virus pandemic is shifting from italy to new york $20000.00 cases in new york city alone the mayor warning that hospitals will run out of supplies by the end of the week and the virus is now truly global the world health organization saying almost every country is now a host are burned off in berlin this is the day. the pundit make is accelerating. we can change. the trajectory despond of me. to when. we need to at times defiant as aggressive and get to tough ticks testing every suspected case isolating and caring for them for the case and tracing and quite intimidating

and close on time. solving this problem but he quietus political commitment and quality goods coordination. and to build a living. also coming up the pandemics and social distancing in what it means for us when we want to reach for those 'd we love the most tonight messages of the heart from the big apple my daughter came up. i'm. i can't even really give her the embrace and the casts that i want to give her this is all true and this story and. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with almost 2000000000 people staying at home and practically every country in the world now

reporting king says of the coronavirus as a 2nd week of walk downs begins the epicenter of the pandemic has migrated from italy to new york state new york city alone has more than 20000 confirmed cases and the mayor today warned that hospitals will run out of life saving ventilators by the end of the week today the world health organization said the global tally of confirmed cases now stands at 350000 nearly 15000 people have died here in europe the number of deaths in italy the hardest hit country here fell for a 2nd consecutive day a reason for cautious hope but the w.h.o. says the pandemic can only be slowed if the world's developed countries work together take a listen we need unity in the g 20 countries who have more than 80 parrots and over the global g.d.p.

the most important os 2 g. 20 leaders is soley dati to be one and 2 are not as one because they have the biggest stick in the world. in all respects it was the head of the w.h.o. speaking earlier today there is good news tonight for the german chancellor angela merkel she has tested negative for the corona virus you may remember when into isolation on sunday saying that she had been notified that her doctor who she had seen last week had just tested positive for the virus and there is reason for cautious optimism here in germany the country's top public health institution the robert clark institute says the latest numbers suggest that the number of new

infections is leveling off there are 29000 confirmed cases in germany 118 people have died. tourist mecca it's like the brandenburg gate should be buzzing with locals and visitors but lockdown measures mean people are after those only for essential reasons like going to work shopping oval king the dog. but germany's robert costa institute says there's reason to be cautiously optimistic that the measures are working. the indian trend we're seeing signs that the exponential growth curve is flattening off slightly but i will only be able to confirm this trend definitively on wednesday definitive kind of a but i am optimistic that the measures are already having an effect which is very early because they've only been in place for a week. or 2 fondren scenes like these from just last week i think of the past for

now anyway chancellor merkel is in quarantine at home she's been tested after contact with an infected doctor that test came back negative but she'll be tested regularly in the coming days meanwhile she's telling where king finance minister all of shoulders will be covering some of her cuties of these advice is that the chancellor has asked me to speak for her in the pond as tag on wednesday and we will manage this. however i believe that this is a very important sign that this infection can hit every one of us we are very vulnerable as human beings and you know one is protected from this if no one is protected for more now i'm joined by the w.'s chief political editor mckayla kirshner she is live from her home home office in social distancing all in one tonight good evening to you make when when she went into isolation on sunday you know there was this global gasp everyone wanted to know does she have the virus is she healthy talk to me

a little bit about what this says about the role of miracle in europe and in the world. well it says that not just to the bubble of the bubble but much wider and europe and across the globe this silly lack of imagination of what's things will be like what international politics will be like if i'm glad i'm out of this new germany after all still the strongest economy of europe even within this crisis and that's why we had this kind of collective us at the same time we now see it's hans and confined to her home office as historic events unfold not least to mention germany stepping off the brake of taking on new debts the so-called black 0 and the one thing yes another historic budget to do some down this limitation in the end to the german economy. you know

germany unlike spain france and italy has not imposed a nationwide lockdown last week and her 1st ever primetime televised address she appealed to the public to do the right thing and to abide by these social distancing requirements i mean this is true miracle just like in 242015 with her open door policy believing in the goodness of people and moments when it matters most would you agree. absolutely there is one big difference between now and 2015 in this crisis she after all is a physicist she has an insufferable and shuffle belief in science she analyzes the situation and she also let the general public in this historic televised address usually only hear from her in years address on the kind of large

weighty issues this time responding immediately to the crisis for the 1st time in these almost 15 years of her being tough and she said we are a democracy. i don't believe we don't believe in enforcement we live off a shared knowledge and participation so her attempt was not to force people to behave but to convince every single german that this is for the good of the country at the same time we didn't see her declare war on a virus as many other leaders did so a significant difference in style interesting though no real reference to a common european approach because that's simply not there and before we go to the german cabinet today said yes to that unprecedented economic aid package for a country with budget surpluses obsessed with having their deficits as you said

this pandemic really is a paradigm change isn't it. absolutely and some 750000000000 here is being talked about here and this is a paradigm sit in many ways because this was going to be a positive angle of an apples legacy no longer to have the government that's in the bread which is so become the common style across the globe and at this moment in crisis we see what is seen as of all that static so-called grand coalition with the sense of democrats drop all the upswing and pull together to come up with something that is truly historic let's see what it was you know let's see our chief political editor mcculloch with me tonight in berlin thank you. the coronavirus statistics for germany and the united states have run fairly

parallel for much of this al break in terms of confirmed cases but not in the number of deaths germany has noticeably fewer deaths than the us or what does that say about germany's health care system well it may be too early to draw any conclusions at the moment germany's hospitals and clinics like those in the us are struggling to cope with this crisis in rural areas the phones have not stopped ringing at doctors' offices where worries and questions are in abundance but staff and equipment are in short supply. the streets are deserted in the town of. we're on our way to visit a family doctor she's had to deal with a sharp rise in the number of people consulting her since the corona crisis began. yeah and of course spends up to 15 hours a day advising and treating patients a practice is in a near constant state of emergency it was particularly crazy at the beginning of

the outbreak like hours it was chaos people coughing and sneezing on each other everybody had lots of questions and badly needed advice and information it was too much all at once. the doctor now divides patients into groups anyone who wants to see her has to phone 1st and ask its details and the doctor then decides whether the patient needs to come in a tool the aim is to break the chain of infection and especially to protect the chronically ill they're particularly at risk if they contract corona contemplation of the time we split up our consultation times in the morning we see the chronically ill then i do consultations by phone then the smear tests that need to be done and the final part is for those who might just have to check with the stethoscope off for an infection. that approach went a long way towards easing the stress but now her assistant dr is sick and calls can

hardly keep up and next patient is an ambulance driver he has a chronic cough which has recently gotten worse. the doctor writes in a sick note but there's not much you can do to reassure him. if there's already something wrong with your lungs and then you contract the coronavirus it can go badly for you i am a little panicked and probably a bit panicked there's no reason to panic. keep calm and carry on that's perhaps the doctor's greatest challenge at the moment she's running out of facemasks and has no proper protective clothing on top of that the authorities have provided conflicting information with regard to protective gear we're told at the beginning that you could only carry out a corona test if you had the full equipment then another authority is that just go ahead and test and we do need to test after all that this huge uncertainty now she take samples wearing a surgical mask and her husband cycling goggles she's turned her yacht into

a kind of dr in facility so that people don't have to come into the practice at all . i think it's important that we make progress and i want to do my part in that what do you mean by progress let us have is that we get accurate information on say how effective isolation is the response was sluggish at 1st. yana growth expects corona virus infections in rural areas to rise sharply in the next couple of weeks she and her colleagues are doing everything they can to avoid getting sick themselves so they can continue to help those who really need it. oh my next guest tonight is neil greenberg he's a professor of psychiatry at king's college in london professor greenberg welcome to the day the main concern in this pandemic of course is making sure that people do not catch the virus and become ill but there are there are side effects here social distancing for example it means self-imposed loneliness for millions of people why can this why can this also be

a threat. so what we know having carried out a view of the evidence at king's college london is that going into quarantine or one's self can sometimes have mental health effects now it's fair to say that if isolation scene is done reasonably then actually the evidence is that most of us won't particularly like it but will get on with it and it won't cause any long term problems but done badly it can cause difficulties so what do i mean by being done badly well 1st of all we know that if you don't give people a good explanation as to why the quarantines needed that's not helpful we also know that if you don't make basic supplies food senate health care products available again that can cause problems for them or if you don't allow people to see connect with each other you know using skype what's apple what out forms of social media

again that can cause problems and then 2 particular situations cause difficulties. people off financially in a lot of difficulty as a result of not being able to get out and their last piece that we now all face that if you say the quarantine is going to be for 2 weeks but then you decided the last moment to change it say to 4 weeks we know again that that can cause mental health difficulties you know we're just getting reports now professor that all of the u.k. where you will or is going to be put under. that is beginning in the u.k. let me ask you in terms of the time what about if you're told the isolation or the walk down is going to be for only 2 weeks but actually it's really for 2 months we've got to keep it like that in the united states right now president trump has implied that in 15 days everything will be back to normal what does that do to people's mental health. well actually the evidence as i said from the all the view

of the literature says that that's definitely a bad thing. the evidence suggests that what you should be doing is to keep people as realistic an expectation old the period of quarantine as you can have along that is people can begin to get ahead of on that what wiki doesn't go down well is to say it's going to be 2 weeks and then it turned out to be 2 months and that would help today you know divide the trust in government quite a lot interestingly we've done studies actually on minute she troops who go on deployment and we know that too that actually if you get told you are deploying to 6 months and it turns out you stay out at the 8 months that has a really bad effect on your mental how. we understand that families for example a family of 4 in a small apartment as well as the elderly they appeared to be 2 groups that are particularly at risk. in the current climate talk to me a little bit about why is that the case i mean why are older people at risk of this

imposed loneliness. well even before they call an outbreak started it i mean it's fair to say that a lot of people tend to be more socially isolated anyway so being told that they can go out and having families and friends not being able to come and visit them is going to make that situation worse another important aspect with older people is whilst it's not truthful with them you know many of them find technology quite difficult to deal with and of course the way that many people now are staying socially connected is to using social media and communication apps that maybe older people find more difficult to use i think in terms of families trapped so to speak in small apartments or without much outdoor space again i think it's reasonably understandable that they're going to find it hard to find a bit of isolating space to perhaps sort of measure their thoughts and get some perspective on what's happening when there really is nowhere to go. but i think to

put it in perspective it is fair to say that certainly in the u.k. and i believe across most of the world you know governments are doing what they can to try and make sure that people get their supplies that they need and and also the ability to connect with others that they need in order to stay healthy so i think in essence so although those 2 situations that you described. i would hope that over time people and people trapped so to speak in an apartment will come to find a way to take to get on with each other which which was inside bad for them mental health and professor we've got about 30 seconds let me just ask you this do you think that italy is do they have a particularly difficult time with social distancing cultures where people are demonstrably more overt where they are more more social or seem to be compared to cultures where maybe people are not in their appearance and sociable. yeah i

think we are speculating here because the evidence is not available to to definitively say but i think it follows that it makes sense if you will very much more of a social person and or social culture you would find social isolation more difficult but i believe it's only one of the there's sort of positive messages coming out these people out on balconies connecting with each other at the not distant sure now actually you can still have a social involvement even if you're not right next door to someone all right professor greenberg joining us tonight from king's college in london professor thank you very much. thank you no less welcome. well the u.s. central bank is taking unprecedented steps aimed at limiting the damage to the u.s. economy caused by the corona virus outbreak the federal reserve has promised to commit unlimited funds to buy assets as part of its quantitative easing program meanwhile the u.s. congress has again failed to pass a relief package worth more than one trillion dollars to support businesses republican and democratic senators have spent 2 days trying to reach an agreement

on this stimulus package. you know the u.s. federal reserve promising to do what the european central bank is also promising that is to rev up the money printing presses for more i'm joined now by rob what's here from our business desk rob talk to me so the u.s. fed is really almost mirroring what we've seen here in europe isn't it yeah that's right this is the fed indicating that it is willing to do whatever it can to make sure that businesses have the money that they need to get them through this crisis is essentially pulling all the leaves that are available to it we've already seen interest rates reduced to as low as they say the tool that the fed is now using is one that has been a trustee tool over the past decades constant to easing which is you know the printing of money as people often call it but it's just making sure there's mall money in circulation the way it does that is by buying up government treasury bonds and he said that it is willing to do that to an unlimited extent as he say welling

to just open the gates is amazing stand by for just a 2nd it's the german government we understand has announced a 750000000000 euro package of measures to see the country through this crisis the wine share of the money that corporations primarily in the form of loan guarantees but the state could also buy stakes in some companies if need be there's also money for grants for small in medium sized businesses germany's king of the. development bank will be able to issue an unlimited total of low interest loans with minimal red tape further measures will help short time workers have been if it claim it's quicker access to money and protect tenet says well in this a lot here how big of a step is this for germany is a lot of stuff going on there and it is a big step because what this sees to me doing is getting rid of one of the tenets of its economic policy of the past year is the famous black 0 which has always been

you know the policy of not out spending not spending more than your meanness right now but this could see germany borrowing up to 350000000000 euros over the course of the corona virus outbreak with the aim of again sounding like the u.s. federal reserve doing everything it can to protect companies and protect jobs and that's what we want of time and we have to say germany does have a budget surplus right now also the money is there what effect is this crisis that we expected to have on the total german economy if you bear in mind that at the start of the year in more innocent times we thought the german economy was going to expand by 1 point one percent this year the german government is now working on the assumption that it will shrink by 5 percent because we've heard from the financial research institute day it's expecting the german economy to take a 500000000000 euro hit through the corona virus and maybe a 1000000 people to lose their jobs that's unbelievable it's amazing to what can

change in just the span of a few weeks for an entire economy to robots from our business described as always thank you. while our world has changed dramatically in a short amount of time thousands have died from the corona virus and we know that will lose many more lives before this nightmare comes to an end sorrow is casting a long shadow at the moment which is why the ability to see light in this darkness is now more precious than ever today we caught a glimpse of that light from the new epicenter of this pandemic the u.s. state of new york listen to what new york governor andrew cuomo said during his press briefing earlier in the day finding the silver lining the positive. life is going to be quieter. this is less noise you know what that can be a good thing in some ways. you have more time you have more flexibility you can do

some of those things that you haven't done that you kept saying would love to be able to i'd love to be able to now you can you have more time with her much more time with family new york's governor there with the silver lining in all of this well before we go a word about this program of the day and the pandemic the corona virus outbreak has impacted how we bring news and information to you our team here in the berlin newsroom is much smaller compared to just a week ago and out of an abundance of caution many colleagues are now working from home as you've seen tonight we are adapting to this new normal and will do so as long as it takes what remains unchanged our commitment to the health and safety of our team and our promise to bring quality journalism and news to you along with our steadfast gratitude to all of you for sharing your day with us every day when the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter

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