their sister grandparents and i guess that there's also the option of one household meeting another household with one family meeting another house or maybe you meet maybe go out for dinner or something like that that's trackable and it's not. it's what we don't want to have is great big parties where you cannot track people afterwards you cannot track the infection chains if you haven't got that ability to tract infection change the outbreak of the infection it will spread let's break away and this is why i snoozed baron promised marcos was taking off the anglo-american has outlined plans for the lifting of some of the restrictions on public life here in germany let's speak again with our political correspondent kate brady who has listened in to that whole conference they've run us through some of the details what are the main points for you. well i think

actually one of the main points aside from the actual relaxation of some restrictions is what machall german chancellor said in opening sentences really saying that it's fair to say by this point that the 1st phase of the pandemic is behind to germany but she did and that we are still very much in the early phases in this is very much a reiteration of this cautious stance that we've seen from merkel in recent weeks still very much aware that there could still be another wave of the coronavirus to come something which experts are still warning of and of course is a risk that comes with relaxing restrictions that have been place in place in germany for several weeks now but let's have a look at exactly what those relaxations an easing of restrictions might mean well we know now that shops nationwide can be reopened granted they have to be rather shop owners need to ensure that customers and employees are making sure that social

distancing is a good to use and making sure that there is at least 1.5 meters distance between people in those stores on top of that. machall reiterated again this physical distance and is still very much necessary on public transport and in shops where also of course masks are currently obligatory and she even hinted that we might see an extension of those compulsory masks in the coming weeks hinton that as people cross paths more often with each other that we might see masks becoming more normal in other places or rather required in other places as well another big change is the rules on social distancing or rather the limits on the contacts we know now that 2 households will now be able to meet in a public space again making sure that they keep that distance from each other that 1.5 meters a minimum of $1.00. 5 meters overwise are the limits on contact will remain in

place until june the 5th and other measures that we heard for example malcolm mentioned that the bundeswehr ego the german football league will continue and it's likely that that will be from mid may we believe and on top of that there is efforts as well to make sure that school children will be returning to school and it seems to be by the some a break but of course she did mention as well which is the huge contentious controversial issue of the day is how much of this decision making is handed over to individual states and it seems like that is going to be a lot until now machall has very much called for a united response a united national response in restrictions and also in easing restrictions and of course we've seen in recent days that that is very much not the case many states deciding for themselves that they always ready want to reopen some restaurants with

with limits on on contacts reopening beer gardens as well a bigger stores for example and so that is something that merkel still reiterated that there is still the chance that more national decisions could be made and certainly what we will be seeing is that if the number of new cases increases in germany particularly in specific regions then we will see restrictions being of reinstated but it will be decided it seems at a state level and the numbers that america was providing just now she was saying that if it happens to be that there are more than 50 cases per 100000 inhabitants in a district then it will be open to the state each individual state where that region lies to reimplement to reinstate restrictions so of course. that is quite

a complicated method we know germany's federal system is already in place it has advantages and disadvantages but of course as people most likely will start to move around the country again it could become a very complicated patchwork of where indeed you're allowed to do what way you're not allowed to do certain things and of course they say is as well a sign that the government is still preparing for flare ups for another wave possibly pocketed waves even over 1900 different parts of germany. ok let's just have a quick listen to the chancellor what she said in a press conference. instead and i think we can safely state that the 1st phase of the plan to make my youth is behind us but at the same time we need to be very much aware of the fact that we are still very much in the early phases and will be in it for the long haul here in the numbers that the robert cock institute

has been reporting to us for some time now very good news let me emphasize that 14 days ago we had hoped that after the 1st initial steps of opening. shops we would see figures like this the figures that we had hoped for are there are still low so that's something i'm very pleased about the daily new infections are not hard to pull digit anymore but even triple digit in some cases the reproduction in fact is below one only one county has over 50 acute cases for $1000.00 inhabitants and on the whole we have managed to reduce the infection chains and trace them properly and this has to do with the fact that we strengthened up the

public health administration and i want to use that opportunity to thank. the members of the public health administration for this hard work it is rare that they have been so much of the focus of our attention in germany as they are at the moment lisa thank you. speaking there kate what i found interesting and she said it . again that we're still in it for the long haul but this long haul that she's referring to she's kind of moved it's. this mechanism that she talks with the emergency mechanism that restrictions need to come back in if. in fact. crosses specialities g.'s basically pushing that on to the states basically saying if things go bad in hamburg or in bavaria you're responsible for it is that's that's politically important is it not certainly and i think you can look at it

from 2 different sides here 2 different angles of course the federal states the 16 federal states here in germany have been flexing their muscles their muscles of responsibility if you will in recent days by taking it upon themselves several of them to already relax some restrictions in germany so this will be good news to many state premiers that have wanted to officially take on more responsibility and take a more targeted response to that state of course not all states in germany have been as badly hit as others by the coded 19 virus but at the same time that does still mean that there's a risk that this of the blame willing to come back down on them if they indeed decides to lift restrictions too early over the ease restrictions too early or to too great a an extent so it's definitely a double edged political sword that that's anglo markel has handed to the state

premiers and it seems that this struggle between federal and state was certainly a contentious issue throughout these talks today but in the end it seems for now that the decision making will be localized regionalized to the state level and as i mentioned a lot of the decisions over reopening zone of restaurants of baa's and also universities that will be decided at a state level. that is of course front paid to brady there thank you very much. in the u.s. stunnel trump has tweeted that the country's coronavirus task force will continue to operate indefinitely so a reversal for the u.s. president who just yesterday said the task force would be wound down of services such a move would have signaled that reopening the economy not ending the pandemic was the administration's top priority meanwhile some models are showing a spike in the number of new infections and deaths in the u.s.

the hardest hit area new york has taken an unprecedented some say historic step in its battle against the virus. this is history in the making. it's not the actual cleaning of the new york subway that is so unusual. it's the fact that it's the 1st time that the system will close during the night so that it can be disinfected. it's a measure of the lengths to which the city is going to protect its citizens. more than one 3rd of the 70000 deaths in the u.s. so far have occurred in the new york metropolitan area. fatalities there now appear to be declining but officials say this operation is set to go on for a while. to get there is that that this will last that during that during the pandemic we don't have that we're not hard for it yet but i think it would like to

be over as soon as possible. but elsewhere in the u.s. a different message is starting to emerge. with this on live and let die playing in the background president trump toured a mass factory in arizona it was his 1st major trip out of the white house since the lockdown began. it also coincided with his announcement that the coronavirus task force will be winding down the signal it's time to move on and switch the focus to the economy. our country is now in the next day age of the battle a very safe and gradual reopening so reopening of our country who would have ever thought we were going to be saying that the reopening reopening. some states such as washington have already started to ease restrictions and open parks and other public spaces. but there are concerns that now is not the time to end the lockdown

. most models show that outside of new york the rate of infections and this is still going up. so the fear is that many more americans could end up paying with their lives. india has seen its biggest single day spike in corona virus infections linked to an hour break at a fruit market in the southern city of chennai overall the country has more than $49000.00 cases and more than 1500 people have died still india has moved to ease lockdown restrictions across the country in delhi people are slowly returning to work but things are still far from normal. if they want back to work from home about them. normally that is blistering some of its peak season probably air conditioner repairs worker. but normal is quickly building to plan.

for the last 40 because then there you go down has got a hard time at home now these exit sticking in. self employed workers like ours and are allowed to make one cause as long as they take precautions. other than some other means usually enough time to do window. but this year he feels the pickings are going to be far more to. the customer we need out again no by the customers don't want us to come customers also scared how does everyone is worried about their safety when they do call us they keep a distance from us to go to the other rooms or some other or google street are filling up again the field is do everything the delhi government has had the time has come to do you open the city but the public transport still offline and cogs on the kinds of businesses allowed to operate there is confusion about how that's

going to happen then is a red zone a city with a high number of. dano shops are allowed to open but it isn't always clear this off or not if they qualify after over a month of the 2 on things they also do thing up envy. hoping to do your going to. the window seeing red on whatsapp that electrical shocks are on the approved list. he's still keeping his shop hop shouted just in case the it hard to tell him otherwise and that is another problem with public buses off the roads the only employees who can make it to work and those who live within cycling distance and we need all those quads i got the wife those who can make it will come i'll pick up what i can myself we can't call many of our employees anyway people because we have to maintain distance you have a lot of dealing with the distance of the border business is slow but at least the city is gradually coming alive. awesome doesn't want to get his hopes up because

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