Medical workers are getting this first dose of the vaccine as we speak protecting themselves against what will still be a long, deadly, and for them exhausting winter. Theyre sending a message to the rest of us that this vaccine is safe and it will save lives. A new online poll from abc news shows that more than 80 of americans are willing to take the vaccine. Although a large percentage say they dont want to be among the first to do so. Frankly most of them will not have to worry about that. Right now there is only enough doses to inoculate a something number of the most vulnerable americans. But the time line is getting more optimistic. Dr. Anthony fauci said the General Public could start getting shots in just three months. I have been saying my my calculation that by the end of mark, the beginning of april, that a normal healthy man and woman in the street with no under lying conditions would likely get it. There is still so much work to be done until that happens. The task of prod
Imagine how would welcome here in germany theres been a steady upturn in the number of new corona virus infections and its showing no sign of slowing the country boast price for its initial response to the pandemic back in spring when it quickly introduced haad measures to curb the spread of the virus but cases have spiked in recent weeks hitting a record high of almost 30000 new cases on friday its the in the number of death deaths thats causing the most concern thats prompted chancellor Angela Merkel to call an emergency meeting with germany 16 states latest that mating has just gotten underway. Well for more on that joined by our Political Correspondent hansbrough and hans the German Federal and state leaders are making now to discuss the situation given the numbers weve just heard a hard lock down seems almost certain is indeed that is correct the meeting is taking place in the chancery that you see here behind me but in fact its only a mark of a chancellor who be there in person a
A big difference and so there is still room for discussion but the hour long acrimonious debate that has been characteristic of these meetings one is trying to avoid today theres been a lot of consultation in the last few days and one is hoping that this paper that has been agreed on will be passed more or less without much resistance part of the discussions about a hard lock down and the impact it will have on business and we issue the meeting of nickel and they state leaders will also discuss compensation. Yes absolutely that will be one Central Point of discussion theres been an open letter today from some of the major retail chains in germany and theyre warning that if a locked on is taking effect immediately before the christmas before christmas that they are going to lose their christmas business that that business is going to be pushed into the internet and they say this could be the end of high street retailing as we know it so there is a lot of stake a lot at stake and a lot o
And nonfood products. In. Food for primarily food stores will not be expanded and we are also putting a ban on fireworks ahead of new years eve and theyll be in an ordinance in place to make this law. But there will also be a ban on body Care Services hairdressers beauty salons etc schools will also be limited and Daycare Centers as well so that will mean that children are to be looked after at home wherever possible and from the 16th of december so thats from wednesday schools will be closed certainly the School Children no longer have to go to school there will be emergency care. In place for some children. And Distance Learning will also be offered the. Senior year. High school might be dealt with differently and daycare will be run just the same as schools in this regard we are appealing to employers to offer home Office Options wherever possible from the 16th of december to the 10th of. January. And in terms of take away and delivery food from restaurants this will continue to be
Im the e. U. Need a trade deal to prevent chaos on the borders starting on january 1st. And public nearly as welcome to the program we start here in germany where the chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a bleak Holiday Season earlier today she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring that on the spiraling numbers of new covert 900 cases most known the. November the measures that we put in place on the 2nd of november have not been enough and when instead of back for a while we were able to stop the exponential growth and we had to pretend to do that and even talk but now were seeing a new rise in infections and exponential growth once again. Thats been good to. And what that means is that many people are dying youve been following the statistics im sure. You have this in the finally also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our Public Health systems under aim was always to prevent this and this is why we must act and we m