His keep is overwhelming. On my lark thank you so much for your Company Everyone we begin here in germany where the head of germanys Public Health institute says he expects the coronavirus pandemic to claim many more lives at a News Conference the president of the robert capa institute latar villere said germany has managed to stabilize the rate of new infections through restrictions in the catalyst weeks but he stressed the caseload remains to high on mr realer said he was particularly concerned about the rate of infections in care homes where increasing numbers of elderly residents are contracting the virus and he warns that hospitals are coming under growing strain take a listen. Busy and often i mean who do you want to know continental in some regions were seeing hospitals reach the limits of their capacity. And as a result for having to perspire surgeries or treatments. We also see the number of severe cases and death rising from week to week and since both always occur after a ce
In the golden state with more than 19,000 deaths. According to the covid tracking project hospitalized patients have doubled from 4,000 on november 12th to more than 8,000 today. Earlier today, San Francisco and san mateo counties joined other bay area counties in the states. Most restrictive reopening tier thats the purple tier, your c theyre that its covering most of the state the only bay area county thats not in the purple tier is marine county but under the purple tier gyms churches and movie theaters will have to operate outdoors were close capacity at retail stores. Right now is limited at 25 restaurants can continue to operate outdoors however counties in the purple tier must follow the states limited stay at home order the curfew which goes into effect every night from 10 00pm until 05 00am the next morning and that stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow night for both San Francisco and san mateo counties tonight there are new concerns about the impact that these late
So would you say with 3 vaccines already been approved and many more awaiting approval that this is the beginning of the end of the corona virus pandemic. Well this is how i see it it will be certainly a change in the us after having discussed axing orders and European Union and hopefully soon or so in other countries and read backs in rolled out big box nation campaigns for the d start of by beginning of next year this really changed the whole picture and im confident that this is your hope that spring and summer change and to look normal life again with a good vaccine now you are leading a phase 3 trial for the cure of aca vaccine what can you tell us about that and when do you think it will be ready. Well if a city did not get stuck but we hope to stop it every hour or so to speak maybe tomorrow again last next week we have got to approvals for ethics committees and be caught also a response that this can depart any constituent be still less tulu honest a few career is. More all beg
A homegrown german vaccine developer so why wasnt germany the 1st approved vaccine i put that very question a short time ago to peter cram star hes heading a vaccination approval study here in germany for drugmaker cure back. Yes we are very happy. However. In the. It must not the 1st one it is the 1st one proved the below tech vaccine but we should not forget to discuss vaccines against. Proved by the chinese and by russian government and regulatory bodies they improved our vaccines 1st already in summer and well you hope that means continue in the who will have to 1st approval in the European Union. So would you say 3 vaccines already been approved and many more awaiting approval that this is the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Well this is how i see it it will be certainly a change in the us after having discussed axing orders and European Union and hopefully soon or so in other countries and read about since i rolled out big vaccination campaigns with the start of
A decision be made on which to take and what data to trusts also this hour a hong kong prodemocracy activist and media mogul jimmy lie is denied bail as he faces charges of fraud and a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in their academic calendar. And on peoples temple the school says n. B. A. Players get back to training the Houston Rockets trade old stalled home gold Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards. Thank you very much for joining as we begin this hour with the coronavirus pandemic in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic theyve been more than sea. 34000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there but the Health Minister