[ Oleg Yasinsky ]I think the situation here in Chile is a tragicomedy because,
the coronavirus pandemic was a perfect gift for the current government
Mass protests began on October 18th, last year
[ Live ]We're heading for... Italy Square. Officially, it's Baquedano square
[ Oleg Yasinsky ]Every night, the central square in Santiago was occupied by demonstrators,
They controlled most of the city
The government's only answer was repression,
they shot protesters in the eyes and so on, they did some really horrific things
Now, there are 100s of political prisoners and 3 days ago...
Chile's president distinguished himself with a motorcade
to the empty epicentre of civil protest
to be photographed in the middle of the square...
with a triumphant smile
[ Live ]Come on, bro!
Let's sanitise after that son-of-a-bitch!
Come on, bro!
[ Olga ]Yes, we had protests here in our district. They were looting supermarkets, banks...
breaking flagstones, breaking them to hurl at police and so on... lots of graffiti
They used garbage cans as barricades
Now, out on the street, people just dump garbage bags on the sidewalk…
There were lots of homeless here before but there are loads now, and they go round
ripping up the bags, and leaving it all in the street 00:02:55.394 00:03:08.033 [ VO ]Olga is my former colleague. Two years ago, she married a Chilean. Like most Santiago residents, she and her husband are afraid of getting infected because they know the state clinics are overwhelmed, and they can’t afford treatment in a private hospital.
[ Maurisio ]We're now disintegrating virus molecules
It's water and dishwashing liquid with about 5-to-10% chlorine
Why? Because degreasing agents destroy the virus, which is a particle containing grease
[ Oleg Yasinsky ]In this country, about 50,000 tests have been carried out, as of today
It is possible to get tested for free,
but for that, you have to wait for more than 24 hours
and then join a long queue at a state healthcare facility
In Chile, ambulances are only operated by private companies
[ Olga ]And last week, sadly, a young man...
just 34, died from coronavirus, he contacted a state clinic 3 times,
but they had so many patients, they couldn't admit him
[ Oleg Yasinsky ]From the authorities, all we see is improvisation
So, they have allowed
businesses, for the duration of the crisis, to stop paying salaries
allegedly, to save jobs 00:04:36.606 00:04:43.166 [ VO ]It took tens of thousands of years for mankind to reach Easter Island. The virus made it there in just a couple of months.
[ Sebastian ]Hello from our part of the world, I’m Sebastian
Just now, we’re going through a time with the government trying to lift the quarantine
that's been extended to the 17th
They thought we didn’t have that many cases
Even though, just 2 days ago, we learned that we had...
120 more people that were potentially infected because they'd been in contact with 5 people
who were positive after their tests were sent to Santiago
Rapa Nui has only 3 ventilators for a village of almost 10,000
That’s our biggest sore point in this whole issue
And as I said, we need to put the situation in context and value previous, very similar cases,
like chickenpox...
and other epidemics that Rapa Nui island went through
and that cost our population quite dearly 00:06:01.845 00:06:09.645 [ VO ]COVID-19 has even spread to the isolated Indian tribes of the Amazon that Karim helped our channel film. He invited neurologist Marcus 00:06:09.645 00:06:16.114 Honorato to join our conversation. Before quarantine was imposed, he had travelled there to see patients every week.
[ Honorato ]The disease will take longer to reach isolated indigenous areas
however, we already had one death in the indigenous Yanomami tribe last Tuesday
And, as immunity in indigenous people is low,
we run the risk...
of decimating almost...
the entire indigenous population
Indigenous health services are trying to adapt
by reducing, as far as possible, the people who can access the tribes
to diminish the risk...
of contamination,
which is why there are further restrictions on some services
Are there still...
any doctors working...
- with indigenous people? - Yes, but most of the tribes now have,
access to nursing services
and there are nursing technicians
without periodic visits from doctors 00:07:23.471 00:07:27.322 [ VO ]In the middle of the interview, it turned out that there was an emergency at Karim’s home, they were waiting for a doctor.
[ Natasha ]What’s up with your son?
Have you tried to find out what's happened to him?
Could it be coronavirus, have you had him tested?
[ Karim ]So far, in the situation we have here, the government recommends
that people don't leave their homes, not even if they have symptoms
As it happens, he’s been coughing quite seriously for two weeks, and today...
he’s started to have a fever
So, today, I’ve decided to call a doctor 00:08:03.671 00:08:10.830 [ VO ]Brazil has been in recession for the last few years, and the pandemic has made the situation even worse. The people have been demanding that the 00:08:10.830 00:08:17.939 government take urgent measures to curb the outbreak and financially support the population, but the only thing they’ve received is a lockdown. 00:08:25.351 00:08:36.231 [ VO ]As is the case all over the world, the outbreak’s main hot spots are the large cities, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, but the virus has also spread far and wide across other parts of the country. 00:08:36.231 00:08:40.231 ‘Disciplined’ is what Brazilians are not, as Karim puts it.
[ Karim ]The only place that's much safer than anywhere else in Brazil
is a favela, because the drug lords only have to point their guns at people
and say: 'Go home!'
'Don’t go anywhere!'
'If anyone needs food, we’ll bring it to them'
[ Natasha ]And they do? They bring it?
[ Karim ]Business depends on it, they don’t want...
as they call them, the ‘little planes’, who carry the drugs, to get sick
They won’t allow gathering, or drinking, they say, 'Stay home, we’ll work it out'
They're well organised
[ Karim ]The Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, for example, rented a few hotels - they were empty anyway
There are two programmes, one for doctors and nurses...
they can stay there cheaply
so that they don’t have to go home and put their families at risk
And on the other hand, there’s a programme for pensioners
Elderly people are brought in
and stay for free...
in 3, 4 and 5 star hotels
in Rio de Janeiro
People just won’t leave...
the favelas
So, they offer it for free...
and to everyone over 65,
a hotel with breakfast, lunch, and dinner
[ Natasha ]Why?
[ Karim ]People don’t leave their favelas!
First, Brazilians, especially seniors, are very close to their families
Up to 20 people can live in a favela home
You might say it’s a custom in Brazil, 20 people to a house
They like being together
No one wants to leave the favelas to go and live in downtown Rio
They're happy there...
That's their view 00:10:49.726 00:10:56.766 [ VO ]Ecuador has been the hardest hit Latin American country, with its biggest city, Guayaquil, bearing the brunt of the pandemic.
[ Oleg Yasinsky ]In Guayaquil, a real plague struck and in many funeral firms,
out of fear of infection, staff simply refused to report for work
The city was paralysed
There was no one to bury the dead, bodies lay in the streets,
or families kept them in flats...
the dead bodies,
for 24 or 48 hours...
sometimes even more,
and this is a tropical climate,
over 32 to 35 degrees…
Now, the municipality...
has started issuing free cardboard coffins
because the city is short of coffins 00:11:39.640 00:11:42.840 [ VO ]Oleg recommended that I get in contact with an iconic Ecuadoran figure. 00:11:42.840 00:11:51.979 These things always happen at the worst possible time, during the most important interviews. It was as if gunshots were being fired behind my back, and the room filled with smoke. 00:11:52.680 00:11:55.920 [ Natasha ]Terrible noise in my room. 00:11:55.920 00:12:05.096 [ VO ]Yes, this was the kids’ doing. They ran out of the kitchen where they were making dinner and left a frying pan unattended. But Juan Cuvi, a journalist-analyst who is also a former 00:12:05.096 00:12:11.524 guerilla and political prisoner from the radical left-wing organization called ‘Alfaro lives, dammit!’, can’t be bothered by the sound of gunfire. 00:12:12.776 00:12:16.656 We heard the awful news and saw awful pictures…
[ Juan ]So in Guayaquil all the cemeteries, the clinics and hospitals are saturated
Go to a cemetery and you have a lot of people waiting to bury family members
I think that, at least they've responded to the problem of those bodies in the streets,
in the first two weeks that was a regular situation
For the past 15 years, we've had a lot of privatising policies
like taking public resources
and transferring them to private health enterprises
So now that we have this coronavirus menace,
we can see that we don't have a very strong public system to confront it 00:13:07.531 00:13:12.250 [ VO ]Oleg Yasinsky agrees with Juan Cuvi, but thinks that the entire global healthcare system is corrupt.
[ Oleg Yasinsky ]The total unpreparedness of the modern medical system, the healthcare system
Firstly, in countries that like to say they are First World, developed countries, and so on
It's all the result, in the past few decades
of neoliberal reforms
and medical professionals being laid off
Healthcare became a business in most of the so-called 'developed' countries
Our healthcare system is not capable of dealing with this issue. I think...
it’s a crucial question concerning the paradigm of our civilisation, our culture 00:14:17.209 00:14:22.769 [ VO ]One of the protagonists from our documentary on American preppers, Robert Vicino, is doing pretty well. 00:14:22.769 00:14:30.759 He sells bunkers where you can hide out from both nuclear war and the virus. These survivalists totally called it way back when and started preparing for the end of the world well in advance. 00:14:32.591 00:14:39.631 [ Robert ]What people are concerned about… they can quarantine in their house, alright? But let's say that this continues. 00:14:39.631 00:14:56.414 And so what's gonna happen is, soon enough, people that are totally broke, totally out of money, have no more supplies in their house to survive, they're gonna start looting local stores. 00:14:56.414 00:15:06.042 And it already happened. The food riots will begin and that's when people are going to start fighting each other for whatever’s on the shelf. 00:15:06.042 00:15:23.187 So… and that's already happening. People are afraid to go to work in the supermarket. So, what's the next step? They're gonna start going door to door, and they’re going to get violent. 00:15:24.337 00:15:27.776 [ VO ]Well, Robert, we might as well be talking about a zombie apocalypse here… 00:15:27.776 00:15:32.925 [ Robert ]At that point, ask yourself, ‘How are you going to survive? How are you going to protect yourself?’ If you are… 00:15:33.667 00:15:38.306 [ Natasha ]So, what’s the global solution for that? Just to stop quarantine all over the world? 00:15:41.074 00:15:43.009 [ Robert ]Yeah, I think so. I think so. 00:15:43.009 00:15:50.915 [ VO ]A good idea provided you have your own bunker. But statistics show that, even with quarantine half-measures, the US is in a catastrophic state. 00:15:50.915 00:15:58.262 The US has both the most coronavirus cases and deaths in the world. Refrigerator trucks had to be sent to New York to store the bodies. 00:15:58.262 00:16:06.574 Free food is given to the needy, and the mayor has ordered that vacant hotel rooms be used to shelter the most vulnerable New Yorkers, the homeless. 00:16:07.282 00:16:12.602 But survivalists are generally cynics. Robert doesn’t believe in altruistic motives during such trying times. 00:16:13.876 00:16:28.277 [ Robert ]And in our case what is that solution? What is Vivos? Vivos is a safe haven. It's the fortress that you can go to to ride out all of these events until it's safe to come back out again. 00:16:29.142 00:16:39.581 [ Natasha ]But will it be safe to come out, because your picture of the future terrifies, you know? No way it can be better? 00:16:40.772 00:17:01.612 [ Robert ]Oh, no, no, no, no, listen. Let's say this virus is… is… really does reduce the global population significantly, alright? Or the aftermath from the marauders, the anarchists, whatever it may be… When you come out, nature will be the same. 00:17:03.068 00:17:14.828 The sky will blue. There will be, unless something else happens, you know, like a nuke. You know, it's gonna be the same world waiting for you to come back. 00:17:15.798 00:17:32.439 [ Tom ]I hope that nothing happens and that we use it only for recreational purposes, but, in the event of civil unrest or civil collapse, we’ll come here. It will be our safe place, and we’ll be able to survive that civil collapse 00:17:35.349 00:17:44.068 [ VO ]After a talk like that, I really needed to get on the phone with an incurable optimist. And that’s when I remembered a message I recently received from journalist Somar Abudiab. 00:17:44.068 00:17:51.479 He texted that he had returned to Syria and would save himself from the pandemic there… I have some fond memories of my trip to Syria, 00:17:51.479 00:17:57.050 but riding out a pandemic there?… Yes, I guess, he’s the biggest optimist on my list.
[ Somar ]It’s not the best tourist destination in the world, so...
I suppose, it was what saved Syria, if we're talking about the spread of coronavirus
At first, many people said the Syrian government had lied
and that actually, the coronavirus outbreak was big,
that they wouldn’t admit it was out of control
[ Natasha ]A few African states say they don’t have the virus but, they just aren’t testing
[ Somar ]Syria has tests, we got them from the World Health Organisation
I didn’t think a country that's had 10 years of constant war
would worry too much about this coronavirus
I was in the UAE, just got on the last plane to Syria and went to Tartus village
Suddenly, after five days, I got a call on my landline
'Mr Somar?', I say, 'Yes'
He says, 'This is a doctor from the local Health Department
We wanted to ask if you have a temperature and how you feel'
Someone complained about me, as an infection risk,
as I'd crossed the border from outside
If, God forbid, coronavirus spreads in Syria, it will collapse
because we have nothing, a shortage of everything. I mean medical equipment
America has brought in such tough sanctions against Syria
No company can import anything to Syria
Any contract that shows Syria as a destination gets cancelled
The country is totally isolated,
and I consider it a war crime, a humanitarian crime
And that’s it!
After quarantine, I'll wait to make a film with you in Syria, OK?
[ Natasha ]I'm writing a list of places I want to go after quarantine
[ Mina ]Well, I think that the most interesting thing is that...
all people around the world are in the same situation
[ Natasha ]Can you travel easily to other countries or not, with your passport?
[ Mina ]No!
[ Natasha ]No, you can't?
[ Mina ]I can't, and because of that, it's always an issue that I'm struggling with
when I want to go to festivals or...
so I, you know, it's… sometimes it's risky, maybe my visa is rejected
And now I think that...
it doesn't matter what kind of passport you have, you can’t travel 00:20:51.336 00:20:57.257 [ VO ]Mina is a documentary film maker from Iran. She’s trying to finish a film in time to meet the deadline for its premiere.
[ Mina ]My film is about domestic violence and the lack of law
back to my personal story of my grandmother…
But also, I am the producer of another film, and we're going to celebrate its premiere
Unfortunately, because of this pandemic...
the festival goes online 00:21:19.290 00:21:27.490 [ VO ]In Iran, the government hasn’t declared a state of emergency, and despite a large number of fatalities, the lockdown protocol wasn’t very strict.
[ Mina ]Because of economic crisis and financial problems, and the government doesn't...
want to take any responsibility
they don't announce officially that everywhere must be closed,
because they can't support...
business, they can't support, you know, labourers 00:21:52.474 00:21:57.434 [ VO ]Iran decided the damage to the economy from lockdown was worse than the harm done by coronavirus. 00:21:57.434 00:22:02.901 Already under severe sanctions, the country was one of the first to lift quarantine restrictions.
[ Mina ]Today is the first day after many days of lockdown
Everywhere is open after the New Year vacation
So, people are at work, and the streets are not silent anymore 00:22:36.746 00:22:46.786 [ VO ]And again, anti-quarantine protests. This time, they’re in Israel. The biggest rally against incumbent prime minister Netanyahu took place in Tel Aviv. 00:22:46.786 00:22:53.940 The protesters in attendance maintained social distancing of 1.5 metres to avoid charges of spreading the virus. 00:22:56.762 00:23:05.842 And Israeli entrepreneurs wanted to have nothing to do with distancing at all. They demanded that the government either cough up economic aid or allow them to reopen their businesses. 00:23:05.842 00:23:11.745 But according to journalist Paula Slier, the quarantine in Israel has been extended and tightened instead. 00:23:14.176 00:23:27.417 [ Pola ]I’m walking outside with my journalist card in case I get stopped at any minute by the police, but I’ll just show you here, just take a swing around, and there is absolutely nobody on the roads, and this is rush hour traffic. 00:23:28.648 00:23:44.927 I’m rushing to the studio to make a live. And normally it’s quite panicked at this point because it’s only a couple of minutes. I’m driving myself and at the same time I’m talking to Moscow about what needs to be inside the live, what is the latest, and sometimes I’m even doing my makeup. 00:23:46.633 00:23:57.352 So, I’m just about to go on air, and I have the notes ready. I’m going to just quickly take a seat here. The cameramen will adjust the earpiece and, as you can see, that’s already Moscow beginning to call me. 00:23:57.352 00:24:07.939 So as soon as the earpiece is in place, I’ll go ready, I’ll go a live. And I’ll drop this in 10 seconds, so that I can talk to Moscow. Hi Moscow. 00:24:10.325 00:24:17.886 [ VO ]One of the most recent stories Paula has covered was about how Israel and the Palestinian administration have been forced to collaborate in order to combat the coronavirus. 00:24:17.886 00:24:21.738 [ Natasha ]They're really working together, or it's our dream? 00:24:23.757 00:24:36.158 [ VO ]I would say it's happening, but I wouldn't say we should read too much into that, because this is not going to mean that when the coronavirus pandemic is finished you've suddenly got a relationship between Israelis and the Gazans that's going to create a new future, not at all. 00:24:36.158 00:24:46.504 I think both sides see it as an emergency. So, for this emergency, we’ll give you what you need. And, unfortunately, my assessment is, after the emergency passes, life will be back to normal. 00:24:48.326 00:24:55.806 [ VO ]Israeli Orthodox Jews pay no heed to the lockdown restrictions. Clashes between Orthodox Jews and the police have become a common sight. 00:24:57.215 00:25:11.736 [ Micky ]What we have seen over the last few days is an increase in the number of incidents that have taken place inside the Ultra Jewish religious neighborhoods where our units have had to patrol on foot and respond by dispersing people. 00:25:12.724 00:25:26.484 Both the people with inside the community themselves, as well as find individuals who have already tested coronavirus positive and literally pulled them out of those neighborhoods in order to prevent other people from getting ill from the virus. 00:25:28.656 00:25:34.576 [ Natasha ]So, all this panic was because you are trying to get those people to the hospital? 00:25:34.576 00:25:42.799 [ Micky ]In Israel, within the ultra-religious communities, the Jewish ultra-religious communities, there are certain sectors that are totally and utterly isolated. 00:25:43.510 00:25:54.791 We know that because they are educating themselves, they don't serve in the army, they’ve nothing to do with the Israeli society, they grow up in a closed environment inside that neighborhood and, unfortunately, 00:25:54.791 00:26:01.062 that is the exact specific neighborhood that we have to focus on because they're not aware of what’s going on in the outside world. 00:26:01.062 00:26:08.949 [ VO ]The Israeli Big Brother knows everything about everyone. And his all-seeing eye is watching everyone during the pandemic. Orthodox Jews are not the only ones who feel threatened by this. 00:26:08.949 00:26:23.774 [ Pola ]Israel is using technology where they've been able to access people's private information on their cellphones and see where you've been. So, they can see if you have crossed paths with somebody who is positive with coronavirus. 00:26:23.774 00:26:31.683 And if you have, they immediately send you a message: ‘You’ve crossed passed with somebody who’s tested positive. Please, you must be in quarantine at home.’ 00:26:32.544 00:26:45.904 And, when this whole coronavirus pandemic ends, please God it will end, how can you be sure... This is what people were saying when we spoke to them on the streets, how can you be sure that the police and the authorities won't continue using that information or will close it down. 00:26:46.681 00:26:53.240 But, interestingly enough, most of the people we met, most of the people we spoke to actually supported it. There's a real sense of fear here in Israel. 00:26:53.923 00:26:59.204 You asked me what it feels like for me. I wonder if it feels the same for you? It feels like it’s a bad nightmare. 00:27:00.632 00:27:07.111 [ VO ]Yes, Paula, I also want to wake to find that this was all just a dream, but it seems the world will never be the same after this nightmare. 00:27:07.111 00:27:10.727 The pandemic has exposed more and more deep-rooted social and economic problems. 00:27:18.941 00:27:22.940 [ VO ]The first countries to face the pandemic have been the first countries to ease the lockdown. 00:27:29.518 00:27:33.198 Having quarantined the fridge for disturbing my work, I made a call to Italy. 00:27:38.687 00:27:47.927 [ VO ]Italians have spent 19% more on food during the lockdown than at the same time last year. Unfortunately, this has been the only positive development for the economy. 00:27:47.927 00:27:55.659 Italy was the first European country to undergo lockdown, though it may be lifted shortly, according to the government. 00:27:55.659 00:28:06.596 Many enterprises will open for business again, but masks and gloves will still be a must to begin with, so Svetlana Aleshkovskaya put her memories from her school shop classes to use and got behind her sewing-machine.
[ Svetlana ]Now they say, here in Lombardy,
when people are allowed out,
for some time they'll be required to wear these masks on their faces
[ Natasha ]I hope you sew haute couture, do you?
[ Svetlana ]My daughter asked me to sew a sequined mask
I haven't yet, but I'll try 00:28:36.162 00:28:45.321 [ VO ]Svetlana recently changed careers to work in travel – the worst possible timing. The industry was first hit when flights were cancelled and then the borders closed.
[ Svetlana ]I think it affected us before anywhere else
Yet, we still get salaries and all that,
but that depends on how long it lasts, I think
Nonetheless, we need to be ready for anything
[ Natasha ]Does the Italian government pay compensation?
[ Svetlana ]You know, I actually work in Switzerland
And the Swiss government has supported and aided enterprises
In Italy it's still being discussed
It's just that in the EU...
it takes longer to coordinate, I suppose
[ Natasha ]Keep quiet! A call from Spain! 00:29:42.455 00:29:47.376 [ VO ]Esteban, a Spanish reporter, has mostly kept himself busy by busting fake news during the lockdown. 00:29:47.376 00:29:56.490 [ Natasha ]Is it true that Spanish policemen, they are coming and singing, playing the guitar.
[ Esteban ]That's the most beautiful thing that happens every day
Well, in one hour… if you call me in one hour,
you can hear people clapping their hands
Well, there are a lot of experience
We are 40 million people living in this country
You can find all that beautiful pictures, with people having fun at the balconies, singing
But, in the other hand, there are a lot of people, well, you have a lot of domestic violence,
have growing
The government has some tools to help all those women,
all the assaults with the knife, with the bleeding
Yeah!
It’s just an example
I’m still working,
I don’t know, till 5am
I looked at my watch, and I’m, ‘What? It’s 5am? Really?’ 00:31:03.804 00:31:14.723 [ VO ]At the peak of the pandemic, my colleague from France isolated herself at home and started a Facebook page called “Mousetrap Memoirs”. It’s about three of her friends who have been stuck with their ex-husbands during the lockdown.
[ Ira ]One girl – Natasha, this one's epic –
had split up with him already. Divorced
Then his parents suggested they stay at their place during the lockdown
Nightmare! 00:31:30.990 00:31:34.990 [ VO ]Irina says the “Mousetrap Memoirs” are becoming more popular as the epidemic continues.
[ Ira ]Actually, I think people have some kind of displacement going on
How would you say it, anxiously? 00:31:46.839 00:32:02.438 [ VO ]This is what French outrage looks like. These protesters are angry with local police for knocking a motorcyclist off his bike while pursuing him for violating lockdown. The young man died. A similar case in neighbouring Belgium caused a wave of violence there as well.
[ Ira ]A friend of mine texted me recently,
'Ira! It's terrible! 600 people died in nursing homes yesterday!'
Then another friend came and said, 'Not 600! Just 400'
But the figures are terrifying when you think about it
It's a kind of psychological defence 0:32:22.146 00:32:39.146 [ VO ]Hayk Vardanyan, a French ICU doctor, has been keeping an Instagram diary with his analysis of the fight against the virus since the epidemic broke out. We asked him for comment.
[ Doctor ]More than 2,000 deceased in nursing homes
And the wave just kept coming on and on
We had to make quick decisions – intubate, resuscitate and so on and so forth
A 10-bed ICU turned into 36 beds in a week
There'd been nothing like that before. All 36 patients on ventilators
It's not flu or ARVI we're dealing with. It's a totally different disease
Even if the symptoms are alike – slightly higher temperature, coughing etc…
a completely different disease
It's unpredictable
We discharged a man after four days in hospital
The next day he got complications
We somehow managed to intubate him
He's in the ICU now, but the prognosis is very bad
We've just revived the first intubated patients
Everyone came. It was so touching! So touching. We're so pleased
Bravo! Bravo! 00:33:56.447 00:34:04.768 [ VO ]RTD's resident narrator, David Watson, returned to the UK to be there for his elderly mother. After the flight, he self-isolated for 2-weeks. 00:34:05.788 00:34:19.148 [ David ]In fact, anybody who's watched RTD will probably recognize my voice and, now that they've seen me, they'll understand why I only work in voice. And, that’s it! That’s one program finished. 00:34:21.023 00:34:24.623 You know, the absolute worst thing about isolation and quarantine? 00:34:26.037 00:34:26.717 [ Natasha ]What is it? 00:34:26.717 00:34:33.292 [ David ]I am so desperately in need of a haircut. By the time it’s all over I’m going to look like a bird’s nest. 00:34:35.197 00:34:41.437 [ Natasha ]No, you will look like a Rockstar, you know, think of it in a positive way! Chapter 103 00:34:41.437 00:34:43.825 [ David ]Yeah, let’s go with that. I like that, yes! 00:34:43.825 00:34:47.825 [ Natasha ]What is your usual schedule for the day? 00:34:49.096 00:35:07.817 [ David ]Well, strangely, I've been… it feels as though I've been more busy since quarantine began than I was at the office normally. I'm very lucky that I have the specialist software I need to be able to generate subtitles and, of course, I've got the audio equipment to record narrations and voiceovers. 00:35:12.686 00:35:16.485 And, that’s how life is in England right now 00:35:18.053 00:35:25.333 [ VO ]As in most countries, the pandemic has distracted the public from scandalous topics and completely changed the focus of the news in the UK. 00:35:26.077 00:35:46.916 [ David ]I helped our crew who were making the film about the contaminated blood scandal which affected America and Britain and Europe. And, it was a worldwide scandal, but it was a very big problem in Britain with new medication being made from blood that had been contaminated. 00:35:46.916 00:36:05.372 It had come from American prisoners, for example. And it was contaminated with HIV and with hepatitis…And one of the people we interviewed as part of that film was a guy called Jason Evans, whose father died when he was just a boy. 00:36:05.372 00:36:17.665 And I spoke to him again last week, since the lockdown, and we had a little talk about how the campaign, the inquiry, and his situation has been affected by things. 00:36:17.665 00:36:21.017 [ Natasha ]So, I guess everything stopped because of coronavirus? 00:36:21.017 00:36:46.933 [ David ]Coronavirus has brought the inquiry to an end for the moment. It's on pause, provisionally until September, he told me. If it closes for another few months, there's only a couple of hundred left, so there will be even fewer people who will actually directly benefit from the inquiry finding anything. 00:36:47.631 00:36:58.230 When the curfew and the quarantine will stop, a lot of issues that seemed for us very important will be already passed… 00:36:58.230 00:37:04.573 It does put a lot of life into perspective, doesn't it? It makes you realize what is important and some of the things that aren't important. 00:37:08.764 00:37:18.804 [ VO ]Belgrade has been put under curfew. Serbian journalist Vlada Radojicic reports that, while 95% of the people here respect this restriction, another 5% do not.
[ Vlada ]There were arrests in Belgrade's most popular hotel a couple of days ago –
about 20 people arrested in the lobby
People saw the hotel as a solution, because bars and restaurants were closed,
apart from in that major hotel
You know, our government declared a state of emergency -
the absolutely correct decision - on March 15th, or even earlier
Before other regions
The borders were closed immediately
[ Natasha ]Are you filming anything? Or are you self-isolating too?
[ Vlada ]Any journalist who's registered gets permission so they can work
I don't know if you've heard,
a Russian humanitarian aid plane arrived a couple days ago
We did the whole airport coverage on that
[ Natasha ]How did medical staff and authorities prepare for the pandemic?
I heard you saying a stadium or something was converted…
[ Vlada ]That's a temporary hospital, you might say
The military put a lot of beds and equipment there
It's mainly for people feeling relatively well
Those who feel OK, but are still COVID-positive
These people will be in big sports halls 00:38:54.051 00:39:02.411 [ VO ]Let’s travel to an overpopulated part of the world where self-isolation is not an option. Here, people are more afraid of starvation than the virus. 00:39:03.085 00:39:18.846 [ VO ]The capital of the Philippines, Manila, has a population of over 25 million people, most of whom live in slums. The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte whom we interviewed not long ago on his violent methods for fighting drug trafficking, has made it into the headlines once again. 00:39:19.486 00:39:27.285 Now, he’s threatening to give police permission to shoot and kill lockdown violators… And the Filipino people know he means it. 00:39:31.380 00:39:47.365 [ Sherbian ]There are poor people from the leftist side, that when they created the chaos, the president declared that, “if you created chaos in the... in our country, because of this pandemic, you're taking advantage of the pandemic, then I will ask my military and the police to shoot you, or kill you". 00:39:47.365 00:39:53.175 So on my Facebook page, I have seen two incidents of killings already. 00:39:54.185 00:40:00.826 [ Natasha ]It's such a tough situation, for example, for our characters from slum, do you remember them, probably. 00:40:00.826 00:40:15.561 [ Sherbian ]So that's one of their problems, feeding all the people, at the same time giving them income... Right now the government... aside from, you know, giving food occasionally to every household, there's also cash incentives for poor families. 00:40:16.215 00:40:20.815 [ VO ]And this is the City of Angeles, where most of the population makes their living off sex-tourism. 00:40:21.603 00:40:32.203 [ Woman ]This is how 3rd Avenue looks like in the evening. And it’s totally closed right now because of Covid-19 pandemic.
How do you get food?
We stored canned goods to survive but sometimes…
my siblings don't like it anymore because they were eating canned food every day
So I cook it and add some vegetables
Is the government's help enough to provide for your family in this crisis?
If it's only for one day it's enough. But if the lockdown extends one more month, it's not
I have many siblings
- How many do you have? - Six 00:41:15.663 00:41:18.903 [ Sherbian ]So, here they're setting a new checkpoint again. For every people who’s coming in. 00:41:20.964 00:41:24.964 [ Natasha ]Is it dangerous to go out for you? Do you have a special permit? 00:41:26.094 00:41:45.574 [ Sherbian ]For you to go out, you should have this one. You should have the… this image ID covering the pandemic, and at the same time, you should have this home quarantine pass. So, if you don’t have this one, well, the police at the check points will apprehend you. 00:41:48.496 00:42:14.577 This is the almost empty airport of Manilla. And, at 12 noon, there are 440 seafarers that were sent home. So, there’s a chartered flight from Madrid going to the Philippines. So, these seafarers will go to quarantine before they will be reunited to their families. 00:42:16.432 00:42:32.633 Then, after that, we went to the church, to the Redemptorist Church in Baclaran. And the priest, nuns, and volunteers were preparing meals for the frontliners, and, at the same time, homeless. 00:42:33.746 00:42:49.707 Well, the pandemic has affected so much people, especially the marginalized ones. It’s very saddening, and right now we’re heading home and there’s no traffic on the street. 00:42:49.707 00:43:00.975 And it’s full moon. So, hopefully this pandemic will end soon, so I’m Sherbian DACALANIO from the Philippines. Thank you Natalia! 00:43:05.844 00:43:15.764 [ VO ]But there are some places on Earth where social distancing is not possible at all. Refugee camps have become a pandemic time bomb. This is the Rohingya camp. 00:43:17.002 00:43:26.683 This footage was provided by Zayed, a refugee who has lived here for over two years. For some, this place has been ‘home’ for over a decade. 00:43:31.920 00:43:41.041 [ Natasha ]How life is going on? Do you have any job? How do you survive? How is your family?
[ Man ]Yeah, they are good, they are good
I’m working as a translator and sometimes help with that
If…. I’m willing to go back to Myanmar 00:43:54.153 00:43:57.354 And, are you going back to Myanmar or not. 00:44:10.542 00:44:16.061 [ VO ]Refugee camps are off-limits, because they are a perfect environment for spreading all sorts of epidemics. 00:44:16.061 00:44:30.912 The population density is inconceivable. There are a million people living on this plot of land, in the Cox Bazar refugee camps. And, besides this, Bangladesh itself has the highest population density of any country in the world – 170 million people. 00:44:30.912 00:44:46.808 [ Riton ]Dhaka is a very small city, lots of people, more than 20 million people living in a very small space. You know, lots of people in Dhaka, mainly they are not original from Dhaka, but for their job they need to stay in Dhaka like me. 00:44:46.808 00:45:07.156 I am also a freelancer. March 26 to April 4th, everything like a general holidays declared by government, but recently many garment workers, they started coming from 110 to 125 km away from Dhaka. 00:45:07.156 00:45:14.308 So, they came in Dhaka and the next morning they heard "Oh, our factories are remaining closed. 00:45:15.463 00:45:30.064 [ VO ]Enforcing lockdown in nearby India turned out to be an impossible task. How can you keep 1 billion 357 million people isolated? Though China has a similar population, India’s population density is three times higher. 00:45:31.590 00:45:43.990 Mr. Modi has declared 21 days for lockdown in behalf of coronavirus. After this incident, many many textile workers have lost own jobs. They don’t have own money, for survive. 00:45:43.990 00:45:49.778 And they don’t have the money to go back home. That’s why they have a protest on the street on Surak 00:45:56.241 00:45:58.641 Police had to… they solve this situation. 00:46:01.107 00:46:24.548 Because after the lockdown, most of the migrant people didn't have any job deals, because most of the peoples they can bidding there on the roadside if they want to find people, so they didn't have any option. So that's why they're completely run by the workers with a family. And at that place, someone... people have also died in the middle." 00:46:41.561 00:46:56.040 [ Man ]Hello, Natasha! How do you like this car? This is the coronavirus car. This is for RT Documentary. It’s a complete car with six wheels and an engine. 00:46:56.040 00:47:10.069 And it can travel up to 40 kph, go on the road, and give a clear message to the people how dangerous is coronavirus. Stay home. Be indoors. 00:47:17.278 00:47:24.918 [ VO ]And these are the ornithologists featured in our “Freed to Be Wild” film. They spend the winter in India every year writing academic papers and studying birds. 00:47:24.918 00:47:33.570 Just as thousands of other Russians, they got stuck in Goa due to sudden flight cancellations. They couldn’t even leave by charter because the borders closed.
[ Igor ]Life has stopped
Once this was a busy thoroughfare
Look! Lockdown violators!
It's been like this for almost a month
Now I go to the sea or up a mountain and watch the birds
Power goes on and off, no network signal
I can't work on my computer, work in Russia's stalled
Here you get internet, but not below
An endless circle. You climb up here to get a connection,
but without a signal you can't do anything – even get an electronic pass
I can live with that
Some plans are ruined due to the lockdown…
the states are isolated
A bird we tracked with a beacon left Goa for Maharashtra
But you can't get to Maharashtra
So we sit here watching the last birds leave for home,
enjoying the sun and the sea 00:48:40.006 00:48:45.606 [ VO ]When Igor began to seriously plan a hike through Nepal, he managed to buy tickets for a special flight to Russia. 00:48:46.278 00:48:59.319 One film cannot include the particular features of every country’s quarantine, but its creators are in a hurry to release it to air, because, in their hearts, they hope this pandemic will soon recede, and the topic will become irrelevant.
[ Igor ]Here we are on a plane
Disinfection