this is v.w. news live from berlin a warning that germany could be heading for an uncontrollable spread of the corona virus comments from the country's disease control agency calm after an alarming jump takes the daily number of infections above 4000 it is the highest number in a single day since early april. also coming up china's brace for a vaccine facing says one could be ready by the end of the year experts say a return of the pandemic could come sooner. indonesian workers take to the streets

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in the coming minutes in fact we're to bring in some live pictures now coming in from stockholm we will be following what is happening there of live. view. but 1st we turn to alarm in germany over a big jump in the number of corona virus infections a leading health official says that the spread of the corona virus in the country could become on controllable if people do not stick to hygiene and distancing roles the warning coming as official figures show the number of new cases has leapt with more than 4000 infections reported in the past day that's a rate that has not been seen since april when the country was still in lockdown authorities have tightened restrictions and high risk areas and they've warned against domestic and international tourists. and speaking at a press conference today the head of germany's robert costa institute expressed great concern about the spike let's listen. to the current situation worries me

a lot we don't know how things will develop over the next few weeks it's possible that we will see more than 10000 cases a day and it's possible that the virus spreads uncontrollably. and for more let's bring in political correspondent thomas sparrow who is following all of this for us from berlin did the german government thomas mention any specific steps that they are taking sorrow what mr also mentioned immediately after that sound bite that we've just heard is that his hopes that germany will be able to control and reduce the numbers on by doing so that germany will avoid the health system from being overwhelmed on this has been a particularly important element when you look overall at how germany has fared when it comes to the groaner virus pandemic because yes obviously these numbers.