Threatening for many heart attacks and suicide have already been reported aboard some ships. Welcome to you covered not in special and the news i want to jones good to have you with us now the movement of goods around the world depends on them but now there are unable to move themselves on todays show were talking about what it means for seafarer us to be stranded aboard because of a pandemic not knowing when they can return home our reporter visited a ship thats been allowed to dock in a northern german port but its crew arent allowed any further. A few hours ago the golden empress mord in the german port city of hamburg. From the german Siemens Mission is coming on board today hes bringing a few things to the sailors who cant leave the ship the port of hamburg itself has been allowing sure leave again but the captain on this ship has decided against it and the crew is backing him up. But its ok if there is not because. This pandemic will be and i think. Thats why. Were not sure we were on the right side you know there were some places but because. We cannot go outside. This ship will be docked there for 2 days unloading iron ore its a time when those on board have a better phone connection for calling home and Better Internet than on the high seas thats why the Seamans Mission is bringing the sailors german sim cards for their cellphones only a short a just sold a dozen of them and he has a sympathetic ear for the problems the sailors are facing. If the virus made its way on board then in the worst Case Scenario it would mean that the ship would have to stay in the harbor it wouldnt be allowed to leave and you couldnt even switch out crews because youd never find a new crew anyway. Before the coronavirus pandemic many sailors frequented the hamburg siemens club. Here they could make free phone calls or transfer money to their families but since the pandemic its mostly empty. Voluntary is the exception. His captain gave him permission to leave the ship for an hour so that he could wire his family some urgently needed money he wouldnt have left the ship for any other reason. For me. We had a waiting for. Someday. But its difficult but now. We have. Members of another crew have been given permission to leave their ship without any restrictions and come here for a few hours the rooms are well ventilated still they keep to themselves so that they can enjoy their free time without fear of catching the virus. After the money has been transferred to his family module volunteer quickly buys a few things at the Siemens Mission shop. Here they stop the items that sailors are always asking for souvenirs toothpaste and sweets and pork chunks which are pork flavored chips popular among the sailors. The ones that are allowed to come here rejoice like its christmas they come in with their beaming theyre so happy to come inside they enjoy being here even if its only for an hour. If it werent for the Coronavirus Crisis the Seamans Mission in hamburg would be filled to capacity but these days sailors like moxie avanti and his colleagues just take the shuttle bus directly back to their ship. After this visit to hamburg they dont know where or when theyll be. Unlined again. For more im joined by my ashley guest house and good from the International TransportWorkers Federation good to have you with us our reporter just show to the situation for seafarers here in germany is it the same elsewhere. Even worse actually on the world because i mean most of the European Countries they have recognized the ferrous as key workers but thats rather exceptional if i look at the global perspective so for example if i look at the global seafaring market its around 400 c. 5 s. Worldwide that awaiting to leave the best of all why the join the vessel so its its quite a its quite a tight situation right and is there a difference in terms of working on a container ship or recruits line a few safe areas right now went away and thats thats the difference i mean so the duty. On the vessel they define a way and its even different if i look at the perspective this you have so far if im working on a cruise vessel at the moment it was less its made. From mostly laid up so its rather question of how can i get home but if im working on a container vested in worse because its a question of when i can get home and when there was somebody and to substitute me because working on a container of us that i can only leave if there was somebody else that can join the vessel and thats we a problematic situation at the moment because s. And governments a closing the borders and flights global flights over the restrict it its rather complicated to be at the right spot at the white moment in order to facilitate the crew change right i mean keeping a sailor seafarers on board is also to protect them from eventually catching the virus when they go on land but what happens despite all the Safety Measures if. The virus actually gets on board. Well this depends very much on the Company Policy and the local require and so for example ive been in contact with best stead of caught the virus in a german port and those vessels need to stay in port unless everybody got tested negative and then they could leave other things that do you can get to see for yourself the vessel and substitute them by the sea famous but as i already mentioned and crew change is really a big issue at the moment its not easy to get to sea for us from the vessel so. Its wide a problem its time to put the good. Yeah the good its really tough but the good thing is its the number. That have caught the virus a solo so its quite quite a good situation but there are there are other threats as weve also heard threats of getting heart attacks and so forth why is that. Its its a tough situation at the moment i mean if you if you imagine being see fair working about the vessel i mean you live in kind of an 8 to 10 square metres cabin you see the same wall every day you working in the same in the same environment seeing for example the engine room day in day out for 12 months in a row working every day 7 days a week so its really a tough situation the usually the seafarers i mean they they already joined the vessel and they know when there is already they have to return flight ticket and thats when they joined us or so they know when they would see that family again but that is that is a real lockdown situation much worse than anything that weve experienced of course just briefly what could solve the dilemma for them. We need governments to act we act not just holding speeches and pretending to do something so there are some countries that have changed their status that affected nazi ferriss key workers and they are free and giving resists but its really a small number and we need more governments to act so to open the borders to an issue visas and not to close the borders all right well my actions i was no good from the International TransportWorkers Federation thank you so much for your time thank you. And now its time for more of your questions what to a science correspondent williams. For how many days are as symptomatic people contagious. This is one of the questions that medical professionals would love an answer to but its pretty complex and we havent even nailed down answers to to simpler related questions like like what percentage of people who get the disease can even be classified as as asymptomatic or or how infectious they are you might remember last month there was an uproar when a w. H. O. Official appeared to say that there were indications that asymptomatic people very rarely passed on the disease to others that was that was followed by a lot of backtracking but maybe it helps to look at what we do know one expert i read on this said that transmission from people with symptoms generally tails off completely within 8 days after the onset of those symptoms and and he thought it unlikely that an asymptomatic person would be infectious for longer than that that sounds plausible to me but it doesnt constitute proof. Of read many medical opinions on survival rates 99. 4 percent survival seems to be the most common Percentage Rate im seen is that accurate. Leading this number with with real confidence is still impossible at the moment because there are still too many open they are bulls and the statistic you mention probably originally comes from the w h os chief scientist who has said that the organization believes that whats called the infection fe tallit the rate or i f r is around point 6 percent. The idea for is the is the true proportion if you will of infected people who will die from catching a disease its not the proportion of people who tested positive and later died which is known as the as the case fatality rate thats of course much higher if the w. H. O. Is guess on the i. F. R. As. Which is still a pretty big though the less of one that it was a few months ago then it would mean that statistically around 6 out of every 1000 people who catch covert 19 will eventually die from that whether they tested positive before hand or not now that doesnt sound like much but but but point 6 percent of the worlds population is still close to 50000000 people. And thats all for now for more just go to our website to do w dot com and check out alcohol not by restriction and now from in the team thanks for watching. To. Kick off. This new season. But nobody ever dreamt to return the way you did. Still some things never seem to change. Plus one of our this is a. 13 d. W. These assault rifles should not be using. German arms manufacturer cloned cars sold them illegally to mexico. Bosses always seem to find ways to get around the German Government supported by sea. Led the exploits. Industry leaders in the claim. 90 minutes on d. W. Closely. Carefully. The soon. To be a good. 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