Unfilled girl welcome to the program a chance im going to back and has begun to outline a new coronavirus measures here in germany will that listen in through an interpreter. I want to reduce the number of infections weve done this in order to increase it to do that we need to increase the distance between payment we need to reduce total contacts and we also wanting to make an intent to me to gauge the impact on the economy as far as possible we want to guarantee an 8th that medical provision in American Services can be guaranteed that gradient if the supply of food to elation will be guaranteed and that a lot of services can be used by the population but still we need. Measures in order to slow down the infection rate and these are measures that we havent seen in this country these are profound measure this but they are necessary for the time being again in order to reduce the number of contacts and thus reduce the number of diseases and the number of civilly ill patients so that our Health System would be overstretched this is something extraordinary we have discussed it together with the states with a german states and the measures have to be implemented largely by the federal state and they will do so shortly if they havent done so already but it was very important for all of us that we. Take a coordinated uniform approach in germany and because these measures are such a special nature i like to outline them in detail id like to start with what was not decided explicitly it is important to state that. Groceries doles. Farmer market. Beverage markets pharmacy uses drugstore fuel stations bangs save in bangs post offices. Hair dresses laundry is the newspaper stand to d. I. Y. Market and wholesale markets wont be closed down. So for those areas that are you have mentioned there are considerations underway whether the band. Is selling on a sunday as would be suspended for a time before the time being all that would be done with can be conditions with hygiene conditions control of access needs to be implemented craftsman can continue pursuing their activities and all. Facilities of the Health Care System will remain open. While they have to observe the hygiene measures this is very important for everybody now these services can be still used by the population at large. What need to be closed are bars clubs disco. Herbs and similar insulations theaters. And concert halls museums trade fair as exhibition cinema is. Hogs and providers of leisure time activities dollars and outdoor specialized markets. Not free stands that stands brothels and similar institutions. Sports activities in public and private facilities gyms and similar installations would have to be closed and all other. Institutions and retail outlets would have to be closed that havent been mentioned here including Outlet Centers and playgrounds for kids these are to be closed what will be banned are gatherings in clubs and other. Institutions of leisure activities offers of. Education. And. That travels by coaches gatherings in churches mosques synagogues and assemblies of other. Religious congregations. But has to be imposed. Regulations on visits in homes while the elderly aunt says to me special. Installations for people with special needs. Visits have to be limited one day for instance for an hour by children younger than 16 years or going to and not by you know people with respiratory Tract Infections and things. Daycare centers. Will not have to be accessed by persons who have stayed in specifically affected areas in germany or outside of germany that there would be conditions for Catering Services for hotels and restaurants they will have to take measures in order to reduce the risk of spreading infections by installing a minimum distance between tables by imposing hygiene measures. There are rules that overstay that overnight stays may be used only for non touristic purposes for essential purposes this includes also that there will be no Tourism Travel domestically or abroad rules that restrooms. Will have to be opened at earliest at 6 am and have to be closed at 6 pm we have. Imposed these regulations after one of the serious and sincere considerations and debate these rules are going to change our daily life the goal being to. Minimize contacts to avoid contacts and we know that our policies can only be effective if they have been coordinated between all levels of the federal structures and if we take these measures with a necessary level if you have been asian and im very grateful that these rules were discussed in a very constructive atmosphere with these states or germany i already talked to and informed the. Persons of the parties in parliament we also had International Activities we had a Video Conference with it was an off on a line the president of the commission emanuel mark wrong the french president myself and we. Now own a state and prepare a Video Conference of the heads of state and government we talk about the question how the internal border controls can be coordinated in a better manner. Germany and france coordinate their activities. On many occasions such accord in addition to not place you Commission Also imposed a travel ban. Travel. From countries that. Do not belong to the after area or would not come from the u. K. The travel ban is that last for 30 days so it is a major keeping with what we have seen from other countries from the United States for instance we had a 7 Video Conference or later this afternoon with the heads of state and government of the g. 7 cover. The 7 governments. They president of the commission explained the travel ban all 30 days that they need to be implemented are the heads of state of the European Union we also talked about the g. 7 activity and we agree. That we will take a coordinated approach of discussing our things and aligning our interview to answer we emphasize the Important Role that the w. H. O. Plays in all of this we also underscored the importance of global it to be ts and we agreed that we want to stay in exist in the intensive exchange between each other not only as a state in government but also the Health Ministers and the finance ministers and the minister of Economic Affairs thank you very much. And. There it is easy and profound measures that were. Agreed upon and decided by the government for how long can we stay in such a situation you said that playgrounds would have to be closed down how what do you want to implement that it will be very difficult to do and the playgrounds are full impact on day where implementation is the task which the local authorities and state authorities have to take off and there will be controls in place of course. There will be a call to make citizens controls are necessary of course but i also hope that people understand the importance of these measures it doesnt make sense to close the schools and to close a playground. Just to find the next. Assembly of students and build. The next corner so we try to avoid people getting too close close contact with each other. And we try to achieve that goal by making model a very clear statement. We will. Through that phase the fast start. If every individual citizen that he is to those regulations and measures we want to get through that phase as fast as possible i think that pertains to all of us but the yardstick is not what we believe. We want to do now by the yardstick is what scientists tell us. On this topic and particularly the state is the number of new cases of new infections and there will be as certain percentage of severely ill patients as a result of these infections and we need to be able to deal with it and. Treat these really ill patients in our Health System thats how we should and thats what were working for when its kind of an. Answer to the middle transfer these missions are going to have an impact on the economy we have rescue packages for banks and industries and companies. Well we have heard about comprehensive protective measures announced by the violence minister the very fact that there will be for small and medium sized enterprises. The federal minister of finances and the minister of Economic Affairs have stated that we will do everything that is possible this will come in the form of liquidity support there will be funds for serious cases with hardship funds were still in the phase of. Spending all of these regulations and rules and rescue packages but this is work in progress and were dealing with something very unique here we havent seen the similar situation in the 70 years of the existence of the federal republic of germany but now we are in a situation where we have to do that during the finance crisis is the g 20 framework started to work much more closely together it was an impulse for International Color be watching a press conference given by the german chancellor Angela Merkel and responds to the Coronavirus Crisis during a war about 5 or 6 minute speech she talks as she talked a couple of times about how unique this situation is they have the measures that she outlined said she said were to decrease social contact mitigate the effect on the economy a guaranteeing medical services and guarantee Food Supplies lets get more on this from the dublin Political Correspondent to hands broad welcome hunts point to some of the main points. Well what im glad michael did is in fact list in detail of the measures that were discussed and decided together with the premiers of the 16 German Federal states in a consultation that took place during the course of today and she went into a lot of detail saying that what initially saying what was going to remain open which is the shops and providers of services of daily needs such as supermarkets and petrol stations and so on and then she went on to list the kinds of. Domestic institutions that would need to close ranging from swimming pools fitness clubs gyms all the way to pause and night clubs and institutions such as that and even playgrounds in public parks and she emphasized that all of this was necessary in order to maintain a distance between people in germany and others for people not to be close together notes to congregate in any place as far as that is possible not in schools not in playgrounds not in clubs not in shops because that social distance and this syncing that distance between people actually prevents the virus from spreading more quickly thats the case i mean thats the reason for all of these measures in fact for all of the measures that have been taken in recent weeks and months its an attempt to get people to keep a distance from each other so that the virus cannot so easily jump from one person to the next and as avang when the german chancellor talks about International Matters there was reference to international consulting