Century slavetrader. The statue was then rolled through the streets before being dumped in the harbour. In london, police and protestors are currently facing off in whitehall. The Prime Minister denounces the violence, saying the demonstrations have been subverted by thuggery. After a night of peaceful protests in washington President Donald Trump orders the withdrawal of the National Guard saying the city is under perfect control. The number of people worldwide who have died from coronavirus has passed 400,000. More than a quarter of the deaths have been in the united states. In brazil hundreds of Anti Government protesters demonstrate against their president over his handling of the virus and in support of george floyd. No new coronavirus deaths have been reported in scotland in the past 2a hours for the First Time Since lockdown began. But the uk death toll has risen by 77. Now on bbc news, laura bicker tells the inside story of south koreas virus hunters. How did they manage to keep the death toll so low, and what can the rest of the world learn from south korea . 0njanuary 19th, Incheon Airport in south korea was in a state of alert. There had been reports of a deadly new disease spreading from wuhan in china. This man had been trained to spot the symptoms. The woman had just flown in from wuhan and she had a temperature. South korea was one of the first countries to be infected by coronavirus. At one point, it had the worst outbreak outside china, but the country never went into lockdown. People have been allowed to travel freely, go to work in their offices, visit bars, even vote in an election, yet infection rates were brought under control. Were they just lucky, or does south korea have lessons it can teach us all . This film provides the answers. It was shot over the first 100 days of the Korean Response to covid 19, right from the very first day. The chinese woman detected with a temperature at the airport was immediately ta ken to incheon hospital. Wang yue was complaining of muscle pain and a mild fever. The doctor who treated her was drjin yong kim. A veteran of past pandemics, hed been following the frightening new disease emerging in china. These are dr kims own pictures of that first encounter. Coughs. Though her illness was mild, professor kim was alarmed. He conducted a variety of tests, including blood, saliva, x rays, and sent them off for analysis. But long before the results, he knew what he was dealing with south korea had its first case of coronavirus. Do you have any cough . No. No cough. Headache . 0k . The virus had taken hold by stealth. Mrs wang was far more ill than she appeared. When professor kim examined a ct scan of his patients lungs, he realised that shed had the virus for several days. It suggested that carriers of covid 19 were contagious without knowing they were sick. The alarm now went off in the Korean Center for Disease Control south koreas highest medical body. South korea had fought coronaviruses twice before sars in 2002 and mers in 2015. Mers killed 38 people and paralysed the country. The kcdc had already begun pandemic planning, simulating how the virus could spread out from china. With no cure available, the kcdc decided to focus on preventing the spread of the disease. First, it had to find out who actually had it. So stage one of the fightback would be mass testing. But the existing tests took too long more than 2a hours to give results. In that time, a single carrier could infect hundreds of people. The urgency was real because it was nearly the Lunar New Year holiday. Millions would be travelling all over the country, potentially spreading the virus. As korea celebrated the Lunar New Year, the kcdc summoned officials from some of the countrys Top Biotech Companies to a meeting at seoul station. Those who were there were shocked by what they heard. Among them, sd biosensors hae joon park. The companies were told to develop faster tests. In this crisis, 2a hours was just too long. In return, the kcdc would provide anything they needed samples, faster licensing, anything. It took only eight days for one firm to develop a test that gave results injust six hours. Four other companies now collaborated and scaled up production of these six hour tests. With test kits ready, the kcdc now put its faith in a strategy that could be summarised as the four ts. T1 test. Find out who was carrying the disease. T2 track. Find out where those who tested positive had been, and who theyd met. T3 trace those contacts, and test them too. Ta treat. Isolate those with the disease in specialist covid 19 hospitals. 20 days after being admitted, the first patient was discharged from hospital and wrote this letter of thanks. At this stage, only a few people arriving from china had the virus. She returned home safely and later zoomed her medical team. 0kay one month after the first case, south korea only had 30 patients infected with coronavirus. The invisible enemy had been held at bay. But it was not to last. Daegu is south koreas fourth largest city, with some 2. 5 million residents. South koreas 31st patient was diagnosed in daegu. Patient 31 changed everything. She was a member of the secretive Shincheonji Church of jesus. With over 230,000 members across the country, its packed services were an ideal incubator for the virus. Within just ten days, there was an explosion of cases. Thousands were infected, most from the church. Case 31 alone had come into contact with over 300 people. From having no deaths, suddenly, there were 16. South korea had a crisis on its hands. Cases were rising at up to 900 per day at the peak, a third of them in daegu. The citys Health System was overwhelmed. There werent enough medical staff and beds to handle this surge. A call went out for volunteer medics to go to daegu, among them doctors and nurses from seouls National Medical center. Theirjob to treat those with the worst symptoms. One was dr young hwan kim. Dr kim was sent straight to the front line. No camera crews were allowed to film in his Critical Care unit, so everything you see was shot on his body cam. This is a so called negative pressure ward, where no air is allowed to circulate from one room to another. It stops the virus spreading within the hospital a Lesson Learned from the mers outbreak. But even so, there were times when dr kim felt helpless. With no vaccine and no drug to combat the disease, all he could do was buy a patient time and hope that they hung on. With daegu the epicentre of the outbreak, officials faced a difficult situation. Should they lock the city down . Instead, they put their faith in the four ts and voluntary social distancing. By now, the virus was spreading beyond daegu. Epidemiological teams were mobilised to ramp up ts two and three track and trace. Due to the pandemic, the contact tracers were allowed to access normally private information. For instance, when the first confirmed case was reported in the city of busan in another church, a team was dispatched to investigate. The church agreed to hand over its register, revealing private details of all of its members. And by tracking a patients path via credit card, phone and even cctv, contact tracers worked out that the patient had originally been infected by another as yet undiscovered carrier from the same church. By testing 100 people from that one church, they not only traced the original carrier, but also 33 others whod been infected. They then investigated the movements of each carrier. This led them to a further seven whod caught it after contact outside the church. To make the tracking process even swifter, Health Officials would mobilise big data. The new system slashed the time taken to track a patients movements from 2a hours to just ten minutes. Anyone who had contact with an infected person would receive a text revealing where that person had been, at what time, theirjob, sex, where they had been treated, and other personal information. They were then advised to get a test. The use of this normally private data was possible because of laws passed after the mers outbreak in 2015. The data would be deleted two weeks after the last contact with a carrier. As the outbreak reached its peak, there was also a massive expansion of the first t testing. Anyone who wanted a test could get one. But going to a centre, sending off swabs was time consuming and difficult. So dr kim, who had treated the very first patient, devised the idea of a drive through testing centre. Drive through and even walk in centres were set up in School Playgrounds and parking lots. The tests tookjust ten minutes. But still, the outbreak raged. In early march, south korea passed 5,000 cases at that point, the worst outbreak anywhere outside china. We have made the assessment that covid 19 can be characterised as a pandemic. By late march, the virus had spread all over the world. Some countries blocked flights and closed borders. South korea chose a different approach. Airports like incheon, where the first case was detected, were kept open, but arrivals had to quarantine for two weeks. Once again, south korea put its faith in the four ts test, track, trace and treat. Everyone arriving from infected countries, europe and the us, had to be tested. After getting off the plane, passengers would be checked by the gates for fever. If they had a high temperature, they would be sent to a special room, where they would be tested for the virus. If they tested negative, they would be allowed entry, but be tracked with a self isolation app for two weeks. By may 6th, some 100 days after the first case, south korea seemed to be on the verge of beating the virus. There had been no new home grown cases for three days. The korean four ts approach had been hailed as a model for the rest of the world. But then, on may 7th, the kcdc was alerted to a patient who had visited gay nightclubs and bars while carrying the virus. It was spreading once again. This outbreak revealed the limitations on the third t tracing. Some lgbt club goers gave false identities. They were reluctant to come forward for testing, fearing discrimination. The kcdc swung into action once more. Officials are still dealing with the aftermath of this outbreak, but they are managing to keep it under control. 100 days after that first case, south korea continues its battle against covid 19. It is not free of the virus, but it has come close. Even so, like many countries, it has been damaged. By may 28th, south korea had suffered just 269 deaths, compared to over 100,000 in the us and nearly 40,000 in britain. Test, track, trace and treat, using big data and acting swiftly has become a role model for the world. Few koreans question the governments strategy it has been proven to save lives, and any intrusion on personal privacy is regarded as a price worth paying. Hello there. Last week and it may brought warmth and sunshine, the first weekend of june was very different from it was cool june was very different from it was cool, rainy at times, often windy as well, but the has been easing, lighter winds to start the new weekend some drier brighter weather with some spells of sunshine. High pressure taking charge, its centred across the is doors, where we expect High Pressure to be a lot of the time, but its bulging towards, see this ridge extending across the british isles, that is going to settle things down through monday, one or two showers around across eastern sky from eastern england, maybe Northern Ireland or the odd downpour and thunderstorm cannot be ruled over wales on the southwest of englund. Fairly large amount of cloud, some sunny spells and temperatures generally between 11 ive so High Pressure is still with us as we move through monday night and into tuesday. Another dry day for most, but this frontal system will be approaching from the northwest, thats eventually going to change our weather quite a lot for the second half of the week, but tuesday, and other mainly find a wood sunny spells, large amounts of cloud developing into the afternoon, couldnt completely rule out a shower, and that our frontal system will bring rain into parts of western scotland and Northern Ireland later in the day. Now, as we head into the middle part of the week, that weather front is going to push its way south eastwards and actually likely to develop an area of low pressure right on top of the british isles. This will make for an u nsettled british isles. This will make for an unsettled wednesday with showers and longer spells of rain at times come equally some dryer brighter glimpses, the winds at this stage i to be especially brisk, but temperatures below par for the time of year really 12 16d. Now come as we move towards the end of the week, well, things are going to stay u nsettled well, things are going to stay unsettled with more rain at times and it will become breezy. Those winds will pick up. Happens to our area of low pressure as we head into thursday commencing since way southwards and it is going to stay to the south of the uk really for the rest of the week, there are more white lines, that means stronger winds, that wind is coming in from the east, or bricks of rain, crossing an end wales particularly where you are closer to that area of low pressure, looks like it will be drier and brighter with some sunshine for Northern Ireland and scotland, but certainly a windy day. Those are the average wind speeds, but there could be customer on a0 mph in places. Those temperatures will still. 1a 17d, buti mph in places. Those temperatures will still. 1a 17d, but i think those temperatures are going to start to climb as we move on into friday. A similar looking down the face of it with some showers and longer spells of rain across england and wales, more dry weather, still fairly breezy, but some slightly warm air working into the picture, 20 for glasgow, 21 degrees there in london, and that trend continues on into the coming weekend. Low pressure is still likely to be somewhere to the south of the british isles, this pattern it out as always been to be some areas of rain, some thunderstorms up from the near continent, but with it, some rather humid air, and its not going to be raining all the time, where we get sunny spells between the downpours actually think its going to feel very warm indeed. So through next weekend and beyond, some heavy slash sundre downpours, the wettest like glee to be in the south. There will be some sunshine as well and a rather warm and humid feel. Plenty of changes to come through the week ahead. Thats all for me. Ifor through the week ahead. Thats all for me. I for now. Thousands of people across britain take part in more anti racism protests. In bristol a statue to a 17th century slave trader is torn down and rolled into the river. It represents years of hurt, and just a lot of emotion and hatred that has been built up inside of us, that we have internalised for years. That is utterly disgraceful, and that speaks to the acts of disorder, public disorder, that actually have a debtor might become a distraction from the cars people are actually protesting about. That