For the virus after going into self quarantine 2 days ago and how long will it take the Global Economy to recover year cd predicting the ravages of the virus on economies will outlast the pandemic itself. Its good to have you with us the head of the World Health Organization says the 1000 virus continues to outpace efforts to contain it and that cases of the infection are accelerating more than 15000 people globally have died of the infection heres what the head of the w. H. O. Said just a few hours ago. More than 300000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to w. H. O. From almost every country in the world now its heartbreaking the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases and just 4 days for this. 100000 cases theres some disturbing numbers there for more im joined now by christiane lyn meier he is a spokesperson at the World Health Organization and joins us tonight from Geneva Switzerland because then the w. H. O. Is saying that the pandemic is exhilarating where is it spreading at the most rapid pace for. What was seeing right now while china has nearly serial cases we saw iran as one of the Top Countries italy and a slow to do us this catching up tools of the prominent 3 countries though europe in general is unfortunately the most spending area spain france germany italy all together make for a good portion of of all the of all the cases worldwide but to look at china we concede there is hope if were doing the right measures to curb this outbreak and to get so bad outcome today the w. H. O. Called on the worlds most developed countries the g 20 to Work Together to stop the spread of the corona virus i want to ask you is the fear here that if we do not have this type of International Cooperation is the fear that we will not be able to bring this pandemic under control. Well we did all of the resources we need to not only do cooperation and sharing in science which is of course an important part change a virus sequences change the results and in syrup it takes the development sharing results for Vaccine Development where we have a lot going on more than 20. 6 candidates in the going and we have a couple of vaccine tests. Trials going on. So this these are all good news but we also need a lot of Financial Resources then of course the worlds most powerful countries d with what weve said today 80 percent of the global g. D. P. United words brought together these g 20 that of course is the resources we need right now because look at lets look at whats missing globally in the early every country we need we left the most basic things from last and simple medical equipment to the more sophisticated meaning to ventilators oxygen maybe need hospital beds and that means physically also maybe using other facilities to turn into temporary hospitals or temporary locations we need training for staff so a lot of resources are needed thats for now but we also need to think about boosting the economy and as you just said in the in the commentary restarting the economy at some point will need another huge effort tonight there are more then 1500000000 people at home theyve been told in a lockdown to stay at home or their governments have requested them to do so can you venture a prediction on when 1500000000 people will be able to go about their normal lives again i mean are there any reassuring words for people tonight. I would love to be able to give a time frame and im actually doing this right here from my home office too because were just as well into. The lockdown. The situation will certainly get us but its worse still until it gets better unflushed and thats a sentence weve been saying for far too long already but we need to slow discourage we need to spread out the cases of her good amount of time and the measures taken right now on the social and political front meaning to the lock down all these many Public Places of what depending on the country more and more places a d less places but this closing of public life will have an effect and we heard 1st reports from individual countries that they think they see results already that is of course great news but we hope this is the action manifesting really real numbers to. This to get of it is aggressive tracking and tracing and treating all the individual cases and the solving of every contact and that will need to be enhanced in nearly all of the countries that can bring success and for all of this we need resources and bring in money all right christiane the mire with the World Health Organization joining us tonight from Geneva Switzerland christiane thank you thank you are here are more of the way these developments on the global kobe 1000 pandemic for the 2nd straight day italy has posed new figures suggesting the spread of the virus in the country is slowing down 600 in one new cases reported on monday after 651 on sunday there were 793 on saturday it leaves europes hardest hit country u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorists has called for an immediate global cease fire thats to protect Vulnerable People in conflict zones from the ravages of the virus and also syria is mobilizing its military reserves for the 1st time since the 2nd world war to help with Food Supplies medical support and police operations. Well here in germany the countrys leading Public Health institution the robert Coffee Institute says it has detected the 1st signs that the rise in corona virus cases may be leveling off and for now concerns that chance may have caught the virus those concerns have been built. Tourist magnets like the Brandenburg Gate should be buzzing with locals and visitors but lockdown measures mean people are out of doors only for essential reasons like going to work shopping all walking the dog. But germanys institute says theres reason to be cautiously optimistic that the measures are working. The indian tent we are seeing signs that the exponential growth curve is flattening off slightly but i will only be able to confirm this trend definitively on wednesday definitive kind of a but i am optimistic that the measures are already having an effect which is very early because theyve only been in place for a week. Or 2 fondren scenes like these from just last week i think of the past for now anyway chancellor merkel is in quarantine at home shes been tested after contact with an infected doctor that test came back negative but shell be tested regularly in the coming days meanwhile shes tele working finance minister all of scholtz will be covering some of her dutys. The chancellor has asked me to speak for her in the pond on wednesday and we will manage this. However i believe that this is a very important sign that this infection can hit every one of us we are very vulnerable as human beings and you know one is protected from this. After todays virtual Cabinet Meeting the government announced a further Financial Aid package worth 156000000000. 00 euros its a break with germanys. Rules on strict budget treat discipline protect strode many times require extraordinary measures. Are lets have a look now at how the global Coronavirus Crisis is affecting the world of business a new study shows that the coronavirus could cost europes largest economy more than 500000000000 euros in more than a 1000000 jobs the German Institute for Economic Research warning that the expected cost of the outbreak means the German Government should devote quote every conceivable sum to safeguarding Public Health european aircraft manufacturer air bus and has announced a partial return to production in france and spain the Company Closed its french and spanish sites for 4 days last week to be implemented new hygiene safety and self distancing rules in response to the pandemic. The International Maritime organization warning that the Global Shipping industry is in choppy waters after the coronavirus hit transport hubs closed ports and restricted shipping around the world its stressing that allowing ships to move medical supplies and food is essential to overcoming this pandemic and is calling for seafarers to be treated as front liners just like medical personnel and Airline Crew Members are down see the secretary general for the organization for Economic Cooperation and development the o. E. C. D. He says that the crisis is pushing economies into a deep freeze we asked him today what he meant by that take a listen well i mean. The social distancing measures all the containment measures that many countries have been forced to take and others are going to follow entail a rather brutal interruption of normal economic activity. 1st there was the impact on manufacturing in china that that was a big shock to the Global Supply chains. And not only in china but also all over the world then there was a reduction in travel which airlines and railways and hotels and cruises. And now of course that we have a virtual shutdown of Retail Services including. Restaurants and you have. Disruption to Sports Entertainment almost of other activities so it might be tempting to think of that all of this is just the mere portion that is going to happen that once we are dealing with abundant me its all going to go away. To restart normally him but unfortunately we know that this is not so this is why you spoke of a deep freeze is going to the economy greece is going to last longer than deepen demick it so things are going to get there the head of the o. E. C. D. Speaking with us earlier today our sports news the finals of the u. A. E. The Champions League and Europa League competitions have been postponed as a result of the pandemic you wave announced today that the 2 finals along with the final of the womens Champions League competition would be rescheduled due to the Ongoing Health crisis here in europe no new dates were set for the showpiece matches which had been skids that take place in may the european championships have already been delayed until next year and all of europes major domestic leagues are currently suspended indefinitely. Its becoming increasingly likely that the Tokyo Olympics to take place in july and august will also be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic several qualifying events are already cancelled and pressure has been growing on authorities to consider a delay today japans Prime Minister shinzo acknowledged that rescheduling the games may be the only way forward for weeks and even japan knew the International Olympic committee was prepared to countenance it now Prime Minister shinzo abbay has tabled the possibility of postponement. If the circumstances make it impossible to hold the games as planned then we have no choice but to consider postponing the. I. O. C. President thomas back had been playing for time saying on sunday that the decision would be made within the next 4 weeks but pressure from athletes and associations has grown massively canada became the 1st country to announce that they would not send any athletes to the games shortly followed by australia where the local m. P. Committee is demanding a delay it gives certainty to the athletes to give sports and thats the most important thing over the weekend in japan where public life is yet to be restricted as in other countries 50000 people gathered to catch a glimpse of the olympic flame the country is experiencing a growth in coronavirus case numbers and experts have been warning of the danger of a wave of infections similar to those seated in europe plans are now being made to scale back the Olympic Torch Relay due to start on thursday for the games themselves postponement is looking increasingly inevitable. Unis up next a. Special hour. With more world news followed by the day. The global corona crisis you can find more Information Online at d. F. W. Dot com and on t. W. Social media channels. How does a virus spread. Widen repairmen and when well. 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Im serious on this kind of thank you for joining me on todays covert 19 special the coronavirus is continuing to spread also in germany convincing chancellor Angela Merkel that stricter containment measures are necessary until now it had largely been left to the country states and municipalities to can curb the contagion an approach that has created a patchwork of rules and guidelines the new measures are to be rolled out nation wide lets hear what the german chancellor announced. We have discussed today how all Counter Measures are working we have no vaccine and we have no drug against the disease all we have firstly the efforts we are making to prepare our Health Care System especially hospitals for the expected continued high rise in infections. And secondly our own behavior. That is currently most effective measure. The new measures medical and state leaders decided to implement ban gatherings of more than 2 individuals with the exception of families and people who live together in one household now restaurants bars and cafes and other Non Essential Service providers must also close businesses offering food delivery and collection will be allowed to remain open commuting to work helping others and exercising alone outside will still be permissible the measures will initially remain in place for 2 weeks the new measures are one step closer to total lockdown but not there yet and germanys the strategy appears to be to ramp up the strictest of measures in a controlled way as it seeks to limit the spread of the virus and keep the numbers of severe cases manageable for the countrys Health System. And when other European Countries there are also ongoing discussions about what measures to introduce and when some countries are focusing on the best ways to reach whats being called herd immunity a critical point in the pandemic when the number of people who have grown immune to the virus automatically limit its spread now for weeks the British Government for example avoided implementing restrictions on Wider Society at the goal appeared to be to allow members of the community who are considered less vulnerable to be infected in orders to reach the Tipping Point of herd immunity sooner but after models show how badly u. K. Hospitals would be overwhelmed in such a scenario and the potentially hundreds of thousands of deaths it would cost priorities have shifted nonetheless british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson remains hesitant about curfews. Point that i think people into to be on the stand about the timing of these measures youve got to impose these interventions in the spread of the epidemic the moment when they can have the maximum effect an awful lot with the epidemic use is harveys pretty tall that whole movement to to impose. Curfews and provisions on movement and so on so if you wait until i last until its the right moment to do it and thats always been how we being gods right lets bring in our science correspondent Derek Williams for more on this hi derek so is now the right time for britain to be implementing these measures are they coming too late. Well i think that most experts would say Boris Johnson has gotten something very wrong here starting with the use of the word and to explain the thing as epidemics like the one were seeing dont follow intuition or hunches they follow certain statistical projections which is why were able to model that mathematically the big fallacy with this comment is that from a prevention point of view the time to impose curfews on lock downs is not when large numbers of people are getting the disease its before arch numbers of people began to get that is thats the only way to slow it down because theres an incubation period new infections and deaths are going to continue to rise for at least 2. 00 to 3. 00 weeks even after strict social distancing measures have been imposed so will only see the consequences of what we do today in 2. 00 to 3. 00 weeks thats one of the lessons that weve learned from china and italy if you wait until numbers shoot up to react with measures then ultimately many more people are going to get the infection and its going to kill a lot more of their convention this concept of herd immunity can you tell us more about what exactly it means and what role that plays in slowing the spread of the virus. Well herd immunity is when so many people in a population are immune to an infection that effectively stops the disease from spreading there are 2 different ways that a person acquires immunity that you catch the disease and you build up an immune response that prevent you from being infected by the same bug in the future where youre vaccinated which fools the body into responding like it caught the disease even though it didnt but to return immunity it doesnt matter which of those 2 ways people have developed an immune response whats important is that as the number of people who are immune to the bug rises in a population it begins to spread more slowly lets say that at the beginning of an outbreak when no one has an immune and infected person gives it to 2 other people but once 50 percent of the population has acquired immunity an infected person can only give it to one other person rather than 2 thats because the other one would then they would have given it is already protected because theyre immune so rising immunity and the herd in society as a whole puts the brakes on the spread of the disease so are there ways to actually control the process of reaching herd immunity. Well most researchers ive been talking with to say its an interesting thought experiment one that you know this idea of controlled herd immunity but its one that has a couple of very serious flaws 1st we still know very little about about immunity to the virus or how long it lasts we assume theres going to be an immune to fact of some kind after someone gets over 1000. 00 but we still dont know enough about that its a its a major risk to just allow the virus to spread when you dont know whether people could quickly get it a 2nd time then there is the question of how controlled it would all remain you know the point behind social distancing measures is to slow the spread of the disease to flatten the curve and so you have medicines and vaccines and place herd immunity can also be reached with vaccines and they dont kill people if you allow people to catch them receive it in a controlled setting then some of them are going to die and its far too easy to imagine a scenario where intentionally allowing people to catch the disease could spiral out of control and bring down the Health System so the message most researchers are sending as i think of course we want herd immunity but trying to get it by intentionally allowing people to get sick is going to cost lives probably a lot up until we have medications and a vaccine as tough as they are lockdowns and social distancing are better choices what is the latest that youre seeing from researchers in the fight against the virus. Well theres a story on that seems that caught my eye shelly this weekends german biotech youre back which weve been hearing a lot about in the news is so confident that its approach is going to were that it announced a few days ago that its already broken up production of its debts or and they backed candidates even though the company is still in very very early testing you know if you recall weve been hearing from top built authorities that itll take at least 18 months for a vaccine this really but before widespread use and thats because there are a lot of regulatory hoops to jump through starting with safety issues and you have questions about it thank goodness it just takes time but if youre confident a product is a good chance of working you can start making doses while testing is going on they dont work out youve wasted time and effort but if you do then you save a lot of valuable time who knows maybe they will see an effective vaccine by me that youre after all that would be an amazing achievement then theres cross for care of that and all the other companies out there trying to make out that some promising news there are Derek Williams to have you sign thank you very much well as we just heard here in Germany PharmaceuticalsBiotech Companies are racing to come up with a vaccine for the virus and to think of solutions to take pressure off of the Health Care System now one German Company called key again is producing diagnostic tests for coverage 19 and its had to overhaul its operation in response to the crisis. Star ferric he again can barely keep up with demand the Biotech Company produces Molecular Diagnostics equipment now including a rapid test for the Novel Coronavirus production has been ramped up parrot h. Q. Neko. Yes i mean i could start side weve increased our output by more than 70 percent in a very short space of time. So on were increasing production to such an extent that instead of producing 1500000. 00 tests per month well be making 20000000. 00 per month by the end of the yeah and thats one test is needed per patient weve introduced a 3 shift per day system 7 days a week. The company reacted quickly to the new coronavirus outbreak testing equipment thats been on the market since 2018 has been upgraded and can now diagnose a person for corona virus in just one hour. This rapid test is intended for use in hospitals and of our trees and it was approved for use in europe last week. As i have always been on museum this is a Global Challenge and the situation varies from country to country especially in how quickly they recognize the virus and whether or not they act as quickly as you know Asian Countries like south korea responded much more quickly than countries like the u. S. Demand to storing all over the world and so its a Global Challenge to make Testing Facilities available everywhere stand. Key against track record has also piqued the interest of other companies hoping to cash in. U. S. Law mica is now set to buy key again for around 10000000000 euros right in the thick of the current crisis. Shareholders have to approve the acquisition before it goes ahead. People across europe are being told to stay indoors many countries have severely restricted freedom of movement from parts of the u. S. To argentina the philippines and some countries have even declared a National Lockdown in a bid to slow the spread of the virus its a very different picture in japan Coronavirus Infections there have been increasing at a slow rate but experts fear that could suddenly change as the famous Cherry Blossoms start to appear various festivals are still set to go ahead and authorities fear that japan could witness a surge of new cases as people head outdoors to mark the start of spring. Right thank you for watching a covert 1900 special here on g. W. We have the latest on the pandemic on our website that every dot com will be back with you at the top of the hour. Bringing lawyers and. John why dont you try to transfer. 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