i mean when i was a women especially of victims of violent. take part and send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture. you are not a visitor nothing yet you want to become a citizen. in so migrants your platform for reliable information. or germany has seen just over one 114900 cases in just over 2300 deaths despite this the chancellor told germans today that they're hopeful signs in the country's fight against a pandemic but she warned that now is not the time to let are in the fight i'm phil girl in berlin and this is the day.

you do need when 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 to me this means that we cannot be reckless now we mustn't allow ourselves to be lulled into the supposed sense of security and i know that for myself personally to get a little hope that you gain confidence then you become a national mall relaxed and then you're in a little care less you know we have to stay focused to the situation it's prime child due. to the chancellor says she does say signs for optimism in the country's fight against the coronavirus social distancing measures of help slow the spread and the number of new infections is going down but it had latest briefing i'm going to medical board that now is not the time to ease the lockdown. deserted streets in the german capital

a common sight in countries facing current virus around the world but according to experts in germany the restrictions on movement seem 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 lowered 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 on the situation is front gyle 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. as a result in our discussions about procurement and the purchase of personal protective equipment especially medical protective masks and 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. hopes among germany's european neighbors of mutual eyes debt however will cost after merkel ruled out the highly debated corona bonds. well let's talk more about those corona bonds and indeed the meeting between the e.u. finance ministers with kate ferguson from the w. business. so through there we're socially space we're certainly distance welcome kate what's been agreed then settlers ok fillable this is really a moment of truth for europe which has seen so much division over the past decade

whether that's to do with the issue of migration or with praxis and now faced with this pandemic a challenge of such markets. the question was really can they pull together or not and what we have just learned is that the answer to that question is a cautious yes here is own finance minister is ofter holding a 2 day video conference meeting have come up with an agreement we know very little about the details so far it's been described as a multi 1000000000 euro stimulus package and this is of course hugely significant because as you mentioned the thorny issue of corona bonds has been just dominating these discussions and there was very little agreement on that issue yet not part of this deal you explain to us and what these corona bombs are and why germany is so against them ok so basically corona bonds are an updated version of what was once called the euro bond this was a an idea that was types had to buy 10 years ago after the financial crisis in 2009

the idea basically is to pool debt so at the moment every euro zone member has different conditions attached to borrowing money so if you're a country like italy which has a pretty poor credit rating it costs you a lot more money to borrow if you're germany which is very fiscally sound you can borrow money really easily everyone wants to lend to germany beat it because i think well we're going to get this we know that germany has a lot of savings it's contentious because under this new plan the debt would be pooled so it means that richer nations more fiscally stable countries like germany the netherlands austria finland they would have to pay out more for weaker economies like italy and spain ok so a that's why very against it so if not corona bombs than what instruments are their member countries disposal so this money is very likely to come from something that's called the european stability mechanism this is also a scheme that was introduced after the financial crisis and basically it's a big fund that member countries can can use to prevent economic collapse

it's already been in use spain portugal greece and ireland all used money from the european stability mechanism. but it came with a whole load of strings of touch and that's why there's been disagreement over how this money should be distributed so back off of the financial crisis countries that were using money from this fund how to introduce a stair he measures and that was something that was quite painful for the people of those countries what they were disagreeing about this time is should there be strings attached or not because countries like spain and italy which have been hardest hit by the pun demick say this isn't our fault this is a health crisis we shouldn't have to pay up more just because we have been disproportionately affected by this other countries most notably the netherlands were saying well you're still haven't really been very fiscally responsible over the last 2 years we don't just want to give you as much money as you want with no strings attached ok so what we're waiting to hear the details on that and what sort of fudge has been done ok and how much does the europe's response

depend on what the rest of the world is doing well they're certainly looking to see how other countries are responding in the united states we've had 2 trillion dollars stimulus package in 9th month by the from the administration we have the news today that the federal reserve is unlocking more loans so of course germany on the whole euro zone is looking to see what other countries are doing of course china the world's 2nd biggest economy it's its entire economy is structured around the idea of state folks cities so there's a lot of pressure on governments to come together here to make sure that there's a gear of a unified european response. good talking to you ok thank you very much for that kate ferguson from de duve business. well professor good to surely are here here's a scene you're very well adjusted to better than shari tell you medical center is one of europe's biggest university hospitals it's also one of germany's leading scientists for research and the coronavirus welcome professor is the chancellor

writes 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 expecting that reeks to come that we see more patients in the intensive care units and self or 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 sites that has the economic pressure and their precious very high so why seeing after you stone the politicians to go discuss all of a 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 hikes and so they still have that social distancing all through soko distancing so that the virus spread is not out of control that is i think very important 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 banned district and found that 15 percent of participants already have had the virus and then are 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 we gave people a questionnaire took a throat swap and used the p.c.r.

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 gang gelt 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. every age of this also according to what call in situ data is 80 so it is very important to protect the elderly. heinsberg district chief says this area narrowly missed a catastrophe had a 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. let's go back

to professor. professor when 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 the study is that the case fatality rate is about 14.44 percent that is less than many experts and to support it but still i mean we have to think about that the virus is still spreading and will reach out 50 percent or 70 percent of the population so they have to be more cases and more deaths even though the case fatality rate is very low as it is the most in point 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 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 in you 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 anger have. been in contact with some sort of infection so that that's quite low then from what you've said. absolutely that means that you're still at the beginning of the continent and it'll 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 a beginning of

a pandemic reach and may have different numbers percentages of people that have experienced an infection with a virus and during the planting make the numbers more to come similar to each other and so but that point is not reached it ok i'm going to 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 that 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 it will cost more infections 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 yearly ill and that is the whole aim or false of all of these measurements but at the end we have to accept that probably just 50 to 60 percent off the top relation will be infected so everything therefore the end goal then is is a vaccine is. some sort of inoculation. sure that is the most wanted. issue but unfortunately probably only 2021 we will have it acting it takes time to test that scenes because we have to correct you nate also people that you're a healthy and. therefore has to be very safe and that takes time to test that it's very important so i think my feeling is that the vaccine comes too late

you are well that's enough for you anyway professor thank you so much for joining us professor going to shine rick from the cherry take medical center. you're welcome. france has been under partial lockdown for more than 3 weeks but with the number of infections still increasing social distancing mash is unlikely to be extended president macros due to address again at the nation next week in paris the rules have become even stricter backed up with fines and even prison time d.w. paris correspondent lisa lewis shows us just how small her life has become. i think confined to these 13th 24 weeks now but i do have the right to go out once a day for one hour to do that i need to fill in this form with the date be exact about time and the specific reason for example i'm not out for an urgent medical appointment or if i'm summoned by

a judge that today i have to buy food. bakeries like this one have been allowed to stay open despite the law they are considered essential services but even here business has suffered. our turnover has gone down by 40 percent and we had to put half of our 12 employees on temporary unemployment and we don't know for how long this will go on report markers on the ground right away it has taken some people which is time but now most of the french understood the rules of social distancing that's quite an achievement for people renowned for their lack of discipline more your coffee and people paris is normally bustling city but not these days the lockdown in france is stricter than in some other european countries and yet not all the french are following the rules. in some prison suburbs in certain regions that

people are just not observing the lockdown that negates the effort by everyone else that's why we're cracking down on such behavior we've already given out hundreds of thousands of fines from breaching the rules costs 135 euros or 200 euros if you repeat offenses one person was caught infringing the lockdown 10 times in a row for it and condemned to 3 months and prison more cuticle than a. doctor's degree people should comply with the law they say it's the only way to slow down the spread of the virus. plus we have run out of a veil of beds in intensive care units and have to make tough choices people over 75 years are generally no longer taken in at those units at least that's the case at hospitals here in paris and in eastern france and yes they're not equipped to do massive testing and hand out masks to everybody so for now the locked on one of the

train places which is best one of the. the government has already announced the lockdown is likely to be extended further. right i better get myself over then but before i go back into isolation there is one thing i can do with my fellow parisians even if we have to keep our distance and join in the evening applause for all the heroes in this crisis the health care personnel supermarket cashiers and of course my local. germany's biggest port have has been hit particularly hard by a coronavirus a pandemic 30 percent of its trade comes from china and even their chinese

production is starting to ramp up again that could take a while to feed through to hamburg as container ships but $6.00 to $8.00 weeks to make the trip. this is what hamburg looks like when everything shuts down no fish sandwiches at the city's famous london spoken pier no ferries taking tourists around the port the pleasure boats are all anchored and what's worse for business is that there are hardly any freighters out on the the river normally hamburg is germany's main hub for container traffic. the impact of the covered $900.00 outbreak on the port is only really now becoming visible china's production breakdown has reached hamburg with $6.00 to $8.00 weeks delay in the shape of a half empty cargo vessels. this one no one can say at the moment is what exact amounts and not arriving which goods the missing and that's connected to the issue of what's happening to the global supply chain when things are not being

produced in china we can already see in the auto industry that there's going to be a lot of disturbance it means that we're going to experience a massive disruption to the entire economy. which often leaves. the port of hamburg handles around $9000000.00 containers a year but now the gigantic trans shipment hub is grinding to a halt experts predict that freight volumes for april and may could tumble by 80 percent but at a time when e.u. border closures are impacting road transport shipping ports may be more important than ever before the shipping will grow in importance it will become even more necessary for the flow of goods to proceed on hand it would and that's thanks to the seafarers who are currently doing exceptional service on board far from their families and we owe them our gratitude at least as much as cashiers and nurses there are. some 30000 sailors are currently serving on german cargo ships on the world's oceans crew changes have been largely suspended to lessen the risk of

infection so crew members are working without normal breaks between shifts the shipping companies and other logistics firms at the port of hamburg are struggling to keep merits. trade moving they still don't know how deep the economic damage from the kobe 1000 crisis will be. this is the weekend will be unlike any other not least in jerusalem with a nationwide lockdown in effect across israel large government can take place so one christian group is helping worshipers make a digital pilgrimage to the holy city this easter. and new sunday tradition an improvised altar is assembled on this rooftop overlooking jerusalem's old city since visitors are no longer able to come to the churches here the austrian hospice a catholic guesthouse is bringing the service to them virtually did do for all. yet so many other people can't combine the more to jerusalem we bring jerusalem to the people into their farms on their screens and t.v.

and we want to keep doing that during the holy week and easter. sunday mass on a rooftop but without a congregation because the pandemic gatherings are no longer allow this service is live streamed using a mobile phone 2 floors down in the now closed coffee shop a young volunteer follows the broadcast that was good for us and i think it provides a kind of support you know that even though you can't be here every sunday you can still be a part of it. but to a less. east day in jerusalem is very different this year the normally busy via dolorosa the way of the cross is empty the church of the holy sepulcher has closed its doors most easter services will be live streamed instead it's a highly unusual situation also for the local palestinian christians residents are under tight restrictions. probably talk to family.

or. smart we. threw some lights out that used to see things already. in the last 2 millenia at least but this year it will be your. visitors. where the people celebrate this easter jerusalem its residents say it's important to show solidarity and not to lose faith that better times will come. here in berlin cross other parts of germany sunny spring weather as it ties people out of their homes and into parks are raising fears amongst experts so many people out and about will have a negative impact on the fight against the coronavirus. i do are exercising is allowed for now at least and brilliance parks have been teeming with people despite

the restrictions. that say it's like it always is here you see no fewer people walking around than usual. mention my avoid people keep your distance so long as you do that and you're fine well at least i think so so i mean that's. but what are the experts think about i do or exercise at berlin's bethel hospital doctor told his vide socog hygiene specialist believes everyone should exercise a little more caution during the current pandemic. of media through this from a medical point of view in order to break the transmission chain the safest way to do so is by keeping everyone at home but we can't keep that up there are many reasons why people need to get out and about it's not just because they have a desire to move but because situations can escalate quickly if you're in close contact with your family all the time with sports centers closed many people like traffic for dental have been exercising at home but controversially several bull in

this league clubs have called their players back for group training sessions. when i'm just in a stall and us 9 a little surprised that football clubs are starting their training sessions again one team after another and this comes during a phase in the pandemic when we've not reached the peak and there are still transmissions it's astonishing that this disarmament is taking place so to speak. we see. a stark warning to everyone but on last thursday tightening of restrictions it doesn't look like berliners will be giving up my door exercise. i'm invented in the southern indian city of hydrabad is injecting a bit of humor in these countries that national lockdown is like his work as a coronavirus shaped vehicle to remind people of the need to stay off the streets as a pandemic sweeps the world of the car isn't quite perfect jetman doesn't always fire

on all cylinders but when it's moving it's a makeup so the cops yet dive believes it will remind people. to maintain social distance. that was that day as ever they come station continues online you find this on twitter i'm at the end of the news outlets philco don't forget to use a hash tag the day i was a. small

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