this is the deadly news live from berlin germany heads for tighter lockdown restrictions over the festive period. schools kindergartens and non-essential shops are told to close from one step to 6 weeks of a partial lockdown coronavirus numbers a surging and the government says it has no choice but to step up patients.

american held back into the shut germany is set to return to a top to lock down from wednesday the country's president frank my is currently aggressing nation on the latest measures to combat rising corona virus infections let's listen in to what he sang with the help from d.w. political correspondent nina it will summarize his words force she and us also can call it's a good art and ought to be a comment on i and snowden mustang and not for the infection the fact is in 2 numbers in germany threatening to spiral out of control when 6 target is a depressing situation it didn't get fairly can view it was one sticking 100 every day tens of thousands in january starts getting infected with a virus so it gets hundreds of people are dying. and hides the silent. in hospital in the coming. minutes i finished i was then i mean is he saying consequent that current efforts are not enough and that we have to do new. evenin.

that is true. for political action on every level but it also is true as can be. for our personal level and that each and every one of us has to ask ourselves what else can be done fear that to protect ourselves and to protect specially the most vulnerable and. go after because we're going to celebrate. the end of the year and the beginning of next year if you're in a different way to sing what we expect series of existence and. commute the measures that it's mine and we have to implement the risk they're risking people's economic livelihood sogginess their hard. if you dropped in

view was and he's saying that he has these people and his thoughts. but he's also saying that there are things that can be done against the virus and that we know what has to be done. he says we can postpone celebration. of spirit among both of us here at suit. and that relatives can get together at a later point as well and be glad to meet he says a dam was a sign the infix soon most important goal must be meeting to save lives and to bring down infection and business as quickly as possible and then keep the matter low number. one on so we can talk to one big moment id card with guns and to see 1st goal we must radically reduce our social contacts and common. prisons exhibitors istream call a beaut. and one thing that's because we can't risk a situation where the health system can't cope and you know the media to mission

can virus has now entered a critical phase. and you can more not. so those are decisions $1.00 to $2.00 physicians on vs an install but there are reasons to be optimistic in saying. who the vaccines are going to be approved as in dying division also for germany. in the course of this year still beginning to form and very soon in germany well start as vaccinating programs. give you a good student of on that side carbon. does indeed for good to bring in an all the burdens all the extra efforts so that we are currently implementing are not going to be in vain. it is a cold war now and does start for targe. separate 10 months now. corona has dominated our every day life. and of course impatience is growing the. front

corner who are known some. and do all those. who would rather not hear anything about corona every morning and if you know a crime in order and you know i would like to say. start screens letters remember all the people. and if you know it's been known for years it can spend during every day of their lives trying to fight for other people's lives in the hospital for. exasperating for that one sees it summed up by and who are fighting for a situation where the pandemic doesn't take any more lives and it was underscored here didn't even mention doing about for good have to think of the most vulnerable people the elderly. but let's also not forget the people who still have the future ahead of the views and. be pounded me because of come younger people

or people are starting their lives now are also dependent on us getting the pandemic back under control visit and starkest learn violin these are should we are a strong country. and under dars and. we were sick in those folks. and in this crisis is many of us have shown that we can exceed tyrone's potential and be there for one another mind we have come a long way off and of. lets continue to walk this way together. and they may be thoughtful of one another to respect one another to look after one another. in. this most grueling and we're going to overcome this crisis this has to work and it will. ok we'll leave frank fall to steinmeyer they will go back to nate hasa later in the show for a full wrap of the germans president's address regarding you coronavirus measure

it's ok the lead is locked and measures followed 6 weeks of partial restrictions and many germans had been hoping new measures would be delayed until after christmas now the closure of schools and kinda god and says well as non-essential shops and services sits the stage for a rather bleak holiday season in germany. on the hunt for stuffing feelers in a 1000000000 toy store the owners have been planning all year for the christmas rush which will now be abruptly cut short and then not once yes they are costing us all right now when we have the biggest sales of the whole year. of course that makes me angry. it's part of a new more strict coronavirus lockdown announced by chancellor angela merkel amid surging infection numbers. analogy to christmas

shopping the number of social contacts has risen considerably that means we must implement these measures they will have a broad impact on many many people we are aware of that. across germany it has become clear in recent weeks the lottery restrictions imposed at the start of november have not been sufficient to control the pandemic more and more people are dying with the virus and hospitals are approaching the limit of their intensive care capacity. we have many deaths to mourn. all watching the statistics. and we know that the health system is very heavily burdened. and al job was always to avoid overburdening the health system. retail shops will suffer missing out on the most lucrative days of the year in the lead up to christmas and they are only being given 2 days' notice but the

government is once again mobilizing billions to soften the blow. if it comes to a complete closure for a whole month we expect to spend just over $11000000000.00 euros for that month. that shows that this is a very generous support package. and i want to say that i think it's absolutely justified it. absolutely. it will be a reluctantly quite holiday season in germany. but the hope is that will be also true for the health care system. the german president has been addressing the nation of germany that is about the government's decision to return and a country to a lockdown to combat rising corona virus infections and having played the role of live interpreter no one has a political correspondent i'll get you to put the journalist head back on and it's a rare occurrence that the german president addresses the nation what do you make

of the fact he has chosen to do so from 5 is known to be a president who tries to grasp people's mood essentially and he can tell that this decision that was made by anglo-american on the state premiers on sunday to divert from the original pos of basically allowing for an easing of the restrictions over the festive days over christmas that this is a controversial decision and so he as the head of state felt that he had to talk to the germans and reiterate the reasons why this is now an important decision and why he understands that it is controversial and he does say that he understands that people are beginning to have some sort of corona fatigue but that it is vital that we all stick to these measures and that every single individual now does what he or she can to help bring the numbers down you have the backdrop is definitely the

numbers they still rising 4000 cases more compared to last monday and 41 more deaths compared to last monday at what point does this become simply overwhelming for the german health care system. we've got this important figure here in germany that is 50 and it means that the number of new infections must reach 50 again must be brought down to 15 per 100000 people in the course of 7 days and currently that number is about 3 times as high nationwide in germany americal says unless we managed to bring down the number to 50 there can be no way of tracing back contacts we just don't know where people caught the virus if they did and that of course means that the situation is out of control and if you look at the hospital situation many are saying that they've already exceeded their capacity now there are more than 4000 free intensive care unit beds still in germany across

the nation but again intensive care personnel is lacking and of course all those people who are working in hospitals are in a position where they've now worked for 10 months excessively and under extreme pressure so they're all worn out you know i wonder what was your biggest takeaway from the speech from frank. in terms of tone. i thought it was important to hear that he understands everybody who's saying this is something where we just don't feel like we can take it anymore he does meet with regular members of the public. on a regular basis and he listens to people's concerns but he did reiterate again why it was so important that everyone now does their own share and that everyone feels that they can play an important part in this puzzle of trying to get the situation back under control. believe political correspondent dana has many thanks.

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