this is d.w. news live from berlin as the world braces for the impact of the coronavirus to truly hit parents prime minister says we are in this together. to everyone who has lost a loved one to this virus we are with. all those living in the shadow of what is to call we are with you. in many parts of the globe regular life has already been turned upside down we'll bring you the latest developments also coming up. the coronavirus fresh edge of greece's overcrowded migrant camps tens of thousands of

people are already living in squalor with little medical care now they're at risk of a potentially devastating outbreak our correspondent reports from the new torrijos more on the island of course. and politics during a pandemic despite the health risk 3 large u.s. states hold presidential primaries democratic frontrunner joe biden strengthens his lead over bernie sanders. hello i want to have you with us. travel into europe the current epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic is being severely restricted european union leaders have agreed on a 30 day ban on travel is entering the block the decision will affect most non

citizens and residents of the european union with some exceptions it will be up to each member state to implement the new regulations german chancellor angela merkel said the e.u. would do what's necessary to protect the public's health and the economy. all across europe movement is grinding to a halt in berlin chancellor merkel announced that even travel into the e.u. will now seems in the eyes enough. traveling to europe from countries that are not part of the european union under not great britain is prohibited with very few exceptions and. this has to be implemented by the member states. and will apply for 30 days. so if it fights a target and travel within the union has also become increasingly difficult germany

in the center of europe has been hemmed in by border closures. and even within countries quarantines are keeping people at home on wednesday belgium will be the latest country to implement a complete lockdown lisha torrijos alternated millions are blige to say is home in order to avoid as much contact as possible outside their close family except to go to work except for essential journeys to go to the doctor to the grocery store to the post office to the bank to the pharmacy to get petrol. or to help people in need and all those one. in ireland streets were empty as st patrick's day celebrations were called off and the prime minister delivered a somber address to the nation tonight on a national holiday i want to send a message around the world we are in this together to the people of china spain and italy who suffered to untold heartbreak and loss we are with you to everyone who's

lost a loved one to this virus we are with you to all those living in the shadow of what is to come we are with you. pubs and schools are closed and large gatherings for britain in ireland and the rest of europe social distancing is the price to pay to slow the spread of the coronavirus. and for more on europe's response to this crisis let's bring in our political correspondent hans beyond tell us who precisely you will be affected by the 30 day travel ban well the european union prefers not to call it a ban but a temporary restriction about an effect it is it applies to all citizens of the countries and of a number of countries that are very very closely associated with the e.u. without a switzerland norway iceland and the eastern sky so wouldn't citizens from these

countries are allowed into the e.u. citizens from other countries from also i think you are not allowed in unless they have permanent residence here in the european union or in one of those other countries and there is also some level of access for members of families of people who live in that you are citizens of the e.u. and certain exceptions such as for medical personnel now so it's not a travel ban but travel restrictions you say and germany seems to be leading the case off those 30 days travel restrictions is that so and if so why. you know i think you can say that the point is that the european union kind of in fact impose such a ban it can propose a to its member states in the member states themselves have to implement it so germany implemented this last night as soon as it had been decided simply by a declaration by closing its borders as it were there are other countries within

the european union such as the czech republic for instance who are already have in place to have a travel bans that are similar to the czech republic in fact will not allow anybody who is not a citizen of the czech republic into that country at the moment including other e.u. citizens so the implementation is still to be implemented by various countries but it's going to be very quickly i imagine all right not only people are traveling goods also across the border and i'm going to machall had something to say about that let's listen and. we pledge to coordinate the repository ation of european union citizens stranded in quotation marks in other parts of the world . and we also discuss the supply of medical products on dick whitman but for the organ at the request of many member states the commission has decided to undertake collective tenders to obtain certain medical goods for them from

a very welcome ooh for a while because for. once i'm. just mentioned issuing tenders for certain medical goods is europe actually working together to ensure that the most vulnerable member states like italy do have enough supplies. i think we have to say that kind of cooperation has been really lacking in recent weeks initially france and posed a ban on exporting certain goods from france germany also x. imposed a ban on import exporting things like surgical masks from germany both of those restrictions are now slightly being lifted and exports under control of the european union are to be allowed into other european union countries so one is trying to re start the internal exchange within the european union as i said earlier there are several countries that have closed their borders within the european union germany as well has instituted controls at certain borders and this

restricting the exchange of goods not only of goods such as medical supplies but of of goods of everyday life they are. there are back ups at all billboard oppose it within the european union some of them for 20 or $40.00 trying to get that internal trade going again as part of the reason why the external borders are being closed at the moment so i mean germany is right at the same to at the heart of the european union how worried is jim we need that goods medical and all the goods could dry up in this period. well at the moment the germans are saying that you know supplies of daily life food and medical supplies are not restricted a number and there's no problem with getting them shops in fact are being opened on sundays which is unusual in germany so that people can get their daily goods but the fact of the matter is that there are large large backups on certain borders and that is that if there's this is likely to affect the supply of goods the flow of

goods at the same time medical supplies obviously offer to really important and i enjoy exceptions are being made for the european union that's trying to get that particular flow of goods. to become a lot more easy in the next few days all right tons on to the political correspondent once thank you so much for this. european countries on to the only ones clamping down on their borders the united states and canada which share the world's longest line from working out the details of banning all nonessential travel between the 2 countries australia has declared its 1st ever human biosecurity emergency prime minister scott morrison has advised australians not to travel abroad saudi arabia which holds the rotating g 20 countries says it will convene a video summit next week to coordinate the coronavirus response among the world's biggest economies and japan's deputy prime minister says holding the summer

olympics would make no sense if countries concent athletes. china has reported just one new case of the corona virus that was transmitted domestically this is the 2nd consecutive day where there was only one new infection in the original epicenter of the global outbreak with the virus 1st emerged late last year china has imposed sprint interesting restrictions on travel and movement in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading more infections are now being imported from overseas with 12 such new cases reported in the latest data the total number of confirmed corona virus infections in mainland china is almost $81000.00. and for more let's bring in mr they are know a journalist in beijing good to have you with us so this is the 2nd today in a row that china reports just one new domestically transmitted case of coronavirus do all thorough tease there think that they have turned to the corner in fighting

the virus. yes china's pretty confident at this point that it has passed the peak of the corona virus outbreak in fact the government said just that less thursday. and it said the national health commission said that the number of new infections is continuing to decline and at this point like you mentioned earlier we had one locally transmitted infection reported in china today and one yesterday and we have there have been more imported cases and also last week president xi jinping visited for the 1st time since the start of the crisis which. is like a very clear sign that that china considers itself on the road to victory. in battling the virus and china seems to even now have the means to help others china says it's ready to help spade fight the virus spain of course being the 2nd most

affected country here in europe tell us what china is offering. 10 i have so far offered to send spaying our protective equipment it's offered to open new commercial channel 2 to send such equipment quickly to spain it's also offered to send medical supplies. and it said it's encouraging medical experts in china and professionals having exchanges. with professionals with medics and spain and it's also considering sending doctors from china to spain which. would be like a new development ok but at the same time relations between china and the us seem to or could possibly be cooling again the chinese government certainly reacted strongly to us present donald trump calling coronavirus

a quote chinese virus tell us more about that. so china has been vocal about not wanting the corona virus labeled as a chinese virus or a $100.00 buyers which has also been a term. used by u.s. politicians. and on the one hand their official scores are coming from the foreign ministry. is pretty balanced they're saying like we're supposed to help each other . as countries fighting to get there against this outbreak on the other hand they do have. certain more rogue voices such as a foreign ministry spokesman who are treated last week that it is actually possible that the virus was brought to hand by the u.s. army which is kind of a conspiracy theory that has i'm improving and then we also have the chinese state

media who are kind of at least this conspiracy conspiracy theories so like like it often happens in china you have 2 trains of this course that come from the government that are like kind of a bad cop good cop situation where it's a bit of a blame game going on there on both sides so even a. journalist in beijing thank you so much for your time thank you. and in a further escalation of the tit for tat between china and the us china has announced it will expel several american journalists working in the country a measure they say is a retaliation for restrictions on its news outlets in the us the foreign ministry ordered reporters from the new york times the washington post on the wall street journal to return media passes within 10 days they also demanded information about their operations in china last month the u.s.

imposed limits on the number of journalists from chinese state media escalating tensions between the 2 superpowers. returning to spain now one of the european countries currently hardest hit by the virus officials there reported nearly 12000 confirmed cases and over 500 today to slow the spread of the infection the country has been in a nationwide to lock down since last week but the tight restrictions on travel and called most of hit the country's vital tourism industry hard to philip schultz reports from seville. the historic center of seville is like a ghost town the lockdown of the government ordered closure of all restaurants and bars is having the desired effect hardly anybody is out on the streets and tourists are nowhere to be found close to due to reasons of public health those signs are visible everywhere in soviet the moment tourism is spain's 3rd most important economic sector and it's one of the most popular destinations nobody even dares to

think about the long term consequences for the economy at the moment but the 1st devastating effects already visible for small and up prices this is despite promises from madrid to provide emergency credit for the tourism industry and giving small businesses a break from paying taxes for the coming months the measures are part of a massive relief package names by the spanish government but the measures are inadequate says my mellish tool for more than 10 years she's run a small agency renting holiday apartments in the last few days all her clients have cancelled. and the consequences for the business. probably are in shock right now facing serious yours encounter if things got cancelled pretty well 8 people. and we're just getting out of those seasons and only you want to be now the high season it is confidently that your income.

and what you write. actually only money create undemocratically to help that our companies can survive and once this crisis is over we can quickly get into the race to employment and i think the left them and everybody really help from the government now facing the whole population being unemployed. is not just thinking about her own situation her employees and their families will suffer financially with the lockdown expected to last longer than the original 15 day period. as the virus continues to spread across europe there are growing fears of an outbreak at the greece's overcrowded migrant camps last week authorities confirmed the 1st case of corona virus on the island of less boss prompting fears it could spread to the island of torres morea camp refugees

there are already living in squalid conditions with little medical care now they are more at risk than ever before. the maria camp was originally planned for 3000 people but now it's housing some 20000 asylum seekers. they live in homemade tents outside the official camp in what's been nicknamed the jungle. more than a 1000 people share a single water outlet which frequently malfunctions. obviously he has not water now we must. again to hold. its own life. sadar an afghan doctor lives with his wife and 4 children in a small tent they fled the war in their country and now rely on an 8. this means

waiting in long crowded lines for hours to get food avoiding close contact is almost impossible in morea aid organizations say the camp is an ideal breeding ground for the coronavirus. we are extremely concerned about these very cramped conditions there's no soap it's impossible for people to take even the most basic hygiene precautions and that's what's worrying because it means they cannot do anything to stop the spread of the virus if it were to arrive in the camps the aid organization doctors without borders runs a hospital here on the outskirts of the camp there are hardly any coronavirus testing kits and there's a shortage of doctors many patients already have respiratory illnesses and weakened immunity which makes it much easier to contract the virus. we have a lot of people who are very vulnerable anyway we have a lot of very sick children also suffering from chronic diseases diabetes very c.v.

a mental health issues and obviously we have other goals to have been traumatized so it's difficult to predict but in principle all these people i stream the vulnerable to yet another health threat. the greek government says it prepared for this scenario that there ease a chronic crisis plan but the camp's aid organization says they get to see it. that's why they're taking matters into their own hands. and team humanity is small n.g.o.s refugees so surgical masks they can make up to $300.00 day. the volunteers are amazing. sitting there from 7 o'clock in the morning on till 9 in the evening i just want to do it would show them take a break they don't want to take a break i just want to work they want to help they know how dangerous this is everybody knows are dangerous because of this threat there's really only one solution which is that the european union must do everything possible to evacuate

these people as quickly as possible let's pause morea camp it's not a place where you can handle a potential corona threat and the action needs to come now. but as european countries continue to seal off their borders many refugees are afraid they'll be forgotten in the coronavirus crisis. the coronavirus pandemic has not stopped the democrats in the u.s. from pressing ahead with their presidential primaries in illinois florida and arizona former us vice president joe biden comfortably topped the poll in all 3 states giving him a commanding lead over his rival vermont senator bernie sanders ohio postponed its primary due to cope with 950 s. and in person turnout was low in the states that voted there are over 6000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the u.s. but researchers believe that's only a small fraction of the real number. meanwhile the trump administration is

proposing a one trillion dollars stimulus package to cushion the economic impact of the virus in the u.s. the measures include sending a $1000.00 check to every american. the package would set aside $50000000000.00 for the american airline industry cut payroll taxes and further loans and guarantees for small businesses the plan comes as governments around the world scramble to sent direct aid to citizens affected by the pandemic and would needs to be passed by congress. and aspire to all those measures it looks like the roller coaster ride continues for global markets to w.'s chelsea delaney as the latest from the frankfurt stock exchange shall see when will we see packages like the one proposed in the u.s. finally support trading. well i think that that's a great question and it's clearly not supporting markets at this point the taxes are open here preferred it's already down about 4 percent and i think investors are

looking at these packages that governments are preparing which are admittedly massive this one trillion dollar package proposed in the u.s. is the biggest effect financial crisis but they're saying this just isn't enough to combat extreme oppressive and economic slowdown we're seeing and the u.s. for example the white house has stimulated this could lead to an unemployment rate of 20 percent that's really an incredible number and they're just saying a lot of economists are saying that we may need to see packages 2 trillion dollars about twice the size are saying and here in europe the situation is even more difficult because the the proposals that governments have put out are much smaller at this point so i think investors want to see these packages ramped up significantly before they start trading higher and i chose to delay new the reporting from the stock exchange thank you so much. for the spread of the coronaviruses course chaos in germany is critical also

industry forcing giants like folks flocking to close their factories until further notice now luxury carmaker b.m.w. is joining other comic isn't scaling down production b.m.w. representatives said the health of its employees was of utmost concern and stressed they were using a wide range of tools to prevent a spread of the virus among its stuff. for more i'm joined now by my colleague until june from d.w. business and so now b.m.w. says they are scaling back production was a different tune just a short while ago that was but this quote of ours epidemic is really kind of changing the math by the hour does seem and what it comes to be it's definitely not a surprising move that they're going to scale down their production i mean as you. so there are many other german car makers of r.t. made that choice and at the end of the day it really comes down to protecting the health of their employees i mean looking at other companies v.w. has confirmed that they have had worldwide $25.00 cases of coronavirus and here

among the production facilities in germany they've had at least 3 confirmed cases so far so while of course any type of production stop is very very painful for these companies at the end of the day you know if you have a virus like this spreading among their staff it could be you know it could really hurt their business long term so it's kind of the case of you know ripping off a band-aid and one quick motion is a lot better than you know slowly pulling it off over several months as it's going on productions or at least the responsible thing to do the right thing to do but how long can germany's car industry actually deal with scaling down production or even production stops and what that's kind of the 1000000 dollar question or rather maybe i should say 1000000000 dollar question i mean german car makers are coming off of a fairly good year i mean in general 21000 saw a reduction in terms of the amount of cars sold worldwide however german companies were really able to profit specifically from the asian market however 2020 was always going to be a very expensive year i mean most of these companies are tacking towards new

technologies and they're preparing billions in new investments they have to actually make in order to get these technologies up and running we're talking electric cars self driving cars new battery new battery systems and v.w. is planning has been 60000000000 to get their technology up b.m.w. is also planning to spend 30000000000 so that money isn't there right now exactly exactly with these production stops you never really you never really know it's really going to hurt their bottom line long term is there a silver lining on the horizon they say that is well i mean in terms of the business i know i think so i mean has confirmed that although this virus started in china they have actually managed to get some of the production facilities back up they say that at least the regions where they produce the virus is kind of abetting it's been reduced in terms of new cases so in terms of german cars being sold abroad there does appear to be some hope and it's definitely coming from china that's good news indeed evan chilton from d.w. business thank you so much for this thank you. it what you do w.

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