this is t.v. news coming to you live from berlin britain's prime minister shuts down his country boris johnson instructs people to stay at home in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus will last for at least 3 weeks also coming up keeping it healthy distance apart at a funeral in germany run a virus crisis means restrictions on funerals but somehow the deadlock still to be dealt with.

fellow an attorney martin good to have you with us britain's prime minister has announced a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus forest johnson told the pit 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 on the ground the monday after train services were cut to deter people from using them and experts warned 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 the grip of the 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 hope 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. for the very latest on what's happening in the u.k. let's bring in d.-w. standing by for us in london because the u.k. was deliberately slow in implementing a nationwide law down what prompted the government to act now. well the government has been in the last days really quite drastically ramping up

the measures like you said it's a bit of a u. turn the u.k. is behind of the european countries when it comes to the outbreak it's estimated about 2 weeks behind italy so the criticism was that the u.k. could have stepped in with more drastic measures much earlier learning from other european countries seeing how the outbreak looks that and just to developing it in the button and in a way but that hasn't happened so that is this is what the focus on the has there what the criticism on the prime minister on the government has focused on however now since there was this huge here and there was the realisation that if this continues in the u.k. if the trajectory continues and there are no stricter measures than the house system would simply be overwhelmed since then the man measures how have been coming quite fast say now the latest one after the weekend where it was sunny and a lot of people are still out and about and a lot of them also not adhering to the social distancing measures really crowding

together i think this is what prompted the government to be well to go to the most drastic measures so far and be on a par with europe the rest of europe ok so the government has put the u.k. in lockdown now but the world health organization is also asking countries to step up testing and contact tracing is the u.k. doing that as well. well of course the u.k. has been doing it but again it's a problem i think as another european countries does not enough testing equipment has been a particular focus for example on the protection of doctors and nurses that they weren't even able to test when they felt that i had a bit of a cold they were able to find out whether this was cobra in a virus and they had to self isolate or whether they kids continue just with a slight cold to continue to see patients another criticism is that there wasn't or still isn't enough protective equipment for doctors and nurses at the front line

they have to improvise with plastic aprons and surgical masks and still the equipment is not their words needed which is in the hospital where doctors all seeing coronavirus patients on a daily basis begin thank you very much for bringing us up to date that was the that was big it must be in london. in spain the defense ministry says soldiers helping to fight the pandemic have found elderly patients in retirement homes abandoned and in some cases dead in their beds prosecutors have launched an investigation and spain is one of the worst the country's worst affected by the coronavirus and has been under lockdown for more than a week now our correspondent kyung philip schultz listen to how spanish people are coping with an exceptional situation. the capital of. the fight against the spread of the coronavirus the spanish

government is free it's common sense as well as widespread policing of public spaces the national director of police says there will be 0 tolerance even breaches of the curfew as this police video shows even drones are being used to enforce the knock down this level of policing used to be unimaginable in europe on the square behind me hundreds of people would meet at this time of the day. to get life on the streets is an essential part of the spanish way off life that makes the discipline that the spaniards have been showing for more than a week now all the more remarkable the same is true for the reaction after the government announced its plan to extend the lockdown for at least 3 more weeks spent. several family members for financial reasons few places in europe and living space person there are now countless articles with advice for people.

ranging from spring cleaning to getting to know your neighbors at a distance of course. there is always something to do at home going shopping checking out the trash that's my routine. i just follow the news and watch t.v. that's. why i think we should just a bit of the rules from the central and local governments. i just hope that the people around me don't get sick if we stick to the roots. but police and age organizations have warned that domestic violence cases could drastically increase due to the lockdown measures could be tightened even further in the weeks ahead which could mean for the restrictions for business and for manufacturing non-critical goods. now seeing a quick look at a few other coronavirus stories making news around the world today china's hu bay

province is to lift travel restrictions on wednesday except for the city of people there will be subject to limits for movement for another 2 weeks hawn was where this month we're china's coronavirus epidemic began of course it's already been under lockdown for 2 months. u.s. president all trump says he wants to reopen the country for business in weeks rather than months trump was speaking at a daily coronavirus briefing at washington's as washington state joined others imposing a imposing stay at home orders cross you know as we think. european stocks have been rising rapidly in tuesday trading the likes of germany's dax rising by around 6 percent immediately after opening asian markets were similarly lifted japan's nikkei closed 7 percent higher the south korean cost be index rose by 8 percent the moves follow the u.s.

federal reserve's commitment to buy an unlimited number of balls 'd to lift the u.s. economy. for more on this we're joined by our market reporter chelsea delaney in frankfurt chelsea that dax is stronger today is that a reaction to what the federal reserve is doing in the u.s. . well the main focus for markets right now is really economic stimulus measures to offset the impact of coronavirus on the one hand the failure of the u.s. senate to pass that 2 trillion dollar stimulus money bill to disappoint investors but the moves that the fed has made are really investors saying extraordinary if there really has never been such a big and wide ranging central bank stimulus package in the history of central banking they're basically ensuring that businesses of all sizes are going to be able to borrow money at very low interest rates and they're going to spend as much

money as as necessary to ensure that they do have that would put it to you and that is giving investors more confidence that with businesses and the broader financial system are going to make it through this crisis intact so we're seeing europe story you'll feel the pulse of move today has already been trading up today can we expect . to carry through to wall street when it starts trading today. that's really hard to predict these things these days the markets have been so volatile and we often see sentiment just turn very very quickly some of the things that investors are going to be watching today are of course any more progress from the u.s. senate on the stimulus bill but also here and europe we're going to be getting some data on the manufacturing sector from march it's going to be really the 1st indication of how the eurozone economy is fairing in the face of the shutdown and we're also seeing european economies get closer to stimulus bills here said germany is expected to vote on a stimulus package this week and italy is also getting closer to receiving

a rescue package as well just a thanks very much. for. well here in germany the government has ruled that no more than 2 people can be together except for members of the same household in order to contain the coronavirus funerals are exempt although other restrictions mean that burying the dead is not as straightforward as it used to be seeing a last goodbye from a distance 1st the undertaker then the priest next the urn gets trucked in and finally the mourners burials in the age of corona virus cemetery chapels like this one in cologne are closed but funeral home directors otherwise try to stick to the rules no plan c. and we must either bury the deceased within 10 days or the body must be cremated we have fewer problems with cremation because once the urn is there i can wait it's

more difficult to bury a coffin then we'd have to do it right away and it was. many cemeteries try to postpone urn burials of possible this can be difficult for mourners and he's done vocal for of all knowing a week after week the pain once last respects that the funeral will be postponed i think it gets to be very difficult for the loved ones of the deceased that. the contact band issued on sunday does not apply to funerals but close relatives of the deceased are urged to limit the number of mourners in attendance there may be further restrictions in certain regions and in some cities cemeteries will be closed to the public. you're watching the news there for get we have extensive coverage of the coronavirus crisis on our web site dot com well with so many people being told to stay at home during the coronavirus and make keeping active can be a problem as usual social media have

a remedy for that with the stay at home challenge trending worldwide is the selection of g.w. reporters showing that sport and keeping fit can be done almost as easily at home.

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the must see concerning part time culture to your own. place to be curious minds. do it yourself networkers. so subscribers don't miss. the plane. 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 a race against time how the german biotech company keoghan its repairing for a run on coronavirus test kits. i'm serious i was 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 curb the contagion and 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. we have discussed today how all countermeasures are working we have no vaccine and we have no drug against the disease all we have 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. the new measures medical and state leaders decided to implement a 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 strictness 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. and when 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 if 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 show how badly u.k. hospitals would be overwhelmed in such a scenario and the potentially hundreds of thousands of deaths it would cause priorities have shifted nonetheless british prime minister boris johnson remains hesitant about curfews. a point that i think people. understand about the preview of these measures you've got to impose it is these interventions in the spread of the. money when they can have the maximum effect to go through with the evidence is hope is pretty to all that's motivated to to impose. could use some provisions on movement and so it was if you wait until the last until it's the

right moment to do it and that's always been how we being good it's all 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 were 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 that this is that's the only way to slow it down because there's an incubation period new infections and deaths are going to continue to rise for at least 2 get 3 weeks even after strict social distancing

measures have been imposed so we'll only see the consequences of what we do today in 2 to 3 weeks that's one of the lessons that we've 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 the infection and that's going to kill a lot more of their convention this concept of herd immunity can you tell us more about what exactly it means and what role that plays in slowing the spread 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 prevent 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 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 to 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 and what all remaining you know the point behind social distancing measures is to slow the spread of the disease to flatten the curve and so you have 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 we have medications and a vaccine as tough as they are lockdowns and social distancing are better choices and 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 were they did announce a few days ago that it's already 'd broken up production of its its or and they back seem candidates even though the company is still in very very early testing you know if you recall we've been hearing from top built authorities that it'll take at least 18 months for a vaccine this 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 it thank goodness it just takes time but if you're confident a product is a good chance of working you can start making doses while testing is going on they don't work out you've 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 by me that you're after all that would be an amazing achievement then there's frost for cure that and all the other companies out there trying to make out that some

promising news they're a derrick williams did have you 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 coverage 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 parrot h q name. yes i mean i 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 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 pass and 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. alice bone busy and 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 act as quickly as you know asian countries like south korea responded much more quickly than countries like the u.s. demand is soaring all over the world and so it's a global challenge to make testing facilities available everywhere staring. key

against track record has also piqued the interest of other companies hoping to cash in. u.s. law to quit my fish 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.

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