Imagine how would welcome here in germany theres been a steady upturn in the number of new corona virus infections and its showing no sign of slowing the country boast price for its initial response to the pandemic back in spring when it quickly introduced haad measures to curb the spread of the virus but cases have spiked in recent weeks hitting a record high of almost 30000 new cases on friday its the in the number of death deaths thats causing the most concern thats prompted chancellor Angela Merkel to call an emergency meeting with germany 16 states latest that mating has just gotten underway. Well for more on that joined by our Political Correspondent hansbrough and hans the German Federal and state leaders are making now to discuss the situation given the numbers weve just heard a hard lock down seems almost certain is indeed that is correct the meeting is taking place in the chancery that you see here behind me but in fact its only a mark of a chancellor who be there in person a
To german population and to those businesses and sectors of the economy that are going to be particularly hard but hardly affected by this exactly as you were saying there that therell be a Significant Impact on business and tell us about whether and what type of compensation theyll receive. Yes indeed the finance minister said that compensation is going to be paid its going to be somewhere around 11 or 12000000000. 00 euros every month if that month is a month of locked on thats huge amounts of money but at the same time we have to say this is a time that is critical for retailers especially because this is the most important time of year where they make a large and large part of their turnover the of their profit. What exactly the numbers are going to be what exactly the measures are going to be is not clear yet until now the subsidies have been based on turn over and its turned out that that has been sometimes too generous so theres going to be a new way of calculating the assistanc
Im the e. U. Need a trade deal to prevent chaos on the borders starting on january 1st. And public nearly as welcome to the program we start here in germany where the chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a bleak Holiday Season earlier today she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring that on the spiraling numbers of new covert 900 cases most known the. November the measures that we put in place on the 2nd of november have not been enough and when instead of back for a while we were able to stop the exponential growth and we had to pretend to do that and even talk but now were seeing a new rise in infections and exponential growth once again. Thats been good to. And what that means is that many people are dying youve been following the statistics im sure. You have this in the finally also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our Public Health systems under aim was always to prevent this and this is why we must act and we m
Today, we are delighted to welcome the cdc director, dr. Robert redfield. The cdc as you know is the Nations Health protection agency, looking to save lives and defend americans against dangerous threats and respond with Critical Science and active information when those arrive. Dr. Redfield has been one of the nationss leading voices during this pandemic, sharing new information, issuing Public Health guidance, and advising americans about how to safely return to work, school, and daily life. Him at whatto have is sadly a Pivotal Moment in this crisis. Right now, as you know, cases are spiking across the country. As a result, we are seeing some states resorting to different types of lockdowns like we saw initially with the virus. Americans everywhere are hungry for information and guidance about how to navigate the Holiday Season in an uncertain winter. Dr. Redfield will address all of these issues and more and we will take questions from our audience as well. Without further ado, dr.
Cdc director dr. Robert redfield. He is the Nations Health Protection Agency and defense americans against dangerous threats and the response to inaccurate information on those threats or record of the head of agency data redfield has been one of the nations leading voices. During this pandemic sharing new information, issuing Public Health guidance and advising americans about how to safely return to work, school and daily life. We are glad to have him with us and what has sadly happened as and a sadly Pivotal Moment in this crisis right now as you all know cases are spiking across the country and as a result we are seeing different types of lockdowns like we saw in the initial wave of thekd virus and americans everywhere are hungry for information and guidance about how to navigate the Holiday Season this winter but back to redfield will address thall of these issues and more d well take questions from our audience as well. Without further ado dr. Redfield welcome. What can you tell