oh. beethoven's 9th i don't more stores and on. this is deja vu news live from berlin the coronavirus forces the olympic games to be postponed japan's prime minister shinzo abbay says he and the international olympic committee have agreed to delay the tokyo games by about one year. also coming up in madrid patients are seeing lying in hospital hallways as the coronavirus overwhelms the spanish capital and in another shock alderling people

are found abandoned spanish nursing homes some of them dead in their backs. and a sign of hope the chinese province where the coronavirus pandemic began prepares to lift travel restrictions after a 2 month long. i'm sumi so what's going to thank you for joining us the tokyo olympics in july will be delayed by about a year because of the coronavirus japanese prime minister shinzo abbay says he's agreed 100 percent with the president of the international olympic committee that the games should be postponed the decision follows months of debate and pressure from athletes across the globe. when tokyo was awarded the games back in 2013 the coronavirus was just

a dystopian nightmare fast forward 7 years and the pandemic has gripped the globe at 1st the japanese government and the international olympic committee insisted the show must go on but doubts about the games starting on july 24th began to rise athletes such as greek pole vaulter catarina stephanides made it clear they were uncomfortable with training for the 2020 of vent let alone competing in it canada and australia then effectively boycotted a 2020 games not to believe it all left tokyo organizers and the i.o.c. with little choice a cancellation was out of the question with the cost of the games already in excess of $12000000000.00. a scaled down version appealed to no one a postponement became the only option. mark meadows from d.w.

sports is covering this story for us mark tell us the latest about this decision to postpone yes well japanese prime minister shinzo abbott has just told reporters that he's basically had a telephone conference with the i.o.c. boss thomas back and we asked president back he says to consider a postponement of about a year to make it possible for athletes to take part in the best situation and to make the event a safe and secure one for spectators present bath said he is 100 percent in agreement and we've also heard from the i.o.c. now officially that the games are postponed we don't actually have a set date yet but it could be round about a year now tokyo's governor and japan's a limp dicks minister have said basically it will not have any later than orcus 2021 it seems like this really was just a matter of time mark yes i mean there was so much pressure on there so it's amazing how quickly it's gone it was actually only sunday that the i.o.c.

1st mooted the idea of a postponement then yesterday on monday shinzo abbey mention it for the 1st time he said it was possibly inevitable and then suddenly on tuesday we have a decision there o.c. on sunday had actually given themselves 4 weeks to make a decision in fact this is news come in just 2 days that shows how much pressure there was you had canada saying they're not going to send a team you had a strategy of saying something similar and many other nations as well there was just no way in the current situation the olympics could happen in 2020 despite that it's definitely disappointment for japan for all the athletes are hoping to take part so we're looking at about a year from now can these games still be a success i mean if any country can pull it off japan can i mean it will be so organized they had all the venues ready months and months before it's not always been the case in previous olympics so they can they go to obviously all the volunteers ready i'm sure they'd be willing to come back in 2021 instead but the big question. marc is if this pandemic continues at the pace it's been going at if

we are in this situation still in december the name that you think you will hang on may be july and august next year is too early so there's a lot of question marks but maybe in the coming days we will actually get a specific timeline for when these games are going to take place the i.o.c. is going to have an executive board meeting later today so we might hear a little bit more all right mark meadows from sports reporting for us mark thank you very much now in spain the government is expected to extend the state of emergency by 2 weeks the number of new coronavirus cases jumped by some 6600 overnight with more than 500 reported to have died pictures taken at a hospital in madrid show patients lying on attended in a hallway the spanish capital has been particularly affected with nearly 10000 cases an ice rink inside a shopping mall in madrid has been turned into a makeshift morgue and soldiers helping to fight the virus have made shocking discoveries in nursing homes or elderly residents have been found abandoned some

dead in their beds prosecutors have launched an investigation. and let's go to reporter yon philip charles he's standing by in seville philip this is a grim discovery at these nursing homes what more can you tell us about the situation. the spanish defense minister. disinfecting residencies when they witness those traumatizing scenes people suffocating people abandoned people isn't dead in their own beds and prosecutors have already started an investigation no but they're also statements of nurses saying that he caissons are not very sad they have just done their job and that's actually followed protocol because they have to release the dead bodies in their beds and so the funeral services are rice and can take more than one day at the moment and they also say that that frontline of the outbreak and stand not even

whether to take that themselves and exactly this problem that medical personnel is not well to take that also respects in the newest numbers than 5000 tell us where it goes has been checked in spain this is about 15 percent of the entire people that are in it i think we have to be careful with the percentage because it also could mean that. first not just gets tested and that actually more people infected in the country but the numbers are disturbing well we do know that health services say they are being overwhelmed that spain is taking drastic measures is there any sign that these measures are helping the situation. at the moment it's probably too early to say anything about that there is no no clear trend although. one who is the head of the cordon dating center

ministry said he has some hope that the peak might be reached in the coming days but i think most experts agree that it's too early for trends and also the trend. has warned the citizens. to come in in the coming days this is also. a very symbolic example and makeshift. in the city center of madrid in an ice skating center that has been limping mentions and i have heard that the 1st coffins have already arrived. and yet filipino spanish authorities are now actually enforcing social distancing measures all trying to stop the spread of the virus our people. yes they are. amazingly disciplined in this i was on the streets yesterday to produce some reports. on the streets except. and we have to keep

in mind that's the measure of. much stricter than in many other countries you can't even go or walk or you can't even go to the park with your partner or your child. reporting there for us. thank you very much. now here are some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic indian prime minister narendra modi has announced a nation wide lockdown beginning at midnight some 1300000000 people will be barred from leaving their homes for 21 days here in germany 95 percent of people say they support the government's ban on gatherings of more than 2 people that's according to a new poll meanwhile some 6000000 protective masks that were destined for germany have gone missing at an airport in kenya a german firm had produced the masks and it's unclear why they were in kenya to begin with and the world health organization is warning about

a big acceleration and case numbers in the united states it says the u.s. could become the new epicenter of the global pandemic britain's prime minister has announced a nationwide lockdown to fight the corona virus boris johnson told the british people that the government was shutting down non-essential shops and services and banning gatherings of more than 2 people his government has faced criticism for its perceived failure to act quickly to halt the spread of the virus. just another day on the london underground except the u.k. is supposed to be in lockdown jam packed carriages on the chub despite the government telling all nonessential businesses to close. we will immediately clews shops selling non-essential goods including clothing electronics stores and other premises including libraries playgrounds not to gyms and places of worship. all gatherings of more than 2 people in public.

above ground confusion about who the new rules apply to. construction work continues at this site. the corona virus outbreak has overstretched britain's health service the n.h.s. so the army has come to the battlefront delivering personal protective equipment to hospitals after medical staff complained of a shortage. health officials are warning of an imminent spike in the number of critically ill people boris johnson's critics say he missed a window to bring in a lockdown and keep the number of hospital admissions down for now the streets have mostly emptied out and just like in many other countries this will be the new normal. for the province where the corona virus originated and china will lift

a travel restrictions on wednesday the 50000000 people of whom province have been under lockdown for 2 months those in the capital will han will have to wait another 2 weeks before they're allowed to travel but the easing of restrictions seems to be a sign of progress in china's battle to defeat the virus. preparing to get people on the move again. starting at midnight on wednesday the largest lockdown in human history will end. to travel in and out of who bay you'll need an electronic tracking code linked to your health status green means good to go. but people in the city of hun or the outbreak began will have to wait 2 weeks longer to leave the province still for some restrictions are already lifting. my company got back to work a few days ago everybody has been issued a health code after having their physical condition checked and their temperature

taken i got this pass and i'm on my way home after a night shift. once at the center of china's coded 1000 epidemic who bay has seen a dramatic plunge in new cases. officials have reported just one locally transmitted infection in the past 5 days a tremendous u. turn. this was at the height of the outbreak crowded hospitals exhausted medical workers who has since counted over 67000 confirmed infections and 3000 deaths. the w.h.o. says the 2 month lockdown may have averted hundreds of thousands of cases. but it may also have caused a higher mortality rate in the province as other critical illnesses went untreated

there's hope in new bay that the worst is over but with the corona virus on the loose in china and around the world risk from imported infection still looms large . and you're watching news we have extensive coverage of the coronavirus crisis on our website dot com and with so many people having to stay at home during the pandemic keeping active can be a problem as usual social media has a remedy for that with the hash tag stay at home challenge that's trending around the world and here's some data every reporter showing that a keeping fit can just as easily been done from harm. the be. the be

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a. covert 19 special next on d w. the global corona crisis you can find more information online d.w. dot com don t w social media channels i'm going to. come during. this is due to covert 900 stache will from berlin the corona virus has forced millions of people into quarantine and self isolation that means millions of people are working from home some for the 1st time we take a look at how people cope with working from home and we ask an expert how the crisis might change how we work for good. i'm sumi so much going to thank

you for joining us people all over the world are working from home that includes many of my colleagues here at the view our reporter sent us a report from her apartment in berlin where she set up her temporary office and she has some tips on how to make it work. all right. every task should consume all this right now here are. on how to actually go from her. no was easy today pick a shall i put some actual close up. all this. great time. this may sound super all here but i haven't gotten my microsoft teams to work the entire day right

from my mistakes make sure everything was cool to have this thing. i know it's super tempting but it's a separate clean quiet west space away from distraction. are now it's easy for me to say because i don't have kids my only distraction is my favorite t.v. it's even good on the fridge and the laundry and the dishes and the books. you get my point. yes that means you might have to look presentable but looking face to face isn't the best way to be over the long. and happy hour can be a gradual to. sleep

while you can usually be commuting themself and yummy like. finally blackout things really you think well we. just hope that your top of those of us who are privileged enough to still on money and do this on the think you know about her we should make the. let's speak now to norbert to crow now he's a researcher from the university of potsdam studying how people work from home number thank you for joining us 1st of all what do you think of those tips you know don't work from bad stay in touch on video conference you have anything to add there. yeah this is not only an advantage but it might also be acquired to use does a lot to see cause all travel times on all go on and immediately be replaced by another you know conference not to lose all our friends and to not all this all the work and density is that's why science on it is much

higher and you get office work where you have to walk from one meeting room to or not knowing where you can walk to the contrary are or have a brick. wall to cool all the coffee machine that's all no longer possible all right so you also points out you might have more time a clock then you're saying i mean looking at the fact that millions of people are now in their home offices essentially what if you found i mean how does this change the way we work are we more productive are we less productive at home. well in some cases in 2 paths in some cases we don't walk productive because now we can't exactly see what the other colleague was talking about because we have power point slides crystal clear all because you know it's crystal clear on the screen not 8 meters away and i got going through and that's an advantage but on the other hand what we are focusing on in our research is that creative and knowledge

intensive process is in it is a business they need the nieves of people that can work in the same man are online and in digital meeting rooms and therefore we are missing something so we took to the day we had with my research us virtual lunch break where everybody said in front of his camera and ate something and trying something and that's love the same you cannot achieve the knowledge transfer between video screens you need the near miss off persons and right in some all the noise intense processes we have 75 percent of knowledge transfer out i socialize ation i personally between persons and not you know what all of this is all for how do you think this will fundamentally change the way that we work will more people stay with working from home permanently i don't think so i think

some tasks can be done remotely and some other tasks will need a personal meeting and it will be resumed in full when we are able to travel again i think that won't change a lot right now practically for him to this interface ok we'll have to leave it there in our back row now from the university of potsdam thank you so much for joining us. and we will be following this story closely at g.w. our social media editors will be reporting weekly and we want to know how you are coping with working from home we're all new to this mind boggling situation despite this he's an influenza we're unchartered territory all life as we know it is changing.

but we're all in this together in this new series we want to find out how to handle our new lives in times of the corona pandemic thankfully with the help of a leading expert it seems like it's been a very popular study how do we stay mentally and physically healthy how do we handle family and all partners without driving each other completely insane. just up how to deal with cabin fever. how are you dealing with being cooped up let me know leave a comment and i would love to profit from your experiences for our upcoming episode . well we asked you to send us some of your questions on the kobe 1000 pandemic and many of you did get in touch our science correspondent dirk williams has some

answers take a look. why did you come from. the person of our knowledge the 1st cases of covert 19 appeared in the chinese city of one han back in december 29th team they were closely associated with a wildlife market they are now coronaviruses can jump from animals to humans and we think that that's what happened here at the sars virus that the same back in 2000 here in 2003 it was traced back to bats the civets sold in wildlife markets we don't yet know what animals might have acted as intermediaries here but we have seen very similar coronaviruses and bats and we think that they are the ultimate reservoir in the wild. how does it spread. that 19 is a pretty infectious respiratory disease that spread by droplets of saliva or discharge from the nurse someone when they cough or sneeze that's why it's important to stay

at least a metre away and preferably farther from anyone who's coughing or sneezing it doesn't stay airborne for very long we don't think but it can remain infectious after landing on surfaces which is why you also need to pay attention to how often you wash your hands and you should try not to touch your face as much as possible. how do i know if i'm in fact it. the only way to know for sure if you have coded 19 is to take a test because many of the symptoms are similar to those people experience when they have other respiratory ailments like the flu in coated 19 the primary symptoms that people have reported are fever dry cough and fatigue and then to a lesser extent things like congestion a sore throat or diarrhea some people who catch the disease don't have any symptoms

at all their ace. symptomatic around 4 in 5 people who get it will recover from the disease without any special treatment or having to go to the hospital. what can i do if i'm in fact it. because this virus is and novel one in humans no one has any immunity the 1st time they catch it even if someone doesn't show any symptoms they still go in fact it and can in fact others we don't yet have any specific vaccines to prevent covert 19 and we don't have any medications to treat it so at this point if you are infected there's no way to interrupt the course of the disease the best thing to do if you're infected it's a talk with your local medical authorities and follow their advice if you aren't in a high risk group for the disease the chances are very good you will return to full health within a couple of weeks. if i thought it was going i catch it again in the future.

because this is a new virus we still don't know much about how the immune system well reacts to subsequent infections with copd at 19. doctors assume that catching at will give you some kind of immunity but a big question is exactly how long that immunity well last hour immunity levels to related coronaviruses like some that cause common colds are not permanent and we don't really know why the question of immunity is a question that really only time will answer. a news team that the austrian public broadcaster o. r. f. will go into voluntary isolation to bring that to prevent any of them from becoming infected now they'll be isolated on site in vienna they've all tested negative for the virus and no one will be allowed in the door will be guarded and food will be delivered these 180 employees will guarantee that new services continue to run an

interrupted a war f. is not the only austrian company to seal off key chains of staff last week around 50 healthy employees from the main energy company were isolated within certain power stations to make sure that the electricity supply would not be affected. thank you for joining our covert 1900. s. always you can get the latest on our website you give me dot com for all of us here in berlin thank you for watching. even if the coronavirus is sending football into a force to bring. you whether we will still be bringing you the stars and small. and the stories of tension surrounding our favorite sport. because we won't let the soccer fun stop just yet to go.

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