Stadiums turned into a gigantic the lobby to see large crowds can be safely accomplished. Im sure the program the german chancellor has warned of tough months ahead and she defended. The force today im going to the benches were essential to ensure that the Health System does not reach breaking point. That Everyone Needs to be to social contact to a minimum over the next 4 weeks under the government was relying on the public to follow the new rules which include the closure of past restaurants and most Leisure Facilities she also said it was too early to make promises about december but did say christmas and new years celebrations would have to be scaled back so heres more of chancellor merkels. Each isnt hot these measures are tough we know that but if this point in time we cannot do this or in that small variation or simply rely on the basic social distancing rule. Via the in the hope that would be half hearted and the various politicians have heartedness with us to do is it not really fair of course this means that for the next 4 weeks we will have to go without a lot of the things that make life worthwhile and we all know that the state leaders as well as we in the government we spent a long time considering whether there was a better or milder way but we did not see one thats why with heavy hearts we decided on these measures as they are the right ones to achieve our goal is to get more Political CorrespondentThomas Sparrow welcome thomas this press conference was held at short notice what does this tell us about the Current Situation in germany that it is essentially very urgent that the situation is not good and that that explains why the german chancellor but also the regional leaders had to announce this new partial lockdown im going to hold stressing based on statistics how fast the virus is actually spreading here in germany how that is actually affecting the public Health System and how if nothing is done then the Health System would be overwhelmed in a matter of weeks and thats why im going to medical felt the need to come to the federal press center and explain those policies once again it is very unusual for the chancellor to do that you know when it comes to fill once a year to the federal press center here in in berlin for your early Summer Press Conference and the fact that he decided on very short notice he was previously scheduled to simply come here today on the 1st day of this partial lockdown just gives you the sense of how the government is feeling about these cases and why the government in particular john