Friday schools will remain open but otherwise people will be allowed out of their houses for only a limited number of reasons for an hour a day frances military has begun moving critically ill patients from regions where hospitals are at their limit. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden has voted in his home state of delaware he joined more than 74000000 other americans including his rival donald trump who have cast their ballots ahead of election day next tuesday the number of early voters already represents more than half of the entire turnout in the 2016 election. This is d w news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram d w news or visit our website w dot com. Core. Germany was able to flatten the coronavirus curve in april it will have to do it again in november beginning next monday a partial lockdown will take effect in all of germany for weeks so no dining out no Domestic Travel and no nightlife a november of shutdowns and shut ins that will hopefully shut out the fires im bring gulf in berlin this is the day. The speed at which the fires are spreading at the moment this extension of the quake what we are experiencing is an exponential rise in new cases of the important indicator i see use and the number of patients being treated in them here again in the last 10 days the numbers have doubled if the speed of the rise of new infections continues the response capacity of Public Health system will soon be exceeded and we must act to prevent an acute national Public Health emergency. Also coming up as they say they are sick and tired of dealing with the coronavirus but never too tired to throw a Party Tonight pandemic fatigue in madrid and the police are on the way. We just rented a place so we could drink and smoke inside to get a few of his attests even wore masks but that didnt last long honestly young peoples biggest fear is having to pay a fine thats why the places need to be well insulated so the neighbors sent the police wont detect anything. But to our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day exactly where she feared we would end up a few weeks ago german chancellor Angela Merkel sounded the alarm over the troubling row. Wise in new coronavirus cases in the country and she warned not enough was being done to slow the spread and she was right new daily cases are now approaching 20000 here in germany so today with the support of all regional leaders the chancellor announced a partial lockdown for the country for all of november medical said that time is running out to flatten the curve again and that the decisions made today will mean wife or death tomorrow here in the south temple which is you with the issue here is that this is a b. And at which the virus is spreading at the moment it is particularly quick what we are experiencing is an exponential rise in your cases with doubling times that are quicker and quicker today for example we had twice as many infections and this is the case with other important indicators as well example the important indicator of our i see use and the number of patients being treated in them here again and the last 10 days the numbers have doubled if the speed of the rise of new infections continues the response capacity of our Public Health system was soon be exceeded and this is why it is absolutely clear that we must act and we must act now we do not want to have. Health emergency in this country and to prevent it we must take measures. The most important tool that we have and ive talked about it again to curb the spread of the pandemic is being able to trace the contacts of every new infection and this is a tool that is no longer available to us because the Public Health offices have reached the limits of what they are able to trace we no longer have the control of the spot for the spread of the virus and we must change this and for more now im joined by a to b. Escort hes an epidemiologist and director of the institute for Public Health at the sheraton a hospital here in berlin and professor kurt its good to have you on this show let me ask you that the german chancellor she warned the country several weeks ago that we would be in this situation because the measures she said were not strict enough stringent enough to slow the virus and that is indeed what has happened partial walked right action at the right time i think its the right time its about the right time maybe a little too late to implement these measures as you said the merkel has predicted as others have predicted that this development and we are not surprised to see this right now its the time to really react because if we wait things will get worse and then we cannot do it with a lock on all 3 to 4 weeks to really solve the situation and to reduce the number of inspections its not a complete lockdown and its also not going to be a 2 week short period that had been predicted were talking about an entire probably with this partial walked. Is that enough time. I think its well you can argue that 2 weeks would be sufficient but we know that we see the result of a 2 week lock down after another 2 weeks so i think 4 week is the right time because otherwise we would not be sure whether the measure actually think its important to keep schools and Child Support open because thats some very important aspect understand its measures are very hard for some people and we all have to support these businesses to to really keep their their function over these 4 weeks and after really to hopefully go out and enjoy them again but if we dont do anything right now we are in a situation where its getting much worse and we see other countries west of germany and also hes of germany where the situation is really bad and then you cannot really have a lockdown in place for 4 weeks it will be much much longer than the decision to force restaurants to. Do you think that is. A wise decision the media is there proof that restaurants are places where the virus is being transmitted. Well its indoor people sitting in there or and obviously you cannot wear a mask while youre eating the ventilation situation its also sometimes difficult to understand that it may not be a major force of infection and most of the infections may be happening elsewhere but i think its d. D. E. Only way to really make it make a sort of measure of that that we is accepted i also think its important to have it all over germany and just not regionally so i think unfortunately its to write decision to close rest wrong as much as i had it myself how did we get to despoil maybe youre familiar discuss we can the police here in berlin had to break up a party that had 600 people attending despite all of the Restrictions Mean has our behavior made to ation worse. Difficult to say im not a friend of accusing specific part of the population of have done something wrong i think its a diffusion faction situation where many of the infectiousness happen at home or like at situations where you dont even expect to get infected so yes we have to pardon situation certainly that is that is not a good thing doing on a pandemic to do because he would increase the likelihood of of interaction but overall i think that nothing really went long we as a population may not have listened carefully enough and we may have focused too much on on the on a discussion off of that people argue against it and not support the people actually following this measures and the recommendation since many weeks a month and now were facing this lockdown that we all have to Stay Together otherwise it wont work. Difficult to say its all a question on the vaccination there will certainly be another way for its almost impossible to keep this low and if we have a situation like like now where the hospitals like it in full again with the i c u thats like getting killed again like over 1000 patients we will face another lockdown in the future in the future hopefully sorts and intense and then hopefully we can open up again. To be escorts the director of the institute for Public Health of the surety hospital here in berlin professor cohen we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you for having me. Or germany is not alone spain is also dealing with new record high numbers of corona virus infections the number of coded 1000 deaths is at its highest level since may and there are now new lock downs and curfews but not everyone is a big thing the rule she wus Young Phillips reports tonight from madrid. Every week and moderate police have been knocking on hundreds of doors to shut down illegal parties my bridge allows meetings of up to 6 people who are not related but police have broken up parties of more than 200 who are keen as a business student in madrid he only wants to speak briefly and anonymously as he regularly goes to such parties he himself recently helped organize one. That we just rented a place so we could drink and smoke inside just a few visitors even wore masks but that didnt last long honestly young peoples biggest fear is having to pay a fine thats why the places need to be well insulated so the neighbors and the police wont detect anything that you know im not going to push i want to start off but if i look at. Who are keen and his friends seem unfazed by this that the 3rd of spending has become infected with the coronavirus at private parties 200 illegal parties were broken up in madrid last week alone police chief javier from none this is especially troubled by the new Business Model being developed like a chef and bars that are actually supposed to be closed certainly do take money in exchange for letting people in theres a clear economic incentive for it apart from that we have discovered private homes that were charging entrance fees right at the front door this isnt just about a few Friends Meeting up psychiatrys Diego Figueroa is calling for more empathy with a young people even if you support strictly abiding by the hygiene measures experts are starting to acknowledge the consequences of such drastic restrictions on young people socialites. Right now we have finding out that Young Peoples Mental Health problems have increased dramatically as a result of the springs to lock down a suicide safe increased by 22 percent so far and attempted suicides have even increased by 35 percent on top of that theres been a major increase in the consumption of alcohol and psychoactive drugs young spaniards are now confronted with new rules all bars in madrid must close at 11 pm starting this week and curfew begins at midnight after a year of the pandemic has ness of lee effect at the quality of life of young people all over the world at the same time experts keep emphasizing how dangerous partying can be in the current situation. Just even directly charged with and asked them to refrain from parties at the moment. Even so business student who are keen doesnt want to be forbidden from partying he says he can decide for himself what risk hes willing to tolerate even if it means partying in private homes until 6 am for the duration of the curfew. Well my next guest tonight is dr John Campbell an independent Health Analyst and one of the u. K. s online authorities on this pandemic dr campbell its good to see you again if you think weve got france going back into lockdown weve got germany going into a partial lockdown weve got parts of the u. K. Vetter now in some form of a lockdown i mean we see we see total impartial lockdowns nationwide we also see localized lockdowns is one more effective than the others theres a big debate about this in the u. K. At the moment some people say because the lockdowns are regional and theres quite disparate regulations and different people having different regulations in different areas and this causes a lot of confusion and the Scientific Advisory group for images is actually calling for a breakout an overall nationwide temporary lockdown if you like probably 2 weeks maybe 3 weeks to try and get the situation back down to a it was a few weeks ago because the numbers are quite dramatically increasing now in the u. K. And everywhere so the scientific question for that but the political will is not yet then i want to ask you about a new u. K. Study showing that antibodies for the corona virus in people who have been infected dont remain in the body very long maybe one to 3 months does this worry you. It actually doesnt too much this is the reacts today and it is a combined study between the same already the polling people an Imperial College london and theyve actually taken antibody studies from the fingerprint blood test from about 350000 people enormous 20000 of those came back positive so they have a very good sample size to judge by they found out about 30 percent of those people are actually asymptomatic and what they did find over the 3 months of the study from june to september that they antibody the people testing positive around to what you went down from 6 percent to 4. 4 percent which represents about a 26 percent drop off so we see that the antibodies arent lasting for very long but that well that study doesnt do is test for the memory t. Cells because its probably the case that people get people who get more well make more than 3 bodies because the t. Cells havent already aborted the infection so the t. Cells are probably the important thing here and the other reason we think that is really if you think way back in britain to the 2003 saw coronavirus type one pandemic but affected about 8000 people in different parts of the world but it was contained people that developed antibodies and they didnt last very long but people that also developed t. Cells memory to use that was that fight that virus and theyve been tested for this yes 17 years later and theyre still present not only that those soft coronas groups are coronas one antibodies will combat and protect people against oz coronavirus to now theres only 8000 people in the world are infected by that so its not a big deal but these men riccis i was hanging around for 17 years now we know that they coronaviruses the cause the common cold this fall coronaviruses course the common cold the immunity for them doesnt last very long and we can become reinfected within the year but what the founders the sauce coronavirus to the particular proteins the act or the virus the antibodies that fight sars corona via. One the particular code change they affect are the same ones as on sauce coronavirus 2 which had different from the common cold ones so it looks like the sauce coronavirus one is softer on a virus to fairly similar viruses so i personally expect the cheese obvious points to be fairly similar and i am optimistic its going to be a long lived response we dont know that for sure yet but i think thats the way the scientists dotting to head what does this does this is a good omen then when we want to talk about the efficacy of a coronavirus vaccine. Is frustrating because a lot of the scientific papers on the vaccines have not been published yet so theres a lot we dont know but just last week the Astra Zeneca Oxford collaboration vaccine did publish an interim report not wasnt a Peer Reviewed scientific paper it was more of a commercial publication but they did show that the oxford vaccine the astra zeneca vaccine is effective in people of all age groups equally effective in all age groups which is encouraging because very often the not effective in 0 people they didnt show it raised the 90 body response but importantly it have also identified a definite memory t. Cell response in response to that vaccine now how long that loss of course no one knows because we dont know the future it could be that they will spontaneously disappear at the end of the month but thats very unlikely given the evidence we have from sauce coronavirus one from 2003 hour to expect those antibodies after 2 doses of the facts seem to be fairly long lived i am actually quite hopeful about long term immunity and you know lets lets hope for that happened before we say goodbye you were not we i think we spoke last week a week before last about the walk down in wales is the u. K. Closer now to a nationwide walk down being imposed. If you watch the scientists in the Scientific Advisory group emergencies they say yes it is the politicians are still resisting it there is some evidence that the phased this 3 phases in england this 5 phase in scotland is a lot down in wales so theres all these different approaches but there is evidence from england that this 3 phase lockdown is starting to work now the number of cases a going up thats still increasing but the rate of increase has started to decrease over the past few weeks so in the last week the increase was 7 percent of infections but in the 7 days before that it was 14 percent and of course in september it was 90 to 100 percent so there is some evidence that this is working so i think what the government probably going to do is stick with this 3 phase pattern for now and see what happens and the hope is it will get the our body to doc around about one and hopefully in 3 or 4 weeks time we will take the success anyway we can get it at this stage dr John Campbell is always stuck here we appreciate your insights thank you thank you. Are all the lever record prosperity epic job growth at a safe vaccine that eradicates the virus said quickly ends the pandemic and were making that fire dont turn they dont want to hear it were making that turn this is not political its patriotic wherry a mattress where war period. The u. S. President ial election is now just 6 days away and the pandemic remains issue number one nearly 9000000 people have been diagnosed with corona virus in the u. S. More than 220000 americans have died from coke at 19 hospitals are filling up with some considering rationing care to patients the crisis is getting worse but the trumpet ministration is telling a different story in a new report listing President Trumps achievements in office the administration credits trump with ending the cove 19 pandemic and you see here the press or in the south which says from the outset of the curve in 1000 pandemic the administration has taken decisive actions to engage scientists and Health Professionals in academic industry and government to understand to treat and hugo defeat the disease. Well that is a narrative that defies truth and that just 6 days to go into the election joining me now is my colleagues and hes with us going to in our washington d. C. Bureau good evening to you sumi has there been any reaction to the white houses claim that theyve ended this pandemic which is not ending. But as you can imagine theres been a reaction thats been really a mix of bewilderment some frustration even anger particularly among democrats senator Elizabeth Warren who some of our viewers will remember was herself in the running to be a democratic president ial candidate what she tweeted earlier today is this a sick joke the penn damage is getting worse americans are dying breath that really reflects what many observers see here as a real dissonance between the messaging that we hear from the white house and President Trump who in many rallies in the past 2 weeks on the campaign trail has repeatedly said that america is turning the corner and the reality on the ground and you have to look no further than the numbers you mentioned them yourself i mean the virus really is still raging through the country at this point 8700000 infections 226000 people have died if you look at the average the number of cases new cases over a 7 day period that has also hit a record 70000 and you also mention the fact that hospitals in some states are either reaching capacity or either add capacity over capacity they are struggling with the load right now as well so for observers here it is questionable to see such a statement from the white house i do want to point out as well however that the white house is somewhat walk back the Statement Today in an interview with fox news the right wing media outlet the Strategic Communications director alyssa farah she said yes that statement was poorly worded you know the pandemic is still ongoing of course people need to stay vigilant but she said the reason President Trump keeps talking about rounding the corner is hes talking about a vaccine being available very soon and that should be rolled out by the end of the year to millions of americans well brant we also know that the top Infectious Disease expert in this country Anthony Fauci said it will be months into 2021 next year until a vaccine is readily available to many people so more of that dissonance spread a wall of just and its there for sure lets talk about this the early voting is bringing out voters like never before told about the record numbers and what do these early voting numbers what mr barton and mr drum. Those numbers are are blowing records and he said out of the water weve seen a 70000000 ballots cast across the country already and the number of ballots cast in mail in voting and also in person early voting is actually more than 50 percent of the total turnout of 2016 and what that tells us when it really underscores the incredible enthusiasm that weve seen for people to to go on and cast their ballots what we saw as well covering voting across the country you know some of those long lines the pictures weve seen in georgia and texas but also new york and pennsylvania and the reason is voters have told us they see this as an existential election that if the other side wins it essential will mean the end of the country for them so that is why that is really driving people out in droves to the polls now whether it benefits the democrats of the republicans well in early voting the indication is that the majority of people who voted so far have tended towards the democrats this is a younger popular population a more diverse population people who tend to vote democrat but dont forget that on election day november 3rd were also going to see a surge of republicans heading out to the polls that could tip the balance back in favor of President Trump so it is to early to say whether this record turnout this enthusiasm in the u. S. Really will tip the outcome one way or the other. Day in the election even more so are the lets talk about where the 2 candidates were this week president straw stopped in nebraska yesterday a state that offers only one Electoral College vote and we saw joe biden campaigning this week in Georgia State that has a like to the democrats since 1009. What do these 2 Campaign Stops or do they tell us about this race. Ok so 1st of all lets start with nebraska President Trump there yes youre right that there is one Electoral College vote but you know brant everyone is saying this election is going to come down to the wire there even fear is that we could have a tie in the Electoral College and for summer viewers who are not familiar these are the people who actually vote for the president so President Trump is really trying to make sure he picks up every vote that he can along the way now as for joe biden yes georgia has reliably been in the hands of the publicans for many years since 1902 as you pointed out but right now theres a dead heat between joe biden and President Trump and the reason is were seeing demographic changes in a state like georgia a large africanamerican population a growing latino population also more Younger Voters turning out so that its changing some of those traditional voting patterns and one more point there brant i should mention there are 2 Crucial Senate seats up for grabs also in georgia so that is another reason weve seen both biden and trump on the ground in georgia to lend their support to those candidates because the democrats certainly want to flip the senate as well as the white house it is amazing what weve got but North Carolina georgia. Of the race is neck and neck maybe it will be there. So museum is going on the story for us tonight in washington so we always think you were. Are the days almost done the conversation continues online to find us on twitter either d. W. News or you can follow me at brant goff t. V. And remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see you then everybody. Going to the conflict zone. First tomboy with israel with mounting demonstrations against the Prime Minister used of corruption and mishandling the spotting Health Crisis my guest this week or in jerusalem is news dot com americas a city leading politician mr netanyahu says. The wheels finally coming off the Prime Ministers wife. Looks so far off to. The mental forces of the. Sunni dangerous tsunami. More and more people live in ca. The solarians when in an emergency every 2nd counts. The searchers are getting to the bottom of this natural phenomenon what protection is there against. Germany from temps. In 45 minutes on d w. What are people looking for coverage. There are many answers. There are many reasons. There are many turtles. To. Make up your own mind. Made for minds. Were not of war with the High Supreme Court but more fully the cold i mean im sure the god forbid know when youll cooperate with the state of israel your your situation Economic Situation and peace is far far better than try to attack us we will not give up an inch of security because unfortunately they flip on us theres trouble i mean israel with mounting demonstrations against the Prime Minister has the corruption and mishandling the spiraling Health Crisis my guest this week from jerusalem is near bach out a form of merit the city of the leading politician there mr netanyahu