this is deja vu news live from berlin the world wide death toll from corona virus surges past and 1000 the majority of those deaths are now in its elite overtaking china and despite a near total lockdown there at the epicenter of europe's outbreak the spread is not stopping. also coming up containing the corona virus in germany parked at various closes down public life almost completely a big debate over whether the entire country should go on lockdown.

i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the worldwide death toll mounts as the corona virus keeps up its rapid spread according to johns hopkins university in the united states the coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 10000 people worldwide the majority of those deaths are no longer in china where the virus was 1st detected but in italy and almost 3 and a half 1000 people have now died from the virus there and infections in the country have surged past 841000 the region of lombardy and northern italy is the hardest hit so many people have died here in recent days that cemeteries are no longer able to cope hospitals across italy are running out of space and doctors and nurses say

they can't manage for much longer. racing against time to provide more intensive care beds here in rome the newly built columbus covert to unit is already taking patients and more dedicated hospitals are on the way officials fear the dire situation in italy's north could soon start heading south on thursday italy's search passed china as the country with the most coronavirus did a milestone marked with grim images of army trucks transporting coffins from the worst hit region of lombardy as the death toll mounts those trying to help the living are struggling to cope. where working in a state of very high stress and tension psychological stress has gone through the roof unfortunately we can't contain the situation in one body there's a high level of contagion and we're not even counting the dead anymore seymour and

the lockdown means patients are having to fight for their lives without emotional support. greatest problem which is emerging these days i would say is that the patients can't be visited by the road tubes and often die on the wrong. with italy's corona crisis exploding china has sent medical teams and equipment to help but the chinese red cross says the hard won advice is not being hated here in the city of mobile which is in the hardest hit region you don't have a very strict lockdown policy the public transport is still working and people are still moving around and you're still having dinners and parties and hotels and you're not wearing masks. italian streets are empty but there's fear they'll soon be filled with more trucks carrying bodies. and let's get

more now we are joined by sema gupta who joins us from rome and see what we just heard there criticism that people are not heeding the lockdown still people who are out and about does that appear to be true from where you're standing. well what we do understand is that there's a feeling as far as the officials are concerned that there are too many people out and about without a valid reason and you know you planning to ban all outdoor activity they're seeing too many people taking the jogging and coming out to the street perhaps frustrated about being stuck indoors but they say you really need to take extra measures now because we're still nowhere near the peak of inspections here it's only the heads of the civil protection services say that that could be another week or perhaps even 2 weeks from now and so everybody needs to buckle down and stay at home now just on thursday alone there were $9600.00 violations of the lockdown visions and it's precisely because of this that they're looking at putting

in more stringent measures a school closure expected to be extended roll they've announced that they're getting creased the number of controls that they also going to be roadblocks set up in the law and we understand that a $114.00 soldiers have been put out to the streets there but the governor of the law but the region where everyone is located he says that's not enough it's nothing of what we need we definitely need more in beneteau they're saying that if you're going to walk your dog you shouldn't be going more than 200 meters from your home so really they are trying to crack down people are frustrated but it's necessary to limit the spread of covert 19 and one thing as you know limiting the spread of the virus another is you know how are people getting by in this situation the italian prime minister today called on the european union to unleash the full firepower of its rescue fund for countries that are struggling such as italy is italy getting enough support from brussels and its european partners right now. well i think you

know the italian economy which was a stagnant economy to begin with is going to suffer greatly as a result of this economic shutdown you know we are still much of night and while the priority is on the health of its citizens i think the prime minister's also of course got his eye of the economy and what's happened to people's livelihoods and that is why he say look at that 500000000000 rescue fund that you has now is the time to put it into action to help countries like italy that are suffering a but we need solidarity with the european union interesting to note that the french economy minister himself said if you don't help it to be now if you abandon now the entire european project may not be revived and so it's essential to have one voice on this issue and to work together in shared submission as well on how to deal with corona virus here in the european continent corresponded seem

a good day and wrong thank you. and with nearly 2000 new cases in a single day the corona virus is spreading rapidly throughout spain it is the worst affected country in europe after italy and concerns are growing that the country's health care system cannot cope with the crisis correspondent john philip schultz reports from a country that is struggling to curb the pandemic. doctors and other health care workers a space new heroes that work has never been as crucial as it is now over time emergency measures and preparations for worst case scenarios the art of the dead staff are so overwhelmed to speak to the media eventually we managed to reach a spanish doctor by telephone who was working across the body from. mario oh i you and your colleagues feeling at the moment i think what 20 years. to say

people's eyes to the make that was better quality of life. jealousy weeks not all i think they should all really good question i just tried to walk my dog for some steps what can each of us to know he thought she was she said. the jelly she. said the things that are said so. i think. i got to take the measures. the association of spanish emergency physicians warns that thousands of lives of threatens the current lockdown measures aren't abates spain only has 5000 beds in intensive care units many health care institutions have been privatized in recent years but due to the current emergency they are now partially back under state

control. critics say the continuous cost cutting in the health sector has contributed to the current crisis but most spenders agree this is not the time for political debate this is the time for fast action more and more people join a social media campaign and try to support health workers in their very own way. every even a good age o'clock sharp the people once they take to get the police to applaud then. it's a ritual they hope will get medical workers to do to help them get through these difficult days. and here in germany the state of bavaria has announced further restrictions on people aimed to curb the spread of the coronavirus neighboring has which includes the city of frankfurt has followed suit unlike other european countries germany has refrained from imposing a total lockdown on its citizens the very and see premier marcus surtur stops short

of using the term lockdown in his speech today. up friday dark disputants up for writers from friday this friday beginning tonight at midnight for an unusual period of 2 weeks there will be general restrictions on movement in the very i was stunned species going through and we're not closing the very year off but we shutting down public launch in bavaria for almost completely but i am not into flushed and the show into. let's get more we are joined by date of the political correspondent hans bronze hons what does this mean for the people of the various. well in effect people are not a lot of leave their homes unless they're going to work to do some shopping or to do some medical care or to go to help somebody else there are some exceptions if you are allowed to go for a walk or a run on your own or possibly with your park know with your family but that is a very very restricted liberty as it were at the same time restaurants are being

closed so that people cannot go and sit in restaurants on restaurant terraces outside. all in all it's going to slow down life in bavaria very very much more than it has been recent days because people have not been following the rules that have been imposed before and how about in their regions cons can we see similar measures also being adopted there has been a similar measure is about to be adopted in a region that is very close to the border with france to an area of france which is very severely affected by the corona outbreak and various federal states and germany have today announced their own more restrictive measures none of them have gone as far as bavaria but in most cases this means that restaurants are being completely closed down and that the number of people that are allowed to be outside in groups is severely restricted in some places it's groups of 3 or less that are

still allowed in other places of 5 or less but very very small groups and these are going to be severely controlled by the police today there was a press conference at the center for disease control in germany it's called the robert coffee institute and the head of that institute was also what he thought about imposing further restrictions on people's movement this listen to what he had to say about that. if we all stick to the measures that have been i would lined us then we can very much slow down in this outbreak and it might be the case that further action would need to be taken in certain regions that are facing specific conditions so that this opt to the discretion of the decision makers on the ground . there and try to go for it. hands are people following those recommendations and if not why do so many germans find it so difficult to follow

social distancing. well we have to say that you know all these restrictions wouldn't be coming in such a short measure after each other if people had been following these instructions so the answer has to be that people have not been following the appeals by politicians by the government of well enough. it hasn't to some extent to do with the fact that it's. the beginning of spring the 1st few really good sunny days in this part of the world and people are very eager to go outside obviously a lot of people are also working from home so they spend all day at home they want to go outside so the urge to leave their places where they're living i suppose is too strong knowledge is going to be stopped by the authorities in fact i'm going to knock over a chance that all the leaders of the regions are going to be discussing on sunday whether in fact it might in fact still be necessary to impose a locked on nationwide d w political correspondent hans brunt thank you hans. meanwhile

germany's disease control center says that the number of coronavirus cases has jumped again there are now 13957 people infected and 31 people have died as the country debates whether to impose a nationwide lockdown as we've heard one city near the french border has gone ahead with a stay at home order. empty streets aside fireball will have to get used to after all thora t.'s announced a 2 week lockdown it was the 1st german city to order residents to stay at home but many are now asking themselves if the whole country could soon be stuck indoors including sarah and her friends who were out enjoying the sun together despite appeals not to as this pushed them best out of this is measurably better so people don't get infected and the hospitals are already overstretched but it's hard to imagine in a country with so many people like germany. not thrilled at absolutely not

most of those gathering in the park know they shouldn't be but they find it hard to accept in this residential area nearby many are staying at home that it's hard. to get i'm not doing well i'm going to cry. and it might be because i can't see my children. for usin something you know there's this and it's a real shame that we can't see our children and especially our grandchildren i don't believe in them that you need what we accepted we do what we're supposed to. do to bring our distance you know keeping distance brandenburg gate is pretty empty and those we spoke to expect a lockdown. eskom tonight party so be here in a few days that's why right now. the town of heinz berg is

a coronavirus hotspot in germany both already he's there are appealing for a reason i love using high risk groups ourselves isolating they only go to the doctor the orders restrict their movement to a minimum efficiently drive to work for them by central banks mcclaren to call for the threat of a lockdown is weighing on people's minds. before you had experience in the biggest loss of personal freedom since the 2nd world war 2 weeks ago there was soccer matches with 50000 fans it's not easy to change so radically from one day to the next the government is trying appeals if they don't work bans on going out will follow. hime blog has taken that decision the lockdown goes into force on saturday. and let's have a look now at some of the other corona related developments around the world austria is extending its tight restrictions on movement until april 13th the

country has reported more than $2200.00 cases and 6 deaths ukraine expects to receive $10000000.00 coronavirus tests from china in the next 2 days the shipment will also include masks disinfectant and bed ventilators hard hit iran has appealed for international pressure to bring an immediate end to u.s. sanctions so that it can import medicine in quitman desperately needed to fight the pandemic and us president donald trump has canceled plans to host the g. 7 summit in june instead he will meet with leaders from the world's wealthy democracies on video conference. as covered $1000.00 continues to impact the world we wanted to explore the science behind spread what makes this virus so contagious and what exactly happens during an infection our science team took a look at how the process works. several 1000 species of viruses have been classified so far but researchers believe millions more are left to be

discovered only a tiny fraction just a few 100 cause disease in humans and many of these infectious pathogens including the one that causes coded 19 are transmitted via droplets when someone who's in fact it coughs or sneezes a virus is a little more than a collection of genetic information protected by a protein coat it's not viewed as a full fledged form of life because unlike lifeforms it doesn't make its own energy it has to steal energy to make more of itself to replicate a coronavirus has to invade living cells like those in the long of a human being 1st viruses like sars cove to duncombe specific receptors on the cells outer membrane once attached they can either be absorbed entirely by the cell or inject their genetic sequence into its interior the cellular machinery is then hijacked to churn out more viral envelopes and sequences when assembled the new

viruses then burst out of the infected cell to infect others usually killing the host cell in the process pretty nasty virus there let's bring in deja vu science correspondent eric williams he put that explanation together for us he joins us now derek what are researchers talking about at the moment. well on the prevention and treatment side of things there's been some talk about an attempt to develop a vaccine that oxford in the u.k. the researchers there are 7 if all goes well they could have a viable candidate in production by the end of this year that's a very optimistic forecast pretty much every other expert continues to say we won't be saying about him for at least another 18 months there's also been interest a spike in excitement about possibly treating the disease but in a crude n.t. model a review on medication a lot of. large scale study of that going on in the us this week but with treatment still somewhere down the line

a lot of the focus at the moment is on measures that various company comes countries are implementing to try to contain coronavirus spread and to what extent those measures could impact on what's called herd immunity tell us a little bit more about her immunity to erika's though that word and also controlled herd immunity has been coming up a lot lately what does it mean. well herd immunity describes a situation where certain many people in the population are immune to an infection that it can effectively stop that is use from spreading so in an outbreak there are 2 different ways that people can gain immunity i know they can catch the disease and build up an immune response that will prevent them from being infected by the same bug in the future or they can receive a vaccine that fools the body into responding as though it caught the disease even though it didn't so for the purposes of herd immunity it doesn't really matter which of those 2 ways they develop an immune response what's important is that as

the number of people who are immune to the rises in the population it begins to spread more slowly so imagine a situation where at the beginning of an outbreak no one is immune and an infected person gives it to other people but once 50 percent of the population has acquired immunity an infected person can only give it to one other person rather than 2 that's because the other one that would have given it to you is protected they already have immunity so rising immunity in the herd society as a whole act as a brake on the spread of the disease there's there's been a lot of discussion and in britain and the netherlands in particular about trying to reach herd immunity quickly in a controlled way right now we know that seem there's only one way to do it and that's to accept that that large numbers of people will get set quickly and that they'll get over it so their immunity with and help protect the rest of the population but in general controlled herd immunity that approach can it work i mean what are the experts saying in the context pacifically of coronavirus right now.

well most of you have a genealogist i've been talking to and following say that it's an interesting idea for an experimental setting but more or less all agree that trying to implement some kind of controlled herd immunity in this really rapidly evolving scenario is a crazy idea for a couple of different reasons 1st because we know little about immunity to the virus or really or how long it lasts i mean we assume that there is going to be an immune effect of some kind after someone gets over a covert 1000 but we still don't know much about that or or how long it will potentially last allowing if i was to spread when you don't know whether people could quickly get it a 2nd time is a huge risk there's also the question of how actually controlled it would all remain near the whole point behind social distancing measures is to slow the spread of the disease so to flatten the curve until you have medicines and vaccines and certain unity can also be reached back scenes and they don't kill people or you

know if you allow people to catch their lives even in a controlled setting then some of them are going to die so for the moment lockdowns and social distancing until we have medications and a vaccine are the better choice and eric williams his science correspondent thank you jack. well now let's have a look at how the global coronavirus crisis has been affecting business after netflix online giant you tube will also be reducing its streaming quality in the european union that is to avoid straining the internet as a high number of people switch to teleworking and watch videos at home some european telecom providers have reported a spike in data traffic in recent days. german economy minister paid to outlier wants to loosen antitrust laws to allow greater cooperation between retail businesses in the fight against the coronavirus the magazine dash spiegel quotes out my as saying that the government is willing to allow closer cooperation between the food industry and retail sector to secure supplies in germany and luxury

carmaker bentley will halt its car production in the u.k. for 4 weeks the decision was made to keep employees safe also due to the pandemic there is a growing uncertainty regarding parts supplies the british luxury brand is owned by volkswagen that german company announced its own shutdowns earlier this week. us asian and european shares have rallied in friday's session germany's dax climbed by almost 5 percent shortly before the close of trading that's after western governments promised huge sums to keep businesses afloat now china also seems set to one lease trillions of you won in government spending uptick follows a volatile few weeks for investors trillions of dollars were wiped off stock markets. well after sharp declines earlier this week investors welcomed central bank and government stimulus efforts our correspondent in frankfurt reports. it's

been a hopeful and 2 a brutal week of trading stocks here and frankfurt rebounded on friday but not enough to make up for the 30 percent they've lost over the past month is do seem to be taking some comfort in the pledges from central bankers and governments that they will do whatever it takes to stabilize the economy over the past week we've seen more than 30 central banks come out and unprecedented action to cut interest rates and there's trillions of dollars worth of aid for businesses and workers coming down the pipeline and europe and the u.s. and the u.k. and asia these measures are necessary to push on the economic flow of the coronavirus but whether that's going to be enough given that the global economy is being brought to a standstill the jury is still out on that i think looking forward investors are anticipating more stimulus but what's going to determine if markets find their footing is really at the development of the virus and whether that gets under

control at any point. well the olympic flame has arrived in japan ahead of the game scheduled for this summer despite fears that they may not take place at all the flame began its tour in northern japan in the areas hardest hit by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster hundreds of people turned up to catch a glimpse despite warnings not to do so because of the coronavirus there are growing calls to postpone the games due to be held in july because of the content if. you're watching news a quick reminder of our top story italy has overtaken china would be hard used one of my resistance told and despite a near total lockdown across into the virus is continuing to search almost 3000 people have now died there from fires. broke why death toll has now passed 10000 the german state of bavaria has announced measures to close down public life almost

completely the need to debate over whether the entire country should. so under lockdown the various officials say that for the next 2 weeks people's movements will be severely restricted the state is one of the worst affected in germany. up next our environment magazine eco india is edition explores whether economic progress can take place in harmony with the environment i'm sorry kelly thanks for watching.

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