the coronavirus cases rose by 1775 to nearly 842000 according to the roberts court institute for infectious diseases it's the 2nd consecutive day that the number of new infections has fallen the reported death toll is now at $4400.00 and for. the democrats you know hauser has been following developments and joins me from our parliament to studios. germany is allowing a few businesses to do your one from today which ones exactly and what is the rationale behind it the rule is that shops that are no bigger than 800 square meters can reopen they have to have some hygiene and social distancing measures in place bookshops and car dealerships and bike shops can also reopen regardless of the size as far as the rationale is concerned last week the government said here in germany that the virus was now manageable and of course there had been a lot of pressure on the government to return to some form of normality because experts are expecting the german g.d.p. to shrink considerably and to throw the virus is throwing germany into a recession that is the big fear of course and so the government did sa