yeah. it's all about. i'm rachel joins me from the. post. this is deja news live from berlin in spain a hazmat suits are needed to bury the dead as the number of victims race is higher the country is struggling to cope as fatalities surge again and the nation's health care workers are also having. paying a heavy price in their round the clock fight to save lives. u.s. president donald trump signs the biggest stimulus package in modern history some 2

trillion dollars will be rushed to states and businesses struggling amid the crisis the bill will also send direct payments to tens of millions of americans. plus south korea has been called a role model for flattening it's grown a virus perth but fears of a 2nd wave of infections are growing as a country reports an uptick in cases our correspondent reports from seoul. i'm. joining us the epicenter of the corona virus pandemic has moved to the united states but as cases rise there europe is still struggling with the highest death rates and overstrained hospitals spain is europe's 2nd worst hit country

authorities there reported the highest increase in fatalities with more than $800.00 people dying in a day spain is also reporting the largest percentage of infected healthcare workers further straining the system. a burial in hazmat suits. thousands of victims of the 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. only to italy. doctors and nurses overwhelmed amnesty international reports that over 9000 spanish health service workers have become infected with the virus more than in any other country. even healthy. they return

home careful not to spread the disease to their families. having a hard time you feel very lonely and then you go again remember all the images you saw during the day and you keep thinking and thinking and you can't rest. 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. this bit. is not in vain thousands have recovered because of their efforts. at this field hospital in madrid 34 year old graf yellow alone so is going home. and like only. 19 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 i had that feeling of not being able to breathe.

things to all the support i received here all the measures that they've taken it wasn't so hard. no medicine that will do it all for a long so the ordeal is over but for spain the path to recovery is still uncertain . let's bring in journalist jaime of alaska's he's been following this situation from madrid i mean. let me ask you this we have to start with the numbers of course and they are sobering almost 800 dead in just 24 hours officially 72000 infected but experts estimate over half a 1000000 people are likely infected spain now reaching the peak of the crisis. well we hope so we hope that. the crisis but we actually don't know exactly and we will have to wait for next week to see each. patient keep on arriving to. service is difficult to say at

the moment. well you live in the capital madrid that's where most of the cases are i imagine that's because it's the most densely populated city. yeah indeed there but it can also be you know maybe fun years and the people you madrid didn't. maybe underestimated the consequences of these virus and also maybe the authorities as well reacted lates let's remember that the 1st weekend of march demonstrations there. matches were played here. life was carry on as usual and just 3 days later we closed the schools and a week later we decreased. down so maybe we reacted to be late maybe people didn't yeah maybe people underestimated the consequence of

a virus they didn't keep social distance as as well as day did later when they realized what was happening actually and to daily deadly consequences of the virus and also a lack of testing a lot of people have been calling and reporting to the whole service is like i'm not feeling well i have some fever and they haven't been properly isolated because the test will would not arrive to those homes people have been maybe isolated in their homes in this nation not locked down beds leavin with the rest of the family without being properly isolated maybe they went to the supermarket to buy some supplies and even being infected because there was not a test to confirm at those particular people had actually been infected. in madrid spain thank you so much for joining us

here's a look now at more of the latest developments in the. pandemic. confirmed cases of the virus globally have now surpassed 600000 as more than double the global tally in less than a week chancellor angela merkel's chief of staff says germany will not loosen restrictions on public life before april 20th at the earliest. police have arrested thousands for violating a countrywide curfew meant to contain the spread of the virus and the world health organization says norway and spain will be the 1st countries to start testing drugs to fight kovac 19 health officials are testing for medicines considered to offer the most promise in combating the new disease now u.s. president donald trump invoked the defense production act on friday after weeks of pleas by state governors and health care providers to do so the act calls on

automaker general motors to begin many factoring lifesaving ventilators which are still in short supply trump also signed a 2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package into law after it passed with a strong bipartisan support all of that as the u.s. recorded the highest number of confirmed cases in the world now surpassing 100000. the u.s. navy hospital ship mercy docking in los angeles to ease the strain on local facilities with america now reporting more cases of coronavirus than any other country and the number of deaths rising sharply back copies urgently needed. president 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 science medical innovation and rational

deliberate and determined vigilance no effort will be spared in winning this war at the center of the fight making move insulates is gently 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 while corona hotspots 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 now to some of the other stories making news around the world in a press conference on saturday japanese prime minister shinzo abbay asked people to refrain from nonessential meetings to stop the spread of covert 19 he's also promised an unprecedented stimulus package to combat economic fallout from the coronavirus. china has scaled back its restrictions on the original epicenter of the pandemic the city of new han has partially reopened after more than 2 months of almost total isolation people are now allowed to return to han but no one is allowed to leave yet. the plan to fly some

800 cruise ship passengers from australia to germany this weekend has been degraded by a sharp overnight increase in corona virus infections on board the ship called the autonomous anchored south of perth and most of the passengers are german. south korea is tightening border controls after reporting a spike in krona virus cases and it's now enforcing 2 week quarantines on all passengers arriving from the united states similar quarantines had already been in place for travelers from europe walk through testing stations have been set up capable of more than 10 tests per hour south korea reported $146.00 new infections in the last day $24.00 of them from airport screening it's still one news agency reports that the number of people who have recovered from the virus has for the 1st time exceeded the number of warranteed patients. let's now bring in

frank smith who is in south korea's capital seoul frank south to rio one of the 1st countries to confront and then effectively combat this virus has now reported an increase in new infection that might be worrying to people watching from afar what's behind this resurgence. well it definitely is worrying including for some people and officials here in south korea most of the new infections took place down in daegu that's in the south central area of the country where john g. cult religious group and patient number 31 really started a large cluster that cropped up there in early february also as you mentioned there are some new arrivals coming in from other countries that are causing that spike in the number of cases that had been below 100 for most of last week now obviously the

risk of new clusters seems to be what the government was worried about and many other governments in the area that's right one of the problems here is koreans now are perhaps getting a little bit complacent there was a there were church services held a previous weekend and a couple mother and a daughter traveled around children while and and spread the virus there they might be liable even for a fine or a lawsuit upwards of $100000.00 so the government really now is trying to press this p.r. campaign to get people to observe what you could call a soft quarantine they haven't instituted the lock downs that we've seen in some other places they just want people to follow their advice and stay indoors frank i want to go back to something that i mentioned earlier we understand the number of people recovering from the virus is also now higher than the number of those who

are still suffering from it is this encouraging news. certainly it is encouraging we had words of 10000 cases here in south korea now almost 5000 people have recovered and are now virus free that's largely due to the government's efforts to really ramp up testing use tracking that it's like this one that will tell you on your hand phone where people have been exposed to the virus where the virus people that have caught the virus where they went even and also south korea has 5 countries companies now developing the test there being imported by many countries around the world 3 south korean corner coronavirus test kit makers have received approval according to one report approval from the u.s. f.d.a. for use of these tests in the united states so there are ways that countries and

south korea's helping other countries develop methods to to battle this cobe it 19 frank smith reporting from seoul good to see you frank and thank you this is g. w. news up next a special report how ready is the global south by richard walker and if your show inclined you can get all the latest news and information around the clock and how website d.w. dot com i'm michael local here in berlin we'll see you at the top of the at. least the secret of this classic. is the sun. which is story behind the music. for the ages richest.