Appears to get a grip on its Health Crisis we look at how the communist Party Leadership is trying to change the narrative on the source of the outbreak. Im monica jones in berlin good to have you with us france is just 3 hours away from a nationwide lockdown the president says the country is facing a Public Health war and that it will take an all out mobilization to slow the spread of the corona virus the virus has so far 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 University Hospital when patients arrive with lung problems theyre taken to a special unit but its also important to keep the medical stuff healthy. The priority is really to protect ourselves we use protective closing where we are with the patients. The Emergency Response center in the city has seen 5 times as many calls as usual the technology felt to keep up the pace the Computer System broke down. Or formative with computers didnt stop for long because the engineers arrived immediately simply because there were so many files in 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 ive already reached breaking point there are almost no more intensive care beds in his address to the nation Emmanuel Mark or unknowns that the Military Hospital will be set to in the region and the Army Deployed to transport the seek to hospitals. Were out of war. Were in a Public Health war and 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 mark 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 like food shopping some 100000 police will be deployed to enforce the law down. There you know stronger see a violation of these rules is currently punishable by a foreigner her around 30 euros it will be raised very quickly to a higher level which could be 135 euros our aim is not to punish but to call everyone to account. As doctors warn about an increasingly dire situation many hope yeah aggressive move by friends will save lives. Our correspondent lisa lewis joins us now from paris 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 experts warn of an increasingly dire situation would just that means 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 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 a 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 and france. Its progressing faster and faster were not at the italian scenario just yet but the number of could have a native 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 at 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 lewis there reporting from paris thank you so much. Here in germany the government is also ratcheting up its response to the coronaVirus 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 at the chancery 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. I think muslim such drastic measures have never been taken in our country. But at the moment theyre necessary to reduce the amount of close contact between people. To bring down the number of infections and serious cases in our cancun 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. Profitable for. The financier indeed we are setting aside 10000000000 euros to meet the costs are rising from additional medical expenditure and the economic consequences of a virus we are leaving no one behind. A Crisis Committee set up by the health and the interior ministrys 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 hundreds of brown tongues new measures practically announced in a daily basis now but no complete lockdown 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 out all the whole difficult to reduce the number of reasons why people would like to go out theres no reason anymore to go to the cinema because its 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 should i call it maybe stay. 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 that number of cases is not so large if the german Hospital System is under strain. Final wave that could. The hospitals have known has not yet arrived there and not 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 into existence for such a large number of people to be infected so seriously but 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 people that need that Critical Care right out Political Correspondent hans grant thank you so much and heres a look at some more of the latest coronavirus developments hong kong will quarantine all new arrivals for 14 days to preserve its current success at limiting the outbreak south korea will also tighten border checks off to 3 days of reporting less than 100. 00 new infections the philippines has suspended trade on its local Stock Exchange become the 1st country to close its Financial Market over coronavirus fias on the chinese city where the virus was 1st detected reported just one new locally transmitted case on tuesday. There were another 20 cases recorded in other parts of china but they were all brought in from people travelling back from overseas the city of one has announced all overseas returnees must now quarantine for 14 days the 1st batch of medical workers began leaving from on Tuesday Morning they have been supporting temporary and designated hospitals in the city of who hunt for over a month more than 42000 medical workers from across china were dispatched to the area since the Virus Outbreak that departure comes chinese authorities begin to claim victory over the deadly virus. China has fought the coronavirus with unified strength and the crisis will soon be over at least thats according to the daily stream of news from chinas state television drastic measures undertaken by the Chinese Government at the beginning of the crisis have in fact led to a drop in new infections thousands of patients have recovered so many factories throughout the country have started up production again they want at the moment we are at 70 percent of our capacity but that figure will increase day by day the World Health Organization has praised chinas response. Praised china again and again because its actions actually helped in reducing the spread of bias to other countries. For the construction of an Emergency Hospital in lieu han in just 10 days impress the world the hospital was closed on the 8th of march with all patients fully recovered a fact that was probably announced on Chinese State television. Media doesnt report is that chinese president xi jinping has gone on record as saying he already knew about the Virus Outbreak by january the 7th the public was only informed 2 weeks later chinese dr li one known had already discovered the virus and warned of the dangers posed by an industry last year he received a warning from police and was forced to write an official apology he later became infected and died in early february. Other attempts by journalists and doctors to draw attention to the gravity of the situation and the initial incapacity of hospitals to deal with a crisis were brutally repressed the whereabouts of several whistleblowers is still unknown china has had success in battling the epidemic but with 13000 people still infected the battle is far from over. And for more lets bring in now Derek Williams from our Science Department derrick we just heard that chinese president xi jinping knew about the virus 2 weeks before he informed the public how did this information come about and did holding it back and danger Public Health well you know hindsight is 2020 you cant stay too often or often that were that we really entered uncharted territory so i think trying to point fingers at chinas behavior back in january at this is at this particular juncture is pretty pointless once i think whats relevant is Going Forward now is to look at what china actually got right now and why theyve gone to this place one that i know and try to make amends some of those successful measures in europe and the u. S. Was certainly going by the data that we just received from china the country seems to have won a major battle against coronavirus for now can the country relax now. China is far from out of the words on this you know the containment strategy is based on these draconian measures and it appears they appear to have worked but theres of course a lot of fear about what happens next you know when these draconian measures are measures are loosened the numbers of infected in their countries shoot back up again are we going to see a 2nd wave of infection will china reimport the virus there are lots and lots of open questions and we dont really have a lot of answers yet. The virus came from china the 1st cases started there and we had several months here in europe to observe shut other countries should we here in europe adopt the same measures as china to beat the virus. The fears the china has or fears that every country is going to have when these measures do lead to containment which is its really are from certain. In germany for example were not looking at containment really the the the the measures that have been implemented which might actually at some point also lead to a lot down here are not there to try to contain the virus there to actually flatten this curve to you know i think that the German Government is still going from the assumption that 60 percent to 70 percent of the population is going to at some point get it and so the important aspect of importing those d measures and looking at things like lockdowns here in europe is not about containment its about an attempt to slow the progress so Health Systems arent overwhelms bets thats what theyre trying to do with these measures is flatten the curve right and and flattening the curve is is also aimed at hopefully eventually having enough time to to come up with a vaccine where are we. At them with the development of a vaccine right now. Well there was there was a surprise announcement actually yesterday that the 1st human trials are beginning with the with the vaccine and the us no that was that thats incredibly quick thats way faster than anyone would have predicted but theres still a very very long way to go just just beginning testing theres the safety aspects of vaccine which cant be overstated you have to prove that that that its going to be safe if you put it into people that its not going to actually do more damage than it was meant to control and then once youve proven that its safe you still also have to prove whether or not its affected its whats called is because it. Is it doesnt actually do what its supposed to do so and all of that takes takes time it just takes time and all the experts in spite of the fact that theyve even gone into human testing and so in such a rapid manner everybody is still saying this is going to take at least a year and possibly much longer for a Clinical Trial take a lot of time and then there are different standards when it comes to those trials in the United States or in europe where things usually take longer do you think it just hunch that given the Current Situation the emergency that things could be sped up in a vaccine could be provided soon. Well i think that approvals authorities are going to be much more willing to take risks than they ever have been before generally theyre extremely conservative and very cautious when it comes to questions like this because because you can put people in danger with with with testing of this this type of this type of that scene but at this point they are theyre moving forward the technology that theyre moving forward is not a live virus its not a its not a we can virus that theyre injecting into people what it is is actually whats called an r. And d. Backs in and thats that means theyre injecting the basically the information into people to get them to produce viral proteins themselves and that will then kick the immune system and to into action or at least thats the hopes of in theory at least this isnt a dangerous step to take and thats why the terms of taking the unprecedented step of allowing it to go forward so quickly and i direct williams there from our Science Department thank you so much. Lets look at how the spread of the virus is having an effect elsewhere in the welt amazon is looking for 100000. 00 new employees in the u. S. The ecommerce giant is expecting a massive spike in orders to to the coronaVirus Outbreak as people avoid shopping in brick and mortar stores. Google facebook and twitter are partnering with tech giants including microsoft apple amazon and others in an effort to combat misinformation any light of the Coronavirus Crisis and a joint statement they promise to elevate authoritative news on they have platforms and work against the spread of fake news. Global markets are seeing a bit of a relief on tuesday trading mostly rose after wall street had its worst day in more than 3 decades on monday tokyos nikkei reversed losses from the day before Stock Exchanges in hong kong and thailand 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. And for a look at the markets here in europe lets head over to my colleague chelsea delayed you standing by for us in frankfurt chelsea dramatic losses yesterday today the mood seems a bit brighter whats driving todays gains. Definitely a more positive start here in frankfurt the dax just opened its up about 3 percent but. The headlines remain quite negative overnight were just hearing more and more about lockdowns and france more restrictions on public life here in germany so there continues to be a lot of concern about the virus of course we are seeing a lot of talk today about whether this is going to be a potential bottom for the markets stocks have fallen so dramatically over the past couple of weeks the dax has lost about a 3rd of its value so a lot of investors with with strong stomachs are saying that maybe this is the time to buy just because stocks have gotten so cheap but at the same time theres just so much we still dont know the spread of the virus has been really unpredictable and are really just and the 1st round of containment and the steps that are going to need to take so i think of the impact this is going to have on companies as consumers its really far from clear at this point and it certainly has an impact on Companies Like folks tell us a bit more about that. So volkswagen just came out and said theyre going to be halting production throughout europe in germany for perhaps 2 weeks perhaps 3 weeks they had already shut some factories in spain and italy and theyd also how to shut some factories in china during the outbreak there but this is certainly a more drastic step automakers have been particularly vulnerable to the to the crisis in the pan to make because they have these really Global Supply chains so the impacts in Different Countries have been rippling through in different ways but theyre also dealing with a major demand shock at this point to the book signing wagon and saying that they at this point you just cant predict what the Financial Impact is going to be for their business and i chose to do that is there in front of thank you. Meanwhile the Airline Industry is working to fix its crew. Run of related problems travel restrictions on not just affecting passenger travel but freight as well every time a government limits flights into and out of the country it also affects the globalist exchange. 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 some other guys are good normally we would do a direct flight for example from frankfurt to shanghai we are currently operating in a security mode a caution mode over novosibirsk in 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 plans that 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. And as a force thats for 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 lack employment so 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 our normal january or february because of the limited transport capacity and high prices his company has to turn away orders from some customers so tide is deployed 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 carona outbreaks in germany if too many employees fall ill some branches may have to shut down completely. 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