Im melissa chan welcome to news asia were glad you could join us hong kong has made Headline News week in and week out pretty much ever since spring of 2019 when we saw the start of a series of massive prodemocracy protests at 1. 20 percent of the city took to the streets what happens when you deal with tear gas not just once but countless times over a stretch when you face off against Police Brutality again and again it takes a toll takes a closer look at the Mental Health of people of hong kong we start with the story of henry thats not his real name but a pseudonym speaking with journalists has become a liability in this once free territory. 22 year old protester henry struggles whenever he passes fire Police Station in hong kong it was in just such a station that. Experience Police Brutality 1st hand. One day when i went out 9 Undercover Police officers took me in a car to the Police Station in the Interrogation Room they tried to force a confession they took out the buttons they hit me they pulled my ears and pushed me against the wall but asked if i thought anyone had ever died in the Police Station and threatened to be if i didnt sign a statement i was so scared at the time that i signed. 3 weeks after his release he was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder and depression every time i see a police car or an officer outside i tremble and feel the urge to hide i cant sleep at night because of the flashbacks and sometimes i cry all night i used to be a very cheerful person but everything has changed henry is not alone in this battle with mental however since the start of the Antigovernment Movement last year one in 3 hong kong has display sometimes off posttraumatic stress disorder. While the degree of fallen since being much lower during the protests in hong kong compared to war so most studies have found that the long lasting political turmoil is causing a high degree of stress you know. The situation where. Traumatic experiences have not yet resolved all come to it and their situation is quite different because the stresses ever present longstanding exposure to such dresses is more likely to put deals changes in the brain subsequently will make his 1st as a bridge to his older. To address the collective trauma local artist ricky luke turns stories of Police Brutality into illustrations the book was in this exhibition describe the experiences of 100 protestors and citizens he and his team talked with. Them on being human but its so powerful its not going to change much in reality but at least people feel they are heard and were all walking together you feel slightly better knowing youre not alone and this process itself is very important this small space is the only place they can find for the exhibition many found he was turned down that display in fear of possible political consequences and that as for paying National Security a law imposed by beijing as the government has declared certain protests logans illegal curator send these sad each booklet has to be carefully self censored. Only one voice is allowed and its the governments voice its hard to mourn and address or trauma if we cant even speak about what happened but we should still try because thats the 1st step to healing when you. Can raise those suffers from p. T. S. D. And depression but with the help of medication hes gradually returning to normal life im very lucky to have been diagnosed and given professional help early on people have been very supportive but this cause will be there for life and i think i can never go back to who i was its impossible to truly heal unless justice is served for henry and other sufferers the road to healing were not to be easy as long as the political turmoil in hong kong continues. Joining us is mary where journalist for quartz based in Hong Kong Mary i want to hone in on that statistic mentioned in the report that one in 3 hong kong has have p. T. S. D. Is that what you sense too in the territory. You know what my understanding is that these numbers are self reported so of course it could either be all over reported but you know either way plus or minus a percentage point that still means hundreds of thousands potentially millions of people what the league with some kind of p. T. S. D. And i think that does a light with observations that we see on social media just from regular social interactions with friends colleagues families acquaintances and conversations that you may hear on Public Transportation the streets that people all of the illegal with. That entice spectrum of. Depression and side see and the whole gamut of emotions that comes with having to deal with a society that is in turmoil where the press at their reality can be very very different from one day to the next. And i imagine were talking about a lot of the protesters and the journalists who covered them i mean you guys were out there week after week sometimes every few days for months in 2022019 of course theres been plenty of stuff thats happened you know week on week month after month its difficult to convey but give us a sense of the emotions and the exhaustion. I would say that covering the protests in 2019 was very much nonstop you were constantly checking your phone for updates on where the tear gas. Protests are happening whether late as much as not going on and that itself is so fast pace that you really dont have very much time whether as a reporter or just a regular so listen. So absorbing them from a close this tense you really dont have time to stop and think and check in with your own emotions and now fast forward to 2020 already at the end of 2020 now in december and the pace is change the law is what were keeping up with now is not the way fight its war while the latest arrests while the latest this isnt so far who have had to flee hong kong regular explore make those whove had to flee so so its a very different pace but also a constant kind of drumbeat of updates that can often be very distressing. And its not just the people on the frontlines ordinary citizens have been impacted what has made the environment stressful for those who have not had to face police directly. Or the environment itself in hong kong has changed so completely that even without having been on the streets you do feel the ramifications of that of the drastic changes that have rolled through phone call society with kind of this understanding that perhaps the rule of law here in hong kong is not what it used to be that basic freedoms are protected and the assumptions that you can make about what your rights and freedoms are very whey thank you so much for joining us. Its been almost a year since the coronavirus 1st gripped the city of ruhani where the worlds 1st recorded victims of kobe 1000 died following one of the largest Public Health lockdowns ever seen the chinese city has largely put the crisis behind it but in music graffiti even comics who had artists are still jawing on their experiences during those dark days of the outbreak. The sound of police pandemic one. Of the trio hard call rabies in tears captured the city suffering and rebirth in the music and words. Bars in one hand we all survived. The lyrics werent written to raise an issue. They were just to say that people in 100 made a sacrifice for the nation and the world the lyrics simply to express our feelings. Soldiers are held and then thats. The song 12020. 00 is the target track on the bands debut album written while the band was separated under lockdown. And then the fate of this album is very different from our past. During its creation now band members were very traumatized psychologically or. Know of the city is so deeply connected to the coronavirus one was ground 0 of the outbreak of the passage and emerged there one year ago before becoming a global pandemic. Almost 4000 people died in a Large Population of 11000000 put under the largest lockdown in history. During those 76. 00 days graffiti artists tagged the city with social comments on the virus. One was a homage to leeward a young doctor who tried to warn about the outbreak but was pressured to remain silent he later died of the virus himself. Painted speak righteously and remember this forever outside the womb central hospital. Not to commemorate lee when young as a person to commemorate his actions. Was gone the next day it was inevitable because it was always going to be a sensitive subject. Is now largely back to normal but the citys still processing the pandemics painful memories. Around the world people have had to adapt to social distancing measures and businesses have faced Economic Uncertainty in indonesia one out there cinema has opened in the capital of west java province its called cinema under the stars 7 and offers a safe and fun night out. When the day comes to an end here the tents come up as darkness descend and the big screen lights up the night. Up the movies are usually watched indoors in a room but now we have this outdoor cinema with this view weve been doing city where we can see the city and whats more interesting is that they used tents here so i wanted to give it a try but at the good thing it was for about 15. 00 to 3. 00 people can gather in a tent equipped with fluffy pillows blankets and snacks and disinfectant with cinema under the stars as its called the founders of come up with what seems like a rarity these days something thats lots of fun and pretty safe. And what i warn about many of you of course the pandemic is our concern. We started this business during the pandemic and we brainstormed about how to attract visitors. Right people really want entertainment in times like these. We thought about ways to bring them comfort and security and were happy to be able to open a place like this. Im not worried about code here theyve got Health Protocols such as Hand Sanitizer disinfectant and wearing masks. And if the movie isnt that great you can just switch off the light and enjoy the darkness. Thats it for now and sure to check out our other stories on com forward slash asia or on facebook and twitter thanks for watching c. N. N. Time and goodbye. The fight against the coronavirus tend to have much. Has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. Information and context around a virus update. On d w. I mentioned khomeini push the old loves us right now from the right no Climate Change different awful story. Faces life less leeway from just one week. How much work can really do that. We still have time to work im going. To. Have some strife like this. Using a u. V. Lamp to kill the coronavirus thats just one light bulb moment in a multitude of responses to cope with 19 pollution was repurposed as Hand Sanitizer at the beginning of the pandemic the speed of innovation on the coronavirus could be a game changer experts say it could revolutionize Global Health care allowing us to come up with solutions that could change Health Care Delivery. They say necessity is the mother of invention the coronavirus pandemic has thrown that into stark relief from innovations enabling us to live with the realities of the virus to devices that make at seatac sion possible heres the story of 2 entrepreneurs who say a diagnosis is just a breath away. Rather than christoph and thomas wolfe have a vision they want to return some normality to this called in 1000 times for months the been working on a breath test that can identify the Novel Coronavirus theyre now confident it works. In august from a technical point of view this device can get to areas where normally only a dog can sniff things out. A device thats almost as sensitive as a dogs noles the technique is similar to a breathalyzer for alcohol. This is a stimulus when what we have here is a sterile mouthpiece. And you take off the packaging and then what happens if you blow into the mouthpiece and you just breathe. In there start up the brothers develop highly Sensitive Sensor Technology from us pick troll meters for industry and labs for a new type of diagnosis in real time. And we can see all sorts of things using breath analysis just like whether a patient had coffee yesterday afternoon or not we can identify his Nutritional Status we can see different amino acids different fatty acids all of this from the breath breath has a direct window into the human body. The brothers believe it could recognize carbon 19 other researchers also say breath analysis could work in principle to test for the corona virus. The challenge is to is to get the. Methods that urine on the equipment the way the equipment is used to chew and the analytical technique of mice with verified biomarkers that are reliable. Once weve proven that then you have a corrupted 19 breath test ready to go conventional swab tests are reliable but often only carried out when the infection has been there for a while and a result usually takes 2 days the breath test detects metabolic changes in breathing caused by the virus while it is not yet 100 percent reliable it does give an immediate result. The researchers believe that they will be able to deploy the tests as early as next summer in places like football stadiums. Passengers could also be tested at airports before check in the accuracy of the test is currently around 80 percent however the researchers are expecting efficiency to increase significantly in the meantime a lot of detailed work remains to be done. People are complicated and youre looking for a small signal in a snowstorm a blizzard of information. That weve found weve found the signals we think are helpful Young Christophe and thomas both originally developed their test for very different types of that gnosis one problem with a common 1000 tests is that they have not yet been able to carry out studies on patients with the virus they are hoping for to once again access to the processors access to resources to allow us to carry out a validation study on the site in a hospital or an Airport Test Center and with that it becomes very easy to determine whether this would be a way to bring back some normality to people. And allies could be a way to detect cov in 1000 infections much faster than before. Matthew harris joins us now hes a clinical senior lecturer and Public Health at the Imperial College london matthew so glad you can join us now youve written and the scientific journal nature about how the response occulted 19 has been distinguished by socalled frugal innovations what exactly does that mean well thank you go through litigation really is the term that we give to the kind of innovation we see in the resource constrained so it was situations of extraordinary time pressure or situations where we dont have the kind of resources that we normally like to have when we were married develop Health Care Innovations and the work frugal oftentimes is referred to as sort of cheap or good enough innovation but actually frugal innovation is health care of patients thats actually as effective as the kind of innovation you would normally see but just in a way that is far more affordable far more sustainable maybe if you are d sort of complexity or functionality but that gets the job done and under coded of course weve seen around the world some extraordinary difficult situations at National Level in terms of exposing the fragilities in our Healthcare Systems but also the real increase in healthcare demands and it really has necessitated a new type of innovating in innovating pace rapidly using resources that we just find around us so kind of improvising if you are. This is the kind of innovation that we call through innovation so its about reacting quickly using what you have but to have any examples of what a frugal innovation could be. Well absolutely in the early days of the covert response we saw insincerity elop in countries and really interesting examples of frugal innovations so for example where there was a lack of personal protective equipment we saw a clinicians improvised the use of simple acetate sheets the kind of such as a sheet used for overhead projectors in the old days and by simply putting some holes in either side of the essay sheets in threading some ribbon on either side those became very effective face vices to protect not only the clinician but also the patients in front of them when they were interfacing and this was of course extremely cheap and actually very very effective since then they spices a vote and become more sophisticated but it was a very good example of a frugal innovation at the time another good example of innovating at a pace was the construction of hospitals and on the 10 days in china that actually eventually also in the u. K. Where im from we saw the construction or repurchasing at least of conference sense as into into intensive care units and hospitals also in very very short amounts of time as a sort of idea of repurchasing the resources you have but also very very quickly the characteristic of really innovation now that the crisis has focused minds and mobilize so much in terms of responses as youve told us there is also kind of dying down side to this kind of concentration of response to the crisis. Well i think the pope it obviously has recorded a deviation of resources from other health care to focus our attention on covert response and as a result some other areas have if you like suffered in terms of Research Going into them and also the Health Care Delivery the different clinical conditions i dont think theres a downside to frugal innovation and i think its been a really revealing how weve been able to develop such Effective Health care responses in a short period of time. Without spending on safety checks or effectiveness or clinical effectiveness for the patients that we serve so i dont see a downside to through innovation which tends to be far more fordable the Health Care Systems as long as the necessary checks and balances are in place to ensure the safety of those devices or technologies youve written that this kind of innovation could lead to a leveling and Global Health care equality what does that look like. What is the level in the sense that code has made us really reflect on the fragilities in the Health Systems even in the high Income Countries settings and its made us pay much more attention to the kind of innovations that arise from the low Income Countries its something weve been up to pacing for for many years and what it is doing is making us pay more attention to settings that traditionally we havent really noticed in terms of Healthcare Innovation thank you Matthew Harris theyre talking about putting Human Resource lowness at the center of arc over 1000 response theres a clinical senior lecturer and Public Health at the Imperial College london thank you for your insights. And now its time for one of your son and questions about the coronavirus our science correspondent Derek Williams is ready with an answer. Taking into account to patients sex and age what do the statistics say about complications. One of the clearest pieces of information thats come out of the statistics is that from the age of about 40 on women in general are a lot less likely than men to have severe Outcomes Data from both the c. D. C. And the European Center for disease prevention and control a reveal how stark the difference is this graphic for example emphasizes how much more likely men of a certain age are to end up in the hospital or the i. C. U. Numbers of men are represented by the blue bar and a numbers of women by the red one in europe men between 40 and 80 make up around 3 quarters of all intensive care cases and recorded deaths after 80 the split is more even but thats almost certainly due to the simple fact that a lot fewer men lived at that age so statistically the chances are a lot higher that in the over eightys a woman is going to get coke at 19 ben a man is going to get it theres a lot of speculation about why and there and there doesnt seem to be a single reason that accounts for all of the discrepancy im several factors are likely playing roles we know though that people who have diabetes or high Blood Pressure or Heart Disease are at greater risk of severe outcomes if they contract at 19 and aging men are more likely to have those comorbidities than aging women are but another possible contributing factor involves immune response the male and female in humans. Systems are different experts say because on their 2nd x. Chromosome women have another copy of many of the genes that are involved in fighting off disease its been theorized thats also why women are more likely to develop certain auto immune diseases than men but in this case it could be helping them keep covert 19 or its medical ramifications more effectively it bad thats hard to prove go. And thats all from us thank you very much for watching and stay safe. In. The square this is it secures. The. Better we need to take a closer look at the. Experience knowledge tomorrow change. Strategy to you. In the far north. Beyond the inhabitable world. Its lonely. Barren and breathtakingly beautiful. The arctic. Powerful expanse of bitter cold. Calm and the sound of global warming. Take a journey around the north pole meet profiteers and talk with people experiencing a changing environment. For the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating. 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