drastic action to slow the spread of coronavirus having already introduced border controls chancellor macko announces the closure of all non-essential shops and warms germans to stay at home and also on the program a new commission president proposes that closing the blocks external borders to slow the spread of the virus does have a form.

see whether today people are behaving differently from the way that they do yesterday i'm going to macko did emphasize that she did not want to use further coercion she put she pointed to the fact that she herself grew up in companies east germany where travel restrictions were the run of normal people were not allowed to leave that country she's very loath to in to impose further restrictions that's why she's appealing to people's sense of responsibility their sense of solidarity with as citizens but also within families within family groups within neighborhood groups a very personal appeal from her we have to wait and see today whether or not this is going to change the situation of course things are moving very fast this described as has been a learning process for all of us including the government how did yemen's rate the government's handling of the situation well and recent polls the support for these measures has been overwhelming. very large majority support the support the measures but there are even a quarter of people who say that they would one measures to be even harsher th