As the curfew came into force more than 30 cities across the country are affected. China has recorded an uptick in imported infections of coronavirus now africans living there say theyre being a victim and harassed on the streets as chinese officials accuse them of spreading the virus. Im Claire Richardson welcome to the show we begin here in germany where the federal president will shortly speak to the german people in a rare televised address Frank Walter Steinmeier will urge the country to show solidarity against the coronavirus pandemic and while many germans are off work for the long easter weekend he will ask them to do their part and stay at home we can now listen it to an excerpt of that prerecorded speech. Now it is a pond immuno this pandemic is not a war. Nations do not stand against other nations soldiers against soldiers rather this is a test of our humanity it is bringing out both the best and the worst in people and let us show each other the best in us and let us show t
But. With no official restrictions in place in iraq whens are being urged to celebrate easter as usual the president Daniel Ortega is accused of risking an epidemic in Central America. And china has reported an uptick in imported infections of coronavirus now africans living there say theyre being a victim and harassed on the street as chinese officials accuse them of spreading the virus. M k richardson welcome to the show we began here in germany where the federal president has urged the german people to show solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic in a rare televised address friend valter steinmeyer asked the germans to do their part by staying home over the long easter weekend his speech also looks beyond germany to the Global Response to the pandemic. And will we search worldwide for a joint way out of the crisis is will we fall back into isolation and unilateralism tiled in view to let us pool all of our knowledge and all of our research so that we can find vaccines and treatme
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Could see hundreds of thousands of deaths if lockdowns are relaxed after a month plus. China has recorded an uptick in imported infections of coronavirus now africans living there say theyre being a victim and harassed on the streets as chinese officials accuse them of spreading the virus. We began here in germany where the federal president has urged the german people to show solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic in a rare televised address a friend vulture steinmeyer asked of germans to do their part by staying at home over the long easter weekend his speech also looked beyond germany to the Global Response to the pandemic. And will we search worldwide for a joint way out of the crisis is will we fall back into isolation and unilateralism tiled in view to let us pool all of our knowledge and all of our research so that we can find vaccines and treatments more quickly. And live this ensure within the Global Alliance that the poorest and most Vulnerable Countries also have access.
From germanys president in a rare televised address from. Germans to show solidarity of the crisis bring out the best of society. Plus meet the champion Mountain Biker in france helping out his community during lockdown hes back on his bike providing a National Delivery service and shopping for anyone to meet. A 1000000 blue cross welcome to the program the United States has overtaken italy to become the country with the highest death toll from the corona virus and demick more than 20000 people have now died in the u. S. According to Johns Hopkins university now italys death rate is still considerably higher thats because the u. S. Has more than triple the total confirmed cases than italy had over 520000. 00. Public Health Experts warn the numbers will only keep rising and the u. S. Debt with u. S. Deaths hitting 200000 if states start to ease their lock downs. W. s correspondent oliver sol is in washington all over a long way we are from those more optimistic predictions that donald t