this is do w. news live from berlin testing for antibodies a lab in munich germany is working on a task that can tell if a person has already built up immunity to the corona virus something that could help populations return to even more normal life. also on the show china warns its coronavirus victims the country came to a standstill for 3 minutes a gesture to honor the more than 3000 people who died in china's cold with 19 outbreaks. and though the number of infections and deaths that's still low in south

africa there are fears the virus could wreak havoc to police their people there accuse police of heavy handed tactics and violence in enforcing immigration law had locked out. by marrying the evanston it's good to have you with us here in germany more than 80000 people have tested positive for the corona virus but the actual number of infections is thought to be much higher though hundreds of thousands of tests are being done each week scientists fear there is significant transmission by people without any symptoms a new test by researchers in the city of munich aims to find asymptomatic carriers and those who may have already had the infection and are immune. 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 coated with building blocks from the virus or 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 if positive in addition to patients the new machine will also allow health care workers to be tested. one but that click 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 after it had only one part it's thought the antibodies could provide immunity for years to come for those with antibodies that could mean

a return to normal life it's hoped that people who work in other sectors could soon be tested by their general practitioner. well for more i'm now joined by a 5 year schmidt from science desk. now and says 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 of the scientists in munich are doing right now is that they are 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 some credibility to their claim so that people can 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 what 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 questions of 1st one of course is when will there be a herd immunity where 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 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 was a lot of. basically brought up population who then could still go about their work without being having to fear that they get infected a 2nd time and now fabienne quickly if you can could be used as somehow help in the development of a vaccine for covert 19. 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 administering the vaccine to many people then you want to know

whether the vaccine actually triggered a immune response and that should be possible to detect was machine so it's good to have it all right. thank you very much. the coronavirus is paralyzing countries across the world but in china where the break originated life is slowly starting to return to normal paves 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. flags at half staff throughout the country cars ships and trains sounded their horns as they're at 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 the moment of silence i felt so. we could hear everyone was choking with sobs. mourning oh god i mourn for the big crisis china has faced what happened to these people was a very unfortunate we should mourn for them when lang was a hero he discovered it early now it's too late but now our country is stronger than others. when liang was a young doctor who tried to warn others about the disease and was initially reprimanded by authorities he died from called at 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 han the government has decided to loosen restrictions. businesses have slowly started to reopen and the lockdown will be officially lifted it on april 8th. now let's have a look at some other covert 19 related stories. the state of new york has seen its deadliest day of the corona virus pandemic 562 people died from cove it 19 within just 24 hours with nearly 3000 deaths the state now accounts for nearly half of all virus related fatalities in the us. israeli police are widening a crackdown on ultra-orthodox jewish communities for continuing to ignore social distancing rules authorities have been carrying out of raids in orthodox neighborhoods around the country after many of them emerged as coronavirus hotspots

they've also locked down the city of maybach outside tel aviv. pope francis has warned the faithful not to seek personal gain from the coronavirus crisis in the service streamed on the church's website he prayed for followers to preserve their quote clear conscience in the wake of the pandemic. south africa has been in lockdown for a week now even though the country still has relatively few confirmed cases of coronavirus but the enforcement of the lockdown has been particularly difficult in south africa's townships police and military forces have been deployed on allegations of excessive force are on the rise our reporter our creation has more from cape town. we have joined the police patrol in the townships wherever we go everyone runs away because they know they shouldn't be on the streets and they are

freights the officers on duty seem anxious they admit they can hardly keep these huge areas under control the enforcement of the lockdown as anything but systematic it appears surrender. his men couldn't get away fast enough reason push the use of a little don't. you don't have any reason to be outside all the world over. he's been fined for $1500.00 runs about 80 euros have that kind of money even though most would be. good to my brother do you know the man says that during that arrest he was kicked and beaten by the police behind the house we couldn't verify this from our position a few blocks away we meet a young woman who doesn't want to show her face she's afraid she will be recognized but she does want to show what the police did to her just for being on the streets

she says several officers stormed into her house and detector with sticks and whips and all this in front of her daughter it's actually in the tub and is a member. of neither allen painted. in. the night how people mean how can we trust the police defend their. in the townships if they don't listen unfortunately those things happen i'm not saying that's what i mean in some communities there it's all the members of the public understand they need to see those things and fortunately before they do instructions yes they need to see their c.d.'s and the police are not just telling you to go in there is because you know it's so action it's difficult for many south africans to observe the lockdown despite all the warnings. the

call for physical distancing goes on he did in these long lines at the supermarket many day laborers simply can't afford to stay for long periods. this is the reality for millions of south africans and although the lock down rules of the 3 we've locked on the extremely strict many people simply not able to comply. police fear the tension in the townships. the longer the states in effect. with the exception of belarus countries across europe have put their football seasons on hold as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and its 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 front english 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 bruges 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 i'm not it's still better to play matches 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. this leaves them through massive insolvencies that means not just players but of course thousands of other people who are going in and around professional football it was us this trees will lose their jobs but with further delays looking in evitable a return to football the normality seems a very distant prospect let's get a quick check now of some of the other stories making the news this hour britain's main opposition labor party has named ts starmer as its new leader the shadow brags that secretary was one of 3 candidates for the labor leadership and won with more than 50 percent of the vote will replace jeremy corbin who resigned after december as a general election or isn't. in southeastern france 2 people have been killed in

a knife attack on residents venturing out to shop in a town under long down several others were injured the alleged attacker was arrested by police nearby. that's the latest from d.w. news this hour american abstain from me and the entire news teams here in berlin thanks for watching. i'm doing crazy thing in time. how to handle the new lives in times of the corona pandemic reporters. slickers notes and she's looking for answers thankfully with the help of leading expert. thank you is not life as we know it. in this together.