical twist to it so must stop. Salute lee the worlds tech giants are engaged in a race to develop snow which would help track the spread of the virus but its got european politicians arguing over the best method with the coal concern being the risk of peoples personal data being leaked as shallow doob and ski reports. As part of the on going efforts to keep a lid on the corona virus pandemic many countries have embrace technology now you may have heard about the new virus tracing app that tests tracks and traces the idea is that you download the app and if you develop symptoms of covert 19 or test positive you let the app know and then it will pass on the information to anyone else who also has the same app sounds like a good idea no but for many the alarm bells are sounding. This system and those is an idea that is deadly for democracy so lets be clear not only is my surveillance not a solution it also constitutes a proven danger to our fundamental freedoms as countries are rushing to develop these apps the Big Tech Companies like google and apple already mapping out the route ahead theyre laying out the conditions for building the tools which you countries are due to rollout from next month while huge faith is being placed in Contact Tracing apps there is little solid evidence that they will be effective some are calling on governments to find real alternatives. Governments reasons sure at last grizel not protected and helped get. Future thats. Not data collection. Theres also the question to be arsed about how much control these Big Tech Companies will have all the forcing governments hands given that they already control the Smartphone Market and will be different Digital Tools from competing Companies Even be able to interact with each other the interoperability. Major blind spot from a technical perspective. One another in germany plans had been afoot to develop an app of course. Several countries with data being centrally stewart it later backed down and is now pursuing proposals promoted by google and apple and. Essentially solutions decided on last weekend a solution this ensures data is only stored on the device and not in a Central Location we convince the people trusted. That d. Centralized approach has also been taken by ireland italy and others too while here in france the government has decided to shun big tech and work on its own though any app that it develops may not even fully function with apple new google phones which is potentially rather problematic and theres concern about the privacy elements while the virus tracing apps are expected to keep sensitive and private data safe as we have seen time and time again not always possible that may be one of the reasons why the e. U. Commissioner for justice gave this warning the apps should be only used during the crisis and the day. When the pandemic is sort of but the decisions governments take now at a time when there is unprecedented Political Economic and Public Health pressure all the ones that will resonate for years perhaps even decades to come we wont know if iris tracing apps are useful unless significant chunks of the population download and use them but by then it may already be too late mass surveillance may become normalized all in the name of staying healthy. R. T. Paris. And after the break the russian Prime Minister says some regions here are ready to gradually relax their quarantine measures. We go to work you straight home. Seemed wrong but were all just dont. Get to shape our disdain comes to educate and in games from an equal trail. When something find themselves worlds apart. Shes to look for common ground. In the. Street. And. Registered less than 1000. 00 new daily covert cases this monday the 1st time that has been done to that level since may the 1st a Senior Correspondents were goes to have reports. There is a break in the line of sort of trees in these difficult times and that is because for the 1st time in 2 weeks the number of new cases every day drop below 9000 and you know its only by about 1000 but nevertheless this is a milestone because russian authorities optimistic they say that we told and now the number of cases is going to drop so they said that living being increased in the number of daily cases that is over for the foreseeable future. With the level of virus proud that we see now we can declare that weve got it under control as of today all the regions have reached a point where the situation is stabilizing and this is the result of a very careful approach to Public Health according to the russian Prime Minister who spoke today about a 3rd of russias 85 regions are ready to gradually start lifting restrictions to sustain you go this is who issued with the spread of the coronavirus and this country is still not easy but we can admit that the rise of the infection rate has been stopped and due to the very careful estimates of the dynamic is positive as for today daily monitoring says that the 27 regions are ready to gradually ease restrictions if you will certain restrictions that will begin to being lifted this it again will happen very gradually and this is obviously been a very difficult time for everyone because of you know when you went out and foreseen all of this march how im prepared every government in the world was to deal with this crisis that it was human error as well social apps played a huge role in containing the virus in all the current human self isolation measures and for example if you had been diagnosed positive you. Tested positive for the crude a virus you were human made to download an app geo through the School Social monitoring and you sometimes at the had to send a selfie to to prove that youre a vote and the something would be checked by authorities but by people in various agencies just just to make sure that nobody is violating quarantine that the problem was they had put a lot of thought into it and in the initial days they you know you get a request for a selfie in the wee hours of the morning and obviously people step through it and then be slapped with a 51 of those files. But nevertheless you know them enough to think theres a lot of technological glitches and and human error and things that hadnt been quite full through. You have to strictly follow the instructions and the documents you sign when you begin Home Treatment or 14 days quarantine the instructions are clear that you have 24 hours to install the app moreover we additionally santa semes reminders and calling on people to read the documents attentively when signing them now were in the phase where theres a lot of attention on medics on all leave done you know the sacrifice that theyve made their service and there had been some some confusion about. Medics across russia being paid for what theyve done for you know working with a group of patients exposing themselves to the virus. And an additional 7000000000. 00 rubles that allocated as bonuses for medics. To speak to here also about the plight of Nursing Homes suffering with grim mortality rates spains that leading newspapers revealed the extent of the problem there of 28000. 00 total deaths nationwide more than 17 and a half 1000 have been in care homes while nurses told us about the heartbreaking final days some residents. I see on this last thing and that is the and passing on this has been called the getting ready when they were dying and we couldnt say goodbye we were all alone we have been taking care of them for something 8 even 10 years and we wanted to their room at least twice during the shift sometimes we came in and they were all right dad we couldnt get medical treatment and the hospital many died because they received it never knowing whether they had a coronavirus or not another difficult moment was when Funeral Services were overwhelmed and the bodies of elderly people were kept in their rooms were several days the woman who lives across the street couldnt take the coffin with her mothers body for more than 2 days and when they were taken it out all she could do was to watch you through the window thats all that far will she had to her mother the Spanish Government here to comment on those figures but officials have opened a 140. 00 criminal probes against Nursing Homes after several bodies were found still in their beds spain has 5400. 00 homes in the pandemic has seen stuff in several state run facilities denounce the lack of p. P. And claim centers are severely understaffed his nurse as to be elsewhere again. With. The nothingness thanks to donations from individuals who gave us after 2 masks we were able to solve the problem with masks we had no guile no shield masks nothing we had to make gallons of shoes from ways bags and then we started getting gowns they were waterproof so in helpless much blue where hes raised. So many sad stories on there well thats the way things are looking so far function company during these times well have you covered with the headlines online around the clock on social media and all the t. V. Sort of things from moscow and our teams and kids around the rest of the world to follow so safe and well and enjoy your monday. 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