this is the news live from berlin and the u.s. tightens its coronavirus travel ban chaos at u.s. airports americans are rushing home from europe for flights from britain and ireland are grounded and washington could soon start restricting travel within the u.s. as well also coming up paris bars serve their final drinks as france borders an all in on essential businesses to close to spain goes a step further and tells residents to remain inside their homes as europe moves to control the spread of the coronavirus but it's

a different scene here in germany in shops remain open many people still out in a bounce and there's evidence of panic buying as shoppers prepare for a potential quarantine. i'm carl aspen thanks for joining us citizens in 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 austria's chancellor sebastian cortes says his government bans gatherings of more than 5 people due to the coronavirus iran's coronavirus death toll has left she 113 in just one day to reach $724.00 the french government has announced that long distance travel that includes trains and international flights will be limited and domestic public transport

reduced as well and the vatican says all easter services will take place without worshipers in attendance pope francis is holding sunday blessings via t.v. and the internets. meanwhile the united states has tightened its ban on visitors from europe the president 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 united states to areas hit hardest by the virus the spread. chaos at chicago o'hare airport d one of the euro. thousands in closely confined 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 airports. 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 another president then on the u.s. ban on e.u. travelers would be extended to include the you can use reuters is reporting that you're under your control of the u.k. and ireland on monday is that true look you're going to very seriously you know because they've had a little bit of activity unfortunately so we're going to be looking at that we have actually already have looked at it and that is going to be. announced. in the us from london got the news as the flu river the atlantic it would mean additional checks and long waits on arrival on every often very large number that you just got

to get it played and if they get. something to eat or it's like the border patrol is going to come on to our way of it's you know our walk. home. on miami beach tourists were caught by surprise to. now of course the news has just come out that trend that potentially is banning all travel back to the can i say where they were it's seriously where it's. the 1000 to flock to miami swinton's son may be here a while longer after a number of airlines scramble to cut flights to europe. but joining me now from singapore is dale 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 action across europe in the past hours lockdowns 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 there is other things they could do i think that is there's a lot of lessons to take out of the the response in and. being implemented elsewhere in the world aside i do think there's more that can be done i want to ask you both the u.k. is doing is 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 theatres 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 are kept in isolation they kept in hospital it's a numbers a great there might be a hotel there might be makeshift hospitals create that some sort of alternative accommodation but we don't let that burden a virus back into the community patients are only discharged when their republican explain 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 you're 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 that 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 i agree with you completely this is the time the society can make a response because if they respond like bringing hand rub to the wrist wrong. if they bring in sort of smaller numbers of the response might be there are only a fraction of the numbers i normally take that. sort of introduce the social responsibility if you like then they'll turn to do is as you're saying in other countries everything's just closed down and you know eventually the response from basel a 3 are is this but this outbreak to go a long way to run yes but if there is 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 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. until they are genuinely clear it's human nature so cut corners and things if you're in isolation unless that's really rigorous leean force then i think you see numbers continuing to increase i'd much rather see countries adopting the laser's that was a nice successful they'll fisher chair of the world health organization's global outbreak and response network thank you very much. in countries that are far away from chronic virus hotspots the response from authorities as range 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 you 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. or so to keep them from it and now that some of the bands we wanted to see you were canceled it seems disrespectful to me that we didn't call the whole event off on the fact that they put us all in risk to tell you the truth 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 who are clamping down hard on their borders in venice way are 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. that 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. of the spanish government has ordered its 47000000 citizens to stay at home mass applause broke out in madrid as a lockdown came into effect with spaniards showing support for health workers in the city take a list i bars restaurants and non-essential shops there have been told to close for at least next 2 weeks streets in the capital city were deserted as authorities declared a national emergency spain reported 1500 new corona virus infections and 70 deaths in just the last 24 hours. i think the latest now from spain correspondent marcus burnished is reporting in madrid markets we spoke with you earlier we had to cut short cut things short because authorities there intervene i

mean what exactly happened. while it was not really related to coronavirus 2 policemen came and asked me to. leave the scene because i was at a place that wasn't reachable by a zebra crossing even if you can observe today's very few traffic they're taking their job very seriously they even still are stopping cyclists when they are moving around madrid checking if they are on duty or if it's just for leisure in the business for leisure they have to head home but certainly taking this lockdown seriously tell me about the timing though here because authorities deciding to impose those restrictions now why now. because the prime minister told it yesterday and the days before yesterday we are heading to a very severe situation and the latest figures on the pin what he meant because we

have 2000 new cases within 24 hours we have $133.00 new people the focus is still here in madrid in the capital and therefore they have to do something they have to try to release the pressure on the hospitals because even if they will put. new bad hours and days it will be very very critical because of course even the medical personnel is affected by this virus more than half of all jobs in spain are with small or medium sized companies. spaniards about the economic impact of these lockdown measures. and if we look into the details a very very important issue here is services it's tourism and i've seen several tourists leaving madrid as quickly as possible this morning to try to get out and

catch a plane so tourism is is broken down and i was visiting a hotel. had there at the desk told me they are 90 percent less than usual. there will be a special governmental meeting to address the economic situation and to see what they can do to. help these companies ok marcus reporting in madrid thank you very much for the. virus continues to take its toll on the sporting world as well this weekend's rally of mexico had to finish early but many teams worried the travel bans would leave them stranded outside their home countries event was originally scheduled to continue into sunday. organizers decided just to scrap the final 3 stages with travel restrictions are changing rapidly the next event on the rally calendar a rally of argentina has also been postponed due to the at the interview and.

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