A sign of hope the chinese province where the current. Protests travel restrictions up for 2 months. Well im terry Martin Thanks for joining us britains Prime Minister has announced a nationwide walk down to fight the coronavirus forest johnson told the british people that the government was shutting nonessential shops and services and banning gatherings of more than 2 people johnsons government has faced criticism for its perceived failure to act quickly to halt the spread of the virus. Its images like these which make it clear how quickly action is needed in the u. K. Mobile phone footage of people crammed into the london on the ground the monday after Train Services were cut to deter people from using them. Experts warn policy must change and we cant control how virulent the viruses we can control the rate in the population and thats what we should be doing whether thats by legislation or enforcement or otherwise because at the moment its not working. When its a speaker but a british Prime Minister has faced criticism that is wait and see policies were dangerous. Now hes decided to follow the lead set by European Countries and order a lockdown. We will immediately close all shops selling nonessential goods including Clothing Electronics stores and other premises including libraries playgrounds and outdoor gyms and places of worship will stop all gatherings of more than 2 people in public a major focus of the response to the outbreak britains overstretched National Health service the n. H. S. Here volunteers bring free food for nurses at the frontline of the pandemic johnson says the whole country should act in solidarity with the medical professionals. Each and every one of us is now obliged to join together to hope the spread of this disease to protect our n. H. S. And to save many many thousands of lives. The government is also moving to get supplies of protective gear to staff treating coronavirus patients. The army will be brought in to take gloves masks and overalls to where theyre needed. Its happening later in britain and elsewhere but the threat of the virus is emptying streets in the capital london the u. K. Like its neighbors is digging in for the fight. All for more on the measures being taken in the u. K. Lets bring indeed obvious bigot mushy standing by for us in london because its day one of the u. K. Lock down what does that look like in london. Well here i am in Central London normally at this time of day terry there would be a lot of commute is really the streets would be filled with people that are going to walk however theres hardly anyone there is still construction work so i do hear a lot of noise from around me and also from what weve seen again this morning is that people have filled in the underground say services for the underground on the trains as much reduced transport for london whos running its a saying that a lot of their staff are in south isolation so they cannot provide for more trains however those people do come in still today the day one off the low down are really close together weve seen that on social media a lot of people and they just off who have to go into work into Central London they have no other choice and taking public transport and they tweeted pictures of really people being very crammed so no chance for them to add to the social distancing measures of keeping 2 meters away from each other so it sounds like some work still needs to be done there the u. K. Was deliberately slow in implementing any restrictions to public life what prompted the government to act now. Well yes there was a lot of criticism the u. K. Is behind probably around 2 weeks behind its silly and the 1st of all the thinking was in the u. K. That there was some sort of had immunity was. That people would catch the virus so it was about spreading out the measures but then the government has changed tack since about a week ago and since then weve seen a lot of much more stringent measures and the reason is that they thought that the press thinking wasnt really really plausible that if they continued on the trajectory that the house system would be really overwhelmed couldnt be coping not enough intensive cabots not enough ventilators in the u. K. Not enough stuff so they had to change tack and now they are really trying everything they can to reduce the spread of the virus because thank you very much that was the biggest mass in london. In spain the state of emergency has to be extended to mid april the Health System struggles with the rising number of infections and deaths pictures taken at a hospital in madrid show patients lying in a corridor as Health Workers try to cope with the influx of those needing treatment the spanish capital has been particularly affected nearly 10000 cases have been reported there an ice rink inside a Shopping Mall in madrid has been turned into a makeshift mortuary to cope with the surge in cases and soldiers deployed to help fight the virus that made shocking discoveries at Nursing Homes across the country elderly residents have been found abandoned and sometimes. Prosecutors have launched an investigation. To tell us more about the situation in spain lets bring in john Philip Schultz hes in seville young philip a truly grim discovery there those Nursing Homes tell us more about the situation. Yes indeed spenders defense minister said that so just by disinfecting old peoples residences when they had to witness those traumatizing scenes people abandoned in their own people even in debt in their own baths people crying for help suffocating with without any medical personnel around the minister also said that people abandoning that duties will feel the full weight of the law and prosecute has had started and they gave indeed some reports that some stuff members in the residencies just walked away when the situation got really bad on the other hand there was a statement of nurses saying that doing that best they are at the front line of the outbreak and that they dont even have medical gear to protect themselves also some experts say that those nurses might have just followed structural called because they are not allowed to touch touch that bodies and the main problem at the moment is that General Services take more than the day to a rife and so the dead bodies have to be in that bets in philip kind of even out on the streets of seville yesterday to show to get a sense of how the city is coping under lockdown lets take a look at your report. A solo violinist in an otherwise empty city center. The capital love on the loose and the fight against the spread of the coronavirus the Spanish Government just relying on spaniards common sense as well as widespread policing of public spaces the National Director of police says there will be 0 tolerance even of mind of breaches of the curfew as this Police Video Shows even drones are being used to enforce the knock down this level of policing used to be unimaginable in europe on the square behind me hundreds of people would meet at this time of the day to half an hour period chief together life on the streets is an essential part of the spanish way of life that makes the discipline that the spaniards have been showing for more than a week now all the more remarkable the same is true for that reaction after the government announced its plan to extend the lockdown for at least 3 more weeks spending our homes with several family members for financial reasons few places in europe and living space person they are now countless articles with advice for people. Ranging from Spring Cleaning to getting to know your neighbors at a distance of course. Usually i go through that. There is always something to do at home going shopping taking out the trash thats my routine. I just follow the news and watch t. V. Thats. What i thought of that we should just obey the rules from the central and local governments. And remember my i just hope that the people around you dont get sick if we stick to the roots. But police and aid organizations have warned that Domestic Violence case this could drastically increase due to the lockdown measures could be tightened even further in the weeks ahead which could mean for the restrictions for business and for manufacturing noncritical goods. So young fellow spain is clearly taking drastic measures to fight the virus is there any sign that those measures are having the desired effect its probably too early to say anything for certain and of course we dont know of the situation which be without those measures also spanish Prime Minister sanchez has warned the citizens that the situation will get worse before it can get. Out. And under. Cordon nation Central Ministry and 1st every spaniard knows by now said that he has some hope that the peak of the inspections could be reached this week but i think most experts agree that its too early to say anything about a very key trends. And just briefly how are people dealing with all this are they becoming more cooperative. They certainly are very disciplined. I was outside yesterday to report and i literally saw nobody on the streets except for some police cars and. Something that you know from all over the country people really follow the rules and theyre very strict strict and many of us. Thank you very much for bringing suffered a fair that was young Philip Schultz reporting from seville well the province at the center of chinas coronavirus outbreak is to lift travel restrictions on wednesday the 50000000 people. For 2 months those in the capital will have to wait another 2 weeks before theyre allowed to travel but the easing of restrictions seems to be a sign of progress in chinas battle to defeat the coronavirus. Preparing to get people on the move again. Starting at midnight on wednesday the largest lockdown in Human History will end. To travel in and out of. Youll need an electronic tracking code linked to your Health Status green means good to go. But people in the city of han or the outbreak began will have to wait 2 weeks longer to leave the province still for some restrictions are already lifting. My company got back to work a few days ago everybody has been issued a health code after having their physical condition checked and their temperature taken i got this pass and im on my way home after a night shift. Once at the center of chinas coded 1000 epidemic who bay has seen a dramatic plunge in new cases officials have reported just one locally transmitted infection in the past 5 days a tremendous u. Turn. This was at the height of the outbreak crowded hospitals exhausted medical workers who has since counted over 67000 confirmed infections and 3000 deaths. The w. H. O. Says the 2 month lockdown may have averted hundreds of thousands of cases. But it may also have caused a higher mortality rate in the province as other critical illnesses went untreated. Theres hope and who bay that the worst is over but with the corona virus on the loose in china and around the world risk from imported infection still looms large. Oh about the illustrator and co creator of the french comic series aspiration has died at the age of 92. 00 his family said he died at home after a heart attack unrelated to the coronavirus for more than 60 years adults and children have followed the exploits of comic heroes. To warriors who stood up to their roman occupiers the series has sold more than 370000000 albums worldwide. Youre watching d. W. News coming up next an update on the corona virus pandemic im terry margin thanks for watching. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our daily corona update. On the covert 19 special next on d w. D yes it is on its way to bring you more conservation. How do we make cities scream how can we protect our talents we can make a difference the ideas into a series of global summit. This is deja vu news in Berlin Germany in isolation mode what you expect from the partial shutdown just ordered by the government and why critics in some countries are demanding the opposite theyre calling for controlled herd immunity but what does that mean and what are the implications. Plus a race against time how the German Biotech Company again is preparing for a run on coronavirus test kits. Im serious i was gonna 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 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 strictness 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. Now and 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 a 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. A point that i think people in china to the understand 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 and after all when the epidemic is is hold these pretty tall lets hope im open 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 Garrick Williams for more on this hi derek so is now the right time for britain to be implementing these measures i think coming to light. Well i think that most experts would say for us johnson has gotten something very wrong here starting with the use of the word and to explain the thing as epidemics like when were seeing dont follow into question 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 lockdowns is not when large numbers of people are getting the disease its before ours numbers of people begin 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 to 3 weeks even after strict social distancing measures have been imposed so well only see the consequences of what we do today in 2 to 3 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 thats 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 and 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 prevents 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 have been they would have given it is already protected because there are so rising immunity and the herd in society as a whole is 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 the piracy but 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 of until we have medications and a vaccine as tough as they are lockdowns and social distancing are better choices right back and 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 surely 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 its or a knave that seemed 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 before a vaccine thats really been for 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 thinkers crossed for your lab and all the other companies out there trying to make up that some promising news there a Derrick Williams did 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. Start 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. Yes i mean you know it 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 apart trees and it was approved for use in europe last week. As i have always fought on busy and 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 acted quickly and 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 so stern. 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 the 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 t. W. We have the latest on the pandemic on our website get every dot com well be back with you at the top of the hour. Even if the coronavirus is sending football into a forced break. We will still be bringing you that start. Small. And a story substantial surrounding our favorite story. Because we wont matter the soccer fun stop just yet. Take off. Next d. W. Bringing. 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