worrying and germans to be very alert and he's one in his warning comes as germany's robert cock institute for public health report of the highest number of new cases for more than 3 months. temperatures on the only thing rising jarring germany's heat wave the robert koch institute for public health reported 1445 new cases on thursday the highest number since may 1st. and it's i want to say on behalf of the government the development of these numbers is worrying and they should laureus we don't have a single big outbreak but many small and medium sized outbreaks across the country . many cases have been traced back to holiday makers returning from vacation as well as family gatherings and parties at 34 the average age among positive cases is also younger than in previous months. that means that infections are prevalent above all the moment younger people thank goodness that means you are serious cases that said there's still a risk because at some point you visit your parents grandparents maybe there are people among your friends with chronic illnesses underlying illness or. there are people that work in he

ahead of the robert cock institute for public health pointed out that the speed at which the virus spreads would vary a lot throughout germany he said individual states should make decisions based on regional data think of us rushed on i think the most important thing to understand about this epidemic spreading through the country is that it doesn't just starting one place in advance evenly in one direction but as we know very well from flew over the decades particular regions are more highly affected. by. a computer simulation created by the robert cock institute shows what to expect comparisons reveal how the rate of infection varies from region to region. the central council of muslims in germany called for friday prayers to be canceled though it's not clear how many mosques compliant. and german rail has issued a statement saying they'll be no alteration. insta travel schedules for the time being. so here's a look at some more of the latest coronavirus developments the chinese city of will hand to ground 0 of this outbreak as reported just 5 new cases while no locally transmitted infec

the robert cock institute for public health reported 1226 new cases on wednesday the highest number since early may. i want to say on behalf of the government the development of these numbers is worrying and they should laureus we don't have a single big outbreak but many small and medium sized outbreaks across the country . if we don't all take care not vigilant then this situation could take on its own dynamic. control many of the cases have been traced back to holiday makers returning from vacation as well as family gatherings and parties testing is on the up but measures continue to vary of around the country in munich an 11 pm curfew for bars and restaurants has resulted in large gatherings in open spaces. while in hamburg sales of alcohol at bars restaurants and small shops will be banned for another weekend from friday night into early sunday morning rules on mask wiring in schools also vary in north rhine-westphalia in western germany children from grade $5.00 and 0 point even required to wear them during lessons but one piece of advice remains the same nationwide now is the time

well there has been some cautious optimism coming from the robert cock institute for public health this week but there are still an awful number of new cases being confirmed here in germany almost 33000 cases here now but only $156.00 deaths $156.00 nonetheless but this is something that health experts are still looking into as the mortality rate is rather low compared to neighboring european countries to talk to you thanks for that political correspondent kate brady. well the world of sports has been reacting to the perspired months of the tokyo olympics to next year most have welcomed the decision although it will create big problems for sporting shuttles the postponement follows months of debate and pressure from athletes around the world. the tokyo olympics are off the decision came suddenly but was not unexpected after weeks of debate and speculation in order to safeguard the health of fleets and everybody involved in the olympic games that we have to postpone the olympic and paralympic games so talk you were 2022 the year or 2020 year one with the aim to her feet there are the lat

there was the murmurs at least of some cautious optimism earlier this week from the robert cock institute for public health here that indeed that curve may be flattening but right now it is indeed too early to say exactly what effect these measures are having now of course they have been officially in place these closures of non-essential shops for examples in the ban on large gatherings for for almost a week now and as we heard just there they're going to be in place now until april 20th and there is still the concern as well that there are many cases here in germany that are still unknown we also heard just at the end of this week from the health minister. announcing that germany plans to increase its testing as well in the coming weeks at the moment or rather in the last week there was somewhere around half a 1000000 tests carried out in a week and the plan is to hope that to somewhere to around a 1000000 mark per week so of course we could see a spike in cases here and health experts have said that we could still be experiencing the calm before the storm here in germany but of course the main aim right

come at a bad time throughout germany koroma infections are on the rise again the robert cock institute for public health reporting 1445 new cases on thursday the highest number since may the 1st. now let's take a look at some of the latest developments in the pandemic the world health organization says it has requested a review of results of russia's trials of the vaccine its authorized for use described meters less advanced than others which are still under growing trials the spanish region of going to syria has a ban smoking on the streets as part of social distancing measures as the country battles a 2nd wave of infections a new zealand has traced a new outbreak to a cold storage warehouse according to a breach is one of the suspected causes the war of words is brewing over the role of the tiny german port of sas and it's in the construction of a controversial gas pipeline from russia and germany is a foreign minister heiko masses told the us to mind its own business over the nord stream to pipeline as the us secretary of state it might pump aoe undertakes a european tour some u.s. republican senator

record $952.00 deaths over the last 24 hours with a covert 19 being called for by the robert cock institute germany's public health body it comes as germany enters a new strict a lockdown basically all non-essential retail polluting things like head dresses and beauty salons as well closing down the only things really remaining open are banks in some cases pharmacies and supermarkets in order for people to buy food what they did see was a rush of people going to shopping malls on tuesday evening and an attempt to cram in some last minute in person christmas shopping. combs after the previous measures that it being called lockdown light that came into play at the beginning of november which they would designed essentially to keep as moche of the german economy open as possible at the expense of social contacts well everybody basically admitted they haven't worked dear citizens we had all hoped to be further along but the virus still has us firmly in its grip from wednesday on work our public and private lives will therefore be more severely restricted than ever before in the history of the federal republic of germa

there being no proof that restaurant visits are responsible for the jump and infections germany's public health body the robert cock institute believes most infections happen in private settings in the september report the institute says public transmission in places such as restaurants occur much less frequently but with many infections it's impossible to tell for sure christiane ism for any hopes on the new measures will be quick and painless if not the german hotel and restaurant association says $80000.00 of the almost half a 1000000 businesses in the sector face bankruptcy the german economy grew by 6 percent in the 3rd quarter that's according to estimates by the german institute for economic research however it also forecasts that the recovery will slow down as the new restrictions take hold our financial correspondent conrad who is and has more from germany's financial capital frankfurt. pessimism has come back with a vengeance to the financial markets some investors predict that our economy in germany the gross domestic product will be down to 0 at the end of the year some even more pessimistic forecasts predict tha

there being no proof that restaurant visits are responsible for the jump and infections germany's public health body the robert cock institute believes most infections happen in private settings in september report the institute says public transmission in places such as restaurants occur much less frequently but with many infections it's impossible to tell for sure christiane is on for any hopes on the new measures will be quick and painless if not the german hotel and restaurant association says 80000 of the almost half a 1000000 businesses in the sector face bankruptcy. the german economy grew by 6 percent in the 3rd quarter that's according to estimates by the german institute for economic research however it also forecasts that the recovery will slow down as new restrictions take hold our financial correspondent konrad bosun has more from germany's financial capital frankfurt pessimism has come back with a vengeance to the financial markets some investors predict that our economy in germany the gross domestic product will be down to 0 at the end of the year some even more pessimistic for costs this predict that germany'

there being no proof that restaurant visits are responsible for the jump and infections germany's public health body the robert cock institute believes most infections happen in private settings in the september report the institute says public transmission in places such as restaurants occur much less frequently but with many infections it's impossible to tell for sure christiane is on for any hopes on the new measures will be quick and painless if not the german hotel and restaurant association says 80000 of the almost half a 1000000 businesses in the sector face bankruptcy the german economy grew by 6 percent in the 3rd quarter that's according to estimates by the german institute for economic research however it also forecasts that the recovery will slow down as the new restrictions take hold our financial correspondent conrad who is and has more from germany's financial capital frankfurt. pessimism has come back with a vengeance to the financial markets some investors predict that our economy in germany the gross domestic product will be down to 0 at the end of the year some even more pessimistic forecasters predict tha

lot of you know he's the head of the robert cock institute that's germany's federal agency for disease prevention as you're saying derrick this is germany's public health body one that's been especially a vocal in this crisis it has been it has been and it's basically what they've been saying all along is that we need to prepare we need to prepare at the same time they are they are reminding people that 4 out of 5 people who get this disease have mild symptoms so they're trying to diffuse the panic to some extent but they're very very interested at this particular point in getting germany obviously wanting all right let's listen it up to be here for the right to locking them to fit in that's just that. we would be out of the room can also see us and campbell. and that we can see it and in the audience i'd like to ask you to take your seats at this point. because you back that menus well it could be in pretty colleagues i would like to welcome you to this press conference after the video conference that we had yesterday of the european council i'd like to welcome the german chancellor to talk to i'm going to matt cook the german health minister. and. th

quite he's an epidemiologist and director of the charité institute of public health here in berlin toby yes thank you for joining us there robert cockinstitute is saying that the infection numbers are alarming do you agree how worrying are these numbers these numbers are absolutely alarming i mean we see these numbers since days and weeks in germany so while the lockdown light was able to flatten the curve the numbers don't go down the health care system is on its limits we seeing these numbers not really being affected by anything we do right now so we definitely have to acknowledge these numbers are absolutely alarming and we see the virus spreading very widely among the elderly as well to o.b.s. why is that why is there such a spread in this part of the population i think there's a very diffuse it away and in germany also including now the elderly holds including the nurses homes and other institutions so this is really alarming so not just a number but also the age group that is affected right now. you mentioned lockdown like there has been some frustration with a leading lawmakers here for taking this kind of piecemeal approach

ologist and director of the sherry institute of public health here in berlin toby yes thank you for joining us robert cock institute is saying that the infection numbers are alarming do you agree how worrying are these numbers. these numbers are absolutely alarming i mean we see these numbers in space and weeks in germany so while the lockdown light was able to flatten the curve the numbers don't go down the health care system is on its limits we're seeing these numbers not really being affected by anything we do right now so we definitely have to acknowledge these numbers are absolutely alarming and we see the virus spreading very widely among the elderly as well to b.s. why is that why is there such a spread in this part of the population. i think there's a very diffuse situation in germany also including now the elderly holds including the nurses homes and other institutions so this is really alarming so not just the number but also the age group that is affected right now. you mentioned lockdown like there has been some frustration with a leading lawmakers here for taking this kind of piecemeal approa

rules vary from state to state now it comes after public health experts said the virus was under control the latest figures from the robert cock institute for infectious diseases shows that germany's confirmed coronavirus cases have risen by 1775 to nearly 142008 is the 2nd consecutive day that the number of new infections us fall and the reported death toll is now 4642. and correspondent nina has a has the latest for us hi nina good to see you so as we said germany is now allowing a few businesses to reopen starting today what is a russian are behind that. shops that are no bigger than 800 square meters can reopen today as can car dealerships and bike shops and bookshops regardless of the size what's important is that they have hygiene and social distancing measures in place that. by the german government as far as the rationale is concerned of course germany is europe's economic powerhouse so the government here has come under a lot of pressure to ease at least some of the restrictions and they said last week that the virus is now manageable and that it's now safe to ease some of the restrictions and so of course some of the restrictions

change the overall coronavirus numbers for germany well it has influence of reproduction rate that's now going up to 1.79 but the public health institute the robert cock institute here in germany has said that we don't need to worry too much about that yet the overall number of new cases in germany is still relatively low. this is become a bit of a pattern or any kind of new steps being in visage to prevent it from happening again well i mean lash at the state permian if an offer and my failure that's where this slaughter house is in western germany he spoke earlier this afternoon said at the moment that isn't going to be an extended regional lockdown that's still not being ruled out should. a sudden spike in the number of cases which are already $1300.00 from the slaughterhouse then that could still be a possibility but in the meantime the employees of this quarantine plus some of the neighbors as well and some of this living arrangements that they live in they are all currently in quarantine ok to diffuse kid friday with some insight on the outbreak of corona virus in a slaughterhouse thank you a number of police officers were injured when a large n

quite he's an epidemiologist and director of the charity institute of public health here in berlin toby yes thank you for joining us robert cock institute is saying that the infection numbers are alarming do you agree how worrying are these numbers these numbers are absolutely alarming i mean we see these numbers since days and weeks in germany so while the lockdown light was able to flip in the curve the numbers don't go down the health care system is on its limits we are seeing these numbers not really being affected by anything we do right now is that we definitely have to acknowledge these numbers are absolutely alarming and we see the virus spreading very widely among the elderly as well to b.s. why is that why is there such a spread in this part of the population. i think there's a very diffuse situation in germany also including now the elderly holds including the nurses homes and other institutions so this is really alarming so not just the number but also the age group that is affected right now. you mentioned lockdown light there has been some frustration with a leading lawmakers here for taking this kind of piecemea

to the program germany's public health body says the country could face an uncontrollable spread of corona virus infections the robert cock institute has recorded a new high for daily cases and warns that covert 19 death rates are set to rise or thora teams have issued new travel warnings and are urging people to stick to the rules in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus but stricter measures could be yet to come. it's the highest number of new covert 1000 infections the german public health institute has had to report during this pandemic more than 11000 new cases in one day. these maps show in red where they've been 15 new infections per 100000 inhabitants over a 7 day period left is a map of germany 2 months ago now to the right it's clear half of germany has changed color. and. so the situation is now very serious the number of infections is rising quickly in many places and we don't know where that number is headed but we can still slow the spread everyone can play their part we're not powerless if we follow all of those rules if you don't you can drop to. 1.5 mi to distance hand washing and compulsory masks in public places such as while out shopp

into quarantine for having contact with an infected doctor her spokesman says she'll continue to be tested in the coming days that is germany's leading public health institution the robert cock institute says it has detected the 1st signs that the rise in corona virus cases might be leveling off in germany thanks largely to social distancing. tourist magnets like the brandenburg gate should be buzzing with locals and visitors but lockdown measures mean people are out of doors only for essential reasons like going to work shopping or walking the dog. but germany's institute says there's reason to be cautiously optimistic that the measures are working. the indian turned we are seeing signs that the exponential growth curve is flattening off slightly but i will only be able to confirm this trend definitively on wednesday. kind of but i am optimistic that the measures are already having an effect which is very early because they've only been in place for a week. to find. scenes like these from just last week i think of the past for now anyway chancellor merkel is in quarantine at home she's been tested after contact with an infected doctor that test came back negative but she'll

quite he's an epidemiologist and director of the charity institute of public health here in berlin toby yes thank you for joining us there robert cock institute is saying that the infection numbers are alarming do you agree how worrying are these numbers these numbers are absolutely alarming i mean we see these numbers since days and weeks in germany so while the lockdown light was able to flatten the curve the numbers don't go down the health care system is on its limits we seeing these numbers not really being affected by anything we do right now so we definitely have to acknowledge these numbers are absolutely alarming and we see the virus spreading very widely among the elderly as well to b.s. why is that why is there such a spread in this part of the population i think there's a very diffuse situation in germany also including now the elderly holds including the nurses homes and other institutions so this is really alarming so not just the number of but also the age group that is affected right now. you mentioned lockdown like there has been some frustration with a leading lawmakers here for taking this kind of piecemeal approa

esquire's he's an epidemiologist and director of the charité institute of public health here in berlin toby yes thank you for joining us there robert cockinstitute is saying that the infection numbers are alarming do you agree how worrying are these numbers these numbers are absolutely alarming i mean we see these numbers since days and weeks in germany so while the lockdown light was able to flatten the curve the numbers don't go down the health care system is on its limits we are seeing these numbers not really being affected by anything we do right now so we definitely have to acknowledge these numbers are absolutely alarming and we see the virus spreading very widely among the elderly as well to b.s. why is that why is there such a spread in this part of the population i think there's a very diffuse situation in germany also including now the elderly holds including the nurses homes and other institutions so this is really alarming so not just a number but also the age group that is affected right now. you mentioned lockdown like there has been some frustration with a leading lawmakers here for taking this kind of piecemeal approach