Up on the other side of the atlantic anticipation grows for about saying roll out the outgoing u. S. President touts Americas Group Speed Development but how much cooperation has trump offered to his successor will be rolling out the actual vaccination program. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed for tougher restrictions to bring down stubbornly high coronavirus numbers this is germanys death toll from covert 9 tain has hit a record daily high of 590 state as a considering a Strict Lockdown over the holidays to curb infection right addressing the German Parliament just moments ago merkel urged the public to recognize the seriousness of germany situation. Well this right now isnt does not fill us in and 14 days until Christmas Day and we must do everything we can to ensure that we get away from exponential growth and we have set the teachers and to everyone all of the contact that isnt necessary must be restricted and as hard as that is a
Europes cities out of control. And it is a pleasure to introduce our guests starting with martin meier he works as a science editor for the german radio broadcaster torchlight folk and he believes despite scientific progress the pandemic will prevail therefore we will have to get along with further restrictions. And its a pleasure to introduce reshad freberg he works as a science editor for the berlin daily tug and he says we are only at the beginning of the cold and indoor season and there is a real danger of things getting out of hand in some places. And im pleased to welcome our colleague mira because shes a science reporter and editor. Here i had t. W. And shes convinced me ego isnt wont get us through the pandemic. So let me ask you martin mayor the pandemic will prevail as you said in your Opening Statement sounds pretty ominous we have worldwide nearly 40000000 cases now 100000 new infections per day here in europe how worried should we be i think we should be worried i think th
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Same political wavelength most of the time both say theyre not ruling out that we may see still more severe restrictions imposed in germany including even a lock down once again can you really in visit that happening here particularly given the Economic Impact it would have the chancellor said it must be avoided at all costs it should be avoided for a lot of reasons for economical reasons for social reasons as well because we sometimes tend to forget that a lot of people were locked away elderly people in care homes thats also a fact we think shouldnt forget. I actually dont know i hope its not going to be like weve had in germany like the situation weve had at the beginning of this pandemic but it is not a given fact that its not going to happen the chances are there that we still or might face another lock down near the chancellor has also been saying that she absolutely wants to keep schools open but its very important not to sacrifice the educational wellbeing and social well being