may have dealt with this present crisis but stumbled upon deming to handle the sharp increase in tavi cases just before the holidays leaving the country in limbo will take further look at that later this hour. for that though germany remains one of the country's worst affected by the pandemic of the state of sacks and he's registered a disproportionately high share of germany's deaths because of the virus with come a tour in the region struggling with a backlog on video i'd say roughly filmed the situation. for many people around the world christmas 2020 very different tough rather than festive time holiday spent in isolation far from family and friends the head of the world health organization released a special video message thanking people for their efforts and sacrifice. 2020 droste one and a pandemic of historic proportions is preventing many of us from celebrating in the ways we would like hundreds of millions of people are today making great heart wrenching sacrifices by staying apart to stay safe across europe christmas celebrations have been axed with markets and shops closed

abandon traditional christmas services some congregations of already cancelled and they're offering tavi or online broadcasts instead. of political correspondence lay on if and how much diana joins me now we heard it yet to spawn they're appealing to germans to think of how their actions affect others especially intensive care workers what does this tell us about how worried the government is going into the christmas holiday. well the government is quite worried about the situation in germany i mean we saw it in the report that there are over 5000 people are being treated in german i.c.u. units at the moment many hospitals are sounding the alarm for example the berlin hospital is a ready announced that it is only doing emergency procedures over the holidays in order to keep beds free for coronavirus patients and this is because transmission picture injuries very diffuse at the moment and thirty's are no longer able to trace the chains of infections which obviously is key to stop and to curb the spread of the virus and and we see a lot of clusters in nursing care homes in homes for the el

to abandon traditional christmas services some congregations of already cancelled and are offering tavi or online broadcasts instead. here's a look at some more developments in this pandemic drugmakers by on tekken pfizer are to supply the united states with an extra 100000000 doses of the corona virus vaccine the u.s. government hopes to get to immunize 20000000 people this month meanwhile canada has followed the u.s. by approving the moderna kovan 1000 vaccine 2 weeks after given the go ahead to the buy on tech pfizer shot and the united arab emirates highest islamic authority has ruled that vaccines are acceptable even if they contain pork gelatin the word for years some muslims might avoid the shot because pigs are considered unclean a court in istanbul has since one of turkey's best known journalist to 27 years in jail on spine and terrorism charges the case against centered on an article he wrote that exposed alleged government wrongdoing and angered turkey's president mr dunbar fled to germany 4 years ago and is unlikely to serve any more time in jail campaigners for press freedo

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