be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by for. business deed of new year's live from berlin germany announces new measures for dealing with the coronavirus as the country's health minister warns the virus will be here for a long time to come in preparation orders of flu vaccines have been increased to prevent a double whammy viral hit this fall also coming up a dangerous side effect of the pandemic many german hospitals have the capacity to

treat non coronavirus cases but patients are staying away over fears of catching the virus doctors fear that will lead to poor outcomes especially for the critically ill. i'm told me a lot of well it's good to have you with us we begin with a stark warning from germany's health minister he says they'll be no swift and to the coronavirus pandemic as a result germany is introducing new measures for dealing with the virus long term including more testing and stocking up on additional flu vaccines to prevent a wave of double infections in the fall. the latest figures from the whole bad cop institute provided the clearest picture yet as to how the epidemic has developed in germany the calculations show when and how many people became infected and when key

steps were taken to slow the virus spread the ban on public gatherings took a while to make a noticeable difference the closing of schools brought infections down considerably german health minister sponsors the number of registered acute infections in germany has been falling for over 2 weeks and is currently at 37000 but regional differences remain so the government announced that testing will be stepped up even further from nearly half a 1000000 tests last week. refillable news that he will introduce more regular testing in care homes including for asymptomatic patients we're also changing some of the rules for tests to get a better overview of the epidemic and we're introducing compulsory reporting of negative test results. to return to. work on them and to covert 9000 vaccine in germany has meanwhile taken

a step forward minds based company biotech says the 1st group of 12 participants had received a trial vaccine on wednesday. but with the progress of infection still unpredictable across europe germany's foreign ministry has decided to extend its global travel ban until mid june foreign minister said that europe needed to find a coordinated approach. over the last 4 weeks we brought 240000 tourists from all over the world back to germany we will not carry out such an operation again this summer which is why a lot will depend on how we get on with fighting the pandemic here and in other countries prime dimmy became for once remember. protesters and pressure groups meanwhile a urging the german government to ease even more of the current restrictions on thursday the state premiers of germany's 16 states will reassess the situation with

chancellor angela merkel. the task of reopening economies and schools is of course uncharted territory for policymakers in this pandemic but let's take another look at the graphic we saw in the graph we saw in that report if we could bring it up again and we see new infections in germany initially rising and only seeming to start falling once the country schools were shut and it's been mostly downhill since then so doesn't reopening schools pose a big risk as what we asked the chief political correspondent lyndal crane. indeed it does the reason that they are taking this step as part of the overall relaxation of restrictions is that schooling is considered high priority going to school is mandatory here in germany it's an absolute exception that preparing have been homeschooling their kids for the last 6 weeks and there's also concern about the

welfare of children especially children from vulnerable families troubled families who might be subject to domestic violence also concerned for less privileged children who perhaps don't have access to the digital tools that many teachers have now been using so for all those reasons there is a strong push to get schools back up and running and at the same time all authorities at both state level that's where school policy is handled and also at federal level are saying we will be carefully watching the results of what is essentially an experiment this is a tradeoff and if they see the reproduction rate of the infection increasing once again and frankly it has already been increasing some it's now close to one again meaning that for every person who gets khurana they infect another person if that rate continues to go up when the schools are reopened then you can be certain that measures will be taken probably to at least decrease the number of peoples who are

once again attending school. or let's take a brief look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. despite a coronavirus law protesters took to the streets of tripoli in lebanon for the 3rd night in a row when clashed with soldiers the country's in the deep economic crisis this latest wave of unrest comes after a further plunge of the national currency. a fire at a warehouse in south korea has killed at least $38.00 people and left another 10 injured the blaze broke out in the city of inches 50 kilometers solve the capital saw an explosion in the basement is believed to have triggered the file. as a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic and one that has wrists for people in need of medical treatment hospitals here in germany with ample capacity but very few patients to treat the fear of getting infected with corona virus is causing many

people to avoid going to hospital even though some are critically ill we have this report now from me that. the root of the if you use it for more. needs time out as an oncologist in chief of the pulmonary wing at a private hospital near munich right now he says the staff outnumbers the patients usually the wing holds 34 people with lung diseases during this corona pandemic it's only 5. we definitely see a 30 to 40 percent decrease in some departments maybe even 50 percent and we know that patients are uncertain and trying to wait until they really can't hold out any longer but that can cause some really bad situations this patient came to the palm unary clinic 6 days ago his diagnosis lung cancer we're going to start chemotherapy today. the decision to visit the clinic was not easy for the 77 year old yes there is the cancer but he was also afraid of catching the coronavirus in the end he

could no longer bear the pain. of that i had to go there was no question corona is not the problem for me my main problem is cancer and this caught me off guard corona is completely off my mind right now. it's pretty. it is not just the patients fear leading to low occupancy rates at the clinic here like everywhere else beds are being kept empty in case covert 900 patients need them business as usual has come to a stop and that brings risks. we are focused on the most severe cases that have to be treated as regulations demand but of patients come to us at a later stage they will have bigger health problems and there'll be a higher mortality rate. cancer patient peter cooper was wary of having surgery in times of corona to the point of having panic attacks before making his way to the hospital through. all of a sudden it was

a choice between the lesser of 2 evils i won't necessarily die if i get corona but if my renal carcinoma grows beyond a certain size it will be irrepairable it will be over. but. he's had his life saving surgery in a few days he'll be allowed to go home. now let's explore this a bit more with the details i mean if was be following this story for us i mean it's not just in germany where doctors have been reporting hof empty hospitals as if there's not much data on this globally but it looks like it's happening in places where there is the corona virus so in the u.k. emergency emergency room admissions were down by 60 percent couple weeks ago over the year before that and in the u.s. just recently 8 leading medical associations issued a joint statement urging people to go to the hospital if they feel like they're having a stroke or a heart attack because they said that those are just absent from hospitals and the

reigning theory right now is that people are just too afraid to go to hospitals are even dying at home this issue of the hof and emergency rooms consul wards has been at you know the center of some heated debates on social media you've been following those that's right it's kind of started with this hash tag film your hospital so a known right wing conspiracy theorist posted a video of a hospital in new york city an epicenter of the u.s. outbreak there and said looks like a normal day so they mocked the idea that this was a so-called war zone how it was betrayed in the media and urged people to film their hospitals with this hash tag. a lot of videos especially on right wing twitter appearing people filming hospitals generally in places that weren't affected by the coronavirus as if they were surprised that they didn't see some kind of war scenes going on so the reaction from the left and also from the media in general was to brand this as coronavirus denialism certainly some of it was but

i think other one other videos are posed by people who are just shocked to see the difference between what they're seeing on t.v. and also what doctors are coming forward and saying look it's a complicated issue there's more than 2 sides to this it's not over on hospitals or empty hospitals we have to figure out a way. to allow people to get to hospitals and not worry about it if they're feel like they're having a heart attack so where do you think this fear is coming from why people not wanting to go it's also that when dale this is a very confusing situation very confusing times unprecedented outbreak has caused a lot of chaos and governments and i think naturally resources are just not getting used most efficiently and naturally people who are not experts are going to be afraid of going into the unknown but let's be honest i think the media is also partially to blame the videos of what was happening in bear gamow and in madrid were constantly running on television and i think this gave an impression to view of this was supposedly happening all over the world in every hospital and so when

people saw that it wasn't they started to get confused and also just keeping people away from the hospital so i think if the media wants to correct the problem now we should help amplify what the doctors are saying and that is if you're having emergency go to the hospital it can save your life. it's all information that i'm in a safe think you. now some sad news bollywood has lost one of its biggest and brightest stars if one can the indian born actor who won international acclaim for his roles in the film slumdog slumdog millionaire and also a life of pi has died at the age of 53 he'd been suffering from a raffle of cancer. and then there's a park a much use companion the terrible would. disappear forever from. the life of pi one of the

fun cans international film highlights in which he plays a shipwreck survivor who spends months on a boat with a tiger called richard parker. this and other box office hits like unfun o. course staring with tom hanks the indian actor game visibility around the world while keeping both feet on the ground he was very don't you never believe that's. true. the son of a tie a seller started his bollywood career in 1988 in 2009 he starred in slumdog millionaire which came out of nowhere to win 8 academy awards but his life took a tragic turn in 2018 when he was diagnosed with cancer because of a sloppy i mean you were suffering for quite some time. but we were hoping that he

would recover and you would be able to see more of the months between the news of his death at only age 53 in a hospital in mumbai has devastated his fans and india's film community he leaves a wife and 2 sons behind. i suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. but it always hurts the most. is not taking a moment to say goodbye. coronavirus lockdown in france has made it difficult for many to exercise even extreme athletes are having to learn to adjust simona nogueira is a free run a who usually scales the most famous buildings in paris now is limited to taking to roofs and within 2 kilometers of his apartment the 25 year old says he's noticed that the air is a lot fresher now that there is less traffic. on

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