IMPACT

 

Peru is closing down. Violent images from Ecuador. Fear in Brazil. 

Clips from TV in Peru: Lock-down, military in the streets. 

 

Peru Virus School Closure ( http: // ma / #! / Items / 10868627 )

SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Martin Vizcarra, President of Peru: "We have approved a supreme decree providing a health emergency.

 

As the South American country of Peru closes its borders and imposes a curfew, hundreds of Danes strand in a country with poor hospitals and poor infrastructure. 

 

Denmark is trying to get them home - but they have to reach the capital Lima - before a Danish special flight departs. 

 

 Anton : "We just had the wildest 30 minutes, Our wifi has just gone. It was the police who cut it. "

 

March 29 Erik: 1.32.20: We need them home and we need them home before they are infected. 

 

01.31am: You can't just book a ticket out of Peru. It's scary.

 

But who reaches the special aircraft in a country with military in the streets and curfew. And who has to stay?  

Horizon has followed the Foreign Ministry's mission to bring the stranded Danes home - where a boy suddenly disappears a few hours before the departure of the special aircraft. 

 

Sequence Old Bottom: 3.20.46: He's a minor. (15: 20: 10: 05 in material from 2/4)

 

Sequence old bottom: 3.28.25: 3.28.19: Q: Is he on the bus from the hotel to the park? 

 

Joesephine: Be careful about making anyone worried, needlessly worried.

 

TITLE: The beach in Peru - behind the rescue operation

INTRO ERIK

 

1.29pm: Erik. Do they sit at home and work? Sure they are quarantined but it is not the same as they cannot work or should work.

 

Material March 29 Cam 2nd nick: 1.29.11: We have never seen the world shut down and not at all that it does so quickly. The fact that we have so many stranded Danes in so many places at one time makes it serious enough in itself. 

 

EB VO: We have long said that we knew that there were some who wanted beaches. And we have also long said to those who are stranded, find a place to be. It is not right now to go out on a motorcycle and climb the highest mountain and fall down and break the leg. It would be pretty crazy.

 

The decision to send a special aircraft is due to the fact that there are more than 400 Danes in Peru. As the country shuts down, it becomes almost impossible to come home with your own help. 

ERIK: 0018: it's just about taking stock before it really gets crunchtime…

ANDERS 0135:… there is no doubt that it is the most complicated of the special aircraft we have had…

OTHERS 0209 we don't get an embassy out there,

ANDERS 0158 And then we probably have some Danish and Nordic people who have been through a lot and who obviously want to go home a lot. 0205

WOMAN 1654 it is quite far and there are dangerous roads, you have to pass a pass and it is rainy and it is not like you can just hop on a taxi.

ERIK 1242 Otherwise something that hurts your stomach? Is that not enough? (laughs) yes I think since it is plentiful ...

 

Material March 29 01: 33: 05: 03 or multicam 2 20200329 time: 08:59:01 :: Erik: Of course, our concern is that Danes in countries with weak health systems will be trapped, and then the number of cases will explode CLIP And we can't get them out,  

EB: 05: 00: 18: 22 Asger 29,03,2020: Some places and this also applies to Peru where there is Beginning of fingerprints of Europeans, we are the one to drag the virus with now. In the beginning, it was us who said it was the fault of the Chinese, but now that is very much the opposite, it is the fault of the Europeans. And of course it is unsafe.  

SYNC: We need to get them home

MACRO ON DISCUSSION

 

MILITARY IN THE STREETS [[possibly pix from file below ] ] 

GRAPHICS March 16 (13 days earlier)

 

Peru enters the state of emergency on March 14 and all 32 million citizens are ordered to stay home. From now on, military and police must secure and perform public functions. 

BEACHED DANCERS 1

 

GRAPH: Map showing where Cusco is 

 

In southern Peru, Anton and his girlfriend Frederikke are one week into a 2 month trip. They are out wandering as Peru shuts down, but now have to quarantine at their hostel.

 

SYNC ANTON (12.00) We are in the mountains at the time we are told. And we stand in the middle of nothing.

SYNC ANTON (12.23) We are quite nervous and there is a bit of pressure in the whole group ...

 

ANTON: Good morning from Cuzco. 

 

Anton shows around:
Anton buys in - We have been allowed to go to the supermarket. We have passports and bandages and money on us. The only. 

So far, it looks like it will be another day where we wait but we hold our courage high. No people. We sit on a street that leads down to the main square. Completely empty. Plot on the street here.  

 

I just received an email stating that we should send all the information we have - we should send them. I hope this is something positive so they can start to gather us and maybe get us home. We don't quite know what to hope for, but we hold our courage.  

 

OUT OF PRESIDENT SYNC

 

Two other Danes - girlfriends Anne and Julie - have to rush to Cusco to find a place to live before the curfew comes into force. At the last minute they are locked in a hostel.

13.42pm: It was insanely nerve-wracking as we stood waiting to get in - then a guy came running and asked if we had a place to sleep. Because at night until 5 o'clock at 12 o'clock, the military would come on the streets and remove anyone who should not be there.  

14.26am: It was pretty awkward to sit in the evening at our hostel knowing we were coming in - while hearing the doors knock with people unable to come in.

The two girls are locked up in their hostel as the situation suddenly becomes even more problematic.

6.20pm: Our street has been closed by police. I think we have corona

14.56: Around 21/22, positive coronary cases were found in our hostel and it was from this point that the situation escalated.

10.00am: Yellow-clad men in the darkness of the street. AND YES IT IS TIME.

10.30am: Ministry of Health has arrived. At first they cleaned our streets, cleaned them but now they throw half out of the hostel. They were given 15 minutes to pack their things and they and their rooms need to be disinfected and it just came out of nowhere. 

 

DYNAMIC GRAPHICS: 1) Map of Peru and the capital Lima show up, 2) Iquitos show up on the map, 3) Cusco show up on the map, 4) The bus route from Cusco to Lima is drawn and we show that the trip takes 20 hours.

 

(1) The Danes are spread all over Peru - the task is to get everyone to the capital and the Danish special aircraft. (2) Some are stranded far out in the rainforest in the northeast of the country. 

((marked on the map))

 

(3) Others sit in mountain towns. 

((mark on map))

 

(4) Anton has twenty hours by bus from Cusco to Lima.  

((marked by route on the map))

 

I just received an email stating that we should send all the information we have - we should send them. I hope this is something positive so they can start to gather us and maybe get us home. We don't quite know what to hope for, but we hold our courage.

 

PIX PAUSE. Set a scene with Erik visually.

 

ERIK: I have a role in communicating in great crisis . I am the man with the oil jug, must make sure people are informed.  

 

SB: Up? Up there? OK thanks.

SYNC Nicholas: I have been assigned to follow up on the Danish special aircraft. When it can be confirmed and reported to the Danes we have in Peru. And also something about the conditions on the plane - how many can we bring.

SB: May I ask you something. Do you know where Sigurd and his team sit? Below?!

 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has doubled the staff from 20 to 200 men during the corona epidemic. Everyone is working to help Danes abroad - and the office is staffed around the clock.   

Obviously, the dream scenario is that we can announce ticket sales today. I don't know how realistic it is, but it would be cool.

Sigurd: Today or tomorrow early. We're working on it?

. Well pu ha ... shit it's a fucking man.  

That is why it is so important that they buy a ticket as soon as they can. And then we can say to them at the same time, it may well be that you do not reach the plane, but then you are the damn closer to the next flight at least. 

Especially the ones that are really far away. Locked down a mighty place in the Amazon. 

Sigurd you tend to be so ... are you worried?

Sigurd: Am I worried? No, it must have succeeded.

Erik: You just tend to be such a DOér.  

Sigurd: I hear it's not a question. We should probably fix that. 

 

It's late Monday night in Denmark, but still early in the day in Peru. For two weeks the Danes have been in uncertainty in their hotel rooms. Now the Foreign Ministry can call some of the Danes and tell us that a special plane is coming. The stranded Danes have to pay for the tickets themselves, and Lima leaves in 70 hours .

 

GRAPH: Time for departure

 

20200330 Torben: 20: 29: 44: 13 - Marie from UM contacts another Dane in Cusco - the same information as before him. 

Anton: Call from UM. 

Is it Anton. Exactly. You are talking to …  

Marie UM: Two buses depart from Cuzco to Lima tomorrow. they depart at 1 p.m. 7:00 am Peru time.
Anton: Perfectly super.
Is it central here in Cuzco or out of town. And if so, how do we get to that piece, as transport on that piece is very limited.
MArie UM. It is centrally located and should be within walking distance.


 

Here half an hour ago there was a message from UM that on Thursday, April 2, there is a special flight and we must book tickets immediately. So we paid £ 7,500 each to get home. Which is significantly more expensive than a normal plane ticket would cost home. It is incredibly positive and we are delighted. But on the other hand, we are still in Cuzco, no transport has been arranged now. 

Earlier today, drones flew over our heads with camera - to make sure we behaved properly. And then we just got searched - Everybody put a blindfold on. Insane situation. Now we are crossing our fingers that there is something going forward. Hey.  

At the corona-affected hostel, the concern of Anne and friend Julie grows.

15.10: From one day to the next we could not buy things from the supermarket or medicines that more residents need.

So the atmosphere and how the hostel was handled changed from one day to the next. Since then we have been in complete lockdown. KLIP felt like a criminal. We are trapped here and cannot come home.  

It doesn't fit chronologically - BUT IT WILL BE STRONG WITH THE PICTURES FROM THE STREET OF BACKGROUND TRAVELERS WHO ARE SPRAYING - AND ANY OTHER FRIEND THAT MUST STAY AT THE HOSTEL - IT ALSO LIVES UP.

 

While the Foreign Ministry is working to get the stranded Danes to Lima and the special plane, Peru is closing down more and more - the challenge with the cities where you can only fly out has grown. 

 

GRAPH: time for departure

 

We have sold over 200 tickets so it has actually exceeded all expectations. Capacity of 280 - slightly smaller. So today we open for sale to other Nordic. 

3.00: Compared to our own aircraft, the big challenge is to get the Danes in.

3.36: It will be a complicated exercise because, as you know, we do not have any embassy in Peru. So it will be in collaboration with the Swedes and Finns. 

3.50pm: We have embarked on a bus transport concept down there. Hope to get people into buses.

And then you have to fly in from here, and it's a bit complicated from the jungle. We have not succeeded yet - to make room for all Danes by plane to Lima. 

Okay.

4.11: So I don't want to rule out a hundred percent that anyone is going to go up there - even after the special flight. 

4.15pm: The positive is that there are so many who have bought a ticket. It is a prerequisite for you to be able to move at all. It is a state of emergency but you can move out of the room if you have a ticket. It is with a ticket in hand that we try to get them to Lima. 

Jeppe: So we try to make the bus convoys that we agreed.

Yes. 

But those will be the two places. Yes, you have to fly out of here the two places and it's complicated. 

Do we have exact figures on how many are in Lima? No, not exact numbers. But it is very encouraging that so many Danes have bought a ticket. 

The challenge is to get to Lima. If everyone was in Lima we could ship them out tomorrow, should it be.

 

GRAPH: Map of Peru showing where Pisac is located 

 

Lucilla, her boyfriend Andreas and their son, Atlas, are on earth. They are visiting family in southern Peru as the corona crisis breaks out.

 

LUCILLA Hi, my name is Lucilla. And this, this is Atlas. When all this corona broke out there we decided to go home, bought ticket immediately as it ended up being canceled due to quarantine. There we have been quarantined in the house we have lived in until today. 

 

YEAR BIKES

 

GRAPH (time to departure 56 hours)

 

00.14: Great weather. Kiss goodbye. See you honey. He's going to work. 

00.50: Nice morning, cold but nice. 

3.24pm: Do you have my phone JEP. 

2.05pm: Completely different everyday life. Care to meet with foreign ministers - and since the beginning of March I have not traveled. Very unusual for a foreign minister. And what I have concentrated my efforts on is to help Danes who are stranded. HAM OFF ON THE CYCLE

So it is a completely different work day than I had dreamed. 

2.49: Wild time, thinking about what it will mean - hopefully we can deal with the epidemic. 

But when it hits other parts of the world, very concerned about places without proper health care system. 

Where people live close. It's a pandemic, affecting everywhere. 

4.14am: Bicycles. 

12.56. In front of UM. 

 13.37 Jeppe walk from behind nice 14.02 into UM, good morning FIND OFF OFF SYNC EMPTY TIME IT WORKS USE IT TO COVER HIS 1-2 SYNCS

14.52pm: Liquor - daily routines

15.10: Barcode - ind 

16.10: Enter the minister's office

28.55: We, as Europeans, have become accustomed to the world being open to us. After all, there are very few countries we cannot obtain a visa for which we cannot travel. On the other hand: Looking from the poor part of the world, traveling to Europe or the United States is much more difficult. And so when that changes in a very short time, the world closes in a hurry to an extent never seen in world history, so many Danes are surprised. God, what, now it's troublesome for us, we haven't experienced that before. 

 

Peru: Macro. Lock-down pix plus deserted Cuzco, valet.

 

Cuzco: Good morning, it's five minutes past six. We are waiting for an ambulance to pick us up. We are so excited about that. Everything is uncertain right now in Peru. Having to be picked up in an ambulance to be taken to a bus terminal is far from home. We cross our fingers. 

 

The bus convoy departs at Cuzco at 7am. All exits are prohibited in the city, and Anton and his girlfriend Frederikke cannot find transport for the bus. But the hostel owner knows an ambulance rescuer and ambulances are not stopped. 

 

COVERED BY AMBULANCE-PIX:

 

SYNC ANTON 15.38 That's the only way we can get to this venue.

 

SYNC ANTON 15.10 if we get caught up in this James Bond escape we're on, we're on the skid…

 

GRAPH: Time for departure

 

(00.00: Briefing Peru again).

00.06: The aircraft in place for April 2. There is a landing permit. We have people on the plane. Still hoping that we can allow a man to stay in Peru to take care of the Danes who do not get on the special plane and there will be some pieces, unfortunately - which we look into after our talk yesterday also . 

00.26: Particular problems (pointing to the map) in Iquitos up north. Our only option is to fly to Lima, you can't drive to Lima. 

00.37: We had 17 who were supposed to join yesterday but they were all thrown off because the Peruvians decided that you should go directly from a special plane and directly into the special plane that will fly you out of Peru 

Closer shot: 00.51: And that's not exactly the case with our aircraft, so how to schedule it, it's quite complicated. 

00.57: There are twenty-one Danes up there, some of them vulnerable. Past diseases, chronic diseases. It's a problem that we haven't figured out how to fix yet. 

1.09pm: Yep: You can't get a plane to fly that Thursday morning, right? 

Erik: We don't think we can get it timed so accurately. The risk of you missing it 

2:20 pm: Lohse: The buses leave from Cuzco as planned MUST join

We have a single problem in Cuzco with two girls quarantined in a hostel - corona found in a hostel. They are not sick themselves, but they are locked up for 14 days. We must have figured out how to fix that part. 

Yep: Pointing to the map: It's pretty crazy when you look at the map. On the map it seems like a short distance. 

Yes but it is mountain driving - and from here you can not drive 

Sequence clip 0331: 6.12: Erik: In some places it is not necessarily the corona you have to be worried about. That is the security situation. 

 

As the number of infected and dead grows, Peru is deploying 10,000 soldiers and tanks.  

 

[[FILE IN MA: BUREAU APTN Peru Virus Military)]]]

President Martn Vizcarra, President of Peru: "And as we see that more support is required a call has been made to reservists. …. Immediately 10,000 reservists are made available to their country to continue working." ]]  

 

The soldiers are now enforcing the curfew and preventing citizens and tourists from traveling around, or in and out of Peru.  

 

[[FILE IN MA Peru Virus Night Patrol, SYNCER 10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rear Admiral Gerardo Manuel Indacochea Arana, Director of the Naval School of Peru: "The population complies with all the rules established and only authorized personnel transits either by foot or by vehicle in order to avoid the transmission of this disease which is the goal .] ]

 

KGN: Lucilla: Still waiting for the bus, more Danes. No idea we were that many. Just been a police car past. Because we must not stand so close to each other. 

26.08: We have to go some way and show passports. There are police all the way, with shields and barricades. 

26.52pm: food for the entire trip. So food, snacks. Chocolate. It should hold lunch, dinner, and breakfast until we hit Lima. The kid eats. UD 27.11.

 

25.10. Lucilla: We've been allowed to come out. Police both front and rear. Escorts all the way. Do you know where we're going atlas? I do not know. No. 

 

There are roadblocks and police checks on the route. Something that delays transport to Lima. 

 

26.34: The stop we just had with the police. There were barricades. Everyone had to stand in line and have a measured temperature before we could get up on the bus again. 

 

Jeppe Kofoed is in regular contact with the Peruvian Foreign Minister, and they have arranged a telephone conference.

 

Secretary, yes, yes, thank you. 

36.58: There is a separate problem that has arisen right now. With the many buses going to Lima. Enormously long distances where they now report many military checks on the roads. They are stopped all the time, so please bring that point along too. Push on, I do not know if there is a governor with big stars can get a more smooth - because right now they are experiencing significant delays in transport to Lima. 

Jeppe: Checkpoints. Yes. Military checkpoints.

20200331: nick: 16; 19: 26: 17 : Man: The main point is just to say, "Isn't it in everyone's interest to get them near an international airport. And then not go into much detail. man: So keep in mind that we have Danish special aircraft in Lima. Jeppe: My experience is that he asks for very specific things - then I should be able to give him an operational answer. would like to cross the block, he will ask how can i help.

 

In a minute. 

Then I think we'll cool you off.  

 

CLOV: THE DANS ON THE WAY, ONLY PIX, WORKS WELL

LETTER OF THE MINISTER Wednesday 1/4. 

 

GRAPH: time for departure

 

00:00: 

Who are we with here? Crisp morning voice.

(Present only Lohse and one woman) 

00.30: Then we are approaching crunchtime on the departure from Lima. The SAS plane is flying tonight, midnight, Our people, the defense, the police are in too.

42: Then lands in the military airport out there in the morning, Peru time. 

48: We are then gathering all the Danes out there, and it has proved to be a relatively hassle-free exercise, because the Peruvians insist that everyone must gather in one place before they can go out together. So they have found a park in Lima, where all the Danes have to gather very early in the morning and look out at the military airport in common with the bus transport. 

1.10: It is complicated, in order for you to even get into that park you need a pass letter which we also just have to find out how we get. 

1.22pm: Bus transport from the country is coming in and I don't know if you saw the pictures from it on the way in.

Yes, I saw it. 

MAYBE CLICK TO PICTURES FROM BUSES - TOTAL MAPGER

Overall shorthand. 

 

1.39: 17 up in Iquitos will not be included in this round. We haven't been able to get them on a plane.  

2.06: Together with the two girls, down in Cuzco, who are also in quarantine. So there will be some pieces that will be some Danes in Peru after this flight And then the rest, Norwegians, Swedes, a few fins, The good thing is that the Swedes are planning a plane too. Which then comes after ours. That is, a new opportunity will come soon. And then we must put all our effort into solving the problems in Iquitos. Fortunately, we are working there to get Torsten off in Lima who will fly out tonight.  

 

SYNC ANNA Today is a slightly tougher day than the other days.

 

SYNC ANNA from approximately 16.52. ... I just wish I was one of the ones who could get on the plane and not sit stranded here. God knows how long.

 

CLICK FOR TEST PICTURES

 

The girls do not feel ill, but a test later shows that they have had the corona virus. That will make Peruvian authorities detain them even longer.

 

Their case must evolve to become the most difficult of all stranded Danes. 

 

(small pause)

 

The Foreign Ministry has decided to send a diplomat with the special aircraft to Lima.

 

SYNC TORSTEN I have to make sure that people get on board with Dorte and then I intend to stay there and help the last Danes home via other special aircraft.   

 

Yes.

 

NY: Satellite phone. Possibility to issue a temporary passport. Short and tight.  

Kissing the wife. Out to taxi.

The trip to Lima is set to last almost 14 hours - with no stopovers. A historically long flight for SAS:

 

CPH airport multicam 6 0104. 

We are 3 captains. As a back up if some were to get sick. 

there they come - it's an entire army.

Captain: I see this as a team task. We must get you down there safely with the airplane and be assisted on the ground. 

I don't know how many speak Spanish. But I do. There are problems with the authorities on the other side and we must try to get them resolved. If no-shows, we'll see if we can get some others on. 

 

The Danes buses start arriving in Lima. Ahead the last crucial hours await. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs must now find out whether all Danes have arrived - and get them all in a group to the airport.

 

Anton: It was then 22 hours in the bus. Tomorrow we will be picked up at 6.30. And then we are driven to the military airport. 

Lucilla: We're going to sleep legally close to the two of us. Ha ha. We have been told that we must not go out. until we go with the plane   

 

PRESS MEETING

 

44.57: Erik, press conference: And the fourth country today is Peru. Where within the next few hours we will have a SAS aircraft landing in Lima. And where after a few hours on earth it will return to Denmark. 

Right now we are in check-in - where you have to imagine not going to an airport. It takes place in a park in Lima. Where UM with the help of Sweden and Finland check in with these 300 passengers. Luggage and passport control, because that's what the authorities in Peru have wanted. The next few hours will determine whether we will fill the plane. We have pretty much all those who were heading for Lima are in Lima now. Now we just hope they are on their way to the park. There is still a curfew, so one must have special permits. 

 

1.10.50: Matilde: We have arrived at a park where we will have all the passengers who were in Lima. Hand in passports so we can be checked in. 

 

GRAPH: Time for departure

 

The Foreign Ministry is assisted by two Danes in Lima who run a travel agency in the country. They help the Danes on their way to the airport

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs - April 3 at xx?

49.03: Start with rush gn the picture and phone call: 

Hello Morten. Hello. Well. 

49.49: How many do you think there is with each bus? 30 with each. So 7 buses are run. 5? Okay.3.17.42: And the only one that hasn't appeared is a Pelle Thomas Carlsen Mohr. 

Pelle Thomas Carlsen Mohr. Only no-show and he is a Dane

He is an AFS student. Under 18. 

If you have no direct contact with him, it's nice to know where he is. 

Give us two mins and we'll call him straight. 

It goes on the answering machine. Pis. 

55.52pm: Josefine - we agree - we don't sell that ticket. He is a minor. 

56.41: Hi Morten. He is a minor and has come by bus to Lima - so would like to have the ticket, before we are absolutely sure that he is not at the airport. We're not going to sell that ticket. 

3.25.24: Now they land in 10 minutes.  

Can be booked by whom? His parents. 

So we only know when he checks into the airport whether he is there. He may well be on the bus. 

Be careful about making anyone worried, unnecessarily worried.  

3.29.45: They land in a minute. 

Everyone checks mobile. 

3.31.30: Shows on mobile, the plane lands. 

Pelle is not there. 

The thing is, some may be babies. Think the list is just right but a little uncertain about babies. 

 

We are still looking for Pelle Thomas Carlsen Mohr. 

 

GRAPH: time for departure

 

Pix buses into the airport. Plus airport bus.

GRAPH: time for departure 

 

In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs