Funding of the World Health Organization accusing it of mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic and critics say that now is not the time the union lotro act. And its exactly a year since 5 damage powers is not to dump in favor of restoration work has been slugs a couple of filmmakers using the furniture old reality im just click notes on how it looks in the future. A german chancellor im going to machall has announced theyve got countries social distancing destructions will be extended until may 3rd the chancellor announced the changes after i announced that the measures after a teleconference with state leaders that overrun by 2 schools will remain closed and so loud the may the 4th and facemasks will be recommended in shops and a public transport religious gatherings will remain banned and restaurants and cafes and also stay truck bed revenges including germanys been off to football because often to. 31st of august the small shops and some services will be allowed to open on monday. The Political Correspondent simon young can tell us more welcomes on what more can you tell us about todays decisions. Well phil the chancellor merkel say its looking at the overall response and germanys overall successes in dealing with the coronavirus she said that this is into rim success but its fragile success at the moment theres not much room for complacency and it would be wrong she said to push a hades to rationally with measures to ease the lock down at this stage so thats why she said where were going to hades cautiously and carefully as you say opening some shop smaller shops from next monday and then schools could open at the beginning of may and she said you know the government is keen where possible obviously to ease the restrictions particularly on families and individuals but also of course on the economy as well they want to move ahead as quickly as they can and theyll be meeting every 2 weeks at the senior government level to you know introduce decide and then introduce hopefully even more easing of the restrictions but of course she also said we live with this virus until a vaccine is found the question of facemasks is affect one around the world lots of countries say mandates it others its up to you here in germany the chancellor is a recommending them why if its if its considered important. Yes theres been some you know very assessments of face marks whether they were really useful and some people have suggested that you know a fair if they dont really help to avoid infection if people think that they can for instance forget about social distancing because theyre wearing a mask then that could be counterproductive so theres been a little caution there it seems now theres a recommendation some places in germany are going to treat it more as an in an injunction or acquirement for instance in bavaria that seems to be the case where these cloth mosques in shops so wrong on public transport why not tell people they must do it well one problem is that germany just doesnt have enough of the most surveys of all to ensure that everybody can get one but it will correspondent simon young thank you there has been International Condemnation of Donald Trumps decision to freeze u. S. Funding of the World Health OrganizationPresident Trump accuses the human body of failing in its other response to the coronavirus pandemic u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorist responded by saying that now is not the time to end support for the w. H. O. As it were is absolutely critical to the global effort to defeat covered 90 President Trump who has himself face criticism for his handling of the pandemic so the w. H. O. Should have done a better job of investigating initial reports from china. The w. H. O. Failed in its basic duty to save lives those were the words of President Trumps United States freeze on funding for the u. N. Agency today im instructing my administration to halt. Funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted as the organizations leading sponsor the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability trump has repeatedly criticized the w. H. O. Throughout the pandemic this time claiming its biased towards china is responsible for the viruses rapid spread to other parts of the world had the w. H. O. Done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out chinas lack of transparency the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death trump says the roughly 400000000. 00 in annual donations will now be paused and decision drew a sharp rebuke from the German Foreign minister. Said in a tweet blaming does not help the virus knows no borders we should Work Together closely against kuwait 191 of the best investment is to strengthen the un especially the underfunded w. H. O. For example in the development and distribution of tests and vaccines bill gates to call the move dangerous the us is the washed affected country in the world with more recorded cases and deaths than anywhere else trumps handling of the pandemic has also been widely criticized and his opponents say this latest ones meant amongst a nothing more than a deflection tactic. Take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the 1st flight carrying unaccompanied to buy guns children from greek migrant camps has arrived in luxembourg several European Countries of the 3 to resettle 1600 children from. Camps on greek islands germany says it will accept a 50 until this criticised a u. Governments for not accepting. U. S. Retail sales tumbled by a record 8. 7 percent in march many stores were forced to close the state and local governments issued stat home orders to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The present emergency also weighed on manufacturing u. S. Industrial output fell by more than 5 percent last month. In the french quarters ordered amazon to stop selling non essential goods for a month and improve its hygiene moves of the giant u. S. Online retailer said it will appeal the decision which also ordered a hygiene inspection of Distribution Centers of the next Month Company faces fines of up to a 1000000 euros a day if it doesnt comply. Ballots are being counted in south korea after the after people voted in the countries of parliamentary elections on wednesday the vote took place under extraordinary circumstances had to trust the coronavirus mass with compulsory for all of voters and everyones temperature was taken before entering the building those with the fever had to vote in separate booths that were disinfected after each use exit polls indicate that the party of incumbent president moon and its allies should win a majority of seats. Correspondent frank smith is in so covering those elections for data. In south korean elections which wrapped up when state evening fully 66 percent of the 44000000. 00 eligible voters made it out to the polls breaking a 30 year record at polling stations with the risk of the spread of the coronavirus in mind everybody was wearing their masks they had their temperatures checked they were given Hand Sanitizer and were plastic gloves before they went into polling booths to cast their ballots in addition the those in self quarantine were given the opportunity to vote and 13000 of them were monitored after the polls officially closed at 60 to give them an hour to cast their ballots as well a couple of interesting races here in seoul taegu minh looks like he will become the 1st north Korean Defector to be directly elected to south Koreas National Assembly and former Prime Minister enough hyun looks like hes going to win a hotly contested riding here in the south korean capital seoul and position himself for perhaps a run at the presidency but the main thing people will be looking at as the votes are counted through thursday is whether the ruling liberal block will be able to reach that 180. 00 or 60 percent threshold of the 300. 00 member National Assembly which would give them the capability of really fast tracking legislation frank spirit and soul to paris and started with nothing to do with the coronavirus a year ago today the people of not to dahmus badly damaged by fire thought to have been stopped by magical short circuits restoration work is months behind shadow denied by toxic lead winter storms and now the pandemic of the worlds complacent 2 films about the cathedral have been released one shot before the disaster afterwards and both enhanced by Virtual Reality. Not true don cathedral the symbol of paris in flames. The images from april 29 teams saddened the world. Filmmakers cloues or slate and victor argue long had been shooting a documentary on the world famous landmark just weeks before the fire. It almost hit the day after the fire we realized that our images are extremely great value that we captured a moment on notre dames history that well be able to pass on to the public whether European American asian or parisian everyone who ever visited has a special memory of not what. They combined footage from before the inferno with nearly shot material to make a 2nd documentary titled rebuilding. Their images of the current cathedrals interior of the only ones of their kind. Elses money these images are even special because they were shot from Virtual Reality that is in 360 degrees with very High Resolution and didnt really mean that produces one image for the left eye and one for the right which gives you the illusion of depth as if you were actually there. With a vi headset people can immerse themselves in the world of not sure dumb for 16 minutes motion sensors allow them to move through and explore the structure independently. Such an experience in actual reality is no longer possible not sure dummy is now closed to the public. Its also a tourist landmark that each year drew millions of visitors of any faith or even without one this is a monument of importance to the history of france and it was important to us to put that across in a film like yourself there. The makers of rebuilding acquired a very rare permits to film inside the damaged cathedral but in some spots only one member of the team was allowed the camera robot crumbling walls and high lead contamination posed to great a hazard to people in these areas director chloe is delighted that she managed to be in the right place at the right time with the right technology. And the 99 year old brazilian world war 2 veteran has beaten the odds to become the countrys oldest person to recover from 19 he tested positive or went into hospital after developing new monia and received a rousing ovation as he was discharged 2 weeks later. At 99 years old armando r. Molina. May have thought hed seen his last card on. The world war 2 veteran has waged many grueling task force but none as satisfying as this. Winning this battle was for me bigger than winning the war. Entering hospital at the end of march privette is chances of survival westland but doctors see it was his life in the military that helped him defeat the coronavirus in the end. We were very apprehensive waiting for a favorable sawing and he surprisingly recovered thats. Ok i want to congratulate the medical team who helped me so much for looking out for my health theyre all great. There to share this victory with the team of medics who treated him and their triumph a moment of hope in a dark chapter. This is day dubliners the life from a bad boy at the top of the hour until that of course is always a website a. W. L. Dot com the. Good. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and news. Hour carona update. 19 special next on d w. How does a virus spread. And when. Just through the tax and weekly radio show its called spectrum if you would like any information on the chrono large breasts or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you go your podcasts can also find us and. Slash science. I mean how does it feel to have covered 19 it was as if somebody had taken a scuba dive. Into water turned it off. I was immobile even the time i couldnt move my head i looked out of the corner of my eye and i saw people falling. I didnt know if it was real or not. Were seeing. A. Lot more of this not seen that i wished for and. They were lucky to survive the global tally of coronavirus thats has already passed the mark of 120000 in hospitals everywhere medical staff give their all towards slowing the rise. And seeing young patients old patients people of all age ranges who are just incredibly sick and you can even hear it now as im walking through patient rooms ever hallway you just hear oxygen and. The virus has not been selective with its targets and each case has its own story so what exactly happens on the body during covert 19 and are there any Long Term Health effects. These are some. Questions on which were going to focus on this edition of covert 19 special on chris coburn berlin it is good to have you with us now high fever a dry cough and difficulty breathing those are the most common symptoms of covert 19 some people still mild signs of the disease other more severe ones so lets take a look at how long a person actually stays sick after contracting the virus. If they caught the virus on day one they will probably be contagious starting on day 2 or 3 and this lasts for about 2 weeks symptoms might start of the later and might even be present when people are not contagious anymore on average some 14 percent of patients with symptoms have to be admitted to hospital for up to 20 days and half of these hospitalized patients on average end up in an intensive care unit. Now for more lets bring in professor close gobby is a palmeri doctor and former president of the German Respiratory Society its good to have you on the program how does covert 19 differ from other respiratory diseases and what does it mean to the people treating patients 1st of all. Thank you for having me this is a relevant question thats been asked to doctors like me will time this is there are commonalities and its commonalities of this is a virus infection it means they get a Certain School off such as this in some patients somewhere else or it is quite. They are differences and that is what weve learned weve learned that people who may have symptoms for a few days and days 678 they become severe they develop this. Solution if you teach shouldnt throw it to the apes and then makes sometimes the oxygen fall it makes these people to present with most of the diseases when this is when in need intensive care treatment what is the biggest problem with people that need this intensive care treatment. One of the things all of us the meat of the capacity have to post them and to treat them in hospitals that have seen the reports from around the world shortages and thats a good bad as the. Major shortfall in this this is gosh in systems like ours in djibouti and presence wearing out about capacity it seems manageable although takes a lot of toll from the nurses and the doc says the intensive care units Immediate Care in intensive care with oxygen supply with it israel is a crock including the education is something which is needed then. They should he says we dont we have a lead treatment available other than sort of met treatment in the if you do severe individual right and patients that end up in intensive care usually need to be ventilated at which point do you decide to do that. Well there are there rules that are not coded specific if you want to if someone develops this form of pneumonia which starts with an interesting should you know me as we say it in the c. T. Scan and its that of all these people drop with the oxygen tension these people get says it is now it may be measured in oxygen tension be looser metal thats time when you realize that these are the teeth of respiration be beneath that sort of support these people have been put on and then to think that in intensive care some people will breathe maybe with not in places that education to avoid mechanical ventilation or a lot of people and that character ventilation and this is where they end up and as you this is not a point that its needed different different we learned with time the duration of the insulation these individuals hes a loner it dissipated and it takes quite a few days until it does its decided we should think ok and what does it mean being ventilated for the patients themselves. It means that youre not conscious it means that you are deeply sedated in a way to coopt thats what its something to report it what else you will be intimate with that you and the air system will calculate it and you will be men today to buy a machine with a certain oxygen delivery a certain pressure to take over the mechanic or when youre leading at the time when you look at a poll of saturating youre going with the exception its an extreme situation it takes a lot of fall and it is assumed you state and you know from the figures that a lot of people unfortunately die under these conditions can you tell us anything about the long term possible long term impacts to patients lungs fully recover once the infection is over. Well i think thats a very relevant question and weve been asked this before for people of the city the sooner home or the certain terms or the disease its called a. R. V. s people probably have seen this emergence of pute respiratory distress syndrome it means that there is chaos if you wanted the love there is legion is of the vessels and all the man brings is the love theres a lot of inflammation going on we know from the literature from the air gets that a lot of people have follow up problems with their knots they scar they will develop some sort of what we call fibrosis these things may last for quite a long time once you survive so the research is now addressing this already the long term consequences of the known disease but also other diseases the heart is one of the insists that it will be affected so who you would expect then once people survive and intense candidates are lation the