let's get more from dublin chief political correspondent and melinda craig welcome and let's start with that graph that we just saw in that report will bring it back up and what's interesting about it is we see that the new infections in germany initially rising and they only seem to start to fall once the countries schools were shut and it's been mainly downhill since then ok so germany is about to reopen its schools will and this looks like a quite a big risk. indeed it does the reason that they are taking this step as part of the overall relaxation of restrictions is that schooling is considered high priority going to school is mandatory here in germany it's an absolute exception that preparing to have been homeschooling their kids for the last 6 weeks and there's also concern about the welfare of children especially children from vulnerable families troubled families who might be subject to domestic violence also concern for privileged less privileged children who perhaps don't have access to the digital tools that many teachers have now been using so for all those reasons there is