Treatment for comfort 19 johnson remains in hospital he said to be in good spirits. U. S. Unemployment times has another high and the i. M. F. Wanted poor countries who were hit hardest by the pandemic causing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. I feel girl welcome to the program germanys chancellor says she sees the signs for optimism in the countrys fight against the coronavirus social distancing measures of help slow the spread of the number of new infections is going down but and how latest briefing im going to medical board that now was not the time to ease the lockdown. Deserted streets in the german capital a common sight in countries facing current virus around the well and but according to experts in germany theyre stretching the movement seeing to be having a positive effect. The number of new cases there appears to be levelling out but with a long easter weekend looming german chancellor has warned against getting complacent to do if no snitch we mustnt allow ourselves to be lowered into a false sense of security instead we should be really happy that more stringent measures are necessary for me this means that we cannot be reckless now we mustnt allow ourselves to be lulled into this false sense of security and i know that for myself personally you get a little hope then you gain confidence then you become a little more relaxed and then youre a little careless i know we have to stay focused on the situation is fragile you germany also announced plans on thursday to increase Domestic Production of protective medical gear asian manufacturers are currently responsible for 90 percent of the worlds production of protective masks more than 100 companies have responded to the governments call for help. As a result in our discussions about procurement and the purchase of personal protective equipment especially medical protective masks we saw the 1st steps of progress. Some companies that operate here in germany are already investing in increasing the production of the material thats needed for masks and its true that. Signs of cautious optimism in germany but the debate over an exit strategy to lift restrictions will resume after the east. Going to heartland is a professor of Clinical Chemistry pharmacology at the university of bonn he coauthored to new research into one of germanys worst hit coronavirus regions welcome professor i will come to the research in a moment well start though with chancellor merkel statement is she right to warn that it is too soon to be lax virus control measures. Well i think shes right not to relax virus control measures it really depends on the extent of virus control measures this likable spectrum you can do and shes right to be very careful about it and to do it if at all step by step its all about the definition of what would be the right relaxation in the future. There. Could be different steps so right now we have a complete lockdown basically almost globally and the virus control measures installed very effective ones. Not identical with a complete lockdown i think its about the vice step by step reduction and relaxation not like and the full being fully care for about the situation and control measures and everything. To do a step by step relaxation that doesnt mean normality is. Very controlled but thats i think is very important so how long do you think life can go back to normal. Well what is normal right so after people say normal is unlikely son of course you can reach a situation like a maximum of hygiene conditions will lead to a situation that almost looks normal in a few months maybe we dont know exactly how and when that will be but i think the likelihood that we can develop into situations where we install measures that are good enough to reduce the. Burden of the disease is not so unlikely so not normal but maybe close to normal we dont know when the time will be ok with gloves and masks lets have a look now at your study of one of germanys worst affected regions a 1000 people in the Western District of heinz bag were tested and 15 percent found to have already had the virus and now likely to be immune. Scientists in germany have taken a close look at a region hit especially hard by the corona virus the affected community is goggle initial results show that 15 percent of the population has tested positive thought we gave people a questionnaire took a throat swap and used the p. C. R. Methods to verify whether an infection was currently present we also took a blood sample and use an Antibody Test to see if the person had already experienced an infection. In the minister polity of dangled the scientists calculated a mortality rate of 0. 37 percent thats 5 times lower than what the u. S. Based Johns Hopkins university projected for all of germany this may lead to a relaxing of restrictions in some areas of daily life but experts warn special measures favoring older people should still be a priority. The. Age of this also according to what call in situ data is 80 so it is very important to protect the elderly. Heinsberg district chief says this area narrowly missed a catastrophe had the virus been detected just 2 weeks later the situation would be far worse in the meantime the curve of the number of infections has begun to flatten. So interesting the work that professor hartman you found that the virus is much less lethal than you initially expected so why do you think that is. Well its very important to understand what were looking at here so it is if you if you talk about fatalities rate it depends on what youre referring this to you so if you referred to as you view the ill patients the number look different then to refer to the. People that got infected moderate maybe ask them to medic but also severe and severely ill so it depends on. The group youre referring to. So what we now know and this is the importance of this study and i have to emphasize this is preliminary results right so its its an intermediate calculation he has a real present these results in a public ation once we have everything together but because of the issues and we communicate some off the data already right so. The 15 percent refers the 15 percent. Infected people in a certain population and this number was not known so far and its not that 15 percent is like all over in germany its in this specific village in this specific town of going out. That helps because we exactly know many people died in getting out of corner and from from that number we can calculate that lethality its 5 times lower than the calculated number of deaths thats out there but its the same its the same number in the sense of its a Different Group you referred to so what we say is that. Of all people that had contact with the virus that got infected that have measurable antibody responses finally that could be as symptomatic my course of disease. Spectrum right but this is the. People that got the virus. Its much larger obviously than the ones that are registered officially about we now know the number so this is 0. 37 and we expect this number not to be so much different if you look in different in different areas. So this is the 1st number that one important thing to consider here is one important point is that we have a situation with this super spreading event and this is why the percentage is that high we know. That professor thank you so much for joining us a professor good to hartman from the university of botany. Thank you. The british Prime Minister Barak Johnson has been moved out of intensive care he spokeswoman said that the Prime Minister had been moved back toward him would receive close monitoring joining his recovery he was admitted to St Thomas Hospital in london on sunday evening with a High Temperature of persistent cough he was moved to intensive care on monday after his coronavirus symptoms worse and hes now said to be in good spirits. We get more from the u. K. Correspondent Charles Potts whos in lockdown in london welcome charlotte there must have been a collective sigh of relief at this news. Yes definitely a sigh of relief tonight not only on a personal level but also on a political one i think no country can afford to say a political leader at a time like that and. It was the foreign minister was deputising for Boris Johnson the last few days he already took some of the role while Boris Johnson was isolating and there was definitely a lack of leadership mixed messages coming out of government during this time so that is also why there is a huge sigh of relief now downing street has said and their statement that hes been moved from intensive care back to the hospital ward of course he has received oxygen treatment over the last day since sunday night since he was brought to the hospital and they say that hell be closely monitored there in this early stages of his recovery so that of course suggests that he wont be back at work just yet so how much has the Prime Ministers illness influenced the attitudes towards the coronavirus in the u k. Well in the beginning of this crisis a Prime Minister himself seemed kind of careless and i think that reflected in many peoples attitudes now of course that has changed went to show that this virus doesnt discriminate so definitely more people became a lot more careful but i think its also because of the she and numbers that were looking at here in the u. K. That people are getting more and more worried we are at a point where the death toll has nearly reached 8000. 00 its comparable to the end spain almost the rise of deaths per day 7. 00 to 800. 00 at the moment the National Health service is slowly becoming overwhelmed at some places already at a breaking point where doctors and nurses a saying hospital beds are filling up way too quickly so while Boris Johnson seems to be out of the woods the country at this point definitely is not yet and he would. Expect in the office so to speak. Not yet least a just off recovery that could take a few days i guess if we look at the other covert cases. I dont know at this point. In london thank you. Well take a look at some other coronavirus related news from around the world the pandemic has now killed at least 100. 00 doctors in italy causing so they are countries that Doctors Federation does include some of the medics the government called out of retirement a month ago its also estimated that about 30 nursing staff have died from covenanting. Israel streets are empty as the annual passover holiday gets underway the families would normally get together but the coronavirus pandemic mean celebrations are confined to individual households the government to shut down public transport until sunday morning. France has been on the partial lockdown for more than 3 weeks but with the number of infections still increasing the social distancing measures are likely to be extended president macro is due to address the country next week the rules in paris have become even stricter backed up with fines and even prison time d. W. Paris correspondent lisa lewiss shows us just how small her life has become i think confined to these 30 square meters for weeks now but i do have the right to go out once a day for one hour to do that i need to fill in this form with the date the exact about time and the specific reason for example im allowed out for an Urgent Medical appointment or if im summoned by a judge back today i have to buy food. Bakeries like this one have been allowed to stay open despite the locked they are considered essential services but even here business has suffered. For our turnover has gone down by 40 percent and we had to put half of our 12 employees on temporary unemployment and we dont know for how long this will go on report markers on the ground right away it has taken some people which is time but now most of the french understood the rules of social distancing thats quite an achievement for people renowned for their lack of discipline more and more coffee and people paris is normally bustling city but not these days the lockdown in france is stricter than in some other European Countries and yet not all the french are following the rules. In some prison suburbs in certain regions people are just not observing the lockdown that negates all the effort made by everyone else thats why were cracking down on such behavior weve already given out hundreds of thousands of fines for preaching the rules costs 135 euros or 200 years before it reaches fences one person was called infringing the lock down to 10 times in a row to work and condemned to 3 months and prison more cuticle than what do people feel. Doctors agree people should comply with the law they say its the only way to slow down the spread of the virus. Plus we have run out of vailable beds in intensive care units and have to make tough choices people over 75 years are generally no longer taken in at those units at least thats the case at hospitals here at harris and in eastern france still not equipped to do massive testing and hand out masks to everybody so for now the locked on to stay in place. The government has already announced the lockdown is likely to be extended further. Right i better get myself. But before i go back into isolation it is one thing i can do with my fellow parisians even if we have to keep our distance and dine in the evening applause for all the heroes in this crisis the Health Care Personnel supermarket cashiers and of course my local. To india the government decision to designate 20 socalled Containment Zones in the capital delhi there is a hotspots where the corona virus spreads rapidly other Indian States have also named such zones the decision comes in the midst of a nationwide lockdown of the more than 1200000000 people inside these Containment Zones or even stricter correspondent we should just well expect. Now these Containment Zones are basically considered hotspots even as we read it on our bios cases have been identified and there is an expectation of a proliferation this is the governments effort to break the chain of transmission now india is already in the midst of the t. V. Lockdown but these are the inside different they have been completely sealed off while dressed up in some other spots of the country can step out to access essential services this is not permitted within these Containment Zones all essential services will be provided to them at their doorstep on this stretch that alleged to move and those who are backing regiments and handing them over to the Security Guard so that big would then provide these wedge to lose all these essential to the vested inside another key difference is that while the media as a part of the central slope says is allowed Free Movement as spread it is not allowed into these Containment Zones to again break the chain of transmission now this strategy is going to be an important part of india as we forward in fighting the spread all of the code on our wireless the the lockdown is supposed to end in the middle of next week but it may well be extended a decision on this is expected in the later part of this week by saturday perhaps the Prime Minister in consultation with all the local is likely to come out with a decision about if this t. V. Dog down is going to be extended and we should just well danny to the United States where the Federal Reserve has made 2. 3 trillion dollars in loans available to fight the coronavirus the money will be lent to local government u. S. Households and businesses it follows the Central Banks move to cut key Interest Rates to 0 and the 2 trillion dollar stimulus package announced last month. Younes quarter as our financial correspondent in new york welcome against whats behind the feds latest stimulus package. No central bank ever in history has done anything quite what the Federal Reserve is doing at this moment im already a couple of weeks ago actually the Federal Reserve did tell us of banks still to prevent the financial crisis then the fed didnt help relook created to prevent a capital meltdown and now we see those guarantees for loans to small cut Midsize Companies and to also communities and u. S. States so what the Federal Reserve is actually trying to do is to prevent that to camp companies have to file for bankruptcy and also that the population actually will stay solvent at this point to. The stock market by the way reacted in a quite upbeat a way a blue chips up by about 500 points and actually we had 2 year for the Dow Jones Industrial average the best week since 1938 its interesting that that happens as the u. S. Is announcing continuing rising unemployment figures so what does that tell us about the u. S. Jobs market. Yes the numbers are really stunning if you just look back a month ago we had a weekly unemployment kramers in the amount off around 200000 now within 3 weeks we have 1st 16000000. 00 plus of those claims so estimates are all over the place as some people fear that the Unemployment Rate in the u. S. Could reach or 30 percent to 47000000 americans could lose their job but thats precisely what the Federal Reserve reserve tries to prevent and there was maybe one good thing off the financial crisis a good 10 years ago because back then the Federal Reserve already tried all kinds of methods to prevent a complete meltdown of the economy is so we do have. We can go back to those days and now try to use the thame as its methods or even heavier methods to prevent precisely that so that we will see unemployment reaching figures into double digits in the 20 or 30 percent range. In new york thank you well bring you some breaking news that just reaches here. You finance ministers have reached a deal on a multi 1000000000 euro coronavirus rescue package the Draft Agreement says access to credit lines for the economic fallout from cough it 90 would be available until the crisis is over so we can speak to her again mattison in brussels welcome tell us more about this deal. Well we have just learned that the meeting of the finance ministers a Virtual Meeting or Video Conference that has been postponed for hours today has a now be concluded with applause from the ministers from the 19 year old zone countries that have the Euro Currency and that it has been asked by european leaders to find an economic answer to find a system how they can address the economic concerns in europe and now it looks as though an agreement has been found and so what will it mean for countries with the weaker economies like 80 in spain. I was it particularly italy and spain who were unhappy with the fust line of answers that this this of 2 weeks ago the meeting of the finance ministers put forward it included a number of things that probably in todays conclusion of that meeting will also be part off but they were they made very clear to european leaders that they need more help that the money that is being put forward in different funds we are looking here at think billions of euros from the european vestment bank from a rescue fund the european stability mechanism and from a short time work scheme that the European Commission has put up worth 100000000000 euros so these 3 things are probably in that package that has now presumably been agreed to by the ministers of big was particularly the netherlands who were concerned about the e. S. M. So the european stability mechanism conditions and they they were the one country among the 19 who said we want to stick to those 2 tough conditions if italy and spain want money from that fund and it but it appears that this route has been resolved. And briefly other strings will conditions have to be a fulfilled by country seeking aid. Well remember the financial crisis when when greece was the Greek Economy was about to fail that was when the stability mechanism was put into place and this involved tough regulations this involved controls from brussels from from the Monetary Fund itself whether our own austerity is put into place why there are the risks necessary reforms in the economies are made and that is something that italy and spain do not want to see also because they fear the stigmatization that theyre put in the same box as economies such as greece matters in brussels thank you well take a look now at several ways the coronavirus of pandemics affecting the Global Economy the international Monetary Fund says the pandemics causing the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression of the 1930 s. More than 170. 00 countries are expected to see a decline in per capita income this year and almost total reversal of the prepared to make projections emerging economies and the low income nations will be the worst affected. Russia and saudi arabia have agreed to 23 percent cut in their Daily Oil Production welcome news for the commodities market we demanded a price war between moscow and riyadh have driven oil prices to an almost a 20 year low over recent months. But with the easter holidays approaching britains Prince William and his wife catherine the duchess of cambridge paid a virtual visit to a school which is still open for children a frontline staff keeping the u. K. Running during the pandemic the royal couple are in lockdown at home in rubles norfolk the children are in burnley in the north west of england many is like. 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