Hello and welcome to the latest in our special programmes on the coronavirus pandemic. In todays programme, why scientists are increasingly focused on tracking down the so called super spreaders of the virus. Fewer than 300 people have died in south korea from covid 19 while daily case numbers remain under 50. How has the country managed to keep number so low . Also, dont forget you can find the latest updates on the pandemic on our website. But first, this week, gyms and bars reopened in several german towns and cities as the country continues to relax restrictions. Germany has gained International Recognition for the way it is brought to the coronavirus outbreak under control, but there are now fears that it may be moving too quickly. The bbcs berlin correspondent reports from dusseldorf. Its going to be a painful recovery. Dusseldorfs gym is open again as germany relaxes most of its coronavirus restrictions. I am torn. I enjoy the new freedoms but at the same time im a bit scared. Maybe it was too early. Generallys cautious approach relaxing now. Germanys Angela Merkel continued to warn repeatedly that this country is still in the early stages of the pandemic. On a day like this, it is hard to believe it. Germany has brought its outbreak under control but there is now an intense public debate about what happens next. This country can still boast lower infection rates, but it is early days. Yes, i think it is too soon just now, we are easing up too fast, we are easing up too much so we risk a second wave and i dont really understand why this has been done so quickly because still, more than 80 of the population stand behind the federal agreements. Small but valuable, a minority demanded Angela Merkel left restrictions. So, more significantly, did germanys regional leaders. Like this man who is a leading candidate to replace next year. We have a Health Problem of the pandemic, but there is other damage. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds who couldnt go to school, sick people who didnt get treatment the hospitals were reserved for covid 19. People in care homes were lonely. This is damage as well and it is claimed lives. Nothing to do then with raising his political profile . The measures we had to decide are so important, a matter of life or death, you cant act on a tactical basis. Katarina is not impressed, though the relaxations mean she has seen her family for the first time in weeks. I am very sceptical, very sceptical. It is like tipping over a sack of potatoes. This country, praise worldwide for its initial success feels rather fragile now. In mexico, the government has also begun to reopen its economy, with a number of industries permitted to return to work this week. But, the country has one of the lowest levels of testing in the americas. Some Scientists Say that the decision has been taken too early. More than 10,000 people have died in mexico from covid i9. Bbc mexico correspondent will grant reports. Officially, mexico has lost 10,000 people to coronavirus. One of them was a man who succumbed to the virus in his impoverished town. His funeral was simple. The Indigenous Community marking another life lost to covid i9. Mexicos pour being buried beneath the dusty earth in their drones. But the true number of dead may be far higher. Mexicos testing rate is among the lowest in latin america. Fewer than one in 1,000 are tested for covid i9. The policy is only to test the most severe cases, but it is causing confusion and distress for family members. My boy is here with pneumonia outside this hospital in acapulco. But we have no information or documents that prove he was tested for covid 19, no way of knowing what he has. What is clear is that mexicans are dying at an alarming rate. Across the country, Funeral Homes struggled to cope and cemeteries are filling up fast. Despite it all, mexico is reopening for business. From automobile factories to bike shops, workers are heading back. The president has even embarked on a national tour. He remains defiant, but his response has been criticised as badly misjudged. Even without widespread testing, it is obvious the crisis is far from over in mexico. Here, family members get words of love and support to the hospitalised love ones anyway they can. They urge them to get well, to fight off the virus, to come home soon. Because they know the alternative could look like this. A socially distant funeral, a Memorial Service reduced to a drive through, mourners not leaving their cars to pay their respects. The government insists it has passed, but with testing the peak still so scarce, many fear the worst is yet to come. Now, for the past few weeks the bbc has had unprecedented access to one of the hospitals hardest hit by the coronavirus in britain. That is the Royal London Hospital in east london. Clive myrie has been looking at how the nhs in england is trying to adapt to the new reality of a virus that, at the moment, has no cure or vaccine and the continuing grief of those in the local community who have been worst affected. You may find some of the scenes in his report upsetting. This is the story of one hospital and one community. In the time of covid 19. Their harmony in the face of an almighty challenge. What does the future hold for the men and women in and out of uniform . And can the nhs adapt to a new normal way of working . With a virus that could be here to stay. We were given unprecedented access to the covid 19 wards of the Royal London Hospital and east end. We had permission from all the patients and their families to film. Go go go. We watch the agonising attacks. Lets call the family. To save this man who was just 55. And we spoke with a nurse, the only person by his side as he slipped away. Ijust sat on a chair and held his hand to be with him in that time. He was a proud father of four sons, including this man here on his graduation day. He wanted to speak to us about his dad. I only got married last year, so it has been one year and a bit, so yeah, i guess that was. Again, you know, none of us would have thought this time last year, in all that happiness, that Something Like this would have happened actually so, i have to try and move on. I think that is going to be the hardest thing for the first few weeks and months. He was only two and a half weeks shy of his 56th birthday, so he didnt even make it to that. But trevor smith has lived to see another summer. His 65th. His voice box is no longer silent. For weeks, his life hung from a plastic tube, inserted into his throat, to provide the supply of oxygen his body needed that covid 19 had choked off. You cant breathe properly. Trevor survived after being in the deepest and darkest of places. Now the sun is shining. But when will the sunshine for us as a nation . When can our collective mourning begin . All the deaths of so far been wrapped up in charts and graphs, close to 40,000 dead. For veteran consultant trauma surgeon martin griffiths, it is the humanity of the nhs in this pandemic that is now attracting scores of new recruits. People are running towards it, medical students are running towards hospitals to become Health Care Support workers and start their training early. We had to turn people down who want to commit to support the effort and there was kindness everywhere. The nhs is thriving for now. There are even two new gleaming floors at the Royal London Hospital for possible covid 19 patients. But what about Cancer Screening . 0r Heart Disease . Many who are sick in the community have stayed away, worried they might catch the virus. Intensive care consultant nick bunker wants them back. All the people who would normally have presented here with ailments, where are they . I suspect some of them have died. Some of them are at home. The cancer, we have not been doing a lot of diagnostics. So if you are not doing the diagnostics you dont pick up an early cancer with the few symptoms that people have early on, and so perhaps are just not detecting. It is still out there. The fervent hope is the lockdown eases is that people will drift back to the nhs for whatever hurts them and the service will be able to help everyone if we help ourselves. They are our friends and our colleagues who we know who are dying or are sick. People i care about have been lost to coronavirus. You cant overstate. How simple measures are having a huge effect. How simple measures are having a huge effect. I know its boring and challenging but, look at it from my perspective. I dont need to see any more dead people. What happens to the nhs now the clapping has stopped . Will the reverence and esteem wayne, with the extra funding dry up . Whatever happens, the commitment of the men and women we came across at the Royal London Hospital wont transform because this is personal. Working to help the community they serve is part of a deeper reward. Sitting in your car going to work, you think to yourself, is this what i want to do with my life and the answer is, yes absolutely. This is the one time i need to stand up and do myjob. This is the one time i absolutely have to be there. Clive myrie reporting there from a hospital in east london. Its six months now since this virus first came to light and scientists are learning more about it every day. So called super spreaders are of particular interest. The 10 of infected people who are responsible for 80 of all cases will stop 80 of all cases. An outbreak in a nightclub district in south korea. One man with covid 19 is linked to more than 150 new cases. Coronavirus clusters arent unusual. As few as 10 of people could cause 80 of all infections. This is how coronavirus spreads. If the virus is left unchecked, one person will infect three others, who will then pass it on to three more, and this keeps on repeating. But this is the average picture. In reality, some people wont pass the virus on at all, especially if they are self isolating. 0thers though will spread it more widely, so one person could give the virus to ten other people, and a few of those could do the same. This is a super spreading event. Right now, this is the only way to sing together. But pre lockdown choirs saw several super spreading events. Ba rs a nd restau ra nts also had clusters. And gyms as well. It is notjust about close indoor contact. There were more cases linked to zumba classes than pilates for example, so it might not only be the noise level so you are having to shout and expend more breath that might cause more transmission or you are engaged in an exercise that requires you to breathe more heavily on deep as opposed to more gentle breathing. With lockdown easing, we are being encouraged to spend time outside, but what is the risk . Being outdoors is less risk for transmission than being indoors, but if you spend a lot of time together in groups and are sharing food and if you dont maintain social distancing or hand hygiene, then there is still a risk of infections. It is crucial to know where super spreading is most likely to happen. Scientists say targeted restrictions will help to control covid 19 spread. And, as we saw in a report, south korea is clamping down on those breaking quarantine as it battles clusters of coronavirus popping up across the country. It is also stepped up its track and trace measures and is making greater use of technology to find covid 19 carriers in less than one hour before they infect others. The country it has been credited with one of the most successful pandemic strategies in the world, using mass testing and aggressive Contact Tracing to keep its economy and its people out of lockdown. Fewer than 300 people have died there and daily case numbers remain under 50. Laura becker has been taking a closer look at how they achieved it. Each gasp for breath. Each drop of blood painted an alarming picture. This was the first coronavirus patient. The scans revealed she had been ill for days before showing symptoms. Doctors realised then that carriers could infect others without knowing they were sick. At the peak of the outbreak, hundreds of contacts traces were mobilised. Lessons south korea learn from previous epidemics. She is allowed to ask personal questions and record private details because of special laws brought in to combat into pictures diseases. Traces then hit this treats to seek out cctv footage. Streets looking at phone and bank records to get the most accurate information. The details are sent out as emergency messages across the country. Tracking down covid 19 carriers once took days. After gaining access to even more data, it now takes less than one hour. Youll not how are you feeling . Very tired, i come from south carolina. And you have no symptoms . This woman has taught how to download a quarantine up on her phone. She wont be allowed to switch her phone off or move from her quarantine address of 1a days. This foreigner is told he will be deported if he doesnt comply. But she feels it is right. I am so grateful i can be on this territory. Nothing. I am just so glad. A few have complained about any intrusion on privacy. It has been seen as a price worth paying. Track and trace has kept this country out of lockdown. Meanwhile, hugs from dad at the arrival gate are replaced with a hosing down of hand sanitiser, an act of love in itself and his extraordinary times. Finally, during this pandemic, doctors have had to deal with death more often than many are used to and due to restrictions in place over hospital visitors they are often the last person spent time with a terminally ill patient. The film maker paul miles spoke to five doctors who have had to administer end of life care during the crisis. Once you have been told that someone is dead, myjob is to go in and confirm that death, checking the life science, signs listening to their chest. Normally after that, you may spend another 30 secondsjust in there. I suppose, may be saying goodbye to them in a strange way, just acknowledging that they have gone and then you pull the sheet over their head. It seems so incredible that what you are seeing is the culmination of someones whole life. The only things that unify us is is that we are all born and we will all die. Death is not abnormal, it is perfectly normal. The best deaths are those that are comfortable, peaceful, even if someone is unconscious or confused, they may recognise a tone of voice, perfume, the touch of a hand. She quietly read him his favourite poem just at the moment when he died. His wife and his ex wife spent the night sat in the hospital room, drinking a bottle of wine with him. It just seemed a happy way to go. This afternoon, the foreign secretary said the lockdown will remain in place across the uk. He said deaths are still rising and we havent yet reached a peak of the virus. The governments chief scientific adviser doctor particularly in this area, the hospitals are full. A colleague described me as having seen someone in a morning walk to the door who died by the afternoon. I would get called to look at one or two deaths, whereas now it seems like there is often ten people dying each day in hospital. I have had to look after a few patients who were actively dying and they couldnt see the faces of anyone who was looking after them, including me. You are trying to smile with your eyes and show them some emotion and some human side, to make them feel that they are not alone. There was one jamaican gentleman, we made the concession of allowing his elderly wife to come and see him as he was dying. She had to wear a mask, is had to wear an apron and gloves to see and touch her husband at the end of his life. I got called to see a patient in the middle of the 90 was very unwell. As i came on his mobile phone was ringing. Before really doing anything else on that, we got moved on to focusing on his medical care and optimises oxygen. He passed away before the morning. Right afterwards, whether or not there was anything i could have done to make sure he could have spoken to his wife. We have now had to make a blanket rule of family members not being able to come into the intensive care department. People arent even able to come into the mortuary to be there with the body of their loved one because of Infection Control reasons and i think there will be a huge amount of Emotional Trauma that comes out of the back of covid 19 because people havent been able to process the deaths of their loved one. Some of the staff are struggling to come in and find that their list of ten or 15 patients there is only two alive. After literally one night. There is a real issue in palliative medicine with emotional burn out. We are doing what we can to give people as comfortable and as normal a death as possible, but this is a completely abnormal situation. We are learning as we go along. I do think in the uk we are quite resistant to talking about death, potentially something that this awful pandemic will do is making people much more aware of their own mortality and making it much more acceptable to be talking about. When we are scared, the first instinct is to turn your face away from what is scaring you and i dont think it is a time to be doing that. I think it is a time to connect, converse and just be clear about what is important. This too will end and we will come through this. We may have changed, and some of that will be for worse, but some of that also must be for good. That is it for now, a reminder that you can follow me on twitter or head to the bbc news website for the latest information. Thank you for watching. Hello there and unusually windy past couple of days. And we will still have a keen northwest wind with us during the day had. Making it feel quite chilly round the north sea coast. Gradually High Pressure building infor coast. Gradually High Pressure building in for the next couple of days. That will start to damper the winds down and some of the western areas. As you can winds down and some of the western areas. As you can see winds down and some of the western areas. As you can see they are still further outbreaks of rain or a shower re rain to come. Make its way southwards across england and wales. It does allow drier and brighter weather for much of scotland and northern ireland. Just a few showers around some sunshine in sheltered spots. But some of the showers as they think self could turn heavy and boundary. The winds are easing we are quite keen in the north but particularly as well near the north sea coast. Just taking the edge of those temperatures again. 12 or 13. But in southern areas it may be just a little warmer then saturday with slightly less wind and a little bit more dry and bright weather. Through the evening, overnight any of those sundry showers believe the way. In fa ct we sundry showers believe the way. In fact we start to see some starry skies coming through. Quick chilly start to monday morning could be some grass frost in the glens of scotla nd some grass frost in the glens of scotland felt up thats all due to that area of High Pressure from the azores starting to build in. For monday and for many we think on tuesday as well. However thereafter, much needed rain as this area of low pressure starts to take shape. As a safer monday, it is looking like a drier day. Quite a bit of cloud mulling around but some sunshine, strong sunshine at this time a year. Slightly less windy so it will start to feel warmer. They could just be a few sharp downpours in the afternoon. Two tuesday another coolish start but we are losing that northerly wind we pick up a south westerly wind instead. Eventually that will bring some rain into the north and west. Many feeling warmer because will have a bit more sunshine. And weve lost that northerly breeze. As we are towards midweek some uncertainty still. But its looking now as if low pressure will start to develop to bring all of us some rainfall. That could well hang around for much of the week. And sync into southern areas. That will give some appreciable rainfall. Certainly want to keep our eye on. Looking to see is if southern areas may get significant rain as we head towards the middle part of the week. As ever we will keep you updated. Bye bye. This is bbc news, im lewis vaughanjones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Tens of thousands of protestors march in washington in the biggest protest so far against the killing of george floyd. This is the scene live, just moments from the white house. Thousands of mourners honour george floyd at a second Memorial Service, this one in his birthplace of north carolina. Thousands of demonstrators have held rallies the uk, despite government warnings against Mass Gatherings during the lockdown. 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