The coming weeks but with demand far outstripping supply will look at who will get the 1st doses. And russias death statistics suggest theyre growing up i was taking a far greater toll than the government is admitting when you visit the city often far and undertaken tells us hes never been so busy. P. T. s good to a year reprieve on military service and youll give the staff the option to delay until the age of 30 so whats the message the government is sending to south korea. As well come to the program the head of germanys Public Health institute says he expects the coronavirus pandemic to claim many more lives in germany at a News Conference in the president of the coffin. Since you do a lot of dealers said germany have managed to stabilize the rate of new infections through restrictions in the past weeks but he stressed the caseload still remains too high villar said he was particularly concerned about the rate of infections and homes where increasing number numbers of elderly residents are contracting the virus and he wanted hospitals are coming under increasing strain. Resume doesnt owning union or continental in some regions were seeing hospitals reach the limits of their capacities and as a result for having to perspire surgeries or treatments. We also see the number of severe cases in deaths rising from week to week and since both always occur after a certain time eric we must expect many more. Lets go straight to our Political CorrespondentThomas Sparrow thomas so today there were 479 deaths as the 2nd highest number so fast in support of it began but that is to be expected isnt it when case numbers are higher or does it have a different significance well you may think that a higher number in cases comes hand in hand with more deaths but it is not necessarily always the case you may remember for example the 1st wave of the pandemic here in germany germany was badly affected during that 1st wave but if you compare it to germanys death rate with that of other European Countries you found germany had i loathe the death rate so it does not necessarily always mean that a higher caseload means also death rate in this particular case German Authorities are indeed concerned particularly concerned about the number of deaths you already mentioned the number of deaths in the last 24 hours and we already reached this week over 1300 deaths and this is certainly one very important element that authorities have been discussing what it comes to introducing new restrictions new lockdown measures well german chancellor Angela Merkel probably have those figures on our mind when she confronted a partial lockdown that will remain in place until at least early january but restrictions on get to go this will be loosened over christmas