covert 1000 victims more than any other german state that 1st disease control agency the robert costa institute advised against the exams saying it would endanger medical scientists something personal pushback against. best it was once we know that aerosols are dangerous that's why we have special exhaust systems and we wear protective clothing. it's a matter of course for a pathologist or a forensic medical scientist you know. you're out there 1st and we ask professor personal if we may film during an autopsy a clinic camera team captures footage through the window crucial says the researchers learn more e.j. for example that many of the deceased had a unique type of pneumonia with tissue bleeding that victim's brains were almost always altered by inflammation and the corona virus was found by tissue. id's and farron put tissue disc if we took samples of almost every tissue in all these cases we're trying to comprehend what happens in the muscles or inside the liver in the weeks and months ahead many more results will be recorded which will greatly expand our understanding of this disease assi

well here in germany the robert costa institute for infectious diseases says that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is now over 160001 thursday german chancellor angela merkel announced a further easing of lockdown restrictions but warned that they could be reimposed if the rate of infections starts to increase again chancellor angela merkel defended a step by step approach as she outlined details of the latest easing of restrictions in germany following a virtual meeting with the 16 state premiers in the 1st new words i am firmly convinced that the interests of the economy and also the interests of social contacts are best pursued if we consider that we can take steps forward in allowing more contacts but only if we don't have to take steps back and that's why we have to stay careful and idiot to hygiene measures. under the new rules religious gatherings are allowed again provided hygiene and distancing requirements are met in churches synagogues and mosques visits to zoos museums and memorials will also be possible again under the same requirements intensive care units and hospi

a pretty good crowd at the moment but that number could go up and in fact the head of the robert costa institute which is essentially this country center for disease control says that he is definitely expecting that there could be a 2nd even a 3rd wave of the virus in future and we know that these decisions made today represent some of the boldest steps yet and moving towards normality again here in europe and it's because germany has fared as you say so will compared to its european partners when it comes to this pandemic why has germany done so well. well there are a couple of different reasons for that 1st of all germany got a little bit of advance warning that virus began peaking later here than it did for example in italy and germany watched what was happening in italy and then moved into action pretty quickly to put into place serious restrictions but it was last minute nonetheless secondly the people who were initially infected many of them were young they were coming back from ski vacation in austria or possibly also in italy and those young people had a better chance of recovering from

states industry have joined forces to combat the virus the number of new infections that the robert costa institute's reports to us every day mean that we are not overwhelming. the response capacity of our public health systems and through the quantity and containment measures we've been able to also trace qana attack and with chains and the apps that we're working on what hopefully make this even easier we've used recent weeks to strengthen our public health systems where we can i'm most impressed with the efforts made by the municipality and the regional government but also the bundestag that capacity is for i see years they've been increased and i see the amazing achievements that we've managed in the public health service not least in the local health departments and i'm very pleased that we were able to offer support for these departments because that is exactly where the tracing of infection chains begins and so much depends on this international cooperation and. in the fight against the virus is incredibly important with both in the e.u. but also in the g. 7 and g. 20 countries colleagues we c

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robert costa, dr. patel of the brookings institution. ned price a former special assistant to president obama. ned, kevin hassett answered the question a lot of people had when they heard about the two confirmed cases at the white house. let me play that for you. >> it is scary to go to work. i think that i would be a lot safer if i was sitting at home than i would be going to the west wing. it is a small, crowded place. it is a little bit risky but you have to do it because you have to serve the country. >> you know, ned, what it is like to work in that building. what do you make of what is happen willing and what we just heard from monica about the fear? >> risky chris, that we heard from the economic adviser. those binge watching the old television series the west wing will be left with misimpressions. the subjectiveness impression is that the american president and the team around him are always guided by right and act in the best interests of the american people. that of course hasn't always happened in this trump white house. far from it. the objectiveness is the idea is that this west w

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