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In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with almost 2000000000 people staying at home and practically every country in the world now reporting cases of the coronavirus as a 2nd week of walk downs begins the epicenter of the pandemic has migrated from italy to new york state new york city alone has more than 20000 confirmed cases and the mayor today warned that hospitals will run out of life saving ventilators by the end of the week today the World Health Organization said the global tally of confirmed cases now stands at 350000 nearly 15000 people have died here in europe the number of deaths in italy the hardest hit country here fell for a 2nd consecutive day a reason for cautious hope but the w. H. O. Says the pandemic can only be slowed if the worlds developed countries Work Together take a listen we need unity in the g 20 countries who have more than 80 parrots and. The global g. D. P. The most important. To g. 20 leaders is soley dati to be 1. 00 and 2. 00 are not as one because they have the biggest stick in the world. In all respects it was the head of the w. H. O. Speaking earlier today there is good news tonight for the german chancellor Angela Merkel she has tested negative for the corona virus you may remember when into isolation on sunday saying that she had been notified that her doctor who she had seen last week had just tested positive for the buyers and there is reason for cautious optimism here in germany the countrys Top Public Health institution the Robert Koch Institute says the latest numbers suggest that the number of new infections is leveling off there are 29000 confirmed cases in germany 118 people have died. Tourist mecca its like the Brandenburg Gate should be buzzing with locals and visitors but look down measures mean people around to those only for essential reasons like going to work shopping will king the dog. But germanys rabbit institute says theres reason to be cautiously optimistic that the measures are working. For. The Indian Twente were 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. To 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 cuties of his advice this is the chancellor has asked me to speak for her in the pond as todd 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 if no one is protected for more now im joined by the w. s chief Political Editor she is live from her Home Home Office and social distancing all in one tonight good evening to you make when when she went into isolation on sunday you know there was this global gasp everyone wanted to know does she have the virus is she healthy talk to me a little bit about what this says about the role of miracle in europe and in the world. But sir is that not just to the bubble of the bubble but much wider and europe and across the globe this is a lack of imagination of wants things will be like what International Politics will be like if im glad im out of this new germany after all still the strongest economy of europe even within this crisis and thats why we had this kind of collective dots at the same time we now see its nonsense confined to her home office as Historic Events unfold not least of mention germany stepping off the brake of taking on new debts the socalled bloc is 0 and influencing yet another historic budget to do some down its limitation in the end to the German Economy. You know germany unlike spain france and italy has not imposed a nationwide lockdown last week and her 1st ever primetime televised address she appealed to the public to do the right thing and to abide by these social distancing requirement to me this is true miracle just like in 242015 with her open door policy believing in the goodness of people and moments when it matters most would you agree. Absolutely there is one big difference between now and 2015 in this crisis she after all is a physicist she has been shot for war on shuffle belief in science and she analyzes the situation and she also let the general public in this historic televised address usually only hear from her in years address on kind of large weighty issues and this time responding immediately to the crisis for the 1st time in these almost 15 years of her being charles and she said we are a democracy. I dont believe we dont believe in false ments we live off a shared knowledge and participation so her attempt was not to force people to behave but to convince every single german that this is for the good of the country at the same time we didnt see her declare war on a virus as many other leaders did so a significant difference in style interesting though no real reference to a common european approach because thats simply not there and before we go to the German Cabinet today said yes to that unprecedented economic aid package for a country with Budget Surpluses obsessed with having their differences as you said this pandemic really is a paradigm change isnt it. Absolutely some 750000000000 here are just being talked about here and this is a paradigm shift in many ways because this was going to be part of the uncle of mouthfuls legacy no longer to have the government thats in the bread which is so become the conan style across the globe and at this moment in crisis we see what is seen as of all that static socalled grand coalition with the sense of democrats drop all the occupying and pull together to come up with something that is truly historic this see what it was you know lets see our chief Political Editor macculloch in tonight in berlin the killer thank you. The coronavirus statistics for germany and the United States have run fairly parallel for much of this al break in terms of confirmed cases but not in the number of deaths germany has noticeably fewer deaths than the us or what does that say about Germanys Health care system well it may be too early to draw any conclusions at the moment germanys hospitals and clinics like those in the us are struggling to cope with this crisis in rural areas the phones have not stopped ringing at doctors offices where worries and questions are in abundance but staff and equipment are in short supply. The streets are deserted in the town of ice and were on our way to visit a Family Doctor shes had to deal with a sharp rise in the number of People Consulting her since the corona crisis began. Yanna course spends up to 15 hours a day advising and treating patients a practice is in a near constant state of emergency it was particularly crazy at the beginning of the outbreak like ours where it was chaos people coughing and sneezing on each other everybody had lots of questions and badly needed advice and information it was too much all at once or. The doctor now divides patients into groups anyone who wants to see her has to phone 1st and ask its details and the doctor then decides whether the patient needs to come in a tool the aim is to break the chain of infection and especially to protect the chronically ill theyre particularly at risk if they contract corona contemplation of the time we split up our consultation times in the morning we see the chronically ill then i do consultations by phone then the smear tests that need to be done and the final part is for those who might just have to check with the stethoscope off for an infection that approach went a long way towards easing the stress but now her assistant dr is sick and calls can hardly keep up and next patient is an ambulance driver he has a chronic cough which has recently gotten worse. The doctor writes in a sick note but theres not much you can do to reassure him. If theres already something wrong with your lungs and then you contract the coronavirus it can go badly for you i am a little panicked and probably a bit panicked theres no reason to panic. Keep calm and carry on thats perhaps the doctors greatest challenge at the moment shes running out of facemasks and has no proper protective clothing on top of that the authorities have provided conflicting information with regard to protective gear we were told at the beginning that you could only carry out a corona test if you had the full equipment then another authorities that just go ahead and test and we do need to test after all this huge uncertainty now she take samples wearing a surgical mask and her husband cycling goggles shes turned her yacht into a kind of dr in facility so that people dont have to come into the practice at all. Its just us i think its important that we make progress and i want to do my part in that what do you mean by progress not as a business that we get Accurate Information on say how effective isolation is the response was sluggish at 1st. Yana growth expects corona virus infections in rural areas to rise sharply in the next couple of weeks she and her colleagues are doing everything they can to avoid getting sick themselves so they can continue to help those who really need it. Well my next guest tonight is Neil Greenberg hes a professor of psychiatry at Kings College in london professor greenberg welcome to the day the main concern in this pandemic of course is making sure that people do not catch the virus and become ill but there are there are side effects here social distancing for example it means selfimposed loneliness for millions of people why can this why can this also be a threat. So what we know having carried out a view of the evidence at Kings College london is that going into. Ones self can sometimes have Mental Health effects now its fair to say that if isolation quarantine is done leaves an ability then actually the evidence is that most of us wont particularly like it but will get on with there and it wont cause any problems but done badly it can cause difficulties so what do i mean by being done badly well 1st of all we know that if you dont give people a good explanation as to why the quarantines needed thats not helpful we also know that if you dont make basic supplies food Senate Health Care Products available again that can cause problems for them all if you allow people to see connect with each other you know using skype whats apple without forms of social media again that can cause problems and then 2 particular situations cause difficulties the 1st is if people off financially pushing a lot of difficulty as a result of not being able to get out and their last piece that we know all the days that if you say to quarantine is going to be for 2 weeks but then you decided the last moment to change it say to 4 weeks we know again that that can cause Mental Health difficulties you know were just going to Fort Snelling professor that all of the u. K. Where you will or is going to be put under. That is beginning in the u. K. Let me ask you in terms of the time what about if youre told the isolation or the walk down is going to be for only 2 weeks but actually its really for 2 months weve got a case like that in the United States right now President Trump has implied that in 15 days everything will be back to normal what does that do to peoples Mental Health. Well actually the evidence as i said from the knowledge of your the literature says that thats definitely a bad thing. The evidence suggests that what you should be doing is to keep people as realistic an expectation of the period of quarantine as you can and however long that is people can begin to get their head around that what when he doesnt go down well is to say its going to be 2 weeks and then it turns out to be 2 months that would help today you know divide the trust in ones government quite a lot interestingly weve done studies actually own minute she troops who go on deployment and we know that 2 that actually if you get told you are deploying to 6 months and it turns out you stay out at the 8 months that has a really bad effect on your mental how. We understand that families for example a family of 4 in a small apartment as well as the elderly they appeared to be 2 groups that are particularly at risk. In the current climate talk to me a little bit about why is that the case i mean why are older people at risk of this imposed loneliness. Well even before they call an outbreak started it i mean its fair to say that a lot of people tend to be more socially isolated anyway so being told that they can go out and having families and friends not being able to come and visit them is going to make that situation worse another important aspect with older people is whilst its not true for all of them even many of them find technology quite difficult to deal with and of course the way that many people now are staying socially connected is to using social media and communication apps that maybe older people find more difficult to use i think in terms of families trapped so to speak in small apartments so without much outdoor space again i think its reasonably understandable that theyre going to find it hard to find a bit of isolating space to perhaps sort of measure their thoughts and get some perspective on whats happening when there really is nowhere to go. But i think to put it in perspective it is fair to say that certainly in the u. K. And i believe across most of the world you know governments are doing what they can to try make sure that people get their supplies that they need and and also the ability to connect with others that they need in order to stay healthy so i think in essence so although those 2 situations that you described higher risk i would hope that over time both older people and people trapped so to speak in an apartment would also come to find a way to take to get on with each other which which was inside that that Mental Health and professor weve got about 30 seconds im just ask you this do you think that italy they have a particularly difficult time with social distancing cultures where people are demonstrably more overt where they are more more social or seem to be compared to cultures where maybe people are not in their appearance as sociable. Yeah i think we are speculating here because the evidence is not available to to definitively say but i think it follows that it makes sense if you will very much more of a social person and or social culture and you would find social isolation more difficult but i believe its only one of those sort of positive messages coming out these people out on balconies connecting with each other at the right distance sure not actually you can still have a social involvement even if youre not right next door to someone all right professor greenberg joining us tonight from Kings College in london professor thank you very much. Thank you know most welcome. Well the u. S. Central bank is taking unprecedented steps aimed at limiting the damage to the u. S. Economy caused by the corona Virus Outbreak the Federal Reserve has promised to commit unlimited funds to buy assets as part of its Quantitative Easing Program meanwhile the u. S. Congress has again failed to pass a relief package worth more than one trillion dollars to support businesses republican and Democratic Senators have spent 2 days trying to reach an agreement on this stimulus package. You know the u. S. Federal reserve promising to do what the European Central bank is also promising that is to rev up the money Printing Presses for more im joined now by rob whats here from our business desk rob talk to me so the u. S. Fed is really almost mirroring what weve seen here in europe isnt it yeah thats right this is the fed indicating that it is willing to do whatever it can to make sure that businesses have the money that they need to get them through this crisis is essentially pulling all the leaves that are available to it weve already seen Interest Rates reduced to as low as they can go to say the tool that the fed is now using is one that its been a trusty tool over the past decades quantity to easing which is you know the printing of money as people often call it but its just making sure theres mall money in circulation the way it does that is by buying up government Treasury Bonds and it said that it is willing to do that to an unlimited extent as you say willing to just open the gate is amazing stand by for just a 2nd the German Government we understand has announced a 750000000000 euro package of measures to see the country through this crisis the white share of the money that corporations primarily in the form of loan guarantees but the state could also buy stakes in some companies if need be there is also money for grants for small in medium sized businesses germanys key of the. Development bank will be able to issue an unlimited total of low interest loans with minimal red tape further measures will help short time workers have been if it claim its quicker access to money and protect tenet says well in this a lot here how big of a step is this for germany has a lot of stuff going on there and it is a big step because what this seems to me doing is getting rid of one of the tenets of its Economic Policy of the past year is the famous black 0 which has always been you know the policy of not out spending not spending more than your meanness or now but this could see germany borrowing up to 350000000000 euro is over the course of the corona Virus Outbreak with the aim of again sounding like the u. S. Federal reserve doing everything it can to protect companies and protect jobs and therefore we run of time and we have to say germany does have a Budget Surplus right now also the money is there what effect is this crisis there were expected to have on the total German Economy if you bear in mind that the start of the year in more innocent times we thought the German Economy was going to expand by 1 point one percent this year the German Government is now working on the assumption that it will shrink by 5 percent basis weve heard from the Financial Research Institute Day its expecting the German Economy to take a 500000000000 euro hit through the corona virus and maybe a 1000000 people to lose a job so thats unbelievable its amazing to see what can change in just the span of a few weeks for an entire economy to robots from our business described as always thank you you know. While our world has changed dramatically in a short amount of time thousands have died from the corona virus and we know that will lose many more lives before this nightmare comes to an end sorrow is casting a long shadow with the moment which is why the ability to see light in this darkness is now more precious than ever today we caught a glimpse of that light from the new epicenter of this pandemic the u. S. State of new york listen to what new York Governor Andrew Cuomo said during his press briefing earlier in the day finding the Silver Lining in a positive. Life is going to be quieter. This is less noise you know what that can be a good thing in some ways. You have more time you have more flexibility you can do some of those things that you havent done that you kept saying would love to be able to id love to be able to now you can you have more time with her much more time with family new yorks governor there with the Silver Lining in all of this well before we go a word about this program of the day and the pandemic the corona Virus Outbreak has impacted how we bring news and information to you our team here in the berlin newsroom is much smaller compared to just a week ago and out of an abundance of caution many colleagues are now working from home as youve seen tonight we are adapting to this new normal and will do so as long as it takes what remains unchanged our commitment to the health and safety of our team and our promise to bring quality journalism and news to you along with our steadfast gratitude to all of you for sharing your day with us every day when the day is almost done but the conversation continues online youll find us on twitter either d. 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