And will be asking how to get the balance right between cautiousness and the longing for a half way normal life in the face of continuing high infection rates. Like in france, where almost all covey restrictions have been lifted. Despite the summer wave of infections that has just swept across europe, the governments reasoning, 80 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, and infection rates are largely stabled. We asked around in the capital, paris. What do people think of the end of cove . It restrictions dumb you marta is a taxi driver in paris and someone whos still takes the cupboard 19 virus very seriously. Here legislative jordan, dom your keeps mosques and to have sanitizers ready for his passengers. The cab driver nearly lost his father to the corona virus during the 1st wave 2 years ago. An experience let us meet him extra, careful, bianco. He says people should not lower their god either. You, papa, i steer you samantha. My father was in a coma for 10 weeks when he got covert nozzle, he was in a desperate and really relish traffic state. Luckily he came out of it is on it, so i prefer not to take any risk upon doing after everything weve lived through, im surprised that people dont take any precautions anymore or whats wrong. Its still dangerous sick. Im in all these people. I see not wearing masks, are actually gambling with their lives issue of a lot of it. But daniel is something of an exception in paris. On the mitchell, there are few signs of passengers taking precautionary measures in made. The government said people were no longer required to wear masks on public transportation. Now the authorities have gone further. The French Parliament recently adopted a bill lifting a state of Health Emergency imposed at the beginning of the pandemic. Starting august 1st. All measures put in place to fight cove. It in france have ended. That includes everything from gulf views, emergency lock downs, the more to working the wearing of face masks, and holding a health boss to access museums or restaurants. Ah, the lifting of cobit restrictions has been welcomed by many, especially at viruses to his hotspots. After 2 years break visitors a once again flocking to the french capital. Oh, i dont think imposing restrictions on people is a good thing. Were all human and were all free. It goes against personal liberty and is all incoming on the streets at so much nicer. Now to see peoples faces, to see them smiling is so much more livable. But others remain weary. Who is still afraid of the new very end of the court on a virus . Few days ago, weve been to disneyland which is so crowded. And nobody was worry and nobody was wearing a mass Health Authorities are still monitoring new infections. And the end of the state of Health Emergency has not changed. Frances policy on testing, this pharmacy says the number of people coming in for covert tests has dropped drastically. But that could change once, but regions returned from the Summer Holidays triple killers. You thought it was the manella, the restrictions should be lifted progressively. Step by step are not ended over night because there are places like public transportation. Were pharmacies where the mask is recommended, but not mandatory, but it should be a we have to take care of people who are vulnerable and at times seriously sick over there, i strongly expect to rise in positive cobra cases. I thought thought to more as jim normal, the vicar dummy martin, for his part, but isnt taking any chances. He preps his taxi carefully before taking on his next passenger. Damina has not contracted covered so far, and he intends to keep it bash. Finally, freedom, serenity, hope for return to normal life or should we remain cautious about the risk of infection . Dw reporter stephanie turbo, talk to epidemiologist and frank as from the university of applied sciences in ham. Back. He is part of the European Task force that monitors pandemic in san france, many of the current corona virus restrictions were lifted on august 1st. What do you think of that . Endlessness politicized slang was a political decision. Once, when conduct a looking on the one hand, one can really understand the people who are sick and tired of the pandemic does fit on to religion with him, fuels god. But of course, at the end of the summer waves, the lip will make it easier for the virus to spread in france. Dba calling alliston, these are monday with all the restrictions lifted. How can people be persuaded to wear masks again in the fall if infection them as rise . The signs later, the 1st noses or go to music woocommerce . Whats really, really important is a clear Risk Communication strategy also. So that in the fall its made absolutely clear how high the risk of reinfection is in order to motivate people to protect themselves properly. And their glitch associates, woodson and hes, it was what erase Communications Strategy look like. And among often went or do i openly and clearly showing how the virus is spread, but hong stuff. And by hurting the need for co operation, collaboration from all parties to control it spread was controller out and drank, meaning that were in the same boat and that we want to move forward and not experience another extremely big wave in the fall and winter or villa l. O and dine. Germany ministers have proposed a reg not for the full from october 1st it will be mandatory to an f, f, p to mosque for Long Distance travel and on airplanes in germany. As well as a mosque and test mandate in hospitals and care facilities. Do you think that makes sense for the social it says in for us, it certainly makes a lot of sense. Right now, a lot of people are coming close to one another on public transport on a regular basis is often over extended periods of time. Now on trains and airplanes for people sit next to each other for long periods of time. And thats where a mask mandate is extremely helpful. If not, it would be great if there would be a nation wide mask mandate on local public transport to well and in places where Vulnerable People live naturally. It makes sense not to introduce viruses. There is the sin, different makes sense that politicians have already rolled outside closures and knock down st. Joseph missouri as i go to fog. Thats a very, very good question. Were all hoping that these measures wont become necessary again visited soon. Vincent. Yes. But we cant be 100 percent. Sure how the situation will look in fall and winter winter dot judith ish no to and then of course, from an epidemiological perspective, we cant rule out any measures at the moment. Rather try to do Everything Possible to avoid it. Is its a formation thus, what would you do differently if you were making the decisions . Its been misanthropy low on term for soccer. Well, im a scientist and im trying to make sense of the pandemic, and proceed accordingly. A spike in faults against us. Thus, rooney sig, i would very much like to try that with a different Risk Communication strategy to further increased trust or to for buttons with us. We are a lot of them so that we can all enjoy our freedom with the right awareness and the knowledge and also know where our limits. Arson, where the dangers lie, hotel, she own to stink her her. And i think mask mandates indoors. For example, in all public buildings in the fall and winter would certainly make a lot of sense as it says in full field. And many thanks to the interview that i find here is from the university of applied sciences in 100. Youre welcome. Paraguay became a target destination for jam in vaccination opponents during the panoramic. Some even if that were foley catheter vaccinated in our supposed paradise. However, these channels are not particularly welcome, paraguay is relaxed. Cobra rules have seen german anti vaccines, flocked to the country. There even been cases where a parent has taken their child to paraguay without the other parent knowing all to escape the vaccine. Overall several 1000 germans have arrived in the south American Country which as one of the worlds worst Health Systems. Stuff on showtime is a german paraguayan lawyer. He one mother whos been 6 months looking for a daughter after she was abducted by her father in under cassandra. Gus, i let us know isolated case. So there was a particularly sensitive one that we have several in paraguay. How do you . Im going away. He says many come without knowing anything about paraguay, and then struggle. Like for amazon k, there are plenty of quite extreme cases where people arrive in paraguay without knowing anything of the language or the conditions here. The near the heart of thought, of course, in my opinion, its just crazy cutting. I dont gonna know, believe everything of their old life behind homeless. They sell their houses, load up a container and just turn up here. You may not get in your knob and many of them come with children to buy and look in here and in paraguay, its not that easy to find a job. For example, even if you do speak to language by allowing oil on passing cancer, you dont and player the only well over 1600 new arrivals from germany were processed by paraguay immigration authorities in 2021. Thats nearly 3 times as many as the year before. We do most, those are the numbers of shot up over the last 2 years because of the corona virus in little events have also played a role lied to political like the war and ukraine, which many of these people are worried about. Yeah, they were glad. Yeah. Electrical, but im in and he had paraguay is not safer than germany. We spoke to gear mussa keta, an epidemiologist in charge of Monitoring National health. He n alcaraz hello, if theyre hoping for Good Health Care holes in a well functioning Health System, whereby paraguay is not the best choice yet its huddled when us will be 90. Our Health System is one of the most precarious in the americas. Many, i can see that people coming from countries like germany and austria are going to suffer here. Oh no, no, no, no one else will feed. And when i sophie paraguay is experiencing a 4th wave of coven 19, but with death rates lower than in previous waves. So ketters concerned about the german influx for another reason being a canon, but elias epidemics that have not existed in paraguay for more than 20 years could be reintroduced things like measles, for example. There are polio which we havent had for more than 30 years. And so these are diseases that people who are not vaccinated can re introduce when you dont have a good Health System rental optical. Theyll pick it last a little bit. Got you. Weve come to the german paraguayan cultural institute, its director z mona. How to wish moved here from germany 22 years ago a she to is concerned about the current trend. Anyway. See my i will not cannot. I follow some channels on telegram dot com reality. Amy, i find some of the things posted by the germans who come here quite scary end of the los alamos as given. Ne, i. Yeah. Shes vaccinated against coven 19 to protect herself and others. She says many people arriving from germany come to her asking for a job boy, but they dont want to get vaccinated. Although its a lot of money that way. Its a very diverse group. Take very launch with different religion, once different opinions. And on the n dot com, but as a docs i to a toll lot or was caught the new arrivals mean the German Community here is much more diverse lars class and grew up here. Hes a Computer Programmer of german mennonite origin or north bought him that and i know people here in paraguay who opposed the vaccine in it and they had their reasons not, but theyre in the minority. Lot of yellows to my friends are in favor that ive seen this. Hes on well for him, person. Ha, fowler laughlin. He himself has 3 covered vaccine chunks, just like his wife and children. In a girl at app is if i wouldnt describe paraguay as any kind of paradise for german suppose science. Ah, ive gone the gauntlet. Is it . And of course not all germans coming to terrible. I do. Oh, the contact restrictions during the cave it pandemic had massive social consequences. For many people in poor neighborhoods, they argentinian capital. When aside as neighbors set up, Community Support groups and the idea became a huge success. But in the fight against cove it and for social cohesion in 2020, in the midst of the corona virus pandemic residence in experts created a Crisis Committee in the ma, he could be a 31. 00 suburb of one off iris. It was set up to address the needs of the locals. The committee was even recognized by the government founding member. So varner olivera tells us about some of the groups biggest successes, including altitude tar, elliptic, dennis at number cafe linear. L detector was the name of a covey testing truck that the government sent around the various neighborhood. Dont the last one, the address you notice that you could walk up, you get swapped in, youd have your result within 24 hours. Oh, if it was positive, youd be taken to a covey toto to isolate. Ha, then what you said was true and we had free canteens of, you know, commit those. And one of the groups biggest achievement larvae, or they look for it, call me, theyre good, easy. We dont have enough thanks to the committee, these free neighborhood canteens multiply it and strengthens during the pandemic. They were funded by government subsidies and donations from private institutions. Im a, what does that mean . That fancy that we werent given much food, formal, early enough, 57 portions, theyre not hooked up, but we always made more than 57 portions because so many people had lost their jobs. During the pandemic, we had hundreds of people looking for food with with they me, im or 10th, or the persona refundable me there. For decades, the City Government has been trying to strategically expel people from him or he can neighbor it. Its located very close to the financial district and the port, the most lucrative areas of final series, which makes it all the more important for people here to unite and mobilize. Yes, yeah, youre good, you need to do. If theres one thing that people in poor neighborhoods of argentine are known for or in any Vulnerable Community in the world, in fact its self organization. It is around ah, the committee couldnt meet during the 1st wave of co fed due to the restrictions imposed by the argentinian government. But the cristo berrera church then offered its facilities to the group to meet under strict povich requirements. It was here that most of the suggestions put forward by the committee was set in motion. Priest Guillermo Torres was in charge at the time when i dont documented good at young for the now and what it waterloo afloat. It was like a network, we had shelters, some people quoted us, some gave help advice, others looked after the elderly at home. The Committee Also brought a lot of issues to light that people didnt know about only on the resumes to know the true reality. And i said, i dont need an integrated and arguably gotten their men did i, jojo, up in the more he kaffir 31 neighborhood is home to most of the capitals manual workers and day laborers. Forming, organized groups is especially important in these impoverished areas of the country because they make the problems that burden them more visible. I know the local me dissing wonderful. Today our committee is strong number. We clearly set an example of how to fight for your neighborhood. Matthew dont have that up because other Crisis Committees were lay to set up elsewhere. Illini see, this was the start of the fight for Health Rights in poor neighborhoods. During the pandemic panel, in the latter popularity, the neighborhood is currently undergoing a Re Development project, which is followed and monitored by the committee. The group hopes to continue that work after the pandemic. Ah, what would you like to know about pay that . Ah, science editor Derek Williams has the low down on the latest research and analysis. Just write a caveat producer at t w dot com this week counts is the question to some people have genes that give them advantages against k that 19. 0, this is a super interesting question and, and one where lots of research is going on and a lot of different areas. Lets look at a few of them starting with blood types, which of course, are genetically determined. Im since the early days of the pandemic, there have been many, many studies on whether your blood group could play a role and cove, its severity or mortality. Im like this fairly recent one from researchers at Kings College in the u. K, which looked at 3000 different proteins found in blood. Now it found that 6 variance seem to make the disease worse if you have them, while aid variance seem to make it better. But theres of course, no smoking gun that says one blood type saves or condemns you. People of all blood types can and do get the disease. Another area where genes could play a role is and how they impact on immune response. A recent study by german researchers that looked at that question found that a particular variant of a gene called g and b 3 that it seems to be linked to lower mortality. Now g and b 3 plays a role in activating immune cells. So it would kind of make sense if a highly effective, very end of it provided some clear protect of benefits, some other genes linked to the immune system. Also almost certainly feed and to risk. For example, those that make some people more likely to develop diabetes or those that make people more likely to experience a life threatening cytokines storm if they catch the disease. Finally, there is the idea that some people might actually be genetically immune to cova 19 hypothetical territory. We know, for example, that having highly specific variance of a particular gene that, that makes a small group of people basically, immune to h i v. They simply dont catch it. Might there be similar genetic variance that could somehow prevent someone from catching covered . Maybe a one area thats being looked at closely is whats called the ace to receptor. Thats a pr