being criticize some hospitals say the quarantine measures are too extensive and impractical berlin's shepley to clinic for instance is not strictly adhering to their recommendations in brussels where elbow bombs have replaced handshakes european health ministers met to discuss the virus the number of cases has been rising throughout the e.u. the ministers agreed on more money to quell the outbreak better information sharing and strict rules for distributing protective gear and what impious and we can't let money determine what we need so urgently for our health care providers in order to protect them it's and i would also like to see more europe wide mechanisms for dealing with isn't this. more people have died in italy from coronavirus than any other european nation it also has one of the world's oldest populations the national health institute says the average fatality age from the outbreak is 81. meanwhile china has published figures the reveal the huge effect of the corona virus on its trade with the rest of the world chinese exports went down more than 17 percent and imports fell 4 perc