Minister should stay in the country to fight the virus Boris Johnson instructs people to stay home except for the essentials. At least for 3 weeks and pressure building to postpone the Tokyo Olympics the japanese Prime Minister acknowledging for the 1st time that the summer games may be delaying canada and australia are already saying they will not send their teams. Its good to have you with us the head of the World Health Organization says the 19 virus continues to peace efforts to contain it and that cases of the infection are more than 16000 people around the world have died from the virus here is what the head of the w. H. O. Said just a few hours ago. More than 300000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to w. H. O. From almost every country in the world. Thats heartbreaking the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases and just 4 days for this. 100000 cases theres some disturbing numbers there for more im joined now by Christiane Lynn Meyer he is a spokesperson at the World Health Organization and joins us tonight from Geneva Switzerland because then the w. H. O. Is saying that the pandemic is exhilarating where is it spreading at the most rapid pace. So what was seeing right now while china has nearly serial cases we have iran is one of the Top Countries its early and a slow to the u. S. Thats catching up tools of prominent 3 countries though europe in general its is unfortunately the most spending area its spain france germany italy all together make for a good portion of of all the of all the cases worldwide but as you look at china we can see that there is hope if were doing the right measures to curb this outbreak and to get so bad outcome today the w. H. O. Called on the worlds most developed countries the g 20 to Work Together to stop the spread of the corona virus i want to ask you is the fear here that if we do not have this type of International Cooperation is the fear that we will not be able to bring this pandemic under control. Well we did it all of resources we need not only do coloration and sharing in science which is of course an important part chain the virus sequences change the results and in syrup it takes the development sharing results for Vaccine Development where we have a lot going on more than 20. 6 candidates in the going and we have a couple of vaccine tests. Trials going on. So this these are all good news but we also need a lot of Financial Resources then of course the worlds most powerful countries with what weve said today 80 percent of the global g. D. P. United words brought together these g 20 that of course is the resources we need right now because look at lets look at whats missing globally in the early every country we need we left the most basic things from maston simple medical equipment to the more sophisticated meaning to ventilators oxygen maybe we need hospital beds and that means physically also maybe using our facilities to try to and so temporary hospitals or temporary locations we need training for staff so a lot of resources are needed thats for now but we also need to think about boosting the economy and as you just said in the in the commentary restarting the economy at some point will need another huge effort tonight there are more then 1500000000 people at home theyve been told in a lockdown to stay at home or their governments have requested them to do so can you venture a prediction on when 1500000000 people will be able to go about their normal lives again i mean are there any reassuring words for people tonight. I would love to be able to give a time frame and im actually doing this right here from my home office too because were just as well and under lockdown. The situation will certainly get us but its worse still until it gets better unflushed and thats a sentence weve been saying for far too long already but we need to slow discourage we need to spread out the cases of her good amount of time and the measures taken right now on the social and political stunt meaning to the lock down all of the many Public Places of what the pending on the country more more places a less places but this closing of public life will have an effect and we heard 1st reports from individual countries that they think they see results over the death is of course great news but we hope this is the action manifesting really in real numbers to. This to get of it is aggressive tracking and tracing and treating all the individual cases and the solving of every contact and that will need to be enhanced in nearly all of the countries that can bring success and for all of this we need resources and bring in money all right Christiane Lynn Meier with the World Health Organization joining us tonight from Geneva Switzerland can stay on thank you for heres a more of the latest developments on the global coated 1000 pandemic for the 2nd straight day italy has posted figures suggesting the spread of covert 19 in the country is slowing down italys europes hardest hit country u. N. Secretary general antonio good therapists has called for an immediate global cease fire to protect Vulnerable People in conflict zones from the ravages of the virus and Britains Supreme Court building is close the justices will switch to Video Conferencing to hear cases and to hand down judgments on britains Prime Minister has announced a nationwide lockdown to fight coded 19 Boris Johnson telling the british people the government is shutting nonessential shops and services in banning gatherings are more than 2 people take a listen. From the c evening i must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at home because the critical thing we must do to stop the disease spreading between households that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home for the following very limited purposes shopping the basic necessities as infrequently as possible one form of exercise a day for example a run walk or cycle alone with members of your household any medical need to provide care or to help a Vulnerable Person and travelling to and from work but only where this is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home physique a Prime Minister is there Boris Johnson ard for more now lets get a lot of parts she joins me from london good evening to you show larger so weve got a nationwide lockdown you can add the u. K. To the list of European Countries with that tell us more about the details. Well life in the u. K. Is going to change drastically tomorrow morning as weve seen it in other European Countries youve heard the Prime Minister johnson theyre naming the 4 reasons why people cant leave their home to shop to help for medical reasons to work or to exercise in the park so its a its a little bit less restrictive then and other European Countries and another measure that has been implemented from today on is that Vulnerable People and old people were contacted by their doctor or nurse today and told that they now have to self isolate in their own home for at least 12 weeks they will be provided with groceries and medical care by volunteers but that is how it is right now in the u. K. Starting tomorrow morning and we know that the u. K. Is somewhat late to join this list in terms of walked is this a u. Turn for Boris Johnson well his critics have always said hes acting hof hotly and way too late but Boris Johnson has insisted that the u. K. Is 2 weeks behind italy and that he would introduce the right measures at the right time now he had appealed to the british people not to leave their home but weve seen over the weekend that that didnt work out people in the hundreds were hitting the beaches for example or the parks and obviously that is not a social distancing so today came the measure for a lock down that now everybody has to comply with and if they dont there will be fines the police will be watching the people everywhere wherever they go so this is what he says ah the right measure us at the right time. On the story for us in. London sure lots of thank you. Countrys leading Public HealthInstitution Institute says new data suggest that the. Cases may be leveling off. Concerns that. May have caught the virus those concerns have been dispelled through. This. Only for essential reasons like. Shopping. But germanys robert costa institute says theres reason to be cautiously optimistic that the measures are working. The indian tent we are seeing signs that the exponential growth curve is flattening off slightly but i will only be able to confirm this trend definitively on wednesday with kind of a but i am optimistic that the measures are already having an effect which is very early because theyve only been in place for a week. To fondue. Scenes like these from just last week i think of the past for now anyway chancellor merkel is in quarantine at home shes been tested after contact with an infected doctor that test came back negative but shell be tested regularly in the coming days meanwhile shes telling where king finance minister all of scholtz will be covering some of her cuties hes a vice chancellor has asked me to speak for her in the pond as tag on wednesday and we will manage this. However i believe that this is a very important sign that this infection can hit every one of us we are very vulnerable as human beings and you know one is protected from this. That after todays virtual Cabinet Meeting the government announced a further Financial Aid package worth 156000000000. 00 euros its a break with germanys rules on strict budget tree discipline but extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. The coronavirus pandemic is also affecting the world of sports in soccer you wait for is rescheduling the finals of the Champions League turn a bit and its becoming increasingly likely that the tokyo summer olympics will be postponed because of the coronavirus several qualifying events are already cancelled the pressure is growing on authorities to consider a delay today japans Prime Minister shinzo abhi acknowledged that rescheduling the games may be the only way forward. For weeks and even japan knew the International Olympic committee was prepared to countenance it now Prime Minister shinzo abyei has tabled the possibility of postponement. But. If the circumstances make it impossible to hold the games as planned then we have no choice but to consider postponing them and the i. O. C. President thomas back had been playing for time saying on sunday that the decision would be made within the next 4 weeks but pressure from athletes and associations has grown massively canada became the 1st country to announce that they would not send any athletes to the games shortly followed by australia where the local m. P. Committee is demanding a delay it gives certainly to the athletes to get into sports and thats the most important thing over the weekend in japan where public life is yet to be restricted as in other countries 50000 people gathered to catch a glimpse of the olympic flame the country is experiencing a growth in coronavirus case numbers and experts have been warning of the danger of a wave of infections similar to those seen in europe plans are now being made to scale back the Olympic Torch Relay due to start on thursday for the games themselves postponement is looking increasingly inevitable. Youre watching you give you news on bring golf for all of us here bill in thanks for the company ill see the more. That people do for g. W. On facebook and twitter to date and in touch and follow us. Carefully. Soon. Too to. Discover who. Subscribe to the documentary. This is deja vu news in Berlin Germany in isolation mode what to expect from the partial shutdown just ordered by the government and why critics in some countries are demanding the opposite theyre calling for controlled herd immunity but what does that mean and what are the implications. Plus a race against time how the German Biotech Company keoghan is preparing for a run on coronavirus test kits. Im simply someones going to thank you for joining me on todays covert 19 special the coronavirus is continuing to spread also in germany convincing chancellor Angela Merkel that stricter containment measures are necessary until now it had largely been left to the country states and municipalities to can tear curb the contagion an approach that has created a patchwork of rules and guidelines the new measures are to be rolled out nation wide lets hear what the german chancellor announced. Has discussed today how all countermeasures are working we have no vaccine and we have no drug against the disease all we have firstly the efforts we are making to prepare our Health Care System especially hospitals for the expected continued high rise in infections. And secondly our own behavior. That is currently most effective measure. The new measures medical and state leaders decided to implement ban gatherings of more than 2 individuals with the exception of families and people who live together in one household now restaurants bars and cafes and other Non Essential Service providers must also close businesses offering food delivery and collection will be allowed to remain open commuting to work helping others and exercising alone outside will still be permissible the measures will initially remain in place for 2 weeks the new measures are one step closer to total lockdown but not there yet and germanys a strategy appears to be to ramp up the strictest of measures in a controlled way as it seeks to limit the spread of the virus and keep the numbers of severe cases manageable for the countrys Health System. Now in other European Countries there are also ongoing discussions about what measures to introduce and when some countries are focusing on the best ways to reach whats being called herd immunity a critical point in a pandemic when the number of people who have grown immune to the virus automatically limit its spread now for weeks the British Government for example voided implementing restrictions on Wider Society if the goal appeared to be to allow members of the community who are considered less vulnerable to be infected in orders to reach the Tipping Point of herd immunity sooner but after models show how badly u. K. Hospitals would be overwhelmed in such a scenario and the potentially hundreds of thousands of deaths it would cause priorities have shifted nonetheless british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson remains hesitant about curfews. A point that i think people in juji be understand about the timing of these measures youve got to impose these interventions in the spread of the epidemic the moment when they can have the maximum effect an awful lot with the epidemic is is hope is pretty tall lets hold a moment to to impose. Curfews and provisions on movement and so on so if you want to wait until i last until its the right moment to do it and thats always been there are we being god its all right lets bring in our science correspondent Derek Williams for more on this hi derek so is now the right time for britain to be implementing these measures are they coming too late well i think that most experts would say Boris Johnson has gotten something very wrong here starting with the use of the word and to explain the thing as epidemics like when were seeing dont follow into question or hunches they follow certain statistical projections which is why were able to model that mathematically the big fallacy with this comment is that from a prevention point of view the time to impose curfews on lock downs is not when large numbers of people are getting the disease its before ours numbers of people began to get that this is thats the only way to slow it down because theres an incubation period new infections and deaths are going to continue to rise for at least 2. 00 to 3. 00 weeks even after strict social distancing measures have been imposed so well only see the consequences of what we do today in 2 to 3 weeks thats one of the lessons that weve learned from china and italy if you wait until numbers shoot up to react with measures then ultimately many more people are going to get the infection and its going to kill a lot more of their convention this concept of herd immunity can you tell us more about what exactly it means and what role that plays and slowing the spread of the virus. Well herd immunity is when so many people in a population are immune to an infection that effectively stops the disease from spreading there are 2 different ways that a person acquires immunity that you catch the disease and you build up an immune response that prevents you f