to watch and how this process should go on in the next few weeks and in the next few months is thomas farrow in berlin thank you thomas. and here is a roundup of some of the latest developments in the pandemic germany has extended a travel warning for all non-essential trips abroad until at least june 14th beijing's municipal government says that it will lower its kovan $1000.00 and virgin sea response level from thursday allowing some people to enter the capital from the low risk part of the country without quarantine and poland says that it's hotels will open for the summer holidays even though infections are still on the rise meantime president trump has signed an executive order to keep meat processing plants open amid growing concern over the food supply union say that puts workers lives at risk. well air bus reported a 1st quarter loss of nearly 500000000 euros on wednesday citing a plunge in orders and deliveries the european plane maker warned on wednesday that the crisis was still in the early stages and refused to issue long term guidance for investors or buses air bus the c.e.o. h

let's get more on this now from our political correspondent thomas farrow toys closing schools was a key measure for containing the outbreak why is germany reopening them now. this is one of the steps announced by the federal and regional governments it was announced actually a couple of weeks ago to slowly step by step gradually ease those restrictions that had been put in place the 1st measure was to reopen certain shops shops of under $800.00 square metres and the next step was asking schools to prepare again for that gradual reopening which will stocks in force next week as of next week in particular for those pupils who are facing important exams or who are about to leave school so again this is one of these key measures but it is particularly important terry to stress that is a difficult decision for the german government put german authorities on the one hand going back to school is seen as an important step towards guaranteeing some sort of normality not only for the pupils themselves but also for for parents for example relieving parents from what you mentioned earlier that

start to our political correspondent thomas farrow tell us what's behind the russian now for the decision to reopen schools in germany. terry reopening schools in germany is one of the most difficult decisions that politicians have to take because they face the dilemma of on the one hand trying to open schools something that is seen as an important step towards a sense of normality towards relieving parents towards also helping pupils in particular those who face important exams on the other hand it is also a decision that is particularly important when it comes to keeping those social distancing and hygiene measures we saw some of that in and report it is a very difficult task for certain schools so that was why i took so long also to discuss the issue of schools and why they announced the gradual reopening of schools the key word here being a gradual they also took into consideration what people are saying what parents for example think a majority do believe that the gradual reopening of schools is particularly important and appropriate but on the other hand you have 32 percent of peopl