A massive jump takes the german new coronavirus caseload to over 4000 thats the highest number in a single day since early april. And chinas race against a possible 2nd wave of beijing says a vaccine could be ready by the end of the year but experts say the return of the pandemic could come sooner. I brought thomas good to have you with us today in the United States the 2 candidates vying for the vice presidency have sparred over the coronavirus and other contentious issues republican Vice President mike pence and his democratic challenger come on harris clashing over the trumpet monistic astray sions response to the pandemic with paris. Hammering there Coronavirus Task force working in the white house other hot bush button issues the president s choice for the open seat on the Supreme Court abortion and the ongoing unrest in american cities. Joining us now for analysis is our correspondent stuff and simons in washington good to see you stefan what was your impression of the candidates performance. Well 1st off that was definitely a stark difference to what we had witnessed just a week ago with the president of the United States and president ial candidate joe biden so this was 2 Vice President s or one Vice President candidate and one Vice President who basically showed up to do the job they were supposed to do to tell the people that tell the American People that their bosses are wonderful people and did the right thing and that they also themselves are absolutely qualified to jump in in case something happens to their bosses to 78 years old when if elected and then inaugurated in january joe biden or 74 year old donald trump if reelected and inaugurated in january next year 1 way or another as you said coronavirus the overarching major topic here and of course that was a bit of a hard feast for the Vice President mike pence to defend the administration here and you know Camilla Harris did a relatively fine job measured but. Point to point out and to make sure American People understand that them across think that the administration did a miserable job in handling this coronavirus disaster in the u. S. Age was a very important issue in this debate for a lot of the viewers out there and health as well health of the health of the president very much in the National Debate leading up to this discussion on stage between the 2 candidates did mike pence convince the public that President Trump is fit that hes healthy that hes back to work in the white house. I think. Vice president pence was busy defending the entire administration of their performance how did. Ministration dealt with the Coronavirus Crisis its pretty hard for anybody to make 211000 dead americans look good or as a success or as things well done so us president tried to really defend the administration saying for example that it was the president who of course like nobody else has banned all travel from china early on while of course that actually not absolutely accurate because he has not banned all travel from china they were still 10 thousands or thousands of Chinese People coming in from china after this travel ban once announced and as we all know the virus ended up in the United States for most coming from europe and from china however as you said mike pence very busy to make this look not as damaging as it is for the Trump Administration why is that damaging because Coronavirus Health care and again coronavirus is the top topic or top issue for people here in america right now as the president himself with lizs 19 and as he calls his own infection and blessing from god doesnt lets pick up on that and and listen in to what both debaters had to say about the handling of the coronavirus the American People have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any president ial administration in history of our country and here are the facts 210000 dead people in our country in just the last several months over 7000000 people who have contracted. One in 5 businesses closed. Were looking at front line workers who have been treated like fact official workers from the very 1st day President Donald Trump has put the health of america 1st before there were more than 5 cases in the United States all people who had returned from china President Donald Trump did what no other american president had ever done and that was he suspended all travel from china the 2nd largest economy in the world ok stuff on much of this has to do with leadership both of these candidates could potentially become president leadership on issues like the coronavirus pandemic and how to handle it how they come across in terms of selling themselves as president ial material. Well i think Vice President pens didnt have much of a challenge or or effort there do to sell himself as president ial he is seen for the last 4 years as Vice President he is actually the more. The person who is in this administration or coming across at least in many views of many of the service is the one the president ial compared to donald trump so he had this fairly squared away he knows that people in america are know that he could easily fill the shoes of donald trump in terms of being president leading the country because he has experience as governor and in the in congress and so on so hes a politician and a pro and you saw this in the debate the man was good he did what politicians do holding a good debate even if the assessment now is that he lost against harris one way or another commodity harris she had to prove that she is material for a potential presidency and what she did is she introduced reintroduced herself to the American People by going through her resume by pointing out that she ran the department of justice in california the 2nd Biggest Department of justice in america only topped by the justice on the federal level so thats not a small feat and that she was attorney general in california that she is a prosecutor and now a senator who is who has worked for 2 years on her on a profile as a senator so yeah she managed also to i think to make people understand that if things go really really badly for joe biden in the coming years however she can jump in and she will lead this country as president ial as joe biden do and for mr pence he made sure its you know the same thing now some of the big concerns about comma heris among undecided voters not only in the evangelical and catholic camp but also among the other people concerned about abortion is her stand on late term abortion and we know mike pence has come out very clearly on that theres a lot of questions about commerce lets take a look and listen to what they had to say about the issue of roe v wade an abortion. Let the American People fill that seat in the white house and then well fill that seat on the United StatesSupreme Court and to your point susan that the issues before us couldnt be more serious there is the issue of choice and i will always fight for a womans right to make a decision about her own body it should be her decision and not that of donald trump and the Vice President michel im prolife i dont apologize for it and this is another one of those cases where the such a dramatic contrast Joe Biden Kamel Harris support taxpayer funding of abortion all the way up to the moment of birth late term abortion they want to increase funding to planned parenthood of america and for our part i would never presume how judging macone bear would rule on the Supreme Court of the United States but well continue to stand strong for the right to life ok lets go back to washington stephan simons there stuff and how important is abortion for undecided voters looking at the base like this and having to make up their minds. It is important it is of significance it is of significance for the last decades for a long time in the United States and there is no seems to be no middle ground or compromise to be found between prolife and prochoice prochoice and prolife and of course the latest. Nomination of the justice future justice barrett. Falls into this because of the Supreme Court it everybody expects this to come again and again at the Supreme Court and then you have a super conservative court may be revising or at least modifying roe versus wade however the over the top issue in america is still what Health Care HealthCare Health Care and it was also a very contentious topic at this debate where both candidates went at each other testing to each other that they want the wrong thing or do the wrong thing in their in their own ways when it comes to health care so health care unity of this country and of course its the economy stupid economy jobs thats those are the most 3 most important topics in this in the last 27 days know ahead of the head of the election on november 3rd usually in the choice of Vice President is important but not crucial in an election could be different this time around considering the age of the 2 main candidates. Absolutely look. If joe biden will be president of the United States of america in january inaugurated in general he will be the oldest president in history some history at least if not in history. Donald trump is just 4 years younger 74 if he gets in already in general and lets not forget the president has covert 19 these covert 19 positive overwhelmingly covert 19 paid 9000 policies patients have to deal with their health on a different level on the difference of via bad more bad level than before before they were infected so if you if you put this together and create a scenario in what could happen to those president s one of the other it is more is henschel then it might have ever been before that you have a Vice President or or kind of vote also for the entire ticket which is not that usual here in america so there is a ticket and its important of course but you vote for the president this time around i think people take a 2nd look and double dip on thinking in is that a good ticket and is this the right person with this right person where do i make my cross stuff and psalms for us in washington thanks so very much for that stuff lets get you up to date on some of the other stories making the news at this hour residents of mexicos yucatan peninsula are cleaning up after hurricane delta of that storm packing winds of up to 175 Kilometers Per Hour there are no reports of deaths and the damage has been less severe than initially feared the storm is now heading towards the u. S. Gulf coast. A greek court has found leaders of the countrys far right Golden Dawn Party guilty of operating a criminal organization the group was once greeces 3rd Biggest Political Party and its leaders now face up to 15 years in prison one of the Group Supporters was also convicted of the murder of an antifascist rapper in 2013. The former us Police Officer charged with the murder of george floyd has been released from prison on balance for posting a 1000000. 00 bond Derek Salvatore was filmed pressing his knee on George George cloyds neck for a number of minutes before he died in may its unclear how shaw and raise the money to pay the bond. Germanys foreign minister has called for the imposition of european sanctions against russia over the poisoning of opposition figure alexina with a call from the i go mosque comes the day after International Chemicals weapons watchdog o. P. C. W confirm the presence of another chalk like nerve agent in samples taken from the ball only after he collapsed on a russian domestic air flight. Well here in germany the official numbers show that the new infection rate from a corona virus cases in germany has gone up word with more than 4000 new infections in the past day and thats a rate not seen since april in the country was still in lockdown in recent days authorities have tightened restrictions of high risk areas like the capital berlin. With the Autumn School holidays about to begin most of germanys 16 states of also agreed to limit Domestic Tourism and the government has called for citizens to avoid travel abroad. Lets get some more details on this now w. s chief Political Editor michelle a good day to you michelle and germany is testing more than a was previously how does that factor into the increasing number of infections the biggest number since april on a daily basis that were seeing now well yes in fact here berlin is seen as an area that is already up to 95 percent of its Testing Capacity so it does mean that germany has a much clearer picture of what is actually going on then back in april when we saw similar figures at the same time were hearing the Health Minister speak right at this moment just a couple of floors down from me and he clearly has pointed to the fact that infections are something that infection rates something once again and you can see an upward trend of a cuff but theres also a quantitative difference but now its a much Younger Age Group then in this the at the beginning of this pandemic when particularly old people were hit the age factor of most effect is now between 15 and 60 it was before above that and this e. K. G. Puts down to younger people who are getting a bit careless a posse in scene and now we see once again this call by the government to take corona seriously to stick to the measures and adding on top of that of course more travel restrictions also potentially within germany with 7 more regions within the e. U. Alone having been declared a high risk area by many by the institutes the Health Institute that gives its assessment of the situation every day ok talk about those travel restrictions are they going to be mandatory whats the situation with them. Well if we talk about external travel restrictions from external hotspots that means going into corn team here and money but now were reaching a new level where individual regions are at the brink and now already beginning to issue restrictions on people even entering holiday homes or staying in hotels if theres an infection rate above 50 per 100000 inhabitants powa week so this is patchwork once again its been criticized parts work in the past but we actually see that this is a very very detailed response to detailed hotspots outbreaks here and many but this one dummy would be germany if there was wasnt this unity on this according to which state you speak to so this is an on going to development but were seeing a rising trend and the big question is whether well reach that zone once again where there could be something towards an all over the ox down that is something politicians here want to avoid and thats also the argument they use every single time when they say look we have to act reasonably to avoid what weve seen in april and the economic and social fallout that comes with a potential lockdown michelle thanks very much for bring us up to date on these latest developments and much thing on this topic here in germany in a new rapid antigen test is raising hopes for a quick corona virus self diagnosis of mabels patients to check for the virus and theres a live and promises a result within 15 minutes without the involvement of a lab or a doctor but critics say it is not reliable and as our reporter found out its not yet widely available. As a journalist i mean quite a lot of people and some of them maybe corona positive so today i want to try out the new antigen test. And. Id like to buy an antigen test didnt do it for time afraid i cant show you the test as things stand it can only be given out to medical staff so you dont qualify you cant test yourself you simply have to go to the doctors and its crunch noticed. After this initial setback i find a doctor whos willing to let me do the test myself not the standard procedure yes. This is this is the packet containing the antigen quick test i only does it a week ago so i had to read the instructions to and this is also a small sterile swab here. So you know if you can put your tongue down far enough you can use a stick to help them with your you can take. Care. Not that easy but for me definitely doable. Have you done both sides yes left and right afterwards the swap goes into a liquid which is then drip down to the test one line means negative 2 main parts or serve. As a result its pretty clear the tests are showing a negative result sibylla katzenstein thinks everyone should have a test like this at home. It would be great for a mum for example whose child wakes up feeling sniffly but she isnt sure and is wondering whether she can take the child to school and go to work herself. If patients have access to a simple test they could do at home that will do use the pressure on doctors and laboratories and it would help a lot of people to decide what to do. But critics say the test is not sufficiently reliable heres how laboratory an antigen tests compare when a person gets infected with covert 19 the viral load in the body starts flow increasing rapidly in the 1st few days and then decreasing as time passes a regular lab test can detect the fire a surly on with very little viral load the antigen test can only detect the virus later when the load just hire so does that mean i could actually still be positive despite having a negative result i asked a lab x. Parrish when he was asked if the viral load in the throat is not high enough to begin by the test that might result in a false negative and its the same if this was not done properly. The antigen test is it and fast way of testing. The test is a sensitive to matters and can completely inspect and to do tests can replacement test that they can be a great help in the fight against cold 90. But with germany and other European Countries moving to contain. Rising number of infections china is reporting the penn demick there is under control viewings as it has beaten the pandemic and that it could have a vaccine ready by the end of the year were going live to beijing after this report where experts are urging caution. A crowded train station yet people here are not afraid of getting infected. There are a cowardly just a couple of 100 active cases in china it has already celebrated its victory over 19. Now china wants to be the 1st country to develop a successful vaccine. For companies have vaccines in stage 3 testing some trials could be finished by the end of the year but several 100 people have already been vaccinated since july and initially it was military and Health Personnel but now its teaches train conductors and journalists. Here today we have completed preclinical and on a mill test that fulfills the conditions required to approve the product. Even though in fiction numbers are currently low in china experts say the country my experience a 2nd wave of infections in coming months after the good times of summer and autumn to fight. Most talk about that now with our correspondent in beijing. Just how concerned is china right now in spite of all law the ms im about having the band under control concerned about its covert numbers going up again. Hi brian this is really something that that is still looming somehow and although we havent seen new outbreaks for quite some time now and people are somehow enjoying their life more and having more. A more normal life i would say the fear that it might come back is there we still the borders are still closed everybody enters the country still has to quarantine for 2 weeks at a designated hotel at a designated location and there are frequent the people have to use these apps where they have to register at certain places so Contact Tracing should be working quicker if there was an outbreak so the possibility of an outbreak is looming and thats something that everybodys aware of you know gay vaccine would then be quickly deployed apparently in china to deal with that how close is china to coming up with a covert vaccine for domestic use and one for marketing internationally. Thats a very difficult question because these trials are under way as there are also trials for some of the countries in europe and america face 3 trials underway china is quite confident that they can quickly. Get the results of these trials and finally approve the vaccine weve just heard it a lot of people have already been vaccinated despite the trials not being finished yet something that has been criticized by the International ScientificCommunity China is hoping to be the 1st country to deploy these vaccines to a market pete bring them on the market then they would have to be approved also in other countries i think this will depend on a lot of factors that china is not controlling but of course the 1st goal would be to vaccinate enough people in china to have it here on the market we will see then whether this is really working or not its early to say one of those factors china is a dearth of definitely interested in is its transparency and accountability when it comes to the safety of any vaccine its producing is it moving to address the concerns about transparency. Thats a hard question because there are Different Levels of transparency and different situations here in china when china and its very clear that china here outbreak in the beginning and it was not transparent at all the numbers we are seeing now are more or less credible if there was a major outbreak in china i think we would know that no matter how hard they would try to hide it and if the numbers are as low as we are seeing now which seems to be very probable there would also no need for china to highlight individual cases or anything its kind of hard to assess you have to look at all the factors but at the moment i think we can be confident that what we are seeing now is really what is happening on the ground and it is thanks very much for that assessment for bring us closer whats happening in china mathias building a force from beijing. The state of the news live from berlin im brian thomas feels her team back to bring. The food. Was good. Enough. 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