this is d.w. news live from berlin and americans brains for a tough week ahead for u.s. president donald trump warns that the death toll from corona virus could rise significantly that's as the number of cases in the country tops 300000 we look at how the u.s. is coping. also coming up using tech to beat the coronavirus german developers are working on a new smartphone app that will warn people if they've been close to someone who's tested positive for coated 19.

omarion evanston a welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has told americans to brace for a tough week ahead numbers of corona virus infections and deaths are spiraling while public health officials struggle to equip hospitals with what they need the president seems to have largely stopped downplaying the scale and the danger while u.s. citizens are now adapting to the precautions needed to limit the spread of the virus . reality bites refrigerated trucks outside to manhattan hospital to store bodies because the morgue is full under the gaze of the empire state building. on the street signs that people realize it's serious new york has now where mosques and gloves in public. soldiers deployed to help

extraordinary times and even aid from unusual places. i looked at expression you go to war with what you have not what you need right now we're not at the apex so we're still in the stage where we have the luxury if you will of gathering as much as we can so the 1000 ventilators and was from china and the 140 from oregon and we're still shopping. the rest of the united states is watching. new orleans has opened a medical support facility in a convention center to ease the strain on local hospitals it'll take patients too sick to be a home who don't need intensive care. right now it is being accurately reported in new orleans that we can always drive. that's the biggest hot spot that's where

we're most likely to see dark past due to look at health care of the sinister in so that's why. the pandemic is not only spreading fear it's also awakening gratitude for those risking their health for others. if it's really nice. give us hope. let's get you an update now some other coronavirus developments around the world more than 1200000 people have been infected with the virus worldwide that's almost twice as many as just a week ago south sudan has confirmed its 1st case of corona virus the patient who arrived in the country from ethiopia is being treated in isolation meanwhile in spain the death toll has dropped for a 3rd consecutive day with 674 fatalities registered in the past 24 hours prime

minister pedro sanchez said his country was quote starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and bangladesh's prime minister has announced an $8500000000.00 package intended to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic well germany is developing a smartphone app that can track people's movements and warn them if they've been close to someone who's tested positive for covert 19 but in a country with strict data protection laws one big concern for developers is that the app does not infringe on users' data privacy if germans do embrace the new app authorities here hope it will help them contain the spread of the virus. our mobile phones could become an important weapon in the fight against the corona virus and germany could see the benefits very soon so for developers are working on tracking apps which would enable a loosening of restrictions on movement without compromising data privacy the op

registers of their smartphones with the op installed and can track people who are in the vicinity of the user for a particular amount of time if the up user tests positive for corona all the people they had contact with can be notified and warned the hope is that possible cases of infection can be isolated more quickly according to calculations however it only works if 60 percent of the population uses the up. leg of that as long as it's free and it doesn't come from above i think it's completely ok but look i like everyone has a smartphone by now which they use to look at everything with an app that bed registers your location around the clock that's why it makes sense it's what they did in china. the data protection laws are far stricter in europe than they are in china however which is why using the us to be voluntary and anonymous it's not programmed to love the users location only the distance between them journalist is monitoring the ops development i'm not. guns in china what's all it's all crew show this that

the information is only saved on my telephone at 1st it's not uploaded anywhere not stored at a central location somewhere this way if i were to test positive i could then decide to share the information voluntarily. the corona could be launched in germany this month just under half of all germans have signaled a willingness to install it one of them being americal herself. well for more let's bring in 5 ian schmidt from d.w. science hello to you 5 in so we're hearing that this app is to be able to meet german data protection standards as being built in a way that protects privacy but what exactly does this mean in terms of how this app works. yes. if we look at the chinese and south korean apps which are basically based on the geo tracking that most mobile phones have activated

this app works completely differently it doesn't really try to your job graphical location where you all registered somewhere or send it off into the cloud but what it does is it basically works was bluetooth bluetooth is a kind of media area communication between smartphones and so if you are in the vicinity of someone who also has a small form that has little to lose it will register that you've been in contact with that person and only that fact will be sent into as a cloud and it will only be stored there for 2 days so the point is will never register where you are but just whom you had contact with and once you press the button then all the people you've had contact was will be informed by the haves the data will be deleted after 2 days so data protection is very very high on this. all right but how does this actually help stop the spread of the corona virus

. the idea is that if someone has tested positive and he gets a positive test result he's probably still in the early stages of being infective and so if everybody who has been in contact with him the last 2 days gets the information. then the likeliness that these people can also. be more whales to danger and baby chicks themselves consulted doctors asked what they should do maybe just avoid other contacts is much better and this is really is a crucial period that the medical doctors have concluded that should be taken into account all right 5 inch met from our science desk we thank you very much. well with the corona virus keeping millions of people around the world indoors many

are struggling to ward off boredom and to keep a positive attitude well at young children to the mix and you've got a situation that's challenging even for the most patient of parents did over these areas for us whiting is one of them and she gave us this inside look at her new normal in the confines of her berlin apartment. welcome to our home which is now also the home office the home school and the home garden this is my husband nick working it was supposed to be a bedroom. this is charlie who's almost 10 and he usually found slugging it out at the kitchen table with his mountain of homework and this is 3 year old cecilia known as c.c. who is the one member of the family thriving in this new reality. we live in an apartment him live in right next to

a rather beautiful church but we don't have access to a garden or even a balcony so at times things can feel a little bit claustrophobic. and none to. go out mum's thought was through for me me me me me me me me. this was a car this is. she going to go over everyone has to help out around the flat. well i say help no. but there are also some fun things about having to stay home. every morning c.c. can meet kindergarten friends and teachers online and because we can't go outside march we try to do some exercise inside each day.

we've even done a reenactment of the fairy tale little red riding-hood well it does help having a designer as a husband even if you did make me play the old grandmother. look i'm not going to pretend that this is all you see it isn't but we are trying to do is to appreciate what we do have which is the other. let's get a check now of some of the other stories making headlines this hour. authorities in southeastern friends have officially opened a terrorism inquiry following a knife attack the suspect is accused of killing 2 people and wounding 5 others on saturday he was arrested shortly after the attack evidence found in his home points to a religious motive. an explosion in a coal mine near the colombian capital bogota has killed 11 miners and injured 4 more the cause of the blast is being investigated the accident comes just one day

after another deadly incident at a mine in the country's northeast. spain's coast guard rescued 56 migrants near the canary islands on saturday they were traveling in 2 small wooden vessels before being picked up off the coast of gran canaria just hours earlier 29 other migrants reached the neighboring island of tenor reef. the tajikistan league soccer season has kicked off despite almost every other country in the world suspending its leagues because of the coronavirus the 1st match was played behind closed doors in the central asian countries capital. has not announced a single case of covert 19 so far. for christians around the world today is palm sunday an important date in the religious calendar and the start of holy week leading up to easter but in these days of the corona pandemic everything is different st peter's square in the vatican was

deserted this morning usually it's full of catholics who gathered to hear the pope instead pope francis live stream the traditional palm sunday mass as the faithful have been instructed to stay at home. well as the krona virus confines millions of people around the world indoors one of the big issues as we said is boredom and keeping a positive attitude so. a lot of clever people are coming up with fun and innovative ideas to keep themselves and others entertained like these people in barcelona have a look at. this but times call for desperate measures so why not throw a good party from your balcony. that's what these 3 housemates thought when the spanish government told everyone to stay indoors because of the coronavirus. after having enough

of sitting around they invited everyone around them to join in. now their balcony festivities have become a bit of a neighborhood sensation. every friday and saturday they play music and entertain and through social media their neighbors can request songs send messages and birthday wishes to friends and family or just dance. so popular are their vans that the 3 friends now also started their own radio station streaming online. but it's not only the neighbors that i'm joining the fun some uninvited guests also showed up. to join the party.

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