virus emerged ok let's get the latest on this sharp spike in corona virus cases now is correspondent berlinger in beijing mathias can you tell us what's behind this unexpected spike in fatalities and new infections. yeah the authorities have in a very quick move lowered the criteria for registering patients ask coronavirus patients before they insisted that besides showing symptoms that would point to quite clearly to an infection people would also have to be tested positive really there was these tests there were a bottleneck because there were not enough test kits not enough leverage trees to test their results will take 2 or 3 days until they come back and they would have big. rate of wrong results so i spoke to a woman for example who had whose mother had symptoms and the doctors confirmed that these was symptoms typical folk are on a virus infection but she could not admit her to the hospital for almost 10 days because twice the results the results of the test showed a negative result and the criteria for admission to hospitals was a positive result so by removing this criteria now people

to 30 and china's capital beijing is not at the center of the outbreak but correspondent multiuse berlinger he found that the streets and cities where's are deserted as the government attempts to bring the disease under control. a rare sight in the dry winters of beijing the gate to the forbidden city covered in snow a few people have come out to take in this spectacle but getting inside is out of the question just like almost all public facilities beijing's most famous historic site remains closed i think it's good that the government took these measures we support them we appreciate even strength to measure is your. business activity has largely come to a horde across much of the capital this is usually a bustling commercial street lots of souvenir shops snack shops tourists who visit beijing usually come to spend time here today i'm the only one. every day human interaction has become suspicious this shop asked its customers to stay outside and communicate their needs from the outside. some pharmacies take the same approach everyone is wearing. because they are under it's a national emer

for more we go to my ts berlinger our correspondent in beijing but here thanks for joining us we just saw in that report it seems like ordinary chinese people stepping up to help out but as cases of fatalities go up how concerned are people there. yeah we see cases go up let's just take a look at these numbers if we if we think that the incubation period is about 7 to 14 days these are the cases that have been infected around the time chinese authorities started taking action when this chaos in one hand erupted as the city was on lockdown we might see a lot more cases in the next few days these cases are mostly from province the province that has been locked down of course these numbers have people worried here people try to still try to avoid contact with other people this treats are still quite empty here in beijing although today it feels today it has no doubt how doesn't happen very often in this city and people are taking the opportunity to go out i see a little a few more people than usually but still not as many as you would usually see around this time of the year on the stree

let's get more on these tough new measures now as correspondent mathias berlinger mathias good day to you how are authorities making sure that people remain inside their homes and that they don't use their private vehicles. what we are seeing now brian is that china has all measures or has everything in place to tighten these measures people in china usually live in apartment compounds that are fenced and that have an entrance door in normal times these doors will open for anybody to walk in and out now they have these doors and they put a guard at the door and they see who is going in and who is going out not only is shell gone where people are not allowed to leave their house anymore but also in other cities where people have restrictions for example there are cities that allow only one member of each household to go for groceries to go out every 2 days and here in beijing restrictions are less tight but nevertheless for example me i need a pass to enter my housing compound now and we are seeing this kind of measure all over the country the same is true for the roads that are superv

correspondent mathias berlinger is in beijing he filed this report as the outbreak of corona virus in china worsens the number of new infections and the number of death are climbing at a faster pace no most of these cases are still happening inside who a province and the city of one that is at the epicenter of this epidemic outside of these areas the numbers are not climbing at the same pace we do not know whether this means that the epidemic has been contained to these areas or whether we are still in the period where infections have already been happening but i'm not showing up yet due to the long incubation period the government of one has taken drastic measures one of them being that they have now ordered all of the infected that cannot find bad in the hospitals to go to a designated isolation areas and that they will enforce this with the help of the police this gives us a hint that the situation inside one is dramatic turkey's president heir to one says the turkish military has quote neutralized dozens of syrian government troops is retaliation for an attack on turkish forces in

our correspondent he has berlinger has more from beijing indeed a new reporting method the local authorities have decided to include patients who show clear symptoms of the virus no monia but. not tested positively for the virus into this statistics the reason is that many patients could not be tested be tested so far because there is a lack of laboratories and testing kits and that we are also hearing cases where people have tested negative lead. despite his symptoms at that point to the coronavirus infection i have spoken to some of them one woman told me that a mother was suffering from says it was suffering severe lee could not be admitted into hospital because she tested negatively twice despite her symptoms and only the 3rd test was positive so hopefully this new method of. counting were. it also lead to more patients having a chance at proper treatment because they can be admitted to hospitals now it might also mean that the queues for the hospital beds would be longer and people people would still have to wait for that was what he is billing in their reporting from beijing health min

or more now let's cross over to correspondent mathias berlinger who's standing by for us in beijing mathias this coronavirus fatality in hong kong must be making people even more nervous there how are authorities in hong kong dealing with it. you know authorities have been hesitant to react there are a few issues in hong kong one is the closure of the border posts. the government has hesitated to do so it has now announced to close several border posts but to the some others open and a lot of people are unhappy about that many demand a complete closure of the border as long as this crisis is lost other issues are that they are struggling to find places where they can set up isolation stations or. to bring in the. the sick. current teen stations and many people living in the neighborhood when the plans show up when the plans become clear that the government is planning to do something trying to block this so it is a big issue for the hong kong government to deal with these countries so we've got a death in hong kong another in the philippines 20000 people infected now what's the reaction fro

for more now we go over to mathias berlinger our correspondent in beijing mathias the number of corona virus cases keeps rising in china more and more people are dying is this going to continue getting worse before it gets better. that's what most people expect the numbers are rising the numbers are rising at a fast pace most of the cases that we see the new cases that are registered are still inside by province inside one mostly and the cases outside of this area are rising at a slower pace so that gives the hope that the virus might be contained inside this quarantine zone but this is far from. from sure because there is a long incubation period and we might as well see the numbers taking off in other parts of china in the next few days i understand a new purpose built hospital has just been finished in han how is that expected to help in tackling the corona virus outbreak. new hospital has more than 1000 bads they have badly needed considering that several thousands of people in this city have been diagnosed with the virus and we keep hearing reports about people being not able to g

let's get more now on those tough new measures with correspondent mathias berlinger mathias can you tell us how are authorities making sure that people don't leave their homes and don't get into their cars and see a gun. i can't tell you details about that but it's not so hard to make sure people don't leave their houses in china as most people leave in compounds that unfenced compounds so you just need to control basically the door of that compound and then you make sure people don't walk out in and out people issued passes even here in beijing i'm issued. pass to enter and to leave my compound it is we i'm not to get restricted from going in and out but i have to show my pass and i cannot receive visitors for example and that's true for most people here in beijing we are hearing the same from other cities so xanga. and hong kong which is a city also nearby these 2 cities are very close to. the center they have taken it a bit further and they are now preventing people from going out of their homes even if for buying groceries other cities we are hearing of injured young province several

for more on the story we can speak to correspondent mathias berlinger who is standing by for us in beijing hi mathias to tell us more about this doctor who has died. he wasn't off home all or just in a hospital in the war on the one central hospital and in the end of december he noticed that there were several cases. that he has seen who had a severe pneumonia and he alerted fellow doctors in a chat group about it. there were 87 other doctors who posted similar stories all of them were simone by the police and were threatened and silent story weeks later the outbreak howard that the government covered it up and said there was no danger and 3 weeks later the outbreak had spread so far that they had to shut down an entire city and consequently an entire province and people have the feeling that if they had listened to him if he had not been silenced this might have been prevented him and his hundreds of people have now died from the corona virus in why is this doctor's death getting so much attention. the 1st thing is that he exposes the inability of the government to react to this crisis he