In an attempt to slow the spread of the pond now there is growing criticism of the police for their tactics as they enforce the measures. Plus a new date for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics mark your calendars for the 23rd of july next year last week think games were postponed because of the global coronavirus pandemic. Public photo yes welcome to the program we start in the United States where new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an urgent appeal for medical volunteers and made what hes calling a Staggering Number of deaths from the coronavirus the peak came in as the death toll at climbed into stay. Past 1200 most of them in new york city so far around 80000 former medical professionals have answered cuomo call meanwhile a u. S. Navy hospital ship has arrived to help relieve pressure on the citys hospitals. A welcome sight for new york as the battle against the coronavirus ramps up. A u. S. Navy medical ship with a 1000 beds docked in new york harbor on monday. The mayor spoke of the citys frayed nerves with hospitals are already stretched to a breaking point weve all been through a lot these last few weeks. And we needed this roost we needed this hope thats being created by our brothers and sisters the u. S. Navy marine corps central park in the middle of manhattan is the latest site to be taken over by a Field Hospital but new york has been caught in a war of words President Donald Trump says that medical equipment already in place should be enough for the city but the mayor and the state governors say they both need more help from the federal government to be ready for whats coming. It is a fundamental blunder. To only prepare for today. Thats why in some ways we are where we are weve been at behind this virus from day one you have this scientist in the data projections show you a curve. The curve grows like this youre over here prepare for the high point of the curve and do we know when you can do it the night before. Medics have become the heroines and heroes of the day and monday was Even National doctors day but in new york theyve had no chance to celebrate there on the front lines in a city or the coronavirus death toll is rising rapidly meanwhile other states such as michigan louisiana and new jersey also report a spike in coronavirus cases and brace to become the nations new hot spots and all of this is happening while the u. S. Is still struggling to get testing ramp it up and to better coordinate the efforts to come but the pandemic but president still on charm dismisses any criticism of the federal governments describing the job they are doing asked tremendous on monday President Trump urged the American People to vigorously follow the fertile social distancing guidelines that were extended through april he said he was not thinking about opening the u. S. Economy very soon instead suggested he might be toughening up the measures in the coming weeks. That was dont use chief correspondent in washington d. C. Alexandra phenomena now lets take a look at some of the other coronavirus developments france and the United States have become the 4th and 5th countries to report over 3000 fatalities in total italy the country with the most confirmed deaths will extend its lockdown on till easter italians have been under lockdown for 3 weeks already and mexico has declared a National Emergency after the number of confirmed infections jumped above 1000 all nonessential activities of being suspended and residents told to stay home and then brazil the Health Minister there has defied president charter boats fernando and urged brazilians to practice moxon him social distancing and out of denies the gravity of the pandemic and opposes the lockdown measures brought in by city and state authorities. Im moving on to kenya people are getting used to stringent restrictions on daily life due to the corona Virus Outbreak the government has brought in an evening curfew but theres been criticism of the way the police have been enforcing it. Life in kenya has slowed down since the 1st confirmed corona cases 2 weeks ago the usual traffic jams are gone and many restaurants and offices have closed. Last friday the government introduced a 7 pm Curfew Police were ordered to arrest people who were not part of essential services such as Health Care Workers food supply as a result was that people rushed to buses and other means of public transport to get home and feed the cats. And ill before the actual curfew reports emerged of Police Traffic and. Local t. V. Showed chaotic scenes of police dispersing people with tear gas at a ferry port mombasa. Society of kenya has filed a complaint against the curfew and the police weve challenging the compu because we think because who is notable for the way it was done was kenyans do not have the luxury of. Driving themselves home or i walk in public transport system i dont know what people in nairobi have mixed feelings about the country. Because it is all good think it is trying to assist many people and you know most of these people are going to have a no knowledge about it over the border in fiction. So i will not go there because the suffering and tragedy has doubled those corona and this Police Brutality is wrong if you dont but as journalists with a lot to move around after the curfew of the world im very clear and there have been reports of the weekend up to these Soldiers Left so were going home early but were not taking any chances. Now to some of the other stories making news around the world. The spanish coast guard has rescued almost 80 migrants in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands the migrants were traveling in 3 boats from africa over 300 people have been rescued in the region since spain declared a state of emergency because of the corona virus. A painting by dutch master Vincent Van Gough called Spring Garden has been stolen from a museum in the netherlands thieves broke into the singer lyra museum near amsterdam which is closed because of the corona virus the 884 painting is valued at up to 6000000 euros. Poland which is in lockdown is considering postponing its president ial election because of the coronavirus president under a dude has said the 1st round scheduled for may 10th could be delayed if health and safety conditions cant be guaranteed poland has almost 2000 confirmed cases. And hungarys parliament has voted to give Prime Minister viktor orban broad new powers that he says are needed to fight the coronavirus there. By decree for an unlimited time the Prime Minister declared a state of emergency in hungary 3 weeks ago critics say the coronavirus defense act as its now gives or unnecessary Unlimited Power allowing them to cement his leadership under the pretext of fighting the bright. Hour earlier we spoke to hungarys Justice Minister and i asked how she responds to the criticism from the opposition and the European Union theres no point in thinking about. More power in this emergency situation or in the situation when the next. Regular functioning there under the set in a sort of assembly and. Basically includes the National Assembly may revoke at any time its authorization. Nothing more than to provide for the government the necessary room for acting immediately for the sake of citizens house life and for the stability of the National Economy every measure has to be proportionate. Into the constitutional framework. Its necessary and can only target measures which are there to fight. The race is on to find a drug or vaccine to defeat the corona virus researchers are working flat out around the world in some cases theyre investigating drugs or vaccines already developed for other diseases that might also combat the corona virus but another approach is to use antibodies from patients whove recovered from. The Hanover Medical School is one of many Institutions Research in covert 19 in one joint project transplant specialists and human toll of just are trying to derive a drug from the blood plasma of patients whove recovered from the virus. We want to test healed patients for the body counts and whether these antibodies a suitable for helping cure other patients. A century ago that idea proved successful during the great influenza pandemic and in dangerous measles outbreaks antibodies latch on to the viruses before they can infect other cells the 1st blood donations from recovered patients are expected soon. Researchers in often are taking a different approach theyre producing ventilators using 3 d. Printers in case existing supplies run out. Of not least we hope that doesnt happen here but these machines can also be used in countries where thats already a reality the devices are not yet certified for safety but they could be useful in a crisis. Barcelona players will take a 70 percent pay cut and make extra contributions to help pay the clubs other staff during the coronavirus pandemic barcelona compton and messy announced the move on social media but he criticised the Club Officials for putting pressure on players to quote do something that we always knew we would be doing the Spanish Football League has been suspended indefinitely because of the pandemic. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will now officially start on the 23rd of july 2021 the paralympics will follow in august the International Olympic committee and japanese organizers settled on that date a week after agreeing to postpone the games due to the pandemic. 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 so that youll wear much the crazy high proposed holding the games in the summer of next year and it was agreed with. 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 all in pick federations i. O. C. President thomas boxset humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel these limpy 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 organizers 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 the society for athletes to fully prepare we need to give them as much time as possible to the hole that will to acquittal. 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. The pyramids in egypt have stood through thousands of years of human disasters demick swards and famines now as the corona virus wreaks havoc around the world the pyramids are being used to project a message of gratitude to essential workers around the globe during the i break for everyone else theres a reminder to stay at home all archaeological sites in egypt have been shut to prevent the coronavirus spreading your thirtys have declared a nighttime curfew. Youre watching d. W. News dont forget our website is there for all the latest news and information around the clock thats good w. Dot com im caught off only s. In berlin thanks for watching take care bye bye. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Ground information and. Our corona up to. 19 special next on d w. How does a virus spread. Panic. When will. Just 3 the top. And radio show is called spectrum if you would like any more information on the ground or any other science topic you 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 all smartphones for example schol nearly every step we take every step people around us take scientists estimate that one infected person passes the virus on to around 2. 00 to 3. 00 people on average so what if we used all the data that we already have phones to track people infected with the coronavirus and more on those contacts with a carrier prevent more infections build Something Like a digital image in south korea that seems to have been one of the keys to keep their infection curve flat surveyed can data truck 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 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. Here come the number for germany in recent weeks it appears south korea has largely 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 make use of the Internet Technology to share come from patients of patients 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 3 and 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 hong have collected and aggregated that information to more user friendly websites up the governments provide to the troubled history of each patient also thats in the text so even if he. Read that placing you dont really know where exactly to locate it 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 thiel in korea. Because they think they didnt have any contact with the patient with this web site they have a better idea of that they cant really you know 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 coronavirus became a threat i downloaded the app so started using them to understand the situation you can see where infected people have been and avoid going there 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 are still worry about potential new clusters. Well from Seoul South Korea im now joined by Professor John one son associate professor at the Bottom School of fleming University College london professor after 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 to Surveillance Technology played appear to be part in this fight against a corner. If the country has been to 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 everyone every single one patient to come from the patient contacted in the past so ted way you can find out who these patients could fighters from and the who this patient could have been biased 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 are what they tell you through police and thats a credit card transaction move like point. And this is the t. V. s so this mobile a form every every move by Point Service networks have information about where mobile phone has been through g. P. S. And intensive sieber connection and the 2nd a critic cars is again the banks can tell you. When detestation happened so combination of these 2 will it gives you a lot of cars so for example if a cashier was patient for example everest every single customers or potential patients they had to be tested and using credit cards or of course you can find out all do all the clinical scanners and then see if the t. V. s can give you even more finite movement to data. To the patient to talk to in the past who the patient to pointing to poor example and then someone can i just interrupt you did on who think professor it is dangerous when a government can track every step of its citizens it is certainly is so this is this is an emergency manager who will only when the only when the president of troops see this dental put it is a control gets all excess to tease authorities or with a towel through police so when this situation is over they dont have the data dont get us to stay longer Professor John once on joining us live from seoul in south korea thank you very much for this and what. If you think you. Know the answer few questions about how south korea handled the fight against the virus the fresh questions around the globe arise every day for. Your questions most important and you have sent us plenty Facebook Twitter and email and to answer them at least the part of them. Every day heres our science correspondent williams. If we start Data Tracking are there any assurances in place the Technology Wont be used against us in the future that depends a lot on the country i think where you reside any assurances put in place will have to come from governments now theres no question that digital surveillance measures like cell phone tracking that are used to trace the contacts of someone who has been infected are one of the most effective ways that we have to find out who else might have been exposed but the big fear of course is that once given the right to track their citizens in this way some governments might continue to do it once the Current Crisis is over and it needs to be addressed in the legislation expanding the rights of governments to track their own citizens striking the right balance between outbreak oversight and data privacy is not going to be easy. What data can be used to track the spread of the coronavirus. Well nowadays practically all of us leave a kind of trail of digital bread crumbs behind us as we move through our lives if you had g. P. S. Or bluetooth turned on on your phone for instance then that can provide pretty specific information as to your whereabouts or who you might have come close to other information that can be used as for example when or where you might have made purchases with a bank card or a credit card and then of course in places that are directly monitored by c. C. T. V. You can employ facial Recognition Technology to pretty precisely determine exactly when someone was where in south korea which has so far had some of the greatest success at containing the virus without resorting to draco nian measures like lockdowns tracking the Previous Movement of people who tested positive has relied on the companys. Of all those measures. Can big data help us avoid a 2nd corona Virus Outbreak and the short answer to that is no the only thing that will stop coated 1000 for good is herd immunity which hopefully we will acquire through a vaccine in the not all too distant future however there are many ways that big data techniques can help us better control any future outbreaks they can help us recognise when one is beginning at an earlier stage to start with and also tell us a lot more about what measure is being instigated all over the world at the moment actually work best so even if it doesnt solve the coronavirus problem for us big data it is providing valuable information all the time on how we can hopefully solve the problem ourselves. And that was a covert 19 special coverage for today from all on the pandemic to check out all social Media Channels and our website thats home which has dedicated kobe 1000. 00 pages in 30 languages. 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