we told him 202250th anniversary. this is do w. news live from berlin china more in its coronavirus victims the country came to a standstill for 3 minutes a gesture to honor the more than 3000 people who've died in china's covert 19 outbreak also coming up the world over homeless people are among the most vulnerable during this pandemic to meet one man who is doing what he can to help

people living on the streets of the colombian capital bogota. and testing for antibody is a lab that unit germany is working on task that can tell if a person has already built up an immunity to the growth of virus something that could help populations return to a more normal life. by marrying evanston welcome to the program the coronavirus is paralyzing countries across the world but in china where the outbreak originated life is slowly starting to return to a normal pace this morning though the entire nation came to a standstill for 3 minutes as people there mourned the more than 3000 lives lost to the pandemic. virus at half staff throughout the country. cars ships and

trains at their horns as air raid sirens wailed. for 3 minutes their course to remember the people who have. died all over china during the coronavirus pandemic according to official numbers more than 3300 lives were lost in mainland china. in one hand alone the capital of where province at the epicenter of the outbreak some 2500 people have died. why rush off during a moment of silence i felt so. you could hear everyone was choking with sobs. more want to go than i mourned for the big crisis china has faced what happened to these people was very unfortunate we should mourn for them when liang was a hero he discovered it early now it's too late but now our country is stronger than others. when leon was

a young doctor who tried to warn others about the disease and was initially reprimanded by authorities he died from corbett 19 in february now lee has been listed among the national martyrs who died fighting the coronavirus and who were honored on this national day of mourning even though life came to a standstill on saturday china claims to have curbed the spread of the virus and after 2 months of lockdown and will hon the government has decided to loosen restrictions businesses have slowly started to reopen and the lockdown will be officially lifted on april 8th. now let's get a check of some of the other covert 19 related stories the state of new york has seen its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic 562 people died from covert 19 within just 24 hours with nearly $3000.00 deaths the state now accounts for nearly half of all virus related fatalities in the united states. a new coronavirus

testing facility has opened on the border of germany and the czech republic to test czech workers returning home. previously workers needed to quarantine for 14 days at home when they came back from germany. as with many other countries in the world colombia's lockdown has had people without homes especially hard our next report is from nicole furnish on the streets of bogota she met a man whose work during the crisis has made him a hero for those in need nobody knows the invisible like this man for 15 years orlando beltran has been looking after the city's homeless he knows where they meet where they sleep and where they get their drugs with his n.g.o.s get a little bit on the bronx banquet he provides the destitute with food clothes and a shoulder to lean on but the most important part of today's delivery are these

face masks. a face mask can save many lives the drugs they smoke damage the muscles in their mouth. with groove and i will cut her muscle it's hard for them to control their saliva. and they may accidentally spit on each other without realizing what is happening around them they would lose your job because the. corona virus could wreak havoc among bogo toss homeless population but it's not only the limited access to clean water soap and medical attention that increases their vulnerability misinformation is orlando's biggest enemy in times of the pandemic then to me when i had 20000000 people have died in spain. but i'm going to have them off i think the mafia is behind it. they conjure up the virus and then they find a cure or it's all about money here in the streets we have stronger immune systems that's better than their cure. orlando's help is needed now more than ever ever

since columbia went into lockdown it has become hard for the homeless to get money begging or collecting metal and rubbish makes little sense when the only people left on the street are those with nowhere to go with police in charge of enforcing the quarantine this young man tells us he's often violently chased off the streets . tell us to leave but if we don't tase us and beat us i do what i can to avoid that i try to collect some money and find a place to sleep. those who can afford it escape police brutality in these temporary housing facilities. but sharing a windowless room with dozens of people who roam the streets of bogota during the day may well increase their risk of contracting the virus. under these conditions orlando's masks may seem like a band-aid on a bullet wound but it's all these people have and even the sky. takes wear their

masks like shields protecting them from an invisible menace the end of the day is bittersweet for lando. to leave but i'm happy because we gave them hope the hope of us coming back and bringing along the humanitarian aid for the homeless. he knows it's a stretch but it's this hope that it's kept him going for the past 15 years. and the smiles on the faces of those he has helped smiles he may not be able to see under the new masks but he still knows they are there. here in germany more than $80000.00 people have tested positive for the corona virus but health officials worry that the actual number of infections could be much higher that's why hundreds of thousands of tests are being done each week to find out who currently has the virus but equally important scientists say is determining

who may have been infected without showing any apparent symptoms well such tests will now be carried out by researchers in the city of munich they're hopeful that the information will be able to help officials get a better picture of the extent of the epidemic. this machine could bring relief from isolation for some here at the clinic in munich doctors can not only test for the corona virus they can also see if patients unknowingly contract to the virus in the past more than 100 samples can be processed in an hour this is how it works the sample vials are coaches with building blocks from the virus a surface if antibodies are detected in the patients of blood they will attach to the blocks the virus can then be the texted with a different antibody that carries a dye and changes the sample color it positive. in addition to patients the new machine will also allow health care workers to be tested. one but not till it isn't

test has will of course be offered to personnel working in infected areas which will allow us to know who has already have the virus and has built up immunity to how did anyone fart its thought the antibodies could provide immunity for years to come for those with antibodies that could mean a return to normal life it's hope that people who work in other sectors could soon be tested by their general practitioner. for more i'm now joined by fabio and schmidt from science desk hello. now hello i have now how extensive is this new testing i mean how many people will actually be able to access these tests. and what people munich scientists in munich are doing right now is that their 1st running a. trial was 3 cells in households that involves about 4500 people and they're going to be selected totally by random these people are going to

go from door to door but not every door having a certain system which they also knock on and they will be also joined by the police so that there's some credibility to their claims so that people from them get visited by these people don't know you know that it's not a hoax but so this will be a trial for the purpose of really really finding out what the figure of known infections is in the overall population so that one could basically scale up to the entire population now this machine that we've seen in the report is able to process about $100.00 tests per hour that of course is not enough to test the entire population of the country was $80000000.00 but as more of these machines come into work this will be a big improvement well what we also heard in our report is that knowing who's

already had the virus could potentially allow us to ease some of the lockdown measures. how exactly would this work. there are basically 2 christians the 1st one of course is when will there be a herd immunity we'll we're very very far away from that because simply the number of people infected and the percentage of the total population is probably still far far too low to talk about a herd immunity in which the basically the overall population is developing some kind of immunity but what it could do is that these tests could help us identify people in the health system who have already had corona what over it who are no healthier and who have an immunity or people like bus drivers police people people who are in contact with a lot of. basically brought a population whose then could still go about their work without being having to fear that they get infected a 2nd time and now 5 and quickly if you can could be used as somehow help in the

development of a vaccine for covert 90. in the original development of the vaccine they're not really that essential but what they are essential for is to find old was a vaccine is actually effective so in the phase 3 of the vaccine development when you're actually administrate the vaccine to many people then you want to know whether the vaccine actually triggered immune response and that should be possible to detect was machine so it's good to have it all right. thank you very much well with the exception of belarus countries across europe have put their football seasons on hold as a result of the coronavirus pandemic of many clubs and leagues uncertain about how and when they'll be able to return to competition the interruption is depriving many clubs a vital revenue but it could still be a long time before football gets back underway. all quiet on the football thought

england's premier league clubs have confirmed that the season will not resume at the beginning of may. they do still intend to complete the competition but when remains unclear belgium became the 1st country to cancel the rest of their season with league leaders club bruce set to be confirmed champions just hours after that decision was announced you a fully implored its members not to follow the belgian example president alexander schaeffer and hopes domestic seasons can be concluded even if games have to be played behind closed doors but football without spectators in the stadium is no longer the same as football with the public in the stadium. we must be a way that we are in a specific situation that the whole world is in a specific situation and that it still better to play much without a public not playing its. so-called ghost games are still in

option in germany where clubs are also determined to complete the season in whichever way possible the ongoing suspension of play is starving clubs of income for some clubs that loss of revenue is a threat to their very existence. is leagues and through massive insolvencies that means not just players but of course thousands of other people who are going in and around professional football it is us or mysteries will lose their jobs but with further delays looking inevitable a return to football the normality seems a very distant prospect. in other news britain's main opposition labor party has named kira's starmer as its new leader that's after a ballot of party members trade unionists and registered supporters starmer is the former director of public prosecutions and has acted as shadow bread's as secretary

he was one of 3 candidates for the labor leadership and one resoundingly with more than 50 per cent of the vote deliver a place jeremy corbyn who resigned after a crushing defeat to boris johnson's conservative party in december's general election. you're up to date now on d w news at this hour american evan stand for me and the entire news team here in berlin thanks for the company. on doing crazy thing in the pool time. how to handle on new lives in times of the koran a pandemic a reporter. just like you and she's looking for answers and thankfully with the help of living expenses.