i. think tobin's not right. for the more stores on t.w. . disease do w. news live from berlin german chancellor angela merkel has gone into home quarantine as a precaution after she was treated by a doctor who later tests later tested positive for the corona virus the announcement coming moments after medical introduced tighter restrictions banning gatherings of more than 2 people nationwide. and usually tightens its coronavirus

controls while other countries say in these support russia dispatches doctors and medical equipment to help the country how this heat in the outbreak. plus dr sanction iran says the u.s. needs to lift its crippling economic embargo to help the country fight its devastating corona virus outbreak but tehran has recently rejected the u.s. offer evaluate. time jarad ray thanks for joining me german chancellor angela merkel has gone into home quarantine after a doctor who treated her was diagnosed with the corona virus on friday markel who is 65 received a vaccine against a different virus from the doctor who later tested positive for covert 19 now merkel spokesperson says she'll lawat to go daily testing her last act before going

into current chain was to announce stringent new social restrictions nationwide. and give america about to announce the most severe infringement on individual freedoms seen in germany since world war 2 the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly convincing the chancellor that further containment measures are needed so far it has largely been left to states and municipalities to curb the contagion creating a patchwork of rules and guidelines the new measures will be rolled out across germany. did i have a few ones looking we have discussed today how all countermeasures are working we have no vaccine and we have no drug against the disease all we have a firstly the efforts we are making to prepare our health care system especially hospitals for the expected continued high rise in infections. and secondly our

own behavior. that is currently most effective measure. books i'm still. in a video conference call and state leaders decided to ban gatherings of more than 2 people excluding families and housemates she thanked the population for observing measures and guidelines already in place it's wise that suspects. i know that entail sec rafah is both economically and on a personal level when shops have to close and it's not possible to socialise. it's even more painful not being able to visit grandparents or meet friends we all have to live without this for a while i am deeply touched that so many people are following those rules that's but with me. within an hour of her leaving the press conference news she was going

into quarantine broke and get america has put herself front and center of germany's response to the pandemic she now gets to lead by example. well let's go straight to d.w. political correspondent imani was shot as good to see you emanuel. who is now in quarantine at home after a doctor who treated her tested positive for the corona virus what more do we know right now. will we know that indeed she met dr dietz friday it is dr gates as we just heard her a. new book called coal. vaccine as a precautionary measure and since then that doctor has tested positive for the novel coronavirus folk overheated and ninety's now i'm going to america looks like it is in the process of being tested the tests being carried out no i want to conclude is eat like in was in the next couple of hours for sure so she would be

continuously regularly tested and for now she is staying as a precautionary measure is she staying inside current enough and disposing of the government stepped inside about say that she would continue to work from home from the time being while being regularly tested now how is this going to affix germany's response to the pandemic. well she hasn't tested positive yet she's not sick yet so she's going to work from home of course at the moment germany will lack a visible representative if she cannot for example address the nation as she has done that she is only doing vision conference video conference so phone calls but she isn't sick yet so i would say it's one step at a time for the german government it showed a lot of transparency which i mean only a few hours few moments after the chest said it wasn't for have to press

was in forms of the government is. playing fair and so said it would pull it's got a medical is now leading by example by set isolating so as not to contaminate other people each case she would test positive solid enough to cover enough i respond 19 now i'm on you well there have been some stricter measures implemented here in germany walk us through those if you could well do most significant outdoes measures is the one mentioned at the report that people would not be allowed to go industries to meet more than one other person who doesn't belong to the households of course that doesn't apply to families or dad doesn't apply to future leaving under does same rules but it's quite different street to measure so we see a tightening of those measures so the closure of restaurants or closure will all all the places where physical contact is a favorite for a sample a hairdresser has a palm essential parlor and that moustache follows all places where you can get it

it too will be closed down people in very narrow set foot didn't to go out unless it is funny says harry things such as supermarkets are going to doctor are all going to work photos of the villainous who cannot work from home to dublin your political correspondent emanuele thank you i'm on your way. well while authorities around the world take ever more drastic measures to try to slow the spread of the corona virus the number of cases globally has nearly doubled in the last week let's take a look at the numbers the current tally by johns hopkins university in the united states counts more than 330000 infections worldwide and without over 14000 deaths now half of all the cases of coded 19 here in europe locked down measures are in place in 36 countries greece being the lightest globally one in 7 people are now confined to their harms meanwhile easily on sunday authorities said

a further 651 people had died from the corona virus now that's few of in saturday's record number of deaths but it is still the 2nd worst day so far usually has closed non-essential businesses to try to control the outbreak and outside help is on the way doctors from cuba and medical supplies from russia have been dispatched to help support the overwhelmed medical system. and eerie sight that's now the norm in many italian cities. practically deserted apart from police cars and military vehicles. rules confining italians to their homes were tightened even further the prime minister announced all public offices building sites and businesses would close unless they are essential to keeping the country's supply chain going. we're sure you're dozing sacrifices that today can look like

a step behind will allow us tomorrow to run and to come back soon into our factories. into our offices into our squares into the arms of relatives and friends . we're giving up our most beloved habits because we love italy but we're not giving up our confidence in the future united we will make it. as italy ramps up its lockdown measures with a greater police and military presence the 1st of 9 russian army planes were preparing to fly to italy carrying up to 100 military experts and medics the aid mission comes after russian president putin offered support to the italian prime minister on the phone it's help but italy badly needs. behind closed doors and shuttered windows of the long body region people are already reeling from the 546 deaths recorded on saturday here like all over the

country just one hope that maybe italy will emerge soon from one of the darkest chapters in recent history. now iran is among the countries worst affected by the virus world wide according to the country's health ministry nearly 1700 people have died from 19 so far and more than 21000 people have tested positive but it's believed the actual numbers could be even higher international eye groups like doctors without borders sending emergency teams and medical equipment to prop up the local health system but many iranians say that's simply not enough politicians and citizens on social media won't think you ways to lift its crippling financial sanctions to ease the flow of medical i the pandemic. let's go to washington d.c. now and bring in more chizhov issues in a rainy an american journalist and political commentator welcome to do w.

negara the trumpet minister says the financial sanctions against iran don't prevent humanitarian aid firstly is this true and what effect od the sanctions having in the fight against the virus. on paper it's true that sanctions are supposed to not include food medicine and humanitarian aid but in practice when you speak to lawyers and people who are in the business sanctions financial sanctions are basically just waiting banks to sillett hating these businesses because any kind of trade with a friend in prevention we need a bank to be able to do the payment and that is having an impact on humanitarian trade including medicine and medical supplies as a massive shortage of medical supplies in the country with this corollaries crisis and basically it's not just the writing and also some more the leaders of sunday prime minister i saw today and some of the european governments have urged the

united states to lift the sanctions including some here in washington of the democratic party president trump and separate from payola to try to establish as at least during this crisis. you could argue that the iranian government itself has not handled this crisis well how much responsibility should it take for how severe the op right because bain. well they're running a government of the one 1st and foremost responsible for the way they handled the outbreak we have to remember this virus is beyond almost any country. look at what's happening in europe in italy as you said but they want to government have been slow in acknowledging at the beginning they they were slow and not transparent try to hide the real numbers and wait for the spread of the wire and that contribution to an outbreak which has now made iran basically the at the center of the virus in the region some of its neighbors have contracted the virus to travel

of people from iran to these countries and it's just not been the kind of response that the government should have had combined with these foreign pressure as u.s. sanctions as we discussed this just created a very disastrous situation that iraqi people are paying the price for a disastrous situation as you say all of this puts a runyon to themselves in a really tough position how a value dealing with these well portion of the population is taking the quarantine measures very seriously trying to basically stay at home and even in places where the government is lacking proper respond part of the population has been reluctant or has a 10 or even resisting. virus start spreading in the village a city of all men it was difficult to close up some religious sites there was that kind of clash but i think now it seems like the population the thing most seriously there is more of a sense of community and also much appreciation for health workers and the medical

community doctors and nurses were literally risking their lives at the front lines of the fight it's been really good to talk to you and i got more to zazi and iranian american journalist and political commentator thank you now go thank you. well the u.s. government is ramping up its attempts to halt the spread of the corona virus the city of new york is set to impose a strict lockdown within the next hour and the president will trump says the national god has been quote activated in california new york and washington state now trump is also approved a major disaster declarations for new york and washington frees up federal supplies and equipment to help. in addition to large quantities of supplies have also directed fema to supply the following 4 large better all medical stations with 1000 beds for new york 8 large federal medical stations with 2000 beds

for california and 3 large federal medical stations and 4 small federal medical stations with 1000 beds for the state of washington. you're watching d.w. news will be back at the top of the hour just a reminder we've got extensive coverage of the coronavirus crisis on our web site t w dot com uncharted territory and building of i. am not laughing at the germans because sometimes they are place and nothing with them . they think into german culture. we take this drama there he goes it's all that. time rachel join me for me to get the sunday tell the whole

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