Health problems make africa particularly susceptible to the virus of a number of deaths from cover 1000. 00 is continuing to rise throughout europe but there are concerns the official figures could be far too low as they dont include victims in care homes that are has more. Disinfecting in Nursing Homes in both remote in long body the region at the center of italys koblick 98 outbreak these pictures show Russian Military doctors helping out their italian colleagues but a scandal now surrounds italys largest nursing home in nearby milan where at least 143 people have died since the beginning of march families of residents there are demanding answers following reports medical staff was stopped from using protective gear prosecutors are now investigating that facility and more than a dozen others italys officially recorded over 22000 coronavirus deaths but most care who deaths are not included in some doctors suspect the real figure could be twice as high. In spain the government ordered the 17 autonomous regions to unify their criteria on counting the dead the official toll stands at almost 20000 but it doesnt take into account the deaths of people who had covered going to symptoms but were not tested including thousands of people in care whose eyes. Meanwhile in germany germany to footage has emerged along with hopeful news here medics who grew suffocated coronavirus patient transport him by helicopter to a special Isolation Chamber nationally new figures show the number of people infected by every person we call big 19 has fallen from 1. 00 to 0. 7 in just a few days meaning transmission is slowing markedly germany has the worlds 5th highest caseload but has kept fatalities relatively low thanks to early and extensive testing of the house caucus on toy to the outbreak has as of today become controllable and manageable again i believe a very encouraging figure is also that as of the 12th of april more people recover and get infected we currently have more than 80000 people who recovered out of some 130000 who got infected based on figures from the robert caution to choose. While in portugal where the death toll is lower than 700 parliament has approved the president s request to extend the National State of emergency for another fortnight before he has a can present extension of the state of emergency set in such a way they can give time and room for the government to decide on criteria to study and prepare for the gradual opening of society and the economy after the end of april. Over in belgium theyve also extended restrictive measures for 2 weeks in the capital brussels as part of a europe Wide Initiative the head chef a restaurant conscious work has been cooking meals to give to hundreds of Homeless People not the regular dishes that cost up to 300. 00 but theyre welcome a small sign of how people are trying to make a difference and trying to cope with life on the look down the dbo about aljazeera in the chinese city of who han where the pandemic began the government has revised the number of deaths by 50 percent thats an addition of nearly 1300 ficta mz obey provincial officials said the number of deaths had been changed because of late reports from medical institutions on the fact that some patients died at home its raise questions about how accurate china has been on the scale of the outbreak smoke from wildfires near the tour noble Nuclear Plant has pushed pollution levels in ukraines capital to the worst in the world according to the swiss monitor i. Q. Eric here have recorded the highest level of air contamination on friday giving millions of people another reason to stay indoors during the coronavirus lock down those are the top stories on aljazeera south africa toxic city is coming up next thanks for watching but by. At 1st glance they could be the remains of an ancient civilization. Or an eye catching natural phenomenon. These strange hills surround johannas by. The largest city in south africa. But their beauty is deceptive and toxic. In fact the dunes are made up of mining waste. From. The leftovers of south africas most profitable industries. And within the life some disturbing secrets. Now it seems that heart wrenching journalists must time to do has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly whats in these mind types and just how deadly they may be. Sunrise america river basin. One of south africas largest freshwater reserves. Bridget corrigan is a botanist. And a specialist in the regions biodiversity. This is a very special catchment for a lot of reasons if its a unique biodiversity from not just the terrestrial but also the 1st one of our diversity is very special its got about 14 species of fish and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates and quite insects that contribute to the health of the sort of this river system. There about 200. 00 tree species in america. Thats 17 of them. And about 400. 00 in the various places. It is a National Treasure and the north west doesnt have a lot of these River Systems a lot of the systems in this province are heavily degraded. The crown jewel of this not true treasure lies just a few paddle strokes upstream. A sanctuary hidden at the heart of the reserve. This is america i were at the source of america river. And the water levels up from big underground what to kevins at that point of the day the water is clear is anything very low conductivity which means theres no salt is not pollutants in this in the system its really very very pure. The water is Crystal Clear but it might not stay that way. Recently the Mining Industry has become interested in the areas subsoil. Which is full of Precious Minerals its regarded as a 10 mining payments for things like. Compass over gold in the region so does pose a risk yeah this place is different at risk and its you know we would like to see those places as an absolute no guy for mining if you pollute this this area this this underground aquifer. You cant just get that back its not going to come back. So could the marco river basin one day resemble the of the desolate landscapes left behind by the South AfricanMining Industry. Like these flat lands dyed red by chemicals. Or these mine tailings in the midst of south africas forestalling and. Some of them date back to 886 when gold was 1st discovered and understood motown comes back. From that point on the Mining Industry began to deposit its to breed all around the city. More and more waste piles of here. Often only a few dozen meters from residents homes. Some of the may look as innocent a sign to humans but they are mine tailings the slag heaps of years of extraction and digging for gold i dont go there to scare. Away. The day it comes or is here a whole year its run as was the day i bowled in a. Because i was out to disable the p. C. s with. The procedure for the truthfulness of it i dont even 1st question just. Sort of at the plutocrats he wants to drop his daughter from the course alters the discourse 100 euro edition. So what does it mean for those living next to these tunes. Like here at snake. So does the wind come from the mind. It flows this rose this or this. Tiny dylan is a mother of 5 she spent all her life in the shadow of one of the largest mining dumps in the country its residue is everywhere. So the neighborhood has become one huge psalm. 20. Sometimes your eyes become ok this is not if you go to detaining this choice as some make some can you. Do so im advising you to take not to go today because its too big its unhealthy at the same time to go you must think it or. Leave it youre good d at it. A few months ago tiny dylan mili wanted to find out how many people in her neighborhood of over a 1000 residents were unwell so she knocked on almost every dual this house had as keith. This house here the model the owner of this house as i just told them this morning you come here often here each and every man or women or child around here is coughing has a pulpit of coughing as appropriate his skin some of them up only to. The man who. Says. He them i want to test in your question i want to. Question that needs. Over one and a half 1000000 South Africans live in townships like this. At the foot of mine tailing mountains. That itself it gets into off one week this past week the brink this that so that is why so many people here this is the silent killer 7 this dust doesnt just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe Neurological Disorders. Or who i believe you know for years you know. That if. You returned this 6 years old. She suffers from a paralyzing brain disease are you doing well lately however her family saying the tondo was born perfectly healthy the problems arose soon after the roof of the house was under repair at the time ok and the dust from the mine heaps gotten this dust you pull your good and the people. Before you sleep you must face. That and everything kids. Yeah a few weeks later the 1st signs of illness appeared in the years since the tundra has been unable to. Communicate with her. When she she was to be changed. Yeah and then she she kicks is ok theyre all maybe when she wants you to go i said ricci she kisses him and she screams no. They you know she has to go say you want to. Poverty has always prevented the family from being able to prove a link between attenders illness and the mind dust but they are no doubt if there are other fields like under our own i was the same symptoms same Health Issues yet i do know in days theres a pinch out there its going to go down the only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they dont want anybody knowing of our day kids in this situation theres 2 of them open houses in the in the same street youre going to have them there many of them you know personally personally strange is something that have made you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel to them and today taking them to today they dont think so but if you go and fight off any distance from here believe you me you never find this key. To find out whether the just from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses. Must climb snake park hill. It has been abandoned ever since the mine was closed. Access is supposedly forbidden theres nobody guarding the site which extends over 4 square kilometers while the motive for about 6 is being run from a soldiers each. Day since then to me it done the dishes. Was soumitra. Must take 500 grams of the sun. The dust thats blowing over the village but no. On the way down he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope. Its used mostly to area gate adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their livestock sometimes their children even bay the net this was all. Ok or if i can put in will do. For the. Paws on the screen you have put it. Frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at Northwestern University in south africa can see me. Linda is also an expert on mining aleutian the government the World Health Organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so im at the bottom of the mine turnings theres some water all around i was wondering which permit those fish do you think i should i was 1st in the water finding. The tracks trying to. Elevate. Your eye. As you thought and it would seem recently gone by. So. Many done but in point of misery. So theres a through it because i see that. You can also take cover. And. Although you would like. Us. So i think its likely. Just so you know it was all example of what that says on the ground 0 the maximum they were going to continue to pose for then. Its impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. But the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. After some convincing one of the countrys top 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. With the to the. Goldfields 8750 kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. The team cant go underground into the mine itself the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get all from from the stuff. But at night youll see on the front end theres some. Business right including we are doing a plus minus 5500. 00 tons. A day i mean we have reaching out on 300 tons valid depends on a lot of viability and how many times on there. So there or that you see on the still fall is i mean at the boss minus 5 days but done thats how a guy got into the. Only 5 grams of gold for each tonne of all mind thats a remarkable ratio. And it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. The precious metal is separated from the rest of the and then heated in these killings. Nothing to make goes there we used to im i sit in the sun thats still pretty nice i can make calls in the price of quarter macguineas instead he got. The concession that c. T. R. So you add all of these together with these with the ball. The last stage is the cost at 800. 00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. The end result gold bars. At 84 percent purity each weighs in at just over 16 kilograms and is worth around 538000. 00. Goldfields makes 5 of these gold balls a week. Producing 16200 tons of residue you equivalent to the weight of 2 of frances eiffel towers. The company has wasted human lives here on this he said constantly 24 hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. Within a few years this hail will become another Steep Mountain of debris reaching up to 70 meters high. Andrew passons and Stephen Joseph are its grand architects. Whats in there. What is its. Well its its whats left over from the from the extraction process its the rock that. Held the gold. And whats left behind off the gold has been removed so its silica and other materials its the sand. And other metals but many silica is there and you have the missiles for example there. Would be trace amounts but but very small concentrations. And some of the gold ores there is youre a nym soft deep has very little uranium minutes or so. Theres very little uranium and in this in the stomach you. Can really. Not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams of time. 40. 00 to 50. 00 annually south African Mining companies extract 10 times more uranium than gold the uranium is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mined tailings so the kind of control you do the samples you are talking about is the daily basis of the gold from. But the radiation 50 would probably be. Ok or. Over time the waste produced by south africas gold industry has formed increasingly large radioactive heaps dumped outside in the open at. According to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding 600000 tons of uranium the quantities are so high that in reality the mountains of waste should be classified by the state as Nuclear Installations they should be confined and secured and kept at least 500 meters away from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft a township with over 20000 residents. Of. Bruno sherry ron is an engineer in Nuclear Physics and an expert from career at a Research Association on radioactivity when i was i was government only. Going to. Visit us. That commercial school shaken too much was. To feel they would be a little bit difficult or also paul not just on the well you know office all the moves you want to take to sort of you know i make sure the group on television i mean to depict it. I know my point of view to see not just hear you and mom come up it even to be able. To do is if you did your in you do risk or deporting your she thought of us here your mom and me. Wanting to join in our corn meal i dont is wrong but you dont want your little does when this point 3000000 because you. And you can not sell gounder. On a cell with a contract on lets work on the us for. Just one. And only because you want to force daughter to try to. Do you can find us. Do think it was only. 4. 192. 00 close on a letter that the. Master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the 1986 Nuclear Disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from gomez nearby farm. Era keeps around 40 goats and a few sheep none of which seem to live very long lead them up about he said last week thats week by 01 month one month. Yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your money why do these old ones that has a for success this is a. Eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. They want to. Know is well. Know what you must. But this is the fungible one it is. Mine so. I want to learn. It. And i met. So when you see these every day what do you think. Was the. About telly but its just the bins. It seems as though erics goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed. We are close to the mind savings farm that money will look really sick i mean according to you do you own or do you think we should do some hair sample of the animals. Takes 5 samples from 2 goats intended to be used for Meat Consumption including one who is blind. I come up with the results of the trauma factor or the instructor thanks so you but i. Must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africas council the scientific and industrial research. Your views the water from the failings just across the trading. It is used as a rigorous know what urges Us Immigration and also for almost a drink we also learn some more small samples train job is done with the store was contaminated as low main competitors and so what can you what can you look for years almost all of their dead and the man goes by did had it encoded in windows like oh you know now on the old lead you know what arsenic we shot off air in trucks and can visit cluny. We need an expert to get them in order once we get them then and raise a nano and go right. As he waits for the analysis time returns to the investigation in part 2. As the shocking results come in he shares the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an Industry Insider what i found particularly sc