this is due to be a news coming to you live from berlin britain's prime minister shuts down his country boris johnson has implemented measures that others have taken long ago instructing people to stay at home in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus the law will last for at least 3 weeks and a warning from the world health organization the pandemic is accelerating. new cases of covert 19 keep rising globally in some places hasn't ever faster pace but

the w.h.o. says there is still time to change the course of the pandemic. the one terry martin thanks for joining us britain's prime minister has announced a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus boris johnson told the british people that the government was shutting non-essential shops and services and banning gatherings of more than 2 people johnson's government has faced criticism for its perceived failure to act quickly to halt the spread of the virus. it's images like these which make it clear how quickly action is needed in the u.k. mobile phone footage of people crammed into the london underground on monday after train services were cut to deter people from using them and experts warn policy must change. and we can't control how. viruses we can

control the rate in the population and that's what we should be doing whether that's by legislation or enforcement or otherwise because at the moment it's not working. when it's a speaker british prime minister has faced criticism that is wait and see policies were dangerous. now he's decided to follow the lead set by european countries and order a lockdown. we will immediately close all shops selling non-essential goods including clothing electronics stores and other premises including libraries playgrounds and outdoor gyms and places of worship will stop all gatherings of more than 2 people in public a major focus of the response to the outbreak britain's overstretched national health service the n.h.s. here volunteers bring free food for nurses at the frontline of the pandemic johnson

says the whole country should act in solidarity with the medical professionals. each and every one of us is now obliged to join together to halt the spread of this disease to protect our n.h.s. and to save many many thousands of lives. the government is also moving to get supplies of protective gear to staff treating coronavirus patients. the army will be brought in to take gloves masks and overalls to where they're needed. it's happening later in britain and elsewhere but the threat of the virus is emptying streets in the capital london the u.k. like its neighbors is digging in for the fight. the head of the world health organization says the coronavirus is continuing to pace efforts to contain it and that cases of the infection are accelerating more than $16000.00 people around the

world have died of the infection now here's what the head of the w.h.o. had to say more than 300000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to doubly. from almost every country. in the world that's heartbreaking the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the furthest 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases and just 4 days for this. 100000. cases. well here in germany the country's leading public health institution institute says

new data suggests that the rise in corona virus cases might be leveling off here and for now concerns that chancellor merkel may have caught the virus herself have been dispelled. tourist magnets like the brandenburg gate should be buzzing with locals and visitors but lockdown measures mean people are out of doors only for essential reasons like going to work shopping the dog. but germany's institute says there's reason to be cautiously optimistic that the measures are working. the indian tent we are seeing signs that the exponential growth curve is flattening off slightly but i will only be able to confirm this trend definitively on wednesday. with 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. of fun via. 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 have to 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 or we'll be covering some of her duty's. the chancellor has asked me to speak for her in the 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. after today's virtual cabinet meeting the government announced a further financial aid package worth $100.00. 56000000000 euros it's a break with germany's rules on strict but you treat discipline to take strawberry times require extraordinary measures. u.s.

president says he may soon allow economic activity to resume in parts of the country less badly hit by the coronavirus speaking at a briefing on monday trump said the u.s. was not built to be shut down and that the cure should not be worse than the problem itself that contradicts advice from public health experts who are advising more widespread restrictions to stop the spread of the virus. says well asian markets are rising higher in tuesday trading on the back of the u.s. federal reserve's commitment to buy an unlimited number of bonds to lift the u.s. economy in the middle of the credit crisis japan's nikkei had led by more than 5 percent by the middle of the trading day the south korean cost index rose by 6 percent the fed smoot did not impress u.s. investors though major markets their soul for their losses as they waited 2

trillion dollars spending bill from congress. well for more on how the markets are fairing let's cross over to chelsea delay knee in frankfurt chelsea it seems u.s. markets were not impressed by the fed's action but asian markets are looking stronger what's going on there. well yesterday there was certainly a lot for investors to digest these huge fed moves versus the disappointment of the u.s. not passing that stimulus bill but overnight as investors have had a little bit more time to digest what the fed is doing there sort of realizing just what a what an extreme and massive expansion this is and the fed's mandate there basically going to be backstop in the entire economy i think this is really giving investors a little bit more confidence these measures could be worth about 4 trillion dollars it's also important to note that whatever central bank does they can't reopen

economies right now they can't get planes back in the air they can't get people back to work but what the fed is doing what to central bank can do is ensure that businesses of all sizes not just big businesses but small businesses well have liquidity they need to get through this crisis ok looking closer the more. mentioned there's back to some degree can we expect the momentum from a sure that we're seeing to carry through to european markets and wall street when they opened. the moment and does seem to be believing through into into the futures market here and europe at least the tax futures are up about 2 to 2 to 3 percent u.s. futures are also pointing up about 3 percent so i think investors are still feeling a little more optimistic it's obviously a very volatile time and we're also going to be getting some really important data here in the euro zone later in the morning so really the 1st read on the manufacturing sector and how the shutdown measures have been impacting the

manufacturing sector here it's expected to show a record decline so i think that could also be driving sentiment later in the day here in europe chelsea thank you very much. in frankfurt. now to some of the other coronavirus stories making news around the world today china is who bay province is to lift travel restrictions on wednesday except for the city of han people there will be subject to limits on movement for another 2 weeks was where china's coronavirus have a dam it began and it's been under lockdown for 2 months. new zealand's prime minister just send down has announced a one month long down to combat the coronavirus their confirmed cases past the 100 mark as the government tim pros self isolation for everyone increases all non-essential services schools and offices are closed from wednesday at midnight on

. and a speed up video taken on the streets of rome show the city mostly empty as a result of the coronavirus lot down on monday was the 2nd straight day that italy recorded declines in both new cases and deaths suggesting that the spread of the virus may be slowing down there. meanwhile in the russian capital moscow thousands of residents have been confined to their homes for 14 days after returning from coronavirus hit parts of the world the penalty for defying the corone team can be harsh up to 5 years in jail or deportation for foreigners the city is also building a hospital to deal with the corona virus outbreak. what used to be just a field outside the russian capital will soon be the site of a special hospital built to fight the coronavirus construction started just over a week ago. more than 2000 people are working hand around the clock.

it's hoped the project will be completed in a month these piles of dirt are the beginnings of a medical facility that will host around 500 patients half of the beds for intensive care in the neighboring village people are too worried about covert 19 being on their doorstep i'd be afraid it's not a war everything's fine they have to build it somewhere so they're building it here . yeah you buy us i'm not afraid where old we don't get out too much anyway and disinfect our hands. so far 2 hospitals within moscow have been treating coronavirus patients including this one in the south of the city the capital currently has the highest number of cases in russia the city of moscow has just told seniors and people at high risk to stay home for several weeks the whole country has been placed on high alert over the coronavirus schools are closed and a mass public events have been banned. the government line including from the

president himself is that the situation is under control and the country is taking the right measures just in time. luckily the virus has not spread on such a scale as it has in other countries. in other countries there are thousands of cases where it's worse to avoid having a situation like there which is not very good but we need preventive measures. but with the number of cases consistently rising every day russians have been stocking up on food buckwheat a national favorite has been widely sold out that maybe q to media reports that could soon introduce stricter measures like a lockdown the government has so far denied this. you're watching the news we have extensive coverage of the coronavirus on our website that d.w. dot com well so many people being too. to stay at home during the current of iris

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what's in store. for the future. we're going to go city. insight. into. this is deja vu news in berlin germany in isolation mode what to expect from the partial shutdown just ordered by the government and why critics in some countries are demanding the opposite they're calling for controlled herd immunity but what does that mean and what are the implications plus our race against time how the german biotech company keoghan is preparing for a run on coronavirus test kits. i'm sumi some is going to thank you for joining me on today's covert 19 special the coronavirus is continuing to spread also in

germany convincing chancellor angela merkel that stricter containment measures are necessary until now it had largely been left to the country states and municipalities to can tear curb the contagion an approach that has created a patchwork of rules and guidelines the new measures are to be rolled out nation wide let's hear what the german chancellor announced. it was like being 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 a 1st year 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. the new measures medical and state leaders decided to implement ban

gatherings of more than 2 individuals with the exception of families and people who live together in one household now restaurants bars and cafes and other non essential service providers must also close businesses offering food delivery and collection will be allowed to remain open commuting to work helping others and exercising alone outside will still be permissible the measures will initially remain in place for 2 weeks the new measures are one step closer to total lockdown but not there yet and germany's the strategy appears to be to ramp up the strictest of measures in a controlled way as it seeks to limit the spread of the virus and keep the numbers of severe cases manageable for the country's health system. now in other european countries there are also ongoing discussions about what measures to introduce and when some countries are focusing on the best ways to reach what's being called herd immunity a critical point in a pandemic when the number of people who have grown immune to the virus automatically limit its spread now for weeks the british government for example

voided implementing restrictions on wider society the goal appeared to be to allow members of the community who are considered less vulnerable to be infected in orders to reach the tipping point of herd immunity sooner but after models showed how badly u.k. hospitals would be overwhelmed in such a scenario and the potentially hundreds of thousands of deaths it would cost priorities have shifted nonetheless british prime minister boris johnson remains hesitant about curfews. point that i think people in to be understand about the timing of these measures you've got to impose these interventions in the spread of the epidemic the moment when they can have the maximum effect an awful lot with the epidemic is is hope is pretty tall let's hope a movement to to impose. curfews and provisions on movement and soldiers if you go to wait until i last until it's the right moment to do it and that's always been

how we being gods right let's bring in our science correspondent garrick williams for more on this hi derek so is now the right time for britain to be implementing these measures are they coming too late well i think that most experts would say for us johnson has gotten something very wrong here starting with the use of the word and to explain the thing as epidemics like the one we're seeing don't follow intuition or hunches they follow certain statistical projections which is why we're able to model that mathematically the big fallacy with this comment is that from a prevention point of view the time to impose curfews on lockdowns is not when large numbers of people are getting the disease it's before a large numbers of people began to get the disease that's the only way to slow it down because there is an incubation period new infections and deaths are going to continue to rise for at least $2.00 to $3.00 weeks even after strict social

distancing measures have been imposed so will only see the consequences of what we do today in 2 to 3 weeks that's one of the lessons that learned from china and italy if you wait until numbers shoot up to react with measures then ultimately many more people are going to get infected of the virus. well herd immunity is when so many people in a population are immune to an infection that effectively stops the disease from spreading there are 2 different ways that a person acquires immunity that you catch the disease and you build up an immune response that prevents you from being infected by the same bug in the future where you're vaccinated which fools the body into responding like it caught the disease even though it didn't but to return immunity it doesn't matter which of those 2 ways people have developed an immune response what's important is that as the number of people who are immune to the bug rises in a population it begins to spread more slowly let's say that at the beginning of an

outbreak when no one has an immune and infected person gives it to 2 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 would have been they would have given it is already protected because they're immune so rising immunity and the herd in society as a whole is puts the brakes on the spread of the disease so are there ways to actually control the process of reaching herd immunity. well most researchers i've been talking with to say it's an interesting thought experiment one that you know this idea of controlled herd immunity but it's one that has a couple of very serious flaws 1st we still know very little about about immunity to the virus or how long it lasts we assume there's going to be an immune to fact of some kind after someone gets over $1000.00 but we still don't know enough about that it's a it's a major risk to just allow the virus to spread when you don't know whether people could quickly get it a 2nd time then there is the question of how controlled it would all remain you

know the point behind social distancing measures is to slow the spread of the disease to flatten the curve and tell you medicines and vaccines and place herd immunity can also be reached with vaccines and they don't kill people if you allow people to catch the piracy but in a controlled setting then some of them are going to die and it's far too easy to imagine a scenario where intentionally allowing people to catch the disease could spiral out of control and bring down the health system so the message most researchers are sending as i think of course we want herd immunity but trying to get it by intentionally allowing people to get sick is going to cost lives probably a lot up until you have medications and a vaccine as tough as they are lockdowns and social distancing are better choices what is the latest that you're seeing from researchers in the fight against the virus. well there's a story on that seems that caught my eye surely this weekend's german biotech you're back which we've been hearing

a lot about in the news is so confident that its approach is going to we're that it announced a few days ago that it's already ramping up production of its its or and a vaccine candidates even though the company is still in very very early testing you know if you recall we've been hearing from top health authorities that it'll take at least 18 months for a vaccine that's really but before widespread use and that's because there are a lot of regulatory hoops to jump through starting with safety issues and you have questions about expecting this it just takes time but if you're confident a product there's a good chance of working you can start making doses while testing is going on they don't work out you wasted time and effort but if you do then you save a lot of valuable time who knows maybe they will see an effective vaccine but i mean that you're after all that would be an amazing achievement thinkers crossed for your lab and all the other companies out there trying to make up that some promising news there and derek williams do you have any sign thank you very much well as we just heard here in germany pharmaceuticals biotech companies are racing

to come up with a vaccine for the virus and to think of solutions to take pressure off of the health care system now one german company called key again is producing diagnostic tests for covert 19 and it's had to overhaul its operation in response to the crisis. start ferric here again can barely keep up with demand the biotech company produces molecular diagnostics equipment now including a rapid test for the novel coronavirus production has been ramped up paris h.q. name. you know it could start side we've increased our output by more than 70 percent in a very short space of time. so on we're increasing production to such an extent that instead of producing $1500000.00 tests per month we'll be making $20000000.00 per month by the end of the yeah and that's one test is needed per patient martin we've introduced a 3 shift per day system 7 days

a week. the company reacted quickly to the new coronavirus outbreak testing equipment that's been on the market since 2018 has been upgraded and can now diagnose a person for corona virus in just one hour. this rapid test is intended for use in hospitals and of our trees and it was approved for use in europe last week as to how a spot on ms in the us to use this is a global challenge and the situation varies from country to country especially in how quickly they recognize the virus and whether or not they acted quickly asian countries like south korea responded much more quickly than countries like the u.s. demand to storing all over the world and so it's a global challenge to make testing facilities available everywhere staring. he again struck recalled has also piqued the interest of other companies hoping to caution. us not to quit micah is now set to buy key again for around

10000000000 euros right in the thick of the current crisis. shareholders have to approve the acquisition before it goes ahead. people across europe are being told to stay indoors many countries have severely restricted freedom of movement from parts of the u.s. to argentina the philippines and some countries have even declared a national lockdown in a bid to slow the spread of the virus it's a very different picture in japan coronavirus infections there have been increasing at a slow rate but experts fear that could suddenly change as the famous cherry blossoms start to appear various festivals are still set to go ahead and authorities fear that japan could witness a surge of new cases as people head outdoors to mark the start of spring. right thank you for watching a covert 1900 special here on the w. we have the latest on the pandemic on our website get every dot com we'll be back

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