this is d.w. news life from her land 7500000000 euros to fight the corona virus that is the goal of a major e.u. fund raiser taking place today the money will be earmarked to fund millions of doses of vaccines i didn't affordable price for use around the world it's. also coming up insight into the outbreak from a german virus hotspot a study from the district of heinz doubt that suggests the number of infected people is likely to 10 times higher than the number of confirmed cases and nigeria

begins rolling back its restrictions in a bid to get the biggest economy and africa back on track but health officials are warning it's the worst possible time for the country to let up on the lockdown and south koreans baseball fans look forward to the lead restarting on tuesday even if they are only allowed to watch the games on television. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program but european commission is hosting a virtual fundraiser for efforts to develop a vaccine and treatments for the coronavirus the event hopes to raise more than 7000000000 euros but the u.n. secretary general has warned that nearly 5 times that amount could be needed to sustain a global research campaign so far world leaders have pledged over 5000000000 euros

to the effort. the battle against covert 19 has many fronts and it looks different in every country but the ultimate goal is the same vaccine and an effective treatment governments anyone can fall into with a virus and that is why we have the target of echoing together worldwide. many of the world's scientists estimate that it could be 18 months or more before a vaccine is available for widespread use but there are efforts underway to speed things up by pooling resources and pouring money into research. you have to build up capacities to manufacture it villian dozes and then we have to make sure that we can deploy to every corner in the world no fear and affordable price and that's what exactly we're working on for that we need money and we need to go global corporation. to jumpstart such global cooperation the european union wants

to raise at least $7500000000.00 euros to be allocated to international health organizations and research networks european leaders including the german chancellor have suggested they're ready to take deep. germany's at the forefront of all these activities because we as a country are convinced that only joint international multilateral action will allow us to overcome this then demick. around the world more than $100.00 groups are researching vaccines right now almost a dozen of them are about to start or have already begun human trials such as the german company buy on tech. but whether it's this slap that succeeds or another the message of european leaders is it doesn't matter who comes up with a vaccine and treatment as long as someone does and soon. and let's get more on that we're joined now by chief international editor richard walker who's standing

by in brussels and richard as we know the pledge drive today aims to collect at least 7500000000 euros how successful has it been. sara dissin the last couple of minutes the event has finished and fell very slow is short of its target 7400000000 euros was the number of on the line the commission president announced right at the very end and even donation coming in from madonna that she announced of 1000000 euros was not enough to hit the 7 and a half 1000000000 but i think there are a couple of things that we really need to stress about this because of course that number to some extent was balik firstly that many of those pledges coming in from individual country countries and or companies may be money that has already been pleasure even spent in some other context already so we're going to have to sift through this number quite carefully and see what is really genuinely new money and

what is money that has already actually been announced in a national some other context and then secondly. underline and also the u.n. secretary general very clear that this is really just the beginning. many times this amount of money are going to be required fully to tackle the virus on the medical level but it looks like it will be a lot less than is required to handle the economic damage i mean just as a comparison right now the european commission is trying to work on a recovery plan to get the european economy going once the pandemic has begun to ease the numbers that are swirling around there that will back up to maybe one and a half trillion euros that's $200.00 times the amount that we're talking about here so the economic in the social costs of the pandemic approving at least in financial terms be far higher than the medical costs ok so richard tell us then you know with all of that in mind something which is quite conspicuous about this effort is the

fact that the united states for example is not taking part we also know that the u.s. has pledged to suspend funding to the w.h.o. how does this now raise the prospect of an uncool war needed competition when it comes not only to the development of a vaccine because you know the many people are involved in that but also to the distribution. yeah i mean it's a big concern sara and it was really striking at the very end of the event it was love from the lion said at the right at the end today we can truly say that the world is united against the coronavirus well if you truly can't read of the united states is not taking part in something like this then the world is not united that's simply the way it is and you know this is the sort of event that might have been chaired by the united states a few years ago and it really is a very very strong sign of the sort of america 1st direction that the u.s. has taken on the donald trump that it's simply not interested in this kind of

multilateral. cooperation between different countries and that of course could be a huge problem and we've seen this many of the problems that have been encountered by many countries of getting that personal protective equipment the sort of basics to fight the early stages of the pandemic if it becomes a free for all also about a potential vaccine in the future or treatments that could be a huge problem particularly for developing countries simply don't have the resources to compete on the market for those sorts of things which of course could skyrocket in price richard walker with a view from brussels thank you. and here is now a roundup of some of the latest pandemic news the number of people infected with kobe 1000 worldwide has risen to more than 3500000 almost 250000 people have died from the disease new zealand has reported a day with no new cases for the 1st time since the outbreak started and the country

is considering opening up to a travel with australia england has recorded 204 hospital deaths that's the lowest jelly increase in more than 5 weeks in winter is the worst affected part of the u.k. and egypt is allowing hotels to be open for domestic tourists provided that they do not exceed 25 percent capacity. flow was nearly 29000 deaths italy is one of europe's states hardest hit by the tend to make the country was the 1st in europe to impose a nationwide lockdown wanted to help break raced out of control and march now after nearly 2 months italy is rolling back some of those restrictions millions of people are being allowed to return to work and many are making a careful return to the streets. or at least the 1st cautious steps towards it being out in the fresh air is something many italians missed desperately during this 7 weeks of confinement within their own 4 walls they

are now free to exercise outdoors and to visit relatives for the 1st time. we've got a banner up during the korean team we were desperate to get i can express how excited i am. but through excited we have only seen or with video calls for 2 months but it was not the same it couldn't be the same. voice over face. shopping at open air markets using public transport going to work and train travel all of this is now possible again but the new italian way of life calls for social distancing and mandatory masks in indoor public spaces as life cautiously returns to the streets. but i want to have since i really hope people will remain civil and that in the coming weeks there will be no new surgeon infections so that

we will not have to go back to quarantine the same america i don't think the situation is over in the end not much has changed compared to before but this is also a beginning where. for italians it's a gentle 1st step back into a world for every change by the pandemic. and that's got more we are joined now by dr markel gano an anesthesiologist and a critical care physician he trusted a series of recommendations to help italian doctors treating i.c.u. patients he joins us from turning thank you so much for joining us here on the program and i'd like to begin by asking you because we need to have heard here that italy is slowly coming out of its lockdown so as someone who has been on the front lines fighting this virus do you feel it's the right time. probably yes use the right time because we cannot expect the whole country to remain told my

is a latent for many months so i think this is an unavoidable and now the epidemic curve . has been flattening and now we are. our hospitals are a. very rarely secured case in my hospital for example in the last 3 weeks we had just a few cases and this situation is totally different from this situation we experience the. mid march for example so i think it's. understandable that people just are. just want to go back to their social life ready. the very tired after nearly 2 months at home but i'm leaving this is a case of them and because of. my fear and my colleagues the fear is that we will be forced. to close that again d.v.d.'s and in a few weeks if people are not see them careful enough and the number of.

contagious we learn again in the coming weeks let's talk a little bit more about those i am so sorry for interrupting you there i wanted to ask you because you know we hear these numbers that you're referring to nearly $29000.00 deaths we also heard that the infection rate itself has slowed but we wanted to ask you you give us a little bit of a window there at least how it's been developing actually on the front lines where you have been in the i.c.u. where you're working. well the use our steel or. we have probably around the house of the patients that we one month ago i'm talking about not the needle and the most affected region i live in turin to monterey lumber the experience there are. even. more severe.

in their city of this surgery but probably the lockdown was very timely and and preserve the south region so people eat from experience even in this emergency. it could be that for some towns and regional certain cities in not there legally. reopening and the end of this lockdown could be a little bit. early and so we will see in the next nice because there is still a lot of uncertainty even among the care professionals on what could happen but for sure now are the patients we have now in the i.c.u. was our patient that there were a need to do it at the end of march or at the beginning of april so because there are very long i.c.u. stays so even for people that survivor the i.c.u. not after market are gone now anesthesiologists critical care physician we know

that you don't very important work these days so we appreciate you taking the time to give us a little bit of a window into what you are experiencing and how you are helping the people there intervene we appreciate it. well now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world the e.u. has approved a 7000000000 euro rescue package that the french government wants to pay out to air france the country's flag carrier like other airlines has been suffering from an almost complete halt of travel worldwide german competitor of tons that is in similar troubles and wants to present details of a government bailout on tuesday. russia has registered another day with more than 10000 new chrono virus cases following sunday's record one day fries more than half are in moscow the number of confirmed infections in russia is now above 145000 as the virus spreads there's concern that medical facilities may not be able to cope.

and the widow of a german islamic state fighter went on trial in a number of court today she lived in syria with her husband a rapper who went to who went by the name of desert dog and who was killed there in 2018 she faces charges including membership in a foreign terror group and crimes against humanity. well a new study estimates that the number of actual covert 1000 cases in germany is far higher than originally reported the study of the region around hinds beck and early coronavirus hot spot in germany found infections in some areas that were 5 times higher than previously known it also found that about 20 percent of people infected had no symptoms again 20 percent of people infected had no symptoms making it harder to trace the disease as progress the researchers estimated that 1800000 people in germany have already contract in the coronavirus.

so what does this tell us about the corona virus let's find out we're joined now by martin. just at the i.m.d. lap in frankfurt thank you so much for joining us. you're welcome now the heinsberg study that we've just highlighted it suggests that the number of corona virus infections in germany could be 1800000 more than 10 times the number of confirmed cases how the libel is that calculation you think. yeah they've calculated different way they have their estimates of all the people being infected in hundreds of burka based on p.c. artists and in communication with antibody tests and on based on these numbers they calculated this rate based on the infection effect of people and have only on the reported cases and then they recalculated their death rate compared to the total of people who died in germany and then they came to this 1800000 people so

it's a little bit biased because their primary numbers are these infected numbers in heinsberg so i think on my point of view it's not comparable or it cannot conclude to the situation called whole germany ok so just so you're taking this with a massive grain of salt how about this it says and this is one which really jumped out at me 20 percent of those who tested positive for the virus showed no symptoms what do you make of that and what could it mean for the way that we deal with a virus. we've been aware of that that people might might be infected was out having symptoms at all in the past so this is not surprising that we found people symptomatic on the other way 20 percent is not that not a low number so this makes it more difficult to check the infection because how do you want to test them will you assign going to a test if you have symptoms and then you say go talk go to

a test center this is easier to magic people you cannot tell everybody to go to a test center than we would have to test 75000000 people or more than 75000000 people and that's quite difficult and so it's a huge problem ok so given all of that what do you think the main takeaway from this study is. yeah we have to carefully rethink our discussion which we bitch we have actually about easing and returning from from locked on measures so we have to a computer that maybe children this is one of the point of this study that even children to contribute to a significant. spect to the spread of the infection and all of these together from my point of view we have to carefully discuss about easing of the measures we thank you so much for those key takeaways much damage as we mentioned you're in for ologist at the i am de lapp in frankfurt thank you for your welcome.

well nigeria has begun easing lockdown rules on its main cities the government says that some states will follow the cities of a buddha in lagos and gradually lifting restrictions the easing of the lockdown marks the reopening of actos biggest economy after more than 4 weeks of lockdown residents of the commercial capital lagos had mixed reactions on their 1st day out so ready to operate out you know down the store because it enabled people not to go out on site for the meet eurostar. a lot of people. i'm very very happy now i'm doing more i mean the market got them so money to feed my family i don't think it's a good idea to leave indeed down. i think the good may suppose to let everybody see touch whom you know full look

a living body that's all because these great is to get at the plants no doubt they are easy love don't let's get more now we're joined by did obvious flaws to correct she's joining us from lagos so you know we heard a lot of of relief from people about easing of the lockdown also some concerns there also seeing some pictures on that don't really show much social distancing as it is what steps has the government taken to prevent an escalation of the virus. well the government was in place several rules to prevent the escalation of the virus the very 1st warn these of course making the use of mosques in public places paltry another one is they've imposed a curfew from 8 pm to 6 am and so people are not allowed to be outside once it's 8 pm and the most the most also not be out by 6 am in the morning and while all these . rules are being put in place to call the escalation of the spread of the virus

it's also very difficult to enforce those rules it's important to point out that nigeria is a city of more than 20000000 people and so for seen any rule at all is going to take extra effort by the government which of course as we've seen from the peak just today has almost been impossible and there's also a massive economy africa's largest how is the coping on that front well the economy has taken the biggest heat $22.00 the love down lagos he's the epicenter of the outbreak in nigeria and lagos is also the commercial capital of nigeria so which shops closed business is in lockdown everything basically on hold you know what that means for the country that basically means that the economy has been put on hold not to add to the fact that nigeria is an oil dependent economy

and so with the collapse of oil prices. has basically taking a huge hit in the whole who are in our virus pandemic and so experts are warning that the nigerians should prepare for the last 20 homes to. flourish to cora joining us from lagos thank you so much. thank you. now we had to south korea which is one of the 1st countries to start up a major sports league again during the coronavirus pandemic the korean baseball organization is taking a number of precautions to protect its players and fans will not be in the stands they'll only be able to watch on television still both players and fans are really ready to go have a look. inside the kiyomi heroes home field players ease

themselves into shape because of the corona virus pandemic they had to wait over a month but now opening day may 5th is almost here still because of the virus there will be one big difference no offense you know when you're in the 6th inning 7th inning and you're in you're trying to grind out and out you're exhausted and hearing fans i mean it really does motivate you and pick you up. so you know not having them is going to be very very challenging one time major leaguer jake brigham had to undergo 2 weeks of mandatory quarantine when he came back to his south korean team from training in the u.s. now he just looks forward to seeing himself and his teammates back on the field when it counts. i think a lot of people in the world take notice just because it'll be the 1st sport back. so i think it's really exciting and the guys guys are just ready to go teams now even more carefully monitor player health and all stadium visitors have their

temperatures checked so 3 has managed to largely bring the corona virus outbreak under control with intense testing contact tracing and quarantining with new cases now numbering usually below 10 per day like baseball other professional sports leagues here are opening up although it will be a while before there are fans in attendance the league may gradually welcome a limited number of fans back to stadiums in remains committed to a full 144 game schedule special regulations aimed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus during games including no spitting and the coaches task their teams to keep all eyes on the prize. given what if these actions you do without realizing it may be tough because you break your routine but you need to be more careful now for yourself your team and for the country. but if we do follow the guidelines and play well we can reach our goal for the season to move up

a level and win in the meantime so grizz boisterous fans have been enjoying pre-season outings reluctantly making do watching games from the coach. compared to before it's a bit disappointing to only be able to watch games because i can't see everything i want to go to the games the soonest possible and share with all the fans. i have a. like the players fans long for the stadium atmosphere and if the coronavirus precautions work then their long wait maybe in its last inning. meantime in the world of soccer the german soccer league the d.f.l. says that there have been 10 positive tests for coronavirus among the 36 clubs in the bundesliga and the 2nd division the league says that over 700 tests were carried out over 2 rounds of young players and staff cologne previously reported 3

positive cases the tests are part of the d.f.l. is hygiene concept as it bids to restart the season this month on wednesday the german government is expected to decide whether to allow games to resume in f.t.c. . a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you here and if you news countries around the world have pledged over 5000000000 euros and a virtual fund raiser for corona virus vaccine and treatment research the european commission is aiming to raise revenue point 5000000000 euros to fund the effort in italy some restrictions to cope with life are being lifted from today bringing much needed relief after 7 weeks of lockdown the government has promised further reopening as this month if the infection rate stays low. enough that you know if you give you news on the go on our web site e.w. dot com and you can follow us on twitter and instagram t w news my handle is at sarah kelly's t.v. thank you so much for joining us stay safe and take care.

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