A new guidelines to help fight the coronavirus including a recommendation that people should avoid large social gatherings no discretionary travel and staying away from past restaurants untrimmed course. I want to go jones good to have you with us france is just hours away from a nationwide lockdown president amount of course as the country is facing a Public Health war and that it will take an all out mobilization to slow the spread of coronavirus coverts 19 has killed 148 people in france and infected more than 6600 all citizens will be required to stay home from midday the restrictions will stay in place for at least 15 days. On the frontline the caregivers at Lille University hospital when patients arrive with lung problems theyre taken to a special unit but its also important to keep the medical staff healthy. Here with the priority is really to protect ourselves we use protective closing where we are with of patients. The Emergency Response center in the city has since 5 times as many calls as usual the Technology Fails to keep up the pace the Computer System broke down. The computers didnt stop for long because the engineers arrived immediately simply because there were so many files of the hard drives run out of memory we never imagined we could get there in such a short time. Was in one of the areas hardest hit by the virus authorities out already reach breaking point there are almost no more intensive care beds in his address to the nation emanuel mark or unknowns that the Military Hospital will be said to have in the region and the Army Deployed to transport the seek to hospitals. Were out of war. Were in a Public Health war were not fighting against an army or another nation but the enemy is here invisible elusive and advancing enemy and that requires general mobilization hours before michael commanded the french to stay home people rush to stock up on supplies starting from a day to day the movement of citizens will be tightly restricted people will be allowed to leave only for essential activities that life chopping some 100000 police will be deployed to enforce the law down. There youre a stronger see if the violation of these rules is currently punishable by a foreigner for around 30 euros it will be raised very quickly to a higher level which could be 135. 00 euros our aim is not to punish but to call everyone to account to use as doctors warn about an increasingly dire situation many hope the aggressive move by friends will save lives. Our correspondent lisa lewis joins us now from paris lisa france faces a complete lockdown starting midday today whats the situation in paris where you are right now how are people responding to the crisis. Well i think many people here were expecting that there were rumors going around that it would even be worse actually that we have to stay at home for 45 days couldnt leave the house at all and that there would be a complete curfew from 6 pm on now what the president announced was a bit of a lighter version of that however and many people are obviously not really happy about that there are lots of people its reported that many people are actually leaving big cities such as paris to go to the countryside and stay with someone for this period of 2 weeks some people though are expecting the president the government to maybe announce even stricter measures thinking that this might be just the 1st step and we see here live pictures as you speak of the sean c. C. S. Still a lot of traffic maybe people driving into the country and maybe not taking it serious enough just yet yet experts warn of an increasingly dire situation would just that mean for each and every one. Well it means that now you well from midday on really you will not be able to leave the house and unless you go Grocery Shopping you have to go to work that is you cant actually work from home you have to take care of someone for example an elderly parent and this all works with a declaration of honor that you have to download from the internet you say and i declare that i have to go to the shops now and then you will be let through you can also go for a run for example or walk your dog unless you obviously you go with someone so the government is really trying to isolate people i think now people are trying to do the last thing that they needed to do before going into lockdown thats why there are many people out in the streets or many people also leaving certain places to go to the place of confinement for the next 2 days now some in france say that we could soon see a scenario like in italy where doctors have to choose who to treat a decision between life and death how fast is the outbreak progressing in france. Its progressing faster and faster were not at the italian scenario just yet but but the number of could have been dated people over the past 24 hours was at 1200 compared to 800 the day before so its progressing faster and thats also what the government wants to make clear to people that if they want to prevent that italian scenario from happening that they have to stay at home the president last night in his speech said several times we were at war here he was appealing to the civil responsibility of each french person east People Living in the country because obviously he had the impression that people werent taking this seriously enough especially as many people on sunday afternoon it was really nice and sunny here were out in the streets spending time with their friends close together not respecting the minimum distance and he really wants to make clear that the french now have to change behavior if they want to prevent the italian scenario from happening right lisa louis there reporting from paris thank you so much. Well here in germany the government is also ratcheting up its response to the corona Virus Outbreak more than 7000 germans have been diagnosed with covert 1917 have died chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the nation on monday her message no more travel stay at home keep your distance. The chairs had been especially arranged to keep people well apart. But that wasnt the only thing out of the ordinary had this press conference. After high level talks of the chancellery merkel stepped out to announce the most drastic response to a Health Crisis in living memory retailers of essential supplies such as pharmacies will remain open supermarkets will even be open for an extra day on sundays but from playgrounds to Hotels Leisure activities have been severely curtailed. They go along and. Tell accommodation can only be a granted for an interest purpose is. To be had and couldnt. Just be also me in that there will be no Holiday Travel within germany end of road. Its all slow and even. Bundestag president bush met with Party Leaders to discuss how to keep Parliamentary Business running during the pandemic. Later in the day merkel held a telephone conference with state ministers over the new measures restrictions such as the closure of playgrounds are to be implemented uniformly across the entire country in germany hospitals a well stocked and the government is keen to allay fears over the fallout from the disease. So financier indeed we are setting aside 10000000000 euros to meet the costs are rising from additional medical expenditure and economic consequences of a virus we are leaving no one behind. A Crisis Committee set up by the health and the interior ministries is meeting on tuesday to help put in place the raft of restrictions the question now is if the measures will succeed in slowing the spread of the coronavirus of them or the situation here lets bring in our Political Correspondent hans of but on tons new measures practically announcing a daily basis now but no complete lockdown as in italy or france just yet why is germany taking a less drastic approach than some of its neighbors. I think that 2 reasons for this one is the formal reason the fact is that the Central Government in germany has not yet declared a state of emergency in other words it has not yet got the powers formally to impose such a long the other reason is i think that that final coercion is the final instrument that the government still wants to keep as a possible next step while at the same time trying to in some sense still force people not to god simply by making the reasons to go all the more difficult to reduce the number of reasons why people would like to go all theres no reason anymore to go to the cinema because this close to go to the theater because its close to go to your gym because its closed so people have no reason to leave their homes and at the same time this form of how should i call it may be. Locked on by persuasion is still an attempt to appeal to peoples reasoning to tell people look we are not going to force you to do this but please not under these circumstances you really must understand that its necessary especially as the number of cases keeps rising how germanys hospitals and the Health System as a whole coping right now. At the moment germany has not yet reached the position where the number of serious cases that need hospitalization that need intensive care that need respiratory help 1 that that number of cases is not so large yet that the german Hospital System is under strain the final wave that could overwhelm the hospitals have known has not yet arrived there and that in fact is the reason for these new measures and in fact the reason for all the measures that have been taken in recent weeks its to try and avoid that from happening to try and prevent the large number of cases in fact coming to it into existence for such a large number of people to be infected so seriously that the Hospital System breaks down the hope is that the number of infections the number of new infections will rue we reduced enough so that the Hospital System in the end can cope with 1st people that need that Critical Care right our Political Correspondent hats and thank you so much. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged all citizens to refrain from nonessential contact with one another to help slow the spread of coronavirus he called on britons to avoid all social then years as the country faces what he referred to as the fastest growth period of the virus so far his government is still facing criticism for not ordering School Closures johnston said that social distancing measures will help to ensure the virus is a short term problem. To store. To store on the street crowd. Of course. And disruptive of their lives and the right moment as weve always said is to do it when it is most effective when we think it can make the biggest difference to slowing the spread of disease reducing the number of victims reducing the number of fatalities. Well correspondent big it must joins us now from london bigot. Britain took its time to take measures why is the British Government still only advising citizens to reduce their contact instead of imposing mandatory measures. Well Boris Johnson put it this way he said britain is a mature and liberal democracy and he is trusting people to do it here to the governments advice he also stressed that because of course he was questioned about that and whether more draconian measures and a bit more pressure might be needed he said we have the powers we have the legislative we have the Emergency Powers who should need be we can be more strict put for the moment britain is not even closing down schools so we can see i think that the situation is also going to accelerate the British Government had been under a lot of pressure over the weekend because even last week they were fairly lax and they said theyre still monitoring the situation but theyre not really going to closing down or advising people to stay and so this is change as of yesterday and i can imagine that if they see maybe like in france likely to lose as explained earlier that the people are not adhering to that then they might change and might be more strict and actually really force people to stay indoors and would people then stay in doors how is the British Public responding to the crisis right now. It seems that there is its basically 2 fault i know of some people who who are really worried who have left london london is ahead of the cuff as the government explained yesterday in terms of cases say so people were worried with Underlying Health conditions that they couldnt be really helped here in london and they they even left the country to other countries where they thought they might be might be had better but then again i also am seeing people still out and about a lot of young people i saw yesterdays not that much happening and the cafes and the bars as usual but young people still out and about i think they are taking it less seriously they think theyre just not as much in danger as others but we will see i mean people have seen our other European Countries to have seen the example so i think people all are braced for for tougher measures to come well i mean all of this happens for britain at a time when brics it is still underway and of course where the National Health service is also under strain how is the Health Sector dealing with this. Well this is the biggest worry that britain for example has less hospital beds. Capital than for example germany or france say so the fear is that as in other European Countries or the Health Service could be completely overwhelmed by by severe cases and the government has asked for Example Industries other industries not House Industries to Work Together and to to manufacture more was through tree equipment because this is whats expected will be and shortage so were not there yet at the moment it doesnt seem to be overwhelmed as yet as we havent had that but docsis we know and people who work in hospitals there definitely worried that they might be in the future oh i bigot must the reporting in london thank you. The president. Also shifted his message on the coronavirus in the u. S. To americans on monday telling them to stay at home and avoid crowds many states have already begun taking action. This is los angeles where the corona virus has brought the citys pulsating social life to a grinding halt its just one city with its streets empty its the shops closed and restaurants with drastically reduced customers. On the other side of the country and normally bustling new york city there are notably fewer people out and about it appears americans have heeded the advice of President Trump whos been under fire for not acting quickly to stop the spread of the virus. Therefore my administration is recommending that all americans including the young and healthy work to engage in schooling from home when possible but war gathering in groups of more than 10 people avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating or drinking bars restaurants and public food courts. To Trump Administration introduces stricter rules testing for the coronaviruses increasing drive through centers like this one in ohio provide results in 8 to 12 hours its just one of many locations across the u. S. With this service in spite of the increasing measures doctors are bracing themselves for a prolonged crisis. Certainly this is not going to be something that last days is going to last weeks if i had to guess right now i would say were in for at least a 3 month haul to deal with this virus before we really understand and are able to cope with it a more reasonable way. A stark warning to americans that the emergency is far from over. Asian markets are seeing a bit of relief on tuesday trading mostly in the green off the wall street had its worst stay in more than 3 decades on monday tokyos nikkei reversed losses from the day before stock exchanges in hong kong and thailand also rose moderately the rebound in asia follows news from the white house that its planning support for the air travel industry the sector is reeling from the fallout of the coronaVirus Outbreak the recent losses in Global Markets are the worst since the 2800 s. Meanwhile the Airline Industry is working to fix its corona related problems travel restrictions not just affecting passenger travel but freight as well every time a new country limits flights into and out of the country that affects the Global Logistics chain. This boeing triple 7 owned by lufthansas freight subsidiary is set to fly to shanghai full of Machine Parts and medications all of lufthansas cargo aircraft are fully booked as dispatchers work to reduce the backlog of goods from weeks of cancelled flights in the wake of the Coronavirus Crisis its not just goods that are complicating things from otherwise a good normally we would do a direct flight for example from frankfurt to shanghai were currently operating in a security mode a caution mode over novice of beer skin eastern siberia that that means a stopover and that allows us to have a crew change there and avoid spending the night in Mainland China when i was in the cargo area of Frankfurt Airport containers and pallets are stacked and ready to ship canceled passenger flights from the tons or contributed to the backlog of freight the German Airline grounded thousands of flights across the world due to virus related travel restrictions and in the belly of almost every passenger plane was supposed to be cargo the head of tons of cargo faces a dilemma many of his 4000 employees arent working despite a big backlog of orders. Thats from if you imagine that 50 percent of our capacity is in the bellies of passenger planes and that theyre no longer flying or just to a limited extent then of course were short on capacity and since we lack capacity we also like employment of course with thinking of short time work with. Stephen hall myer is in a similar situation hes the head of a medium sized errancy Freight Company hes seen a 10 percent drop in assignments compared to a normal january or february because of the limited transport capacity and high prices his company has to turn away orders from some customers. So tight is the plan at the moment planning is almost impossible were living day to day not thinking about tomorrow weve come to grips with the situation in china but other markets are coming like the usa which was. Adding to that concern are worries around additional corona outbreaks in germany if too many employees fall ill some branches may have to shut down completely. Comic including folks at chrysler production that to their european plans as coronavirus restrictions put the squeeze on production lines theyre also facing questions of the months with people forced to stay at home except for a strict working needs many forecast a heavy fall in cost sales in march folks fagen have been looking forward to a bumper year after the diesel great disaster but now its slashing l. Put it its lisbon plant because workers arent turning up portugal ordered all schools closed in response to the corona Virus Outbreak leaving many employees struggling to take care of their children. V. W. Says it will suspend operations in bratislava after slovakia declared a state of emergency over the virus meanwhile Italian American company chrysler says its halting production for 2 weeks at most of its european plants to help protect staff and adjust to a slump in demand and just days ago right now nissan as well as v. W. C out unit announced temporary stoppages in spain that could last for days or weeks. And francis p. S. A. Had hoped to capitalize on the car of the year award for its peugeot 208 model but now its shutting down its european factories until march well. The new sounds bleak and it is but analysts say europes car industry suffers from oversupply which an industry wide closure could fix and people in the market for a car will likely still buy one even if they have to wait. And the world of sports has also suffered under the weight of the pandemic with many countries banning all sporting events in the near future Germanys Bundesliga clubs have confirmed that football matches will be suspended until early april further postponements are expected to be announced after another meeting in 2 weeks time the German Football League convened a meeting with all 36. 00 clubs from the countrys top 2 divisions chief executive said the health and Financial Security of all 56000 football employees was the highest priority on tuesday europes governing body will need to discuss the future of the european champions. And in a blow for organizers of the Tokyo Olympics the i. O. C. Has announced that all qualifying tournament for boxing have been suspended due to the coronaVirus Outbreak the european qualifiers were under way in london over the weekend but were now. Halted after an initial decision to continue without spectators the i. O. C. Aim to still complete qualifying in either may or june but the olympics governing body is holding executive talks on tuesday to discuss the latest developments. This is d. W. News and these are our top stories from president emmanuela mark on has ordered a nationwide lockdown in france beginning tuesday midday people will only be allowed to leave their homes for essential travel the countrys borders have also been closed to foreigners. German chancellor Angela Merkel has outlined her governments plan to hold coronavirus the measures include closing nonessential shops churches sports clubs and playgrounds she also told the germans to cancel all foreign and domestic vacation travel on monday germany also introduced sweeping controls on its borders. The European Commission president also have underlying has proposed a 30 day ban on nonessential travel into the European Union she made the announcement after a Conference Call with g 7 leaders she said the restrictions could be extended if necessary. U. S. President donna trump has announced sweeping new guidelines to control the spread of the new coronavirus he warns against large gatherings and urges Older Americans to stay home this was a ministration faces mounting criticism for its coronavirus response. This is d w news from berlin for more follow us on twitter or visit our website thats w dot com. It watching did all the good news ill be back at the top of the hour with the headlines dont forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website that is g w dot com for now thanks for joining. A quarantine diary. Journalist sebastian documents daily life in beijing where protective measures grow tunder every day. 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