to blame. blame blame blame blame blame blame. this is deja vu news live from berlin italy sets a grim record in its struggle against the coronavirus almost 1000 people have died there in the past 24 hours from cope with 19 that's the highest daily death toll in any country since the outbreak began. also coming up u.s. president donald trump signs the biggest stimulus package in modern history some 2 trillion dollars will be rushed to states in businesses struggling amid the crisis but the legislation also provides direct payments to tens of millions of americans

plus the original epicenter of the drone a virus head demick is back in motion after months of long down but it's a one way street people are allowed in but not out of the latest from china. i'm carl aspen thanks for joining us italy has set another record for the most deaths from corona virus in a single day nearly $1000.00 people have died in the past 24 hours bringing the total death toll to over 9000 that's the highest number of any country and health officials say the worst may be yet to come oscar awards are still full of those doctors say the number of patients is now steady contagion rates appear to be slowing that's giving hope that the stretch social controls there may be working with a lock down is hitting the italian economy hard with churches and charities struggling . to care for people in need of basic supplies. our let's bring in

journalist sima go to she's following the situation from rome sima 1st of course just let's talk about the bad shocking number nearly 1000 people dead in just 24 hours of is there a sense of italy is is now approaching perhaps the peak of this crisis well call what the officials are telling us is that it is not near the peak it is not in the declining phase inside we heard from the representatives of it to these national health institute and they say the only thing they can point out terms of a slight light at the end of this dark tunnel is that the curve of contagion appears to be slightly flattening especially since the 20th of moxon they believe that that is a good sign now the president of the long but the region that's the hardest hit region that saw some 50 percent of those deaths that we saw in that one day close

to a 1000 that massive he said that this region means see a decline in the next few days it's hard to understand how these figures work with such massive numbers but what's clear as well is the members of the institute of national health that told us it's inevitable that the lockdown period at least will be extended beyond that. date was set earlier in this crisis we've been seeing these uplifting videos of tally and singing from their balconies what is it like there now i mean how difficult is it to keep that sort of spirit going in italy. well call those flash mobs seem to have stops i mean just dealing with these depressing figures is just hot to grasp at the immense nature of this tragedy you know talking about figures that could be a small village an entire village being obliterated just in the space of 24 hours

it's absolutely heartbreaking i think some italians maybe even many italians found some solace perhaps on friday when we saw pope francis go to st peter's square and give this prayer to help those that are suffering and to pray for an end to this pandemic it was very dramatic those images of rain pouring on what was an n.t. seem peter's square and the pope francis standing in the middle prayed for this at the same time it's those health care workers there are the frontline fighting this battle will so far $46.00 those have died as a result of covert 19 and more than 6000 health care workers are infected and they are the ones of course on the front lines of the pandemic sima got to force in rome thank you for reporting spain as the 2nd worst country in the world after italy on

friday spain saw its highest one day one day rise in virus fatalities with more than 770 people dying in 24 hours a shortage of equipment and staff has hospitals they are racing to save lives. a burial in hazmat suits. one of thousands of victims of the corona virus outbreak in spain. hospital staff in madrid don't need to see the statistics to know spain does not yet have a handle on the epidemic. it has been a deadly week for the country 2nd in daily fatalities only to italy. the shortage of equipment and medical staff has left doctors and nurses overwhelmed amnesty international reports that over 9000 spanish health service workers have become infected with the virus more than any other country.

even healthy staff face isolation once they return home careful not to spread the disease to their families. who are having a hard time you feel very lonely and then you go home and you're alone again you remember all the images you saw during the day and you keep thinking and thinking and you can't rest. go home with the images in your head of everything you see here it's very difficult to disconnect it's impossible because you also feel helpless and sad. but their work is not in vain thousands have recovered because of their efforts. at this field hospital in the dritte 34 year old grass yellow lawn so it's going home. one of the local me cope with 1000 and i was in this hospital for the last 4 days. i have to say that in the beginning i had a really bad time because they had that feeling of not being able to breathe.

to all the support i received here all the measures that they've taken it wasn't so hard. that little girl for a long so the ordeal is over but for spain the path to recovery. is still uncertain . here's a look now at some of the latest developments in the virus pandemic british prime minister boris johnson has become the 1st head of state to test positive for cope with 19 johnson is currently self isolating zimbabwe has announced a 3 week total lockdown that will start on monday the world health organization says norway and spain will be the 1st countries to begin testing drugs to fight cope with 19 health officials are testing for medicines considered to offer the most promise in combat in the new disease where u.s. president donald trump assigned a 2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill into law following its passage through

congress it's the biggest stimulus bill in the nation's history and passed a strong support from both republicans and democrats it comes that does the number of confirmed cases of corn virus in the u.s. past 100000. the u.s. navy hospital ship mercy docking in los angeles to ease the strain on local facilities with american now reporting more cases of coronavirus than any other country and the number of deaths rising sharply back up is urgently needed. president trump signed off on the biggest economic stimulus package in u.s. history with strong backing from both democrats and republicans america's bravely battling this pandemic through cutting edge medical innovation and rational deliberate and determined vigilance no effort will be spared in winning this war

have the center of the fight making move insulators urgently needed to keep critically ill coronavirus patients alive in hospital. trampas used emergency powers to force general motors to start building ventilators boeing will produce face shields new york remains the center of the outbreak with almost half of all confirmed u.s. cases the main convention center is now a makeshift field hospital and another navy hospital ship is due to arrive in new york harbor on monday this is an invisible beast it is an insidious beast this is not going to be a short deployment this is not going to be that you go out there for a few days we work hard and we go home this is going to be weeks and weeks and

weeks well carona hot spots like new york are preparing for a long battle trump wants to talk to experts next week about easing restrictions in areas which are not yet as badly affected. south korea is tightening border controls after reporting a spike in coronavirus cases that started in forcing 2 week quarantines on all passengers arriving from the united states similar quarantines had already been in place for travelers from europe so-called walk through testing stations have been set up they're capable of more than 10 tests per hour south korea reported $146.00 new infections in the last day $24.00 of them came from airport screenings still one news agency reports that the number of people cured of the virus has for the 1st time exceeded the number of 14 patients. meanwhile the chinese city where the global krone virus pandemic began has partly

eased travel restrictions people are now allowed to return to han but no one is yet allowed to leave the city was put on lockdown in january as covert 1000 cases award according to officials the tos thinks the number has since dropped sharply in only one new cases been reported in the past week local health officials say they're working to prevent the outbreak from flaring up once again. let's bring in fabio incredible he joins us now from beijing fabienne groupon this is really where the pandemic 1st emerged millions of people there were put under a total lockdown what's life like there now with these restrictions starting to be left in. well i guess you can't call it normal dick but what is actually normal these days anyway but compared to the previous weeks guess streets are filling up with people people are going shopping also enjoying the new freedom i mean for for

several weeks they have been allowed to just leave a residential compounds so yes also bus route operated again subways a surprised me out of this well but it's only a partial opening up of the city. that people are not of the residents of want are not allowed to leave the city but people are allowed to enter the city and when they enter at the train station stay here to prove that they're healthy and they do that with a smart phone q.r. code that they skin and it means that they're healthy that means they have been tested before and have not been in contact with anyone. infected or who had contact a confirmed case i've been given these controls that there are still in placement there must still be fears that like in some other countries in asia there could be a 2nd wave of infections. also within the country we know that some people in a province were leaving the province the way that so the province surrounding. they

have been hold back by. the residents of a provinces really at the border even policemen i think to hold the residents spec that's because people are afraid of the people studies have shown that if china he says those a number of the latest cost the 2nd wave will occur that reoccur and the problem this china does not count as until they take down a sustaining patience that don't show any symptoms in their statistics them we know they are thousands and thousands of silent areas that the chinese government says they are on their currency but they are adults involved there and yes but i think we can be sure that now that the people will pay and also the trial restrictions in the country at least that i'm not. most will go up again. briefly china's been sending aid to countries we're talking about face masks equipment even medical experts is that something beijing plans to continue. i'm sure yes because this is

also influence and also demonstrating the point of view that their system is superior that they were able to meet the virus and yes they were prominent broadcasts about it but we cannot forget that also the european union also we're sending 50 tons of medical equipment to china before but yes it was not a problem that brought us out with the chinese that we know right 5 in question are reporting for us from china thank you very much. don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google play or from the app store and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news if you're part of a news story you can also use that d.w. app to send us photos and videos to let us know what's happening where you are.

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through collective isolation and we've got some professional insights from some who know what it's like to be far away from everyone and everything but 1st to someone else and isolation at home our science correspondent derrick williams we've been receiving all your questions for him around coded 1000 all the today we've picked the one we've all been asking ourselves have a listen. can life continue normally off to quarantine would not risk other outbreaks. this is indeed the great danger and it's also the key question even if strict social distancing helps us to flatten the epidemiological curve by by suppressing the numbers of new infections won't the number of people getting it just skyrocket again once we end those measures are we just kicking the can down the road a lot of eyes are turning to china now as it cautiously begins to lift some of the

direct who do you respect that have been in place there for the last couple of months everyone is sort of waiting with bated breath to see whether the number of new cases there begins to rise again but there are an awful lot of experts now saying that until we come up with an effective vaccine the new coronavirus is here to stay at least in the near future to keep it from overwhelming health systems we'll all have to get used to social distancing as the new norm along with the isolation that that brings. now there is being stuck at home but arguably there are tougher places to be alone astronaut mathias mauer has been training for years for his future flight into space and isolation. ok this is my peers the missions i'm 1st and this is my log from mission there to. cut off from the outside world with little equipment and even fewer comforts. or spent 6 days in the darkness of

this kid in italy to help them prepare for the rigors of space he learned how to explore unknown surroundings and how to conduct scientific experiments underground . and joins us now and. you're also having to stay home these days how is your astronaut training helped at all. your software quite prepared for the isolation i mean i lift and i carry for several days i lived or so on the water for 16 days in a very tiny confined environment with other people because like you well it only took. well what would you say the hardest part was then that was it communication was it the cabin fever or in your case the cave fever or something else completely . well it's living together with other people's like in a confined environment for an extended period of time and for us you know it's it's even a little bit more complicated because once in space we will list there for 6 months

we all come from different countries different languages have a cultural background which is different and so communication is the key and we learned before the flight to space how to how to like adapt our way how to interact with other so we talked very openly on the problems that we need to like ok you have this in this which i don't really like and you're change this man a little bit and then once you talk openly and you feel well prepared and i think that the mission itself is then very sick. well what would you say helped you psychologically speaking while you were disconnected from everything. it's very important to have a good record. schedule during the day so i plan my day and i plan a project i plan also positive parts that i have that you're into that day and then

we also plan to have time to get up together with my crew together with my team and it's lunch time it's even in dinner time it's very important to spend this time together we also included bit of physical exercise despite being in a very confined environment but you still can do some exercises and this combination of having a schedule of having the project of having friends together with you that helps you to cheer you up i think that was also very important and we had a successful mission there you have it structure is key mathias mary he's an astronaut from the european space agency thank you so much for sharing your insights my question. now as we heard there not everyone is distancing a little and there are those who have to do it in groups being with the same set of people all the time can obviously be hard perhaps even impossible without a bit of fun but don't take our word for it the crew on the international space

station can tell you more she knows what it feels like to be up there alone u.s. astronaut christina cook repairing the outside of the international space station last year she set a record by spending 328 days in space in the i.s.a.'s you literally couldn't get any further from the coronavirus but the astronauts on board have a lot in common with the millions in isolation 400 kilometers away back on us constantly packed in together yet separated from any other life unable to visit family and friends for months that's why crew are trying to deal with the psychological impact of living in space keeping busy is the key whether working getting a hack caught or of course having a restful night's sleep the only s.s. crew like christina know all too well how to stay healthy and happy in isolation jack's to star is an isolation researcher and

a cultural anthropologist specializing in the measurement and enhancement of human performance and extreme environments well it's not for there you've done a lot of work with astronauts you've been advising nasa for several decades what sort of advice have you given to astronauts giving up a way of life on earth to go to space seeing as that can be helpful now. well most astronauts. determined before their mission that getting along with their crew mates will be their highest objective. and they work toward that goal. ways to foster the group solidarity that's necessary when things become a problem or 2 or to a schedule as matthias had just said. but it is ok to sleep in not on the international space station but when you're can try and. in your homes sleep is good just make sure that you have

a schedule and that you. make a list of objectives and i think the the key to surviving i'm in our 12th day of isolation now but the key is to view this as an opportunity rather than an obstacle an opportunity to. to finish projects that you had. let slide around the house an opportunity to read a book that you'd always wanted to read an opportunity to call friends and family and talk for as long as you would like them to check in on their physical and behavioral help so i guess in some way it is a matter of race framing but there's a knowing you'd be isolated for a limited time like on a space mission versus now where nobody knows how long they'll have to stay home for how does one deal with the open ended ness perhaps of this isolation. yes that

is that if the difficult part this is imposed on us we didn't volunteer for the space mission but we are indeed passengers on a spacecraft passing through space and time together and some of the ways that we can make this work is to consciously attempt to be polite and respectful with those with whom we're confined. to avoid derisive humor the kind of humor that a stablish is wedges between people humorous find it as an excellent coping mechanism but avoid that the side of the rights of humor that is so common especially among men. consider the possible consequences before you say or do anything consciously attempt to be cheerful and supportive of your housemates. or your crew mates and. eat at least one meal together each

day. the importance of kindness of their again and the importance of avoiding derisive humor but speaking of social skills we all have to assume that the outbreak will one day be under control and we'll all be reconnecting based on what you know about astronaut's coming back how do you think we will have changed as a people after all of this. well astronauts spend a lot of time in the coop watching the beautiful earth pass beneath them and almost all of them report when they return that they have changed it that that experience has changed their perspective of life on earth there are no borders really visible from space and during the early days of the space of the ice i.s.o.'s base station . there would be an american fighter pilot teamed with a so

a former soviet fighter pilot they had trained their entire careers to kill each other and yet they got along famously they lived in perfect harmony and working toward the same goals and i think that that's the kind of thing that we can derive from this experience we're all working towards the same goals a reminder from jax to surface he's an isolation researcher and longtime adviser to nasa thank you very much. and that was our d.w. call the di $900.00 special from our do check out our social media channels imes and now the milan will leave you now with music from opera singers seeing together from greece but alone in their own homes thank you for watching and stay healthy everyone.

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