this is the w.'s life from 10000000 protective facemasks touched down in germany from china on the day new regulations forced germans to cover up in shops and on public transport also on the program to sweden schools and daycare centers that remain open as the country avoids the kind of lockdown seen elsewhere in europe but will it work swedish government ministers defends the strategy. and tourism counts the cost of a coronavirus knock down european union ministers meets to work out how they can

help an industry facing staggering losses. to the program germany has made it mandatory for people on public transport to cover their faces to curb the spread of coronavirus the move which in most parts of the country also requires people to wear masks while shopping comes as other restrictions eased but there are concerns that demand for masts could fast outstrip supply. to require wearing masks requires having masks to wear germany like most countries needs billions of them in the months ahead so when the world's largest cargo plane landed in the eastern city of leipzig on monday with 10000000 masks from china on board a leading member of cabinet was there to greet them defense minister on a great crime common bar says the mast will be sent to germany 16 federal states

for distribution in the offense and the the wanted to hear the host small fries who have you know why it's ok to ensure that this delivery a write a positive something much bigger title i'm trying to make summer in a crisis in which i am even barrel and. food you mention i need a. non medical masks or improvised coverings are thought to protect others from infected people public health officials say this is especially important for coated 19 given the suspected large number of mild and asymptomatic cases by wednesday mass will be required in most german states for shops and public transit. measures many people appear to be taking in stride the sepang forces it's not a big deal varying the mass doesn't do any harm and if it can it's find. out it's to help people and protect older people it's ok you can deal with it

harder to speak and brief place for a good reason. but we are used to seeing the same japan but here it's really strange i'm only doing it to protect our those i think. it's as if it just got sport i think it's really terrible and it's cumbersome and you don't get a lot of athletes and maybe it's a good safety precaution but who knows if this really doesn't do anything. about this book trust me my 2nd. polls show most germans backing the restrictions on public life how long this new normal lasts and that official saying until there's a vaccine which may be many months or longer. to get the latest from d.w. such as political correspondent melinda crane welcome milind so the composer wearing a mask has been has long been a controversial issue here in what's changed and

a people complying. 1st of all what's changed is that for a long time it was controversial in part because there simply weren't enough masks to go around it was pretty clear that if everybody were to be required to wear a mask there would be acute shortages secondly there was quite a bit of contrast ing if not to say contradictory opinion about whether masks really would be effective that partly has to do with the misunderstanding that some of the experts who were giving advice were essentially trying to tell citizens look this is not going to protect you from getting the virus and that is a misapprehension when it comes to masks masks actually protect people from essentially giving the virus to others so that has now more or less been quite clarified although in fact some leading experts here are still doubting how

effective masks are now as to compliance it's early days it's hard to say but i am hearing from some colleagues who took public transportation today i did not that not everyone here in berlin in the public transport was wearing a mask as you said just now in shops here in berlin it is not a requirement it is recommended and so far i'm seeing at least half the people in the shops without masks that may change over time but we'll see where this goes in the course of the week because the regulations have just come into effect ok so the have been reports of defective medical equipment coming from china. people at least mosques will work. well they are being spot tested apparently they were spot tested in china before they were shipped they were also spot here or will be spot checked when they're distributed to the federal state by the health authorities in the states and one must know that this shipment comes as part of

a very high level deal apparently was negotiated by chancellor merkel herself with chinese president xi jinping so there's a lot riding for the chinese on making sure this equipment is reliable and does its job. to stay with us if you will because as german the shops reopened the business a top court in the german state of bavaria has ruled against parts of the country's relaxation of pandemic restrictions the new rules are so small shops to open i have a large business is removing 800 square meters of space must remain closed roped off large sections of the sales a small restriction court says it's unconstitutional so now the decision only affects the very. sort of the crane so we have this decision for bavaria what's it likely to mean for the other german states. it has only an advisory influence at

most on the other german federal states but i think they will certainly be looking at it because this cut off with the $800.00 square metres has been controversial also in other places including here in berlin but here's the bottom line what has been made very clear is that this relaxation of the shutdown restrictions depends on everybody says shops businesses workplaces and individuals complying with social distancing and hygiene rules if they do that i think that in many places it will be determined that the size of the shop is less important than the policies and rules it has put into place and its ability to enforce them and what also varies from place to place here in germany at the moment is whether there's a fine on violations of behavior now you can be pretty sure that if major department

stores don't comply with social distancing regulations and hygiene rules that they will be looking at fines and that they will have every incentive if they wish to open large spaces to consumers to have those rules in place for that chief political correspondent melinda crane. it's been reported the chinese diplomats put pressure on the german interior ministry to make positive statements about china's handling of the coronavirus the interior minister is reported to have confirmed the allegations in comments to the press about confirmation time and response to an inquiry by a member of the bundestag from the green party. has been speaking with green party politician and member of the european parliament a rod to booty call for. have you to go for how problematic was this attempt by chinese diplomats to influence german government official statements about china's handling of the corona crisis isn't it normal for governments to try to spin the

narrative. i think this was an ultimately desperate way of impressing their own domestic audience in china with applause on praise from off the artes overseas because obviously chinese leadership is not so sure whether their own population is willing to buy the stories that the problem down day is peddling the german government says that the interior ministry officials didn't agree to the chinese diplomats request nonetheless germany in the past has praised beijing's handling of the crisis would you say that germany needs to push back harder against china. i think china has been shooting itself in the foot really over the last 3 months with their propaganda. they have wasted so much goodwill and respect they

wasted in 3 months what they've built over 3 decades. i believe that everybody is understanding better today then even just a few months ago who they are dealing with when they're dealing with china and i would insist that the european union has not just started pushing back where we have to. these last few days or last few weeks. we should remember that last year in march the european union defined china as a systemic problem and in the german debate over 5 g. and whether huawei should be allowed into that communication network we've seen more push back then for many years so i think we're on a good track you have called for changes both in germany's and in europe's

relations with china but how feasible is it for both to make changes given that china is such an important market for german and european exports. certainly germany has put more eggs into the chinese basket ben anybody else as a trading nation. but still when you talk to entrepreneurs' around the country you find a lot of very critical voices and that's been reflected in the statements that were made by major industrial organizations like the german federation of industry or the machine tool industry so i think there is not an antagonism today between policymakers that see the geo political need to. pursue a more hard nosed policy viz of a china. industrialists or the business sector were coming closer together.

there's been a lot of speculation about whether china with its shipments of masks and medical equipment with its attempts to spin the story could come out the winner in the game of corona diplomacy what do you think. i have argued and i still believe this china how to chance. showing that it can play the role of a responsible international stakeholder but by pushing so aggressively hard for crisis opportunism they blew it all thank you very much for being with us. well in the crane reporting that now in contrast to germany and other european countries sweden's coronavirus strategy has been light touch allowing boss restaurants and other businesses to operate so long as

they respect physical distancing recommendations schools and daycare centers are also still open the country's chief epidemiologist says the approach is being catholic thought through but there are critics. daily life in sweden as in most countries is dominated by the corona crisis but children here are still going to daycare centers this one in stockholm looks after 25 boys and girls some things have changed the debate over the advent of mick is live on up i normally spend a lot of time outside but now it's even more more i get a pretty mess inside we do lessons in small groups everything else is outside we take it in turns. in the health and. he tells working parents that daycare centers and primaries schools are still open and the swedish health authorities say it's good for the children as well they are convinced young children do not spread the virus in fact schools have not become sources of

infection there are rules in place. far more subtle we have to wash our hands carefully and sing a song then after that we could rinse off the soap and working out what. sweden has followed a different path to other countries from the start the aim has been to protect vulnerable groups such as the elderly and those with existing illnesses it hasn't all gone smoothly a lot of old people have been infected nearly half the deaths in sweden have been into your homes senior hospital doctor you know it has many elderly patients i do damask on dollars equipment or goods a scandal that will need looking into when this is over i think we are still going to see a significant rise in fatalities in old people's homes. sweden has added considerably to its hospital capacity since the start of the outbreak there are spare beds but many health care staff are off sick. the hard one don't test that we are not

testing enough we test all patience suspected of having the current virus and everyone who needs an operation i would like to see all a workforce being tested but we aren't able to do all that and they already did all that despite these criticisms most people do support government policy day care centers are counting on the i thought he's getting it right. this is what i had it's our job to look after children. i hope and i believe that those responsible are making the right decisions for sweden if it's broken some car the deficit for somalia. sweden is going its own way with no end to the crisis yet in sight. well let's talk this through with sweden's minister for european affairs $100.00 good what welcome to the w. mr dogman do you have any doubts about the strategy. well the outcome of

whatever strategy would every country is using we don't know until after the crisis is the time to evaluate what must be right then what is wrong is not right now it's afterwards that we're all in this together of course we're faced the same problems as many other all of the nations i would say in europe on the global it's we're trying to save lives we're trying to improve our health system to make sure that we have care for everyone who needs it and it is a really cherish and life as we did is not all that different from work because another european countries we do it perhaps in a different way we have less of former rules more all strong recommendations and ask the inhabitants here themselves to decide to do the right thing and on the whole that has worked also or pretty well here ok completely accept what you say about now we'll have to wait and see whether or not it's worked but personally

when you look at they they infection rates and the death toll do you have any doubts that sweden is doing the right thing. i'm not sure i cannot say who is doing the right thing and was doing the wrong thing at this time it is too early to say but i would say that if you look at the way that we have been handling this not too different from other countries we have a lot of social distancing is freedom we have a lot of us who have to stay at home because we are moral 70 years old we have many people who are at home we have closed our universities over secondary schools we have very strict rules for restaurants for example as late as yesterday 5 restaurants here stop and were forced to close. down their business because their tables were a little too close to each other. and we absolutely get vats you have a set of rules and you win for some i suppose the question really is whether the rules as they stand are tight enough and the figures at tele tell quite

a story when you compared sweden's death rates with those of your your neighbors 8th nearly 900000 infections in sweden more than 2200 deaths compare that with denmark 888-0427 deaths no way i just under 8000 cases and 202 deaths that must raise questions of course it raises questions and it is being discussed here but let me say this. there is a difference between rules and recommendations but it's not that a recommendation is just wrong and advice if you can do whatever you want with the recommendation in public health has a very strong message and it's repeated every day the king when he speaks to the nation the prime minister when he speaks to the nation or other ministers in the press conference and they make these cases very very strong that this is not just to yourself it's also well there's that you have to follow these recommendations

stay home if you're at all any sign of sickness stay home if you can to work those who are over 70 years old don't have any say over conflicts don't visit the elderly because they are more vulnerable and so on so we don't see the end of this whole crisis what is the best outcome but i'm not going to predict the outcome let's talk about the health and a cording to the figures about half of sweden's deaths in care homes why is that. we don't know yet exactly the reason for that it is a very negative piece of information of course of the elderly people in some of these elderly or their health the this virus spread in a way that has been very unfortunate that this could be one of the reasons why there is a difference between sweden and the some other countries but the i can't say more than that i'm not an expert on these things so is anything being done now to address that disparity rather than waiting till more die and the end of this crisis

. oh absolutely we are not waiting for more people to die we are doing our best to fulfill the kind of rules that we have set up to those social distancing to make sure that people don't assemble together in large groups to make sure that those who stayed home staged will to make sure that you are very very careful with person our dinner circle we're doing our best and we're not talking at all about lowered restrictions we're talking about enforcing restrictions it's a very serious message we thank you for joining us. swedish minister for european affairs thank you. for a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world britain's prime minister barak's johnson is back at downing street after recovering from coffee at 19 i says government at ways how to safely reopen the economy urge

the country to maintain the virus lock down the u.k. is one of the world's worst hit nations with almost $21000.00 coronavirus deaths. hundreds of doctors from cuba have arrived in south africa to help fight the pandemic the team will spend the next 14 days in quarantine before being deployed around the country cuba has dispatched more than 1200 health care workers from around the world. whose elance prime minister. says the country has won its battle against the widespread transmission of the virus health officials have recorded only one case in the past 24 hours the country is to ease its a 5 week knocked out at midnight on monday the top south south korean security official says north korea's leader kim jong un is alive and well and emphasize that seoul has detected no unusual movements in north korea a route that have been swirling about to kim jong un's the health i mean unconfirmed reports that he was seriously ill following heart surgery. a

tour of tourism is one of the industry's worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic it's estimated the global travel up to 30 percent this year europe accounts for half of the world's tourist arrivals and the industry is facing staggering losses ministers have held a virtual summer to consider how to help it through the crisis. from paris to brussels. european capitals that should be filled with people lie almost empty and silent. we've borders closed and members of the public forced to stay home europe's tourism industry is in dire straits. the european market accounts for half of world tourism according to the e.u. commission it fears the tourism economy within the $27.00 nation bloc could fall by

up to 70 percent that could result in the loss of up to 400000000000 euros for the industry. spain is the most popular tourist destination in the e.u. it's also the world's 2nd most visited nation but there are no visit is these days . for bar owners like pavlo gonzalo it's a worrying time. 2020 years practically playing many businesses will not reopen because they won't be able to continue. right now the only thing to do is to look month by month and not think about the distant horizon . across the border the portuguese government has said it will start reopening hotels in june for those that is still in business.

others are taking things into their own hands in berlin hotel and restaurant owners have taken empty chairs to brandenburg gate to illustrate just how tough life expect come for them. from previous lives on tourism. if we don't support our who tells in restaurants with a sanction who will work. most european governments are already offering more financial support to tourism and travel sect is but for some businesses it may already be too late. well the coronavirus pandemic has brought for all around the world to hold with it perhaps a play is changing teams astronomical sums clubs are still planning moves in the transfer market but those clubs that are selling may have to reckon with a significant drop in revenue. the current virus has turned football on its head you don't need a crystal ball to know the sport's finances will be hit for

a while the cia asked for more observatory estimates transfer values in europe speak 5 leaks were decreased by 28 percent to 23400000000 euros if season restarts in june the big money transfers the previous year's looks to be a thing of the past. when you consider the loss in revenue for individual clubs. and also leagues in europe then i think we'll see changes in the average transfer fees. in the bonus legal laverick is in stark high have since been tipped to make a 100000000 euro move abroad but despite the pandemic club bosses are holding firm on the price. quality players will maintain their value even through this crisis. clubs like leverkusen backed by pharmaceutical company by are likely to weather the crisis better than others but

those without deep pocketed investors could struggle become a good fortune this is i don't imagine that as time goes on there will be a permanent shift clubs that have it bad financially will get worse because i have to sell their best players and clubs doing well will do even better. well before i need to get focused on. the furnace league season is looking for regime without fans inside the stadium but when they are finally allowed back in the likely see a very different football landscape. there isn't as prime minister has given the go ahead for football to resume training next month individual training is due to start in the 1st week of may a team training will follow on the 18th along players will have to maintain social distancing the league was suspended in macia after 7 has tested positive for coverage 19 the city still has 12 rounds of matches to play but no return date has

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