A mass exodus from the cities is this a pandemic perfect storm plus a new date for the 2020 tokyo lympics mark your calendars for the 23rd of july 2021 last week the games were postponed because of the global coronavirus endemic. Its good to have you with us we begin tonight where social distancing is practically impossible greeces overcrowded migrant camps consider the maria clan on the island of lesbos conditions there were already unsanitary in many migrants have preexisting Health Conditions aid organizations are now calling for the most vulnerable migrants to be evacuated to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. In the maria refugee camp very few have been able to get a mask to protect against corona virus. There are more than 20000 People Living here in dire conditions lack of food washing areas and medicine are the norm. There is a lot of disease here people are sick they have fevers and skin conditions like scabious and lice they cough and have breathing problems like asthma officially there are no coded 1000 cases here but also no government plan to prevent them says Doctors Without Borders such a scenario would be a disaster for everyone lesbos refugees and residents alike. People to. Be the one. Before the pandemic germany had agreed to accept unaccompanied minors thats off the table now an effort to avoid bringing in outsiders from at risk groups opposition parties have criticized a lack of political will to end the humanitarian crisis. Many politicians say we dont want a repeat of 2015 but were not talking about millions of people here just a few tens of thousands if youre really serious and want to do Everything Possible to prevent a further outbreak then we have to evacuate these camps. A camp intended for 3000 People Housing 20000 that makes social distancing here close to impossible. Or earlier i spoke with the director of medical programs for Doctors Without Borders in athens he described what his colleagues are experiencing on the ground on the island of. Rationing the. Situation. Fork in 1000 schumanns and women and men living in a place for 6095 people these people are in overcrowding situation on the question of stay home there is no home where they have a lack of access to water one days one was applying for 1300 people days wondering that for 200 people and they had one child for 200 so they had no assets to water and sanitation and thirdly these people are having an additional problem of accessing health care since united are 19 the government stopped allowing the city to access come in addition to the last days they had not done because that means that from 7 oclock in the evening of this are going to going these people cannot move out of the gas that means more difficult conditions and more exposure to these people to list them as Doctors Without Borders there from athens eric mark last is a member of the European Parliament for the green party he spoke with me from lets say about possible steps that might be taken to move back you wait the can i also think that its not a matter of possibility its just a matter of political will we have empty hole to all of you and we have to support the horses in the tree in the summer and we will have to support them will be an economic crisis which also affects them and i think if we speak about hotels but we can also speak about cruise ships are empty at the moment to have no get and we just have the possibilities to deal with the situation back to a refugee camp and we should do that actually not only because of humanitarian issues but also because of the fight against cologne or should be fought everywhere and i dont understand why everybody is talking about social distancing do applies of a call to question the camps because they overcrowded its also in our interest in the fight again. And theyre talking about the possibilities of evacuating greeces migrant camps well as more countries impose lockdowns because of the pandemic india faces perhaps the biggest challenge last week its 1300000000 people ordered to stay at home for 3 weeks but for the informal workers who form the backbone of that economy that means losing their income overnight leaving many without enough money even for food and those hardest hit by the walk down main will also be most at risk of catching the virus. Social distancing is a privilege that these people cannot afford all the cross india daily breeze rushed to transportation hubs carrying whatever they could. A nation wide lockdown has put millions out of work and started a mass exodus from the citys. For these people who are leaving new delhi for their home towns the fear of starving is currently greater than the fear of infection with the coronavirus. If we had food why would we have left were not enjoying this we know that a pandemic is spreading but we are forced to leave were taking precautions and keeping as much distance as we can i dont have a word to mean of the government did nothing otherwise we wouldnt have left. Indias efforts to contain the coronavirus have plunged the country into chaos. After transportation was shut down some state governments arranged buses to bring Migrant Workers back to their home villages. But in other states people were left stranded and forced to walk hundreds of kilometers home. Deliveries Street Vendors and other informal workers form the backbone of the indian economy. With Police Chasing them off the streets and no savings to fall back on the luck zone puts many of them interest Prime MinisterNarendra Modi who had ordered indias 1300000000 people to stay home has apologized for the hardships they are now facing. Especially when i look at my poor brothers and sisters i think they must be wondering what kind of Prime Minister i am put people in such a difficult situation. Especially ask for their forgiveness. So far roughly 1000 people in india have tested positive for corona virus but experts worry numbers could be much higher. Fears are that an outbreak in one of the worlds most densely populated countries could result in a catastrophe. When this meeting one 3rd of the global population is living in a coronavirus walked with restrictions on public life in a ban on gatherings of people this is posed a serious problem for protest movements around the world from the fridays for future climate strikes to hong kong. Prodemocracy protests but organizers they are experimenting with online demonstrations trying to voice their demands without gathering together my colleague our reporter i mean as if he has been following this story for us i mean its good to see you here in studio for a change and what is an online demonstration what does it look like well i think people are still experimenting with this they dont really know i mean theres always been some kind of online activism but this is really forcing their cards now and they want to find out what works and what doesnt one good example was a protest organized by is able to thats an organization here in germany thats fighting for asylum rights so theyre concerned about the concentrations of people in camps like on moriah on lesbos so they organized a kind of virtual march through berlin had various tactics involved one of them you can see here they had people send soundbites from morea camp asking for saw their tea they also had people design banners hanging out their windows with in berlin and they had a kind of virtual marj like i said where they went to different institutions in berlin and had targeted tweet campaigns or email campaign so basically they said ok everybody now is going to tweet or email or phone call the interior ministry in berlin so everybody did that and they got trending i mean they use this hash tag leave no im behind it was trending you know was the hash tag leave no one behind that was the demonstrations successful yeah that was the number one trending hash tag in germany it even beat out coven 1000 which i think feet nowadays they had 6000 people participate at the height of the live stream this is a live streamed on you tube but the question of whether or not thats effective i posed that question to one of the organizers and heres what he had to say right now we have to be creative we have to find a way. I think the question was how the 1st thing that we actually tried to its wealth about what you. And also i think for the future you can use the its all right fools to. React to things that arent quickly because you can mobilize a lot of people online and in the short time and you know after all a nice little thing for them especially. Like. Authorities for permission for that that will. Activate a lot of people on the short. Side tool of activism thats not what we want to do in the future but its probably going to be very powerful necessary to right now you know theres been criticism already today of the Prime Minister in hungary viktor orban who has been given the right to govern by decree theres no way for the public really at this point to protest against it are there other examples of governments taking advantage of this crisis to put limits on freedom of speech sure i think were going to see more and more missed time goes on but human rights activists have pointed out 2 examples in russia the government put a ban on public gatherings the very same day that president putin approved a measure that would allow him to stay in office until 2036 so the timing there was pretty obvious or suggestive anyway and also in iraq theres been a protest movement going on since october and that has come to a virtual standstill after the government put a ban on protests there back in at the end of february when they only had one case of coronavirus confirm now the tally has risen in that country but the ban a still effective and its really shut down the protest movement so i think people are going to be asking will we get our rights back once the lockdowns you have rights can become endangered especially when people are living in fear i mean as it is always on thank you. Start on the 23rd of july 2021 the paralympics will follow on august 24th the International Olympic committee and japanese organizers settled on that date a week after the games were postponed because of the panda. Waving goodbye to the shias games the name tokyo 2020 may be staying the same dates most certainly not after a weekend of speculation confirmation the Tokyo Olympics will take place almost exactly one year later than originally planned. Proposed holding the games in the summer of next year and it was agreed. That. The decision followed a meeting of the tokyo 2020 organizing committee which was then rubber stamped by the i. O. C. After a cooler with federations i. O. C. President thomas boxset humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel these Olympic Games tokyo 2020 can be a light at the end of this tunnel. The socalled Cherry Blossom lympics in the spring had been considered to avoid the summer heat but organizes preferred to have more time to deal with the perspiring mint. How we feel its better to hold the games next year at some a time for the sake of transportation volunteers and Ticket Holders around the world. For athletes to fully prepare we need to give them as much time as possible. There are many challenges ahead including ensuring the venues will still be available to use next year but for the athletes at least there is now some clarity in the most unclear of times. Finally the characters and the guy behind me here cookie monster they are adored by children all over the world now they are joining the fight against the coronavirus the 2 sesame street characters feature a new musical Public Service announcements teaching kids how to sneeze carefully and how to wash their hands properly a sponsor going global in a variety of t. V. 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Just 3 of the topics covered and the weekly radio show is called spectrum if you would like any information on the crawler or any other science topic we should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. Science. In times of corona might be one of the key weapons to curtail the pandemic the data on our smartphones for example shown in the every step we take every step people around us take scientists estimate that one infected person passes the virus on to around 2 to 3 people on average so what if we used all the data that we already have on all smartphones to track people infected with the coronavirus and warn those who had contact with a carrier prevent more infections build Something Like a digital parsonage and south korea that seems to have been one of the keys to keep their infection curve flat surveyed candidates are trying to help us find the Current Crisis. This is the news welcome to our special coverage of the global covert 90. Today want to take a closer look at south korea a country was hit hard by the coronavirus early on but now it has seen a steep decline in new covert 19 cases compare that with the numbers in germany they are currently nearly 10 times as high. Kumba number for germany in recent weeks it appears south korea has lost me reined in the disease and without closing down public life to a degree were seeing in europe and elsewhere now how theyve done this nobody knows exactly but making use of Internet Technology to share confirmed patients occasions and travel information directly with the public seems to help quite a lot actually. So theory a seems to be battling the coronavirus kovac 19 effectively without implementing a complete lockdown in addition to rigorous and innovative testing for the virus online applications and social networking have been crucial to encourage ongoing Public Participation in the battle against the corona virus every day south Korean Health authorities send Text Messages to everyones smartphones the advisories remind people to avoid large groups practice to meter safe distancing and regularly disinfect their homes leaving the windows open. So Korean Health authorities emergency alerts share the locations of new coronavirus patients people can then follow the links to detailed patient tracking data Web Developers like ryan hone have collected and aggregated that information to more user friendly websites up the government to provide the travel history of each patient. Thats in the text so even if you. Read that place name you dont really know where exactly to locate it so i try to put that out on the map so that people can. Officially see where its exactly look at it so that they know if theyve been to the place the south korean public has become a bit complacent as the pandemic drags on so websites like this may help remind people that the risk of infection is still out there and possibly nearby there are a lot of people like theel in korea. Because they think they didnt have any contact with the patient with this web site they have a better idea of that and they cant really deal with the situation since their creation in late january in early february independent coronavirus patient tracking web sites have received millions of page views offering users reassuring information on. When the corona virus became a threat i downloaded the app since started using them to understand the situation you can see where infected people have been and avoid going there so it helps to stop the virus from spreading. So 3 has managed to flatten the curve in reduced new pieces of the corona virus in recent weeks although Health Officials here still worry about potential new clusters. Well from Seoul South Korea im now joined by Professor John one son associate professor at the bob school of fleming University College london professor offer a peek at the beginning of march south korea has kept new infections very low you say besides the Testing Program thats due to surveillance how yes tracing through through Surveillance Technology played a pretty part in this fight against a corner. If the country has pretty be complicity with testing if you dont know who to test the Testing Capacity has only limited use so to find out who to test disobedience technology was really cool so the cool east to find though that it would be one in every single one patient to come from the patient contacted in the past so ted way you can find out who this patient could fighters from and to who this patient could have been itas to what kind of data exactly has the government there gathered. Because the initial data is the interview of People Experts interview interview patients who too is king rarity but then this entity just quote your work at all says to police state. Resources overtaken through police and thats a credit card transaction move like point. And this is cities so theres no better form every every move by Point Service networks have information about where mobile phone