political correspondent emmanuel che's with more on that a developing story emmanuelle chancellor merkel going into quarantine at home she came into contact with someone who tested positive for the corona virus what more can you tell us at this hour. yes that was confirmed by the government spokesperson stations i have backed that i know america was sent in quarantine she was in contact with a doctor who administered the vaccine and you mechanical and a vaccine then since then that doctor has tested positive for corinna virus the coheed 900 so the chancellor found out about it shortly after having given a news conference in which she and use a news conference in which she informed people of the new measures being taken and you know what to do to try and contain cohen of virus outbreak in that country she is now in quarantine and she's going to be money told to very close the farm how. many will do we know with this point how the chancellor being in quarantine might affect germany's response and planning regarding be pandemic. well right now i think the government will take it one step at

let's get more now on what this means for germany we bring in correspondent emmanuel che's a manual stricter measures and seems every few days being implemented here in germany but still falling short of a total long down what are these newest measures mean no. exactly we fall short of a total lockdown simply because it's quite difficult old original and laid it is to agree on that long down because not all of them want to be implemented something quite us radicalized so for example in in each city so what they've agreed to do is to drastically reduce contacts in people and as you say there will be no. that people will also be able to have contact with long after i've passed some icing on when they will be outside of course get with the exception exceptions made for example to the families also people living under the same household that don't look at ease to still asked to reduce this equation out as obvious to. me most. people are no longer allowed to interact with want to go there to ensure actually small 1000 tire. that to me sounds like a fairly strict measure i mean how can you or how