the health minister, jens spahn says the curve is flattening, but warns against overconfidence. china admits the death toll in wuhan city is 50% higher than originalally reporteted. news c comes as the country''s economic output drops f for the first time in 30 years. >> on this situation wee are approaching genocididal. >> in a request dw exclusivee interview, i indian aututhor arundhati roy assesessed modi i exploiting the pandemicc to incite the persecutions of hundred ai muslims in the nation. >> i am phil. welcome to the program. germany's health minister says the country's coronavirus outbreak is now manageable, and the national disease control agency has confirmed that the infection rate has now declined to less than one. germany has seen one of europe's highest number of infections, but low death rates. officials attribute this to testing. as the country looks forward to next week's easing of gradual lock-down measures, jens spahn is s still u urging caution. >>>> germany's's strereets are empty. it's stores still closed. a result of the country's strict physical distanc

the health minister, jens spahn, today saying that at no point have the icu units been under pressuresmall shops, businesses will start to open. in austria, the government says they have flattened the curve and it's been the last couple of days that things like hardware stores, libaries, bookshops, diy centres have been opened there. spain today, there's been a slight increase again in the spread. they are up 5,000 more cases, the death toll around 585. the authorities there saying that it is in line with a slow spread that is starting to waiver slightly, but enough that it's dropped that pressure on some of the icu units that were really struggling to cope just over a couple of weeks ago, particularly in madrid. and the swedes today, in many ways an outlier in this whole lockdown times of europe, with cafes and bars open. ann linde, the foreign minister, today saying it was a myth that sweden carried on as normal, they have had social distancing in place and they say it is working there. gavin lee there with an update from around europe. let's look a little more at the situation in g

the health minister, jens spahn, today saying that at no point have the icu units been under pressures, businesses will start to open. in austria, the government says they have flattened the curve and it's been the last couple of days that things like hardware stores, libaries, bookshops, diy centres have been opened there. spain today, there's been a slight increase again in the spread. they are up 5,000 more cases, the death toll around 585. the authorities there saying that it is in line with a slow spread that is starting to waiver slightly, but enough that it's dropped that pressure on some of the icu units that were really struggling to cope just over a couple of weeks ago, particularly in madrid. and the swedes today, in many ways an outlier in this whole lockdown times of europe, with cafes and bars open. ann linde, the foreign minister, today saying it was a myth that sweden carried on as normal, they have had social distancing in place and they say it is working there. gavin lee there with an update from around europe. let's look a little more at the situation in germany. de