this is deja vu news live from berlin and the u.s. tightens its coronavirus travel ban chaos at u.s. airports as americans rush home from europe before flights from britain and ireland are grounded and washington to soon start restricting travel within the united states as well also coming up to paris for bars served their last drink says france orders calling on the central business district to close spain goes a step further and tells residents to remain inside their homes as european to cool the spread of the crones like. and

a different scene here in germany shops remain open and many people are still out in the balance but there is evidence of panic buying as shoppers prepared for a potential quarantine. i'm calling aspen thanks for joining us citizens and europe and around the world are adapting to drastic changes to daily life as new lock downs and restrictions go into effect due to the coronavirus pandemic here's a look now at some of the latest developments around the world austria's chancellor of the boston court says his government is banning gatherings of more than 5 people over coronavirus iran's coronavirus death toll has left by 113 in just one day to reach 724 the french government has announced that long distance travel that includes trains in. national flights will be limited and domestic public transport

will be reduced as well and the vatican says all easter services will take place without worshipers and attendance up francis is holding sunday blessings it's television and the internet meanwhile the united states has tightened its ban on visitors from europe president donald trump says it will now include travelers from britain and ireland who were exempted from the initial ban a week ago trump said he was also considering travel restrictions within the u.s. 2 areas hit hardest by the virus is spread. chaos at chicago o'hare airport do one of the euro. thousands in closely confined cruelly ventilated spaces waiting hours to go through coronavirus screenings at u.s. border controls it was a similar scene at dallas fort worth and other rare ports. new measures in place at the white house to the country's top health official warned that hard work was

ahead and called for americans to pull together. this will get worse before it gets matter but we are making progress to flatten the curve and we are making progress no more bickering number partisanship no more criticism or finger pointing is not the president then on the us ban on e.u. travelers would be extended to include the you can use reuters is reporting that you're going to europe control the u.k. and ireland on monday is the group you're going to very seriously get because they've had a little bit of activity unfortunately so we're going to be looking to that we have actually already have looked at it and that is going to be. announced. in the us. from london we got the news as the flu river the atlantic it would mean additional checks and long waits on arrival on every very large number of us got to

get it right and if it be. paid for it's like. border patrol is going to come onto our way up and know our want. all. the way down. on miami beach tourists were caught by surprise too. now of course the news has just come out that trend in absentia is banning all travel back to the can i say where were it seriously where it's. the 1000 to flock to miami's winter sun may be here are while longer after a number of airlines scramble to cut flights to europe. but authorities around the world take ever more drastic measures against the coronavirus the number of cases continues to rise here's a look now at some of the latest numbers a tally by johns hopkins university counts more than 156000 cases worldwide and nearly 6000 deaths the same time nearly 874000 people have recovered from the virus

and some good news coming from south korea with 76 new corona coronavirus cases reported today the country has now seen and fall in numbers to double digits for the 1st time in more than 3 weeks a sign that the tough quarantine measures there are work. well joining me now from singapore is they'll fisheries a professor of infectious diseases at the university of singapore and the chair of the world health organization's global outbreak and response network thank you for joining us a flurry as we heard of action across europe in the past hours lock downs in france and in spain school closures here in germany is europe making the right moves do you think now to slow the spread. i believe that is a nice. thing is there's a lot of lessons to take out of the response tonight is. being implemented

elsewhere in the world outside and do you think there's more that can be tough i want to ask you about what the u.k. is doing and it's taking a different strategy from many other countries here in europe i mean there's very few are structures in place it's not canceling mass gatherings shutting bars the theaters are still open schools are still open what do you make of the approach of the u.k. . the most important part of this response is in in keeping the number of cases as low as you can the most important things are early taste texture and isolation these are the people that actually have the virus and in china in korea and also in hong kong and singapore positive patients kept in isolation they kept in hospital it's a numbers a great there might be a hotel there might be might shift hospitals created some sort of alternative

accommodation but we don't let that burden of virus back into the community patients are only discharged when they're republican explained and there are 2 negative tests 24 hours apart and invariably people are much better then but they're still shooting virus i would much rather see europe in the u.k. and other parts of the world indeed concentrating on where we know the virus is rotten where it might be such as in bars and gatherings i still think it's important to have those social measures in place you know the distancing the the ticket i mean here i mean it really does seem like at least in the u.k. that those social distancing measures are really in place i mean people are out at the bars drinking theaters are open it is that the right move no i agree with you completely this is the time the society can make their response because if they respond and bring in hand rubs of the restaurant. if they

bring in sort of smaller numbers of the restaurants maybe they're only a fraction of the numbers i normally take that they sort of introduce the social responsibility if you like. then deal turn how do is as you're saying in other countries everything's just closed down so you know eventually the the response and . who does this this outrage go a long way to run yes but if the has measures aren't in place then you'll see it just just keep coming back so this is a new way of doing things going forward briefly if you can south korea and china as we heard there seen this drop in the number of new cases does that offer us hope potentially here that this is manageable. it most certainly does but hasn't mentioned you know that the biggest difference is that positive cases are in isolation they're not sent home and they're not allowed back into the community and

until they genuinely. it's human nature so cut corners and things if you're in isolation less that's really rigorously enforced then i think you see numbers continuing to increase i'd much rather see countries adopting the measures that we say nice successful they'll fisher chair of the world health organization's global outbreak and response network thank you very much well in countries that are far away from chrono virus hotspots the response from authorities has ranged from tough to nonexistent and that's causing worries that the pathogen could easily spread to other parts of the world. passed the coronavirus pandemic council's public gatherings and spock's lockdowns around the world in mexico crowded scenes like this have raised more than a few eyebrows. tens of thousands of music fans flocked to mexico

city's viva latino festival at the weekend. while entrance stuff carried out temperature checks once inside he would barely notice the difference. but some fans were angry that the organizers didn't cancel the festival and attended because they'd otherwise loose the price of the tickets. that would account for and now that some of the bands we wanted to see you were canceled it seems disrespectful to me that they didn't call the whole event off on the fact that they put us all in risk to tell you the truth push for 30 years about both florida. mexican president and dress manual lopez obrador shrugged off the risk of infection at the weekend by holding rallies with hundreds of supporters sparking anger by kissing small children. elsewhere countries were clamping down hard on their borders in venice whaler people trying to reach colombia were left stranded

after bogota unilaterally shut the border between the 2 nations on saturday with just a few hours notice. they should have warned us in time and jointly agreed to close the borders so as not to leave people in the streets suffering. in china or thirty's will send international arrivals to beijing straight to quarantine centers from monday infections brought in from overseas now outnumber domestically transmitted cases. in the philippines police have sealed off the densely populated capital manila for a month long isolation the workers are among those still allowed to enter and leave like so many places around the world it's hoping drastic measures will slow the virus is spread. by let's get you up to speed now on the latest coronavirus developments elsewhere.

poland's decision to impose a 14 day quarantine on citizens returning from abroad triggered a scramble by many to cross the border before midnight the country is also shutting its shutting its borders to foreign travelers without residency permits international trains and flights will also be suspended. 3 passengers aboard a cruise ship docked in new zealand have been tested for the coronavirus no one will be allowed to leave the golden princess until the results are known the news came a day after the country banned cruise ships from entering its waters. while here in germany authorities have not yet impose the kind of strict nationwide measures we're seeing in other european countries but authorities are urging people to take precautions to slow the spread of coronavirus shops have been busy as people stock up on essential that's been leading to shortages of some items toilet paper for example detergent vegetables many german states have started to shut down schools

and surest attractions the capital berlin has ordered bars cinemas museums and sports facilities to close are going to get the latest now from kate's brady she's reporting in berlin for us kate's i was out on the streets here yesterday and really did seem like business as usual now though we're seeing these strict measures in berlin is it still the case are people taking this seriously now. certainly there's been a huge shift in the last 2448 hours here particularly in the german capital of course yesterday we saw the latest measures brought in the closure of bars and clubs here in berlin of course something that the german capital is very famous for if not infamous for many tourists flocking here every year to get a slice of birdland nightlife those have now been closed until mid april and of

course by choose day all day and all schools and universities will be closed here as well with many of the german states taking similar measures so we'll see a little more people as well a lot more parents working from home which of course has its own knock on effects some people are being excluded from that and being offered emergency childcare for example if they work in the health care service as well here in germany which of course is being put under a lot of strain right now ok we've got about 30 seconds i want to ask you given the situation in italy and spain is germany preparing for something maybe a bigger walk down than what we've already seen. well certainly if you compare the measures to this time last week i know like many other people i was out enjoying the weekend but maybe will stay at home today and the situation is developing so quickly right now and as i mentioned one of the biggest concerns right now is the health care system and so that is definitely still on the cards that we could see

a situation developing like spain like italy that is certainly not off the cards and already on the german health minister has been reaching out to the health service saying that even retired doctors could be pilled if pulled into support the health care system is kate brady there in berlin on call us and i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour. each the battle is my story. of the people who planned me. dedicated.