it would be to the fact that. this is the news live from berlin the coronavirus shutdown gets even tighter across europe germany is the latest country to announce closures sealing off borders with france austria and switzerland beginning on monday meanwhile bars in paris served their final drinks as well rants orders all non essential businesses to close and spain goes a step further telling residents to remain inside their homes all in an effort to control the spread of the virus plus chaos said u.s. airports as american trust rush from europe before flights from britain and ireland

are grounded washington could soon start restricting travel within the u.s. as well. but we have team coverage of the situation right now in europe we want to bring in correspondent lisa lewis she is in paris and marcus finishes reporting in madrid for us if we have those 2 markets i want to ask you 47000000 people in spain they're ordered to stay inside now how do things look where you are . but it seems that it works at least here in madrid this is maybe because madrid is 4 days now the hotspot in spain. all over the country we have 2000 more infections within. 24 hours so people here are taking it

seriously there are only a few people in the streets of what i've seen especially some remaining tourists lisa let's go to you now strict lockdown measures in france as well how are people responding in paris. well i've been talking to some people who told me that they understood the measures that they understood that the cases needed contaminated people had gone up but when you walk through the streets here in paris there are not deserted the local food shop for example there are lots of people there who are not keeping and distance and also their pictures of packed farmer's market here in paris it looks like not everybody is taking this seriously well clearly this sort of thing is not easy to enforce marcus in spain our authorities trying to make sure that people follow this lockdown. well people firstly were informed about the possible punishments up to 30000 euros if you are not

respecting the lockdown routes people can walk out when they have to buy food when they have to go out with the dog when they have to care for some older people for example but the rest of the people have to stay at home and police is controlling it on the government is focusing concentrating the powers on every policy the police unit here even in the regions so they have to they are standing on the government decisions. and he's on the even using drones to make announcements to the people around side. now france's prime minister is called 900 the call to biggest health crisis in a century any yet france holding local elections today tell me about that why did they go ahead with this election. yes absolutely there was a lot of pressure on the government to carry them out actually that your position was saying specially the center right party was saying that you need to have these

elections but there has been a lot of criticism the government said we will put in place specific measures certain distances between people voters at the polling stations baffin walking around and at the polling stations i were it went to the. re so many people that there is no minimum distance to be kept and no one was seemed to be using that disinfectant that was put there for people who went to vacate and the local election even told me that there were too many people to disinfect the polling stations in between that they didn't have time for that so there is certain certainly a lot of criticism that the government might be facing if this these local elections today increase the number of contaminated people in the coming days lisa lewis reporting for us in paris marcus burnished in madrid thank you so much to both. well as we heard the spanish government imposing severe restrictions on public life

the latest country to do so ordering its 47000000 citizens essentially stay home our's restaurants and non-essential shops there have been told to close streets as we saw in the capital city deserted as authorities declare a national emergency now spain reported 1500 new corona virus infections and 70 deaths in just one day in fact the wife of prime minister pedro sanchez and 2 government officials have tested positive for covert 1000. citizens in europe and around the world adapting to drastic changes to daily life as new lock downs and restrictions go into effect due to the corona virus pandemic we want to take a look now at some of the latest developments england is planning self isolation measures for all people above the age of 70 for up to 4 months austria's chancellor is a boston courts says his government ban is banning gatherings of more than 5 people due to the coronavirus iran's death toll has now left by 113 in one day to reach

724 and the vatican's as all easter services will take place behind closed doors no warship or is in attendance pope francis is holding sunday blessings by a t.v. and the internets. 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 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 can find really 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 reports. 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 u.k. as reuters is reporting to europe and europe control the u.k. and ireland on monday is that a group you're going to they're serious or 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 u.s. from london got the news as they flew river the atlantic that would mean additional checks and long waits on arrival on every often very large number that just got to

get in late and if they keep. something to eat or it's like. border patrol it's going to come on to our way of you know our white. house. on miami beach tourists were caught by surprise too. now of course the news has just come out that trend that abstention is banning all travel back to the can i say where we're it's seriously where it's. the 1000 to flock to miami swinton's son may be here are while longer after a number of airlines scramble to cut flights to europe. 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 of action across europe in the past hours lost downs and 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 response to. being implemented elsewhere in the world. i do think there's more that can be tough i want to ask you about what the u.k.'s 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 kept in isolation they kept in hospital it's a numbers a great there might be a hotel that might be makeshift hospitals create that some sort of alternative accommodation but we don't let that burden of 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 europe and 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 they call a 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 that response because if they respond like bringing hand rob to the restaurant. if they bring in sort of smaller numbers of the restaurants maybe there are only a fraction of the number i normally take that they sort of introduce this social responsibility if you like then the alternative is as you're saying in other countries everything's just closed down you know eventually the the restaurants and bars will need to really are because this spot 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 does that offer us hope potentially here that this is manageable. it most certainly does but as i 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 are genuinely clear it's human nature so you know cut corners and things if you're in isolation less that's really rigorous lee in force then i think you see numbers continuing to increase i'd much rather see countries adopting the lasers that we say nice successful they'll fisher chair of the world health organization's global outbreak and response network thank you very much. on countries that are far away from corona virus hotspots the response from authorities as a range from tough to nonexistent and that's causing worries that the pathogen could easily spread to other parts of the war. 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 la tina festival at the weekend. while entrance staff 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. out of the consumer and now that some of the bands we wanted to see were canceled it seems disrespectful to me that we didn't call the whole event off on the fact that they put us all at risk to tell you the truth what 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 venezuela people trying to reach colombia 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 viruses spread. language course. video. anytime anywhere. w. views.