A 3rd of the entire country is now submerged by monsoon flooding and u. S. Attorney general william barr defends the trumpet ministrations response to recent anti racism protests. And army wellings with the sport is for all coronavirus places place the Major League Baseball season in full of the doubt and following 280 and polish jails elite squad as his team in the test series against west indies. Spanish Prime MinisterPedro Sanchez has reacted with outrage after the u. K. And germany warned of their citizens to think twice before travelling to spain in the coming weeks because of an increase in coronavirus cases their tourism accounts for a little over 12 percent of spains g. D. P. And is seen as crucial to rebuilding its economy after months of lock down restrictions but the u. K. Is concerned europe is entering a 2nd wave in the pandemic its warned citizens against told by the essential travel to spain and imposed a 2 week quarantine on their return a move which could cost spains Tourism Sector 11700000000. 00 in lost revenue meanwhile the. German government has also warned against travel to 3 regions in spain but germany is also facing its own rise in infections with new cases doubling on tuesday to 633 spains Prime Minister better sanchez is calling for exemptions in regions where the infection rate is low. Or some of the time of the good we are at this moment talking to the british authorities to try to make them reconsider a measure that in our view is unsuitable particularly if we keep the epidemiological data of the spanish territory and in particular certain tourist destinations like for example the canary in the Balearic Islands the violence here and dilute sea in regions which i insist have a total accumulated level of virus that is lower than whats being registered in the u. K. In epidemiological terms it is safer to be in these regions than in the u. K. Martha had always following reaction from barcelona one of the worst hit areas. These decision has a huge impact in the Tourism Sector that represents a 1212 percent of the spanish economy the situation is quite critical we see here in barcelona where we are right now the beaches are really empty bars there are no queues to to to visit like the the cathedral in the middle of the of the city no cute at all the words we were talking to the people at the cathedral saying that an ordinary day you would reduce 3660 people 60 visitors a year the same dates we are they will have 1000 so the situation is quite critical we know that the government is negotiation and pushing very hard especially to brand the idea that spain is a save the estimation that weve got the corner of ours under control that these are only isolated branches or as isolated clusters that are completely under control as we heard last night from Prime Minister presented in this Television Interview he insisted that spain is a safe destination all the government is aligned in this in this in this sense and saying that this being here is safer than being for example in the queue in the u. K. And france. Or germany as weve heard is itself dealing with a steady rise in cases and it also wants to make virus tests mandatory for travelers returning from high risk areas dominic kane has more from berlin. For much of the last few days the concern in germany at a federal level but also amongst the individual states that make up this republic has been the fear of a 2nd wave of corona virus thats why the federal Health Minister announced earlier in the week that as of next week that all passengers returning from high risk areas to german airports will have to be tested for coronavirus now the German Government saying that it doesnt want its citizens and people who are resident in this country to travel to 3 specific areas of spain out ago and got them one year and another doesnt want its citizens residents to travel there because of the risk that the government perceives that exists there right now and as i say the fear here is that people will be unwittingly bringing back coronavirus into this country and perhaps spawning a 2nd wave of corona virus infections here on the scientific side remember the science is something that the government says it has always been following the science well the man who regulates the agency that is collating data the man who leads at low tide from the robert cock institute thats an troubling thoughts for the german population to News Conference earlier this is called one of your latest results show that people consider the coronavirus to be a low risk them before also the acceptance of measures such as social distancing has decreased at this point i would once again like to be very clear we ourselves are largely responsible for determining how the disease will develop in germany please help yourselves all of you continue to respect the rules and then finally theres the political perspective that informs all this leading conservative politicians from the federal level and specifically in bavaria are looking at whats happening and they are worried about the possibility of a repeat of what happened earlier in the pandemic in other words certainly in bavaria the Prime Minister there mark is that its. He looks the situation that happened in austria where certain places became super spreading venues here is very worried that that might happen again later during the course of this pandemic trying to stop them thats why he says he wants corona Virus Testing to take place very soon at airports train stations and at motorway areas that border his state and austria question will be what the federal government will do having heard from mr. Well meanwhile the World Health Organization has warned against complacency in warmer months the agency says the pandemic is not seasonal and should be considered as one large wave not several so much is a problem its virus like all with it but at what. Is jumping from one to another when we come in close contact so lets not get that opportunity. Lets say the 2nd wave idea were in the 1st way its going to be one big wave its going to go up a bit now the best thing is to let off or more of this we can speak to chris smith is a consultant for all adjust and joins us live via skype from cambridge search thank you for joining us here on aljazeera do you agree with Boris Johnson the u. K. Prime minister when he says that there are signs of a 2nd wave in europe. Well i think what the Prime Minister is getting at is that if you look at the figures for antibodies in the population the best estimates we have and it has been tricky to measure how immune everybody is is that about 95 percent of the worlds population remain vulnerable to corona virus infection in other words they havent been infected yet i know im one of them i tested my antibodies i havent got any and that means that were like a john wood pile which is just waiting to go up in smoke if given the opportunity in other words give the virus a chance it will come surging back so i do understand where hes coming from when hes pointing to the fact that we remain vulnerable the virus hasnt gone away were rather like a public car sort of parked on a hill with the brake on and if we take the brake off because going to start rolling downhill again ok so we dont want to give the virus a chance but a lot of people are arguing well you need to give the economy a chance as well because of the sectors need to start again what do you make of the spanish Prime Ministers comments that actually the lockdown of the quarantine should be regional that its not all parts of spain is just places like catalonia and that that should be the way to handle it. Well i can see this from both sides of this argument on the one hand youve got a situation where if someone goes to a high risk parts of spain and then returns from a low risk part we wouldnt know that theyve been in the high risk part and they could bring the virus with them and then take it where theyre going on the other hand the numbers are really quite low here if you look at the worst affected bits of spain theyre getting about 39. 00 cases per 100000 in the population and thats maybe 18 cases more than wed get in the u. K. For a person whos in the same sort of situation so in other words for all these quarantine measures were possibly saving about 18 cases a day when weve already got maybe 500 to a 1000 cases a day so the point theyre making is on a numbers basis that actually this doesnt really add up but on a kind of Bigger Picture of faces in terms of having an easy to interpret set of guidelines it does make sense but its going to be crucifying spains economy because there are millions of people from the u. K. Who visit spain every year and bring much needed money into the economy the Tourism Industry very much dwells on people spending rich spending their pounds abroad and of course many brits actually want to go on holiday and want to go to warmer i climates germany is often for a slightly different answer to it all way of handling advice hopefully imposing at tests to anyone the virus test making them mandatory for travelers that are coming back could that not be a solution so instead of a 2 week quarantine actually testing people as they advised back from their holidays. There are again pros and cons to this argument on the one hand then you could argue great lets test everybody because then well know where we stand we dont need to put people off work needlessly because that cost the economy of the country that the people come from as well as the country that they might be deterred from visiting but then on the other hand youve got to think well if we test people once we might miss some cases because if a person picks up the virus the day before they get tested they may well have not enough virus in them that we would detect it so were going to miss some so if we test everybody weve got to test them at least twice and now people cant agree on well how long should you leave it between the 2 to s. And should one test be done in the country or leaving and then another test be done in the country your returning to how do you marry up the 2 results etc etc so you can see why it hasnt been a simple one to resolve this but i think they are going to start doing doing some trials or doing double testing to see if we can shorten the duration of the quarantine for people and i think that might be one approach but dont forget these tests are expensive theyre expensive in terms of peoples time but theyre also expensive in terms of resources and all the time were testing holidaymakers were not potentially testing people who need a test in the country thats affected so there are many many aspects to this its important to look at all these different facets and of course and also look at many Different Countries i mean certainly in europe anywhere around the world theres a desperate desire to get back to some kind of normality when you look in that tent that make globally where do you think we are in right now. Well it were still a very much of the beginning in some respects as i mentioned the the best estimates we have or that about 95 percent of the worlds population remain vulnerable and potentially intractable by this virus and that means this really is a vaccine then became available that. Would make up for the 95 percent. Well that would be wonderful wouldnt it but the problem is that the best estimates we have at the moment although there is going to be a vaccine at the earliest by perhaps next year and there are nearly 8000000000 people on earth which means were going to need a minimum 8000000 doses of this vaccine and probably based on the data we have so far we may have to vaccinate everyone twice that means we might need 16000000000 doses of vaccine where do we start where are we going to get that much vaccine and how long will the immunity last these are all the questions that are outstanding at the moment so its not a given that we get a vaccine job done the problem goes away actually these things need to be found out and we just dont have all the answers yet but yes youre right it would be very nice if we had a vaccine we have a bank scene soon it works and works for a long time that will be the answer but those are all uncertainties at the moment they are in the christmas consultant for all a just so thank you so much for sharing your expertise and time with us thank you. Lets go to lebanon now the country will reimpose lock down restrictions from saturday because of a surge in corona virus infections at least 132 new cases and 8 deaths were reported on tuesday places of worship nightclub sporting events and popular markets are to close under the latest measures the lockdown coincides with the muslim festival of either lad there and that will be difficult for many in lebanon to accept doctors though say hospitals will quickly be overwhelmed if the spike in infections is managed in a holder of reports from beirut. The number of daily infections in lebanon is now into 3 digits official say the corona virus has spread across the country there reimposing restrictions less than a months after the country and its only public airport reopened the numbers may be low when compared to other countries but this is a nation of only 6000000 people including a 1000000 refugees where the Health Care System is already in crisis private hospitals have started to turn away patients they make up 85 percent of the Health Sector and they are owed 1300000000. 00 by the government a lot that lists the Health Sector is passing through a critical crisis that has been going on for 2 years we are crying for help the Health Sector is taking its last breath 10 days ago our hospital stopped receiving noncritical cases. Staff are also being fired the countrys leading medical facility the American University hospital laid off nearly 900 and administrators citing what it called the disastrous state of the economy since november up to 40 percent of lebannon 9000 nurses have lost their jobs what is happening is very serious and its going to affect that they could be they had care system in lebanon if we dont have enough nurses this means that the number of patients who are currently at the hospital will be much higher burden or us hospitals funded by the public and left underfunded and ill equipped by successive governments for 3 decades are not just at the forefront of the battle against coronavirus what we have seen is with the economic crisis more and more patients cannot afford the private sector anymore and they are heading towards the Public Sector importing equipment and medicine is becoming harder and more expensive because of the sharp devaluation of the local currency and a lack of u. S. Dollars in circulation. The surge in coronavirus cases couldnt have come at a more difficult time levanon is close to bankruptcy because of years of corruption and the Health Sector has long been neglected by successive governments and was collapsing before the pandemic. More than 200 medical staff have now been infected the number of patients hospitalized and admitted to intensive care more than doubled in the last 2 weeks if that rate continues lebanons hospitals once among the best in the middle east will run out of the intensive care beds it needs by mid august. Beirut. Chillin meanwhile is beginning to ease its coronavirus restrictions after months of Strict Lockdown some areas in the capital santiago are allowing residents to leave their homes without Police Permission and gather in small groups medical Officials Say the number of new cases of continued to fall over successive days but the region still remains the worst the affected by the pandemic how latin america does have to see in human joins us now from santiago chile is now easing its law down how is it being rolled out. But one thing is what the government says and another thing is what the government does president have a stamping it has always insisted that they are in the government. Really schol parameters but when you actually see whats happening that is not the case its true that they are for example marking the footpads as you see here to try to ensure that people stay away from each other people stayed to the right a little bit further by the. Stop sign or rather stop the light you can see that people are supposed to stand within that hectic zone in order to not get too close together but in actual fact we see that people are ignoring a lot of these things and still getting very very close together Latin Americans are not very big on respecting their own personal space but beyond that where weve spoken to appease them you only just to say that the indicators just are not there that the contagion rate is still much too high the w. H. O. Says that in order to start to could. To to loosen the. The quarantines and the lockdowns you have to have less than 5 percent contagion or 3 hopefully in the case of chile its at least 10 so apart from the fact that in neighborhoods like this one yes maybe the indicators are down here but people who come to work here come from areas that are still in total lockdown with. Infection rate is extremely high and so the epidemiology just weve spoken to say that this is just a recipe for disaster and that there will be in a matter of days or weeks a new major surge in chile already has one of the largest the highest rather death tolls per 1000000 inhabitants in the world have its quite worrying developments for chile meanwhile in neighboring peruvian weve learned that actually one in 4 people in the capital lima may be infected with kobe had 19 what else can you tell us about that. Thats right improve they had very very Strict Lockdown measures and rules for social distancing they they gave that up because people started to ignore it massively mainly because 70 percent of the population works in the Informal Sector and they said they would rather take their chances with the virus and