the ad. this is the w. news live from berlin france becomes the 3rd country in europe to go into lockdown over coronavirus president court orders french citizens to stay inside from me today those who don't have any will face pay the fines in front of the border to its neighbors are also being closed. also coming up the chancellor angela merkel toughens germany's tactics to slow the spread of the virus merkel and allen says that all nonessential stores will stay closed and advises germans to stay home.

hello i want to get jones good to have you with us francis just 2 hours away from a nationwide lockdown president manuel mccall says the country is facing a public health war and that it will take an all out mobilization to slow the spread of coronavirus the virus has so far killed 148 people in france and infected more than 6600 all citizens will be required to stay home from midday the restrictions will stay in place for at least 15 days. on the frontline the caregivers at the university hospital. when patients arrive with lung problems they are taken to a special unit but it's also important to keep the medical stuff healthy.

period the priority is really to protect ourselves we use protective closing where we are with the patients. the emergency response center in the city has seen 5 times as many calls as usual the technology felt to keep up the pace the confuted system broke down. all formative computers didn't stop for long because the engineers arrived immediately simply because there were so many files the hard drives ran out of memory we never imagined we could get there in such a short time. as us one of the areas hardest hit by the virus authorities are already reached breaking point there are almost no more intensive care beds in his address to the nation emanuel mark or unknowns that the military hospital will be set to in the region and the army deployed to transport the seek to hospitals. we're out of war.

we're in a public health war and we're not fighting against an army or another nation but the enemy is here invisible elusive and advancing enemy and that requires general mobilization hours before march commanded the french to stay home people rush to stock up on supplies starting from a day to day the movement of citizens will be tightly restricted people will be allowed to leave only for instance selective it is that life chopping some 100000 police will be deployed to enforce the lockdown so you're a stronger serug if the violation of these rules is currently punishable by a foreigner and 30 euros it will be raised very quickly to a higher level which could be 135 euros our aim is not to punish but to call everyone to account to use as doctors warn about an increasingly dire situation

many hope the aggressive move by friends will save lives. our correspondent lisa lewis joins us now from paris france faces a complete lockdown starting midday today what's the situation in paris where you are right now how are people responding to the crisis. well i think many people here were expecting that there were rumors going around that it would even be worse actually that we have to stay at home for 45 days couldn't leave the house at all and that there would be a complete curfew from 6 pm on now what the president announced was a bit of a lighter version of that however and many people are obviously not really happy about that there are lots of people it's reported that many people are actually leaving big cities such as paris to go to the countryside and stay with someone for this period of 2 weeks some people though are expecting the president the

government to maybe announce even stricter measures thinking that this might be just the 1st step experts warn of an increasingly dire situation would just that means that each and every one well it means that now you well from midday on really you will not be able to leave the house and unless you go grocery shopping you have to go to work that is you can't actually work from home you have to take care of someone for example an elderly parent and this all works with a declaration of war no that you have to download from the internet you say and i declare that i have to go to the shops now and then you will be let through you can also go for a run for example or walk your dog unless you obviously you go with someone so the government history trying to isolate people i think now people are trying to do the last thing that they needed to do before going into lockdown that's why there are

many people out in the streets or many people also leaving certain places to go to the place of confinement for the next 2 days now some in france say that we could soon see a scenario like in italy where doctors have to choose who to treat a decision between life and death how fast is the outbreak progressing in france. it's progressing faster and faster we're not at the italian scenario just yet but but the number of could have been dated people over the past 24 hours it was at 1200 compared to 800 the day before so it's progressing faster and that's also what the government wants to make clear to people that if they want to prevent that italian scenario from happening that they have to stay at home the president last night in his speech said several times we are at war here he was appealing to the civil responsibility of each french person east people living in

the country because obviously at the impression that people weren't taking this seriously enough and he really wants to make clear that the french now have to change behavior if they want to prevent the italian scenario from happening right lisa luis they're reporting from paris thank you so much. here in germany the government is also ratcheting up its response to the coronavirus outbreak a foreign minister. has just announced a plan to fly home all germans who are stranded abroad mark says the government is providing up to 50000000 euros for the airlift operation at the same time he warned against any tourists travel outside the country from now on on monday chancellor angela merkel had a similar message in a life address to the nation no more travel stay at home keep your distance well than 7000 germans have been diagnosed with 1917 have died. the chairs have been especially arranged to keep people well apart. but that wasn't

the only thing out of the ordinary had this press conference. after high level talks with the chancery medical stepped out to announce the most drastic response to a health crisis in living memory. retailers of essential supplies such as pharmacies will remain open supermarkets will even be open for an extra day on sundays but from playgrounds to hotels leisure activities have been severely curtailed. such drastic measures have never been taken in our country. but at the moment they're necessary to reduce the amount of close contact between people. to bring down the number of infections and serious cases we have in our cancun. bundestag president bush met with party leaders to discuss how to keep parliamentary business running during the pandemic. later in the day merkel held

a telephone conference with state ministers over the new measures restrictions such as the closure of playgrounds are to be implemented uniformly across the entire country in germany hospitals a well stocked and the government is keen to allay fears over the fallout from the disease. far from. setting aside 10000000000 euros to meet the costs are arising from additional medical expenditure and the economic consequences of a virus we are leaving no one behind. a crisis committee set up by the health and the interior ministry's is meeting on tuesday to help put in place the raft of restrictions the question now is if the measures will succeed in slowing the spread of the coronavirus. fox is about to shatter most of its european plants as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts supply chains and demands protection of the company's workers the carmaker also expects demand to

plummet with customers in many countries staying home and out of dealerships production will be halted this week at 12 plants and stay in portugal and slovakia as well as lamborghini and county plants in italy that will be followed by production stops in germany and other european plans management expects production to be halted for $2.00 to $3.00 weeks. spain of course is one of the european countries already under lockdown as authorities reported a 20 percent a jump in new infections with more than $9000.00 cases spain is now the country with a 4th highest number of infections worldwide madrid and other cities are enforcing far reaching restrictions on people's movement for the next 2 weeks people are only allowed to leave their homes to buy food medicine or go to work spain has also joined other european countries in closing its land borders except for citizens

permanent residents and workers. and for more we're joined now by correspondent young philip schultz who is in a city young philip what's it like on the streets there do you see heavy police presence are people actually up serving the curfew. thank you but the moment the situation seems to be calm my impression is that people accept the new measures of the government usually you would see a lot of people on the streets behind me now especially a lot of tourists but at the moment there are just a few people going to work and i think the government is trying to pursue a true way strategy at the moment on the one hand they try to appeal to a strong sense of solidarity and culture it says and there is a campaign now we will cite the virus together but they also strictly enforce the measure measures were a lot of police and other security forces a lot of checkpoints on the streets i heard police cars with megaphones reminding

the people of the measures and heavy signs now to study 100 euros and going up to prison sentence identify spain has you have 2nd highest number of corona cases is that behind it and is the health care system in spain able to cope at all that. of course that's the big worry off many people at the moment that might be overwhelmed so in and everybody is looking at the southern european neighbor italy off course. the problem is that in the last years especially after the financial crisis of 2008 strain has caught a lot of costs in the health sector and a lot of clinics have been privatized and there are less emergency units than in other countries and. also new measures of the government now all trying to clinics are under the control of the central government and people really morally supports it. so in 10 years applauses all the time on the streets you see

a medical doctor or nurses on the way to work anthony what about the economic fallout spain of course is one of europe's top kill isn't destinations that's difficult now. exactly spain heavily depends on tourism it's the. hurts the most important economic sector and here in the city of city. thousands of jobs depend on tourism i saw a lady yesterday that owns a small business and and she was just crying she couldn't stop crying because she said that's it's probably the end of our business the government reacted say they promise to know this for small businesses involved in the tourism industry and they also said that there would be a checks moratorium by people involved in the tourism industry but at the moment people say it's not enough. and excellent and reporting from a city in spain thank you so much. and here's

a look at some more all the latest coronavirus developments in iran has temporarily freed $85000.00 prisoners in response to the epidemic including political detainees hong kong will quarantine all new arrivals for 14 days to preserve its current success at limiting the outbreak south korea will also tighten border checks after 3 days of reporting less than $100.00 new infections and one the chinese city where the virus was 1st detected reported just one new locally transmitted case on tuesday. well today we lead world famous cellist yo-yo ma sinus off like so many artists his concerts have been canceled as venues around the world are forced to close but while cities may slowly shut down artists like him make sure they don't fall silent using social media to fill our lockdown lives with their music this year dedicated to the health care workers on the front lines for me and the

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