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Host Terry Gross
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Original release1975 – present
Home station WHYY-FM
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About Fresh Air


Fresh Air is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985. It is produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show's host is Terry Gross. As of 2017, the show was syndicated to 624 stations and claimed nearly 5 million listeners.

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Coronavirus: From the clap-to-goodness, five reasons, hope to be

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Smack events have to rise to a common way to welcome the health workforce, The Fight against the pandemic

As The Number of coronavirus cases in The World , positivity is hard to come by. We Are in the birth of a global health crisis in labor, the last weeks, if not months.

And yet there are many reasons to be cheerful. As the pandemic has deepened the worst of The Crisis , The Best in humanity.

1. The health workers will be applauded around The World .

Doctors, nurses and other medical workers were on The Front lines of The Fight against the coronavirus.

of the More Than 500,000 people with The Virus , approximately 130 000 infected worldwide have recovered, Those recreations can be attributed, in part, to the heroic efforts of the healthcare workers.

To confirm this, the people around The World , including Italy and Spain, France and India, which have participated to welcome in contact with clapping honors you. when the people went to their front door and window, take part in a collective round of applause.

The trend of public jubilation began in mid-January in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where The First cases of the coronavirus have emerged. and songs from your apartment window, singing in the night, in an effort to strengthen each other's morale.

As a coronavirus spread over Wuhan, so also expressions of gratitude. Clapping has become global.

2. China is relaxing restrictions.

at The Time , To Believe , at least in China, seems it has its coronavirus emergency under control. Very few " home-grown known as a locally-transmitted cases have been reported in the last days. Most of the new cases were imported from aboard.

the means to facilitate That, the Chinese government in the beginning, some of the restrictions imposed on it, to curb the spread of The Virus .

restrictions on travel have been taken, in parts of China, restoring a feeling of normality

On the 25th of March, China raised Hubei province travel restrictions for people leaving the region. The blocking in Wuhan, which began in January is to be eased on 8. April.

BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell reports, the people in the Chinese capital, Beijing, were able to breathe in the Fresh Air and probably a sigh of Relief , also.

As the restrictions are removed, there are fears of a second wave of infections in China. But now China is taking tentative steps to restore normality.

3. Italy could be the turning of The Tide .

earlier This Week , Italy's civil protection said that the country is in "an obvious stabilization phase" of the infection. This is because for four consecutive days, the country reported a decline in The Number of new cases and deaths from the coronavirus.

On Wednesday, The Daily number of new cases 3,612, a lower number than in the previous four days. Infections rose on Thursday, and it was a mixed picture on Friday, with a lower number of new infections than on Thursday, but the biggest increase in deaths So Far .

The Four days of decline, if only briefly, were seen as a glimmer of hope in Italy, which is the worst affected country in Europe.

The World Health organization (WHO), the slowdown is encouraging. The health of the chief in Lombardy, the most affected region, said there was "light at The End of The Tunnel ".

4. The scientific progress goes on.

The World is relying on scientists to develop a vaccine, so that people are not sick if you are exposed to The Virus .

Several vaccines are in development, are Realistic, experts say a vaccine will be ready for at least a year to 18 Months .

the race, But as scientists develop more and more is discovered about The Virus .

This Week , for example, viruses, mutations produce, how they replicate in cells of different hosts, but in the case of this Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2), observed the scientists, some of the mutations.

If that is the case, it could mean that a single vaccine would give someone immunity for a long time.

"A Virus with a genome stable is Good News for vaccine development," said Virology professor Stefano Menzo, the with the investigation of The Virus .

5. Community spirit and acts of kindness to flourish. Children have to show since the commissioning of the rainbow in windows in order to, your optimism

Although coronavirus apart was to people, communities come together in their time of need. Throughout The World , acts of kindness and solidarity spirits have raised.

In Britain, the defeat of the government on the setting target. Stephen Powis, Nhs England medical director, said there had been "outbreaks of altruism" and he was thrilled "hung" by the response of volunteers.

In Spain, a doctor's online plea for letters to the ones already in the hospital of the coronavirus-an overwhelming response. Tens of thousands of letters from well-wishers,

And to connect with each other, the people, in a colorful a sign of optimism.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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