this is the w.'s life from berlin hopeful signs in germany's fight against the coronavirus for the chancellor wants the nation to remain vigilant saying it's still too early to consider using restrictions on public life also on the program scientists in western germany study an area hit particularly hard by the corona virus and get something encouraging results we'll hear about their discoveries in just a moment. right across the virus pandemic poses an additional threat to endangered wildlife in kenya.

i'm phil gallo welcome to the program germany's chancellor says she sees science for optimism in the country's fight against a coronavirus social distancing measures of help slow the spread of the number of new infections is going down but in her latest briefing i'm going to map a warning that not was not the time to ease the lock down. deserted streets in the german capital a common sight in countries facing her and a virus around the welland but according to experts in germany there are strict sions on movement seemed to be having a positive effect. the number of new cases there appears to be leveling out but with a long easter weekend looming the german chancellor has warned against getting complacent to do for no snitch we mustn't allow ourselves to be loaded into a false sense of security instead we should be really happy that more stringent

measures are necessary for me this means that we cannot be reckless now we mustn't allow ourselves to be loaded into this false sense of security and i know that for myself personally you get a little hope then you gain confidence then you become a little more relaxed and then you're a little careless you know we have to stay focused the situation is fragile for you germany also announced plans on thursday to increase domestic production of protective medical gear asian manufacturers are currently responsible for 90 percent of the world's production of protective masks more than 100 companies have responded to the government's call for help but also it's a game of an ongoing displacement and as a result in our discussions about procurement and the purchase of personal protective equipment especially medical protective masks we saw the 1st steps of progress. some companies that operate here in germany are already investing in increasing the production of the material that's needed for masks it's true that.

signs of cautious optimism in germany but the debate over an exit strategy to lift restrictions will resume after easter. or professor good to sugar here's a scene you're very well adjusted to berlin charité medical center as one of europe's biggest university hospitals is also one of germany's leading centers for research in the coronavirus welcome professor is the chancellor right to warn the germans that it's too soon to relax virus control measures. oh i think she's right because you have still to be very cautious i mean it seems that the measurements are affected if indeed but we have to look at the intensive care units what's going on there and i expect in the reeks to come that we see more patients in the intensive care units and for we have still really to be

alerted so how long do you think men before life can go back to normal that's difficult to predict of course on the other side the as the economic pressure and their precious very high so why seeing after you stand the political instability discuss oh they can relief their measurements a little bit but that has to be very controlled so we have to do it step by step maybe it can be all in small shops and also talk to people is that they still follow the rules of heights and so they still have that social distancing all through sickle distancing so that virus spread is not out of control that is i think very important ok as stay with us a place professor were about to look at a new study of one of the worst affected regions in germany virologists from the

university of bonn have managed to test a 1000 people that and the heinz that bad district and found that 15 percent of participants already have had the virus and the now likely to be immune to the disease. scientists in germany have taken a close look at a region hit especially hard by the corona virus the affected community is goggle initial results show that 15 percent of the population has tested positive thought of we gave people a questionnaire took a throat swap and used the p.c. our methods to verify whether an infection was currently present we also took a blood sample and use an antibody test to see if the person had already experienced an infection. in the minas apology of the scientists calculated a mortality rate of 0.37 percent that's 5 times lower than what the u.s. based johns hopkins university projected for all of germany this may lead to a relaxing of restrictions in some areas of daily life but experts warn special

measures favoring older people should still be a priority. the. age of this also according to what call institute data is 80 so it is very important to protect the elderly. heinsberg district chief says this area narrowly missed a catastrophe had the virus been detected just 2 weeks later the situation would be far worse in the meantime the curve of the number of infections has begun to flatten. a let's go back to professor. professor so we have a study here which says that the virus is less lethal than initially expected what do you make of this. that isn't very interesting point of this study is that the case fatality rate is about 14.44 percent that is less than many experts and his opinion but still i mean we

have to think about that the virus is still spreading and will reach about 50 percent or 70 percent of the population so it had to be in more cases and more deaths even so the case fatality rate is very low as it is the most in point at that's the 1st time i've heard that figure you're reckoned with but generally speaking you're looking at 70 percent of us becoming an infected with corona virus at some stage that's what epidemiology is expect 50 to 70 percent and that at this point probably the virus stops to spread further because everybody's human you know and the virus does not find any host anymore that is susceptible to the virus these are the triggers come and get accepted so far and again just referring back to this study we just looked at 15 percent of the population of hanging out having been in contact with some sort of infection so

that that's quite know that from what you've said. absolutely that means that yes jill at the beginning of the plan to me and evil see many more cases in the future and another question is whether we can compare the. so-called with other regions in germany itself that's the beginning of the pandemic their reach and may have different numbers percentages of people that have experienced an infection with a virus and during the planting make the numbers will more to come similar to each other and so but that point is not reached it ok i would ask you to speculate now just because pressure on politicians is so great to try and. release populations from from lock down is it inevitable that we reach

a point where the virus appears to have been beaten we slowly release people from lock down and then we have another spike in infections if not just something we have to just accept you have to face that yes indeed because the virus even if it disappears for a while it will reappear and will cost more infection so we have to control the spread of the virus and to prevent the intensive care units truong being all the violent by loads of people that severely ill and that is the whole aim all fall all to all of these measurements but at the end we have to accept that probably yes 50 to 60 percent off the top elation will be infected so everything therefore the the end goal then is a vaccine is. some sort of inoculation. sure that is the most

wanted. issue but unfortunately probably only 2021 we will have to that scene it takes time to test vaccines because we have 2 objects innate also people that are a healthy and the teams that therefore has to be very safe and that takes time to test that is very important so i think my feeling is that the vaccine comes too late though i well that's enough for you and anyway professor thank you so much for joining us professor going to shun me from the actually take medical center. you're welcome. i now let's take a look at some other coronavirus related news around the world britain's prime minister remains in intensive care and sometimes his hospital in london for a 4th day boris johnson is being treated for covered 90 illness caused by the current virus of foreign secretary dominic robb who is mr johnson's designated

deputy says the prime minister is making positive steps. on the pandemic has not killed at least $100.00 doctors in italy according to the country's national doctors federation the death includes some of the medics the italian government called out of retirement a month ago it's also estimated that about 30 nursing staff have died from covered 90 international monetary fund says the pandemics causing the worst economic fallout since the great depression of the 1930 s. more than 170 countries are expected to see a decline in per capita income this year and almost total reversal of pretty pandemic projections emerging economies and low income nations will be the worst affected. us jobs market is continuing its collapse last week saw another 6600000 people filing for unemployment benefits bringing the total number to more 7000000 the flood of new claims is so large that some states including the state of

florida has opened up a drive through unemployment offices. so a great outlook then for the u.s. economy earlier we asked the head of a leading german economic think tank what that means for the global economy. we have to understand that the global economy so integrated so strongly degraded the u.s. so for everyone for all european economies like china that if the u.s. is not recovering the rest of the work will not be cut so clearly china is head of the. way you see it the business is starting up again production rising but the u.s. . he has not reached the peak yet so he is probably 2 months 3 months behind what is happening in china so this will mean until the us is not be covering market leap the world economy will be in a difficult situation. conservation aside restrictions brought in to halt the

spread of corona virus could prompt a resurgence in poaching and other threats to wildlife pandemic has prompted kenya to close its national parks effectively ending its eco tourism a key source of revenue used to protect endangered species. it's breakfast time at the sheldrick wildlife trust near nairobi the organization calls itself the world's most successful elephant orphan rescue program but now it's work and it's now noble's face a new threat. we have placed on doors g h k that 90 the orphanage stopped admitting visitors last month when kenya recorded its 1st corona virus infection we can have up to 500 people here and just alan so that's an incredible source of revenue for us to ration and we are seeing come in at the moment normally at this time they'd be out for the public session which is no longer taking place until further notice and that's where we just let them out

and let them do what they want to do. and enjoy the orphanage has also been forced to shut down other important operations including its airborne anti-poaching patrols many of the animals in its care saw their parents killed by poachers hunting their valuable tusks. we don't want to die we don't want them to die so we just have to walk with you know i mean scented sure that everybody's safe and that and most are safe as well but with no money coming in and the eyes of the world focused on covert $900.00 down the humans it's becoming harder to look after africa's endangered animals. now an inventor in the southern engine city of hyderabad is injecting a bit of humor into his country's lockdown his latest work is a coronavirus shade to vehicle to remind people to stay off the streets i say dead because sweeps the world. this

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