do not to dumb to pass. through any. disease d.w. news live from berlin the german chancellor angela merkel has gone into home quarantine after she was treated by a doctor who liked her 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 in their support russia just patches doctors and medical equipment to help the country hardest hit in the outbreak. plus coronavirus fears threaten this summer's tokyo olympics japanese prime minister shinzo place is postponing the inevitable. thanks for joining me german chancellor i'm going to marco has gone into home quarantine after a doctor who treated her was diagnosed read the coronavirus on friday medical who is 65 received a vaccine against a different virus from the doctor who tested positive for 19 muckle spokesperson says she'll now undergo daily testing her last act before going into quarantine was

to announce new restrictions on people's freedom of movement and social interaction . and get america about to announce the most severe infringement on individual freedoms seen in germany since world war 2 the corona virus continues to spread rapidly convincing the chancellor that further containment measures are needed so far it have 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. beyond what the doctor bags often get ones like getting we have discussed today how all counter measures are working we have no vaccine and we have no drug against the disease all we have assessed the 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. looks i'm still. in a video conference 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 if eyes. i know that entail sekret fights 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 these doctor friday days 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 aufidius and ninety's now i'm going to america looks has like is in the process of being tested but the tests being carried out no it won't be conclusive like it was in the next couple of hours for sure so she will be continuously regularly tested and for now she is staying as

a precautionary measure is she staying in 17 and dispose some of the government steps inside about say that she would continue to work from home from the time being well 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 gemini will visit the representative if she cannot for example address the nation as she has done that she's only doing visual 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 chess at all was informed have the press was in forms of the government is. playing fair and those so said they were told us

that america will 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'll respond 19 now i'm on you well there have been some stricter measures implemented here in germany walk us through there is if you could well do most significant outdoes measures is no one mentioned it a report that people would not be allowed to go into the streets to meet them all down one other person who doesn't belong to the households of course that doesn't apply to families or dad doesn't apply to people leaving him to do 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 of hair dressed as a palm essential power and that mustache follows all places where you can get it to to be closed down people in very narrow set foot they didn't to go unless it is

funny says harry things such as supermarkets are going to doctor are all going to work so does a 1000000000 us who cannot work from home to double your political correspondent emanuele thank you man you ed. well while authorities around the world take ever more drastic measures to try and 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 u.s. counts more than 3 130000 in fictions worldwide and with over 14000 deaths half of all of the cases of cove and 19 are here in europe lockdown measures are in place in 36 countries greece is the latest and on sunday the syrian government confirmed that country's 1st official case though they've been unconfirmed reports of coronavirus cases in syria in recent weeks

meanwhile initially on sunday authorities said a further 651 people had died from the corona virus that's few other than saturday's record number of deaths but it's still the 2nd worst day so far italy has closed non-essential businesses to try and control the outbreak and outside help luckily is on the way doctors from cuba and from cuba and medical supplies from russia have been dispatched to help support the overwhelmed medical system. and every site 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 your 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 helped 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. well japanese prime minister shinzo has admitted that postponing the olympic games may be inevitable i told polman that in the face of the coronavirus pandemic the safety of athletes had to be conceded 1st and foremost he was speaking after the international olympic committee ruled out canceling the tokyo games said that they may have to take place of a later date post. the i.o.c. decision is in line with what i've said we want to hold the event and it's complete full if that becomes difficult we will think of the athletes 1st and foremost we may have no option but to consider postponing the games. and let's go straight to

tokyo now and speak to journalist michael penn he's the president of the shin gets to news agency michael canada says it's not going to send athletes to the olympics this year a strategy has suggested the same she has been insisting the games would go ahead as planned but isn't it inevitable now that either be cancelled or is himself is hinted postponed. yes you put your finger on exactly the actions which both the canada pick committees and the australian government are taking affectively have collapsed the current line of the japanese government as well as the international olympic committee you know they have been trying to hold the line saying that there would be no change that things would go forward but while they kept delaying and you know essentially being inflexible other people have now taken this decision out of their hands and i think that there will be many other countries following canada and australia in making the moves that they are so the

decision is no longer the international olympic committee or. decision themselves. i want to talk to a bit about the background behind all this it's been a 9 years since the fukushima disaster how much is the desire to show off the recovery in japan from this disaster playing into the reluctance to me to postpone or cancel the olympics. i would put that factor a little bit lower than some others i think that rather than being a showcase for recovery it's more of a showcase for. regime and what it's done since it's been in power for over 7 years you know he was the one who launched the olympic bid and you know many people remember he dressed up as mario the videogame character one of the one of the events so he's very much put his own prestige on it aside from prestige we're

talking money for $6.00 or 7 years you know japan has spent an enormous amount of money to prepare feeling picks and not just the government businesses and organizations we've all you know all been looking forward to 2020 and development plans and timelines have all been based on 2020 is the olympic year and suddenly that's being thrown thrown off it and clearly it was very difficult for the japanese government to admit that it's long held plans had fallen apart is that people have been looking forward to the games for such a long time now what people in japan think about this today what the olympics to go ahead. public opinion polling is pretty clear that the japanese public is more realistic about the issue than the japanese government has been the japanese public has been telling pollsters that they they now think that the games will be delayed or canceled and you know i think that most of them are kind of shrugging their

shoulders and saying well you know it's just something that's out of our hands it's in the hands of nature so you know it we just have to go along with it or the japanese government hasn't taken that position yet but the japanese public house good to talk to michael paine from the news agency in tokyo thank you. new york city has implemented a tough lockdown and slowing down the spread of coronavirus one in 3 americans is now under a stay at home president donald trump has released funding for deploying the national guard and that's part of a major disaster declaration for new york and washington state's fraying ups federal supplies and equipment to help. in addition to large quantities of supplies i have also directed fema to supply the following 4 large federal 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 news just a reminder we've got extensive coverage of the coronavirus crisis on our website which is w dot com i'm jared bernstein filling thanks for watching. the stories that. whatever takes. the running.