are you talking 202250th anniversary. to. get through. this is d.w. news live from berlin using tech to tackle 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 covert 19 also on the show americans brace for a tough week ahead u.s. president donald trump morals of the death toll from corona virus could rise

significantly that of the number of cases in the country thompson 300000 we have a look at how the u.s. is coping plus. football in nicaragua is still being played despite the coronavirus bringing the sport to a halt and most of the world footballers expressed fears about playing during the pandemic but that fell on deaf ears. i married to evanston it's good to have you with us germany is the latest country to be developing a smartphone app that contract 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 embrace the new u.s. 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 coronavirus m. germany could see the benefits very soon so for developers are working on tracking ups 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. back of that as long as it's free and it doesn't come from above i think it's completely ok but look i know everyone has a smartphone by now which they use to look up 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. data protection laws are far stricter in europe than they are in

china however which is why using the us to be voluntary under non of us it's not programmed to log the user's location only the distance between them journalist is monitoring the development i'm. guns and what's all it's all crucial 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 and 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 angola merkel herself. well for more let's bring in fabienne schmidt from scions hello to 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 works completely differently it doesn't really track your general graphical location where you all registered some well sent 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 built tools 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 who have had contact was will be informed by that the data will be deleted after 2 days so data protection is very very high on this. side 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 was the last 2 days gets the information. then the likeliness that these people can also. be more whales to danger and maybe check 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. from our science desk we thank you very much. let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news this hour the head of germany's chancellor is warning that the country has not yet seen the peak of the coronavirus crisis. the time with the highest number of infections is still to come and that it was too early to relax measures aimed at slowing the spread of the virus. greece has locked down a 2nd migrant camp north of athens after one resident tested positive for the corona virus it comes just days after authorities quarantined a similar facility that's after $23.00 people were found to have the virus health officials have warned that an outbreak in one of greece's crowded refugee camps could be catastrophic. hundreds of migrants are being forced to return to venezuela from neighboring colombia despite an economic crisis in their home country there

and able to earn a living in colombia due to street quarantine measures bus service has been cut amid the pandemic and most of them have to make the long journey on foot. 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 that are needed to limit the spread of the virus. reality bites refrigerated trucks outside to manhattan hospital to store bookies 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 now where mosques and gloves in public. soldiers are deployed to help extraordinary times and even aid from unusual places. a look better 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 i missed from china and the 140 from our going 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 at home who don't need intensive care right now as is being accurately reported in new orleans that we can all instruction that's the biggest hotspot

that's where we're most likely to see that our capacity to deliver health care soonest and so that's where we're working. the pandemic is not only spreading fear it's also awakening gratitude for those risking their health for others. oh if it's really nice. give us hope. for christians around the world today is palm sunday an important date on the religious calendar and the start of holy week leading up to easter but in these days of the coronavirus 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 streamed the traditional palm sunday mass as the faithful have been instructed to stay at home and following the pope's lead many other

religious leaders are having to rethink the way they communicate with their congregations since church services can no longer be held additionally many older people are suffering from loneliness as a result of self isolation well in our next report we meet a pastor in the city of cologne in germany who's staying in touch with her parishioners despite social distancing. if i am not just changed and we hold this service in the name of the father the son and the holy ghost and. what it 1st sighted seems to be a normal sunday service is anything but colognes if the funniest church is empty in germany sunday services and mass are no longer allowed because of the danger of church goers infecting each other so instead of the 1st time ever the sermon is being delivered online and life. mind and some to come come in all the years that i have worked as a minister i have never experienced that we as a community were not allowed to come together or to hold services it's not

a good feeling but the internet offers us a way to join in the service of the lord without being physically present because we can live stream and i believe that god's blessing will somehow make it through the door was kicked out of a church and reduced it to the increasing pit about on me is one of over $100.00 online followers more than are usually present at sunday services. for it 1st it was a bit odd because i had to get used to the fact that the rest of the church community was not there to see the central figure often and this way i was able to concentrate more on her sermon and catch a lot of details that i might otherwise not have noticed. the concept of online religious services this trending due to coronavirus more and more german churches are turning to the internet. i like to believe that things to be corona crisis we are building a new infrastructure that once people have tested it out it will be easier for them to stream the sunday services in the future so maybe the church will offer

something else online and they will find it perfectly natural to take part. as a car guy in large amount of time especially worried about older people who live alone and don't have a social support system for them a 24 hour day is a very very long time and will see the effects of this over time. this the cure for open heart the country will see a rise in dementia and depression meant to name. one order so it's very important that we reach out to these people now in the. dimension of the untraditional. digital services are just one way of combating the crisis they may have been created in a time of need but they may soon become the norm. there are only 4 national football league's that we know of still in action since the coronavirus has shut

down the sport nicaragua's premier league is among them and it's enjoying a surge in popularity as a result but the footballers and even some fans are against having matches during a pandemic. playing a game while the coronavirus runs rampant in the world affects the level of intensity normally seen players in nicaragua had already expressed fears about hitting the pitch during the pandemic but that fell on deaf ears club owners and the league made the decision to continue without consulting the players. during a skype interview with a goalkeeper from nicaraguan side de pere tivo said the players try to avoid touching each other. and mentally one isn't focused on the game instead you think opponents could have the coronavirus. football fans in the country aren't allowed to attend the matches and some don't fully

support the idea of holding games. if it's a go and i think it's a bad decision on behalf of the directors and the league because they are risking the health of the players and their families because we have seen in other countries in italy spain famous players who have tested positive for corona virus. nicaragua's football federation has not decided to complete the season yet if things get worse they plan to suspend action however right now football fans ruled why are tuning into nicaragua the league has even received interest to broadcast games from as far as sweet. in the united states the national basketball association the n.b.a. has announced its hall of fame class for 2020 and the list is headlined by the late kobe bryant the superstar player who retired from basketball in 2016 made the cut

for the hall of fame in his 1st year of eligibility he won 5 n.b.a. championships with the los angeles lakers and is widely considered to be one of the greatest to ever play the game he died in a helicopter crash in late january of this year. we're up to date now on d.w. news this hour omarion evan stand for me and the entire team here in berlin thanks for watching and stay safe. beyond. the missile that. we're. doing. whatever it takes. you know running. a good

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