More caves and have now been reported in the face of the world. China. And want to ensure that medical services can be guaranteed that Energy Supplies are secure and that the population has guaranteed access to enough food and if yet it is. Also coming up germany at the heart of europe has closed off the borders to most of its neighbors. Student gets a look at it were sending back any vehicle which is not being granted special status to and to germany has a valid reasons across going to go into. Our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with everything outside of a standstill and all the bus the world at home alone as the number of corona virus infections continues to climb exponentially here in europe and in north america doctors are warning the only protection we have is indoors staying home going nowhere and it is no longer an option today germany closed its borders with 5 of its neighbors and from madrid to new york to Berlin Stores shops bars and restaurants were closed as governments take more drastic measures to keep the coronavirus as far away from as many people as possible this is an unprecedented shutdown of Economic Activity that could easily morph into a recession or worse and despite the u. S. Federal reserve cutting Interest Rates to near 0 stock markets tumbled again today at midnight tonight a ban on flights from europe to the u. S. Will expand to include the u. K. And ireland and the European Union today proposed its own travel ban also for 30 days here is European Commission chief are sort of on the line between form today our g. 7 park notes that we propose to introduce a temporary restriction on nonessential travel to the European Union why that because we think nonessential travel should be reduced right now to in order to not to spread the virus further be it within the European Union or by leaving the European Union but also to avoid nonessential travel not to have more potential strain on our health care system. Of course there will be exemptions for example for e. U. Citizens coming back home for Health Care Workers like doctors and nurses but also scientists working on the solution of this Health Crisis we do see but also. People commuting on borders now who are working on both sides of the borders for example there will be exemptions it is a restriction that should be in place for an initial period of 30 days and we have been talking about that with the g 7 partners from the line theyre speaking earlier today in europes largest economy the lists are getting longer the lists of shut and restrictions and people infected with the virus at least 14 people have died from the virus here in germany and more than 6600 have tested positive here is what chancellor Angela Merkel said today then ill call them via internet and then we still need drastic measures as has so often been said to slow down the rate of infection. Such drastic measures have never been taken in our country. But at the moment theyre necessary to reduce the amount of close contact between people. To bring down the number of infections and serious cases we had in our car or i want to go now to dont tell me. And talk with our Political Correspondent brought good evening to you the chancellor today she stopped short of declaring a state of emergency but she announced some very significant measures none the less right. Yes indeed she didnt go to the back extreme of the measures that are available to him but it is the case that the measures that have been decided today are completely unprecedented in modern germany Something Like this has never been imposed in germany and in fact in the federal state of bavaria which implemented these measures this morning already announced their implementation they did that by declaring a state of emergency in that region and that federal state. Is very extreme its something that hasnt happened in germany before basically whats happening is that everything that is not essential everything that is not absolutely necessary for survival is being shot down so that people are basically being forced to stay at home without a curfew having been imposed so theres no reason to leave your home anymore now a reason to go out and have fun as it were to go to the gym or to the cinema. Or to go shopping for fun theres only shopping for necessities for things such as food and medicine you know in places like where you are the mall of america or the mall of berlin i should say there are going to look like ghost towns at least for the short term these are hard decisions for the government to make and as ever the chancellor made these decisions only after consulting with International Partners of germany right. Yes i think what im trying to do here is some sort of damage control i guess you could call it because whats been happening in recent weeks is that many countries have been moving on the earth and countries here in europe within the European Union have been imposing their own measures closing their own borders with odd really coordinating this with other members of the European Union and obviously we know that for instance the United States imposed travel ban on europe of people coming from europe without even talking to the European Union so by talking to the g. 7 within the g. 7 format which includes the United States and by talking within the European Union chancellor merkel is trying to reestablish some sort of International Coordination some sort of International Effort so that these measures that are taken in various countries do not in fact work against each other and hugs all the while the number of newly infected people continues to increase here in germany how are germanys hospitals in clinics how are they coping right now but what in fact happening in germany is that the hospitals are not of iran yet we havent yet reached the point where there are so many thousands of serious cases that need intensive care that need to be hospitalized so that the hospitals at the moment are not at the point yet where the peak is overwhelming them and that is exactly the reason why all of these measures are being taken these most recent measures and in fact all of the measures that were taken in the recent weeks its an its an attempt to try and keep down the number of the rate of the number of infections the spread of the virus so that the hospitals do not get overwhelmed so that the people that do get admitted to hospital have a chance of being cured and that the number of people that get admitted to hospital can in fact be admitted. When our Political Correspondent hans brought on the story for us tonight in central berlin and thank you. Well as we said borders are closing here in Europe Germany today became one of numerous European Union countries imposing full or partial border closures early has announced controls on the countrys borders with switzerland austria denmark whats emberg and france. Gridlock on the french german border these cars have been waiting for at least 30 minutes to end to germany the certainty with sending back any vehicle which is not being granted special status to enter germany has a valid reasons across going to. Its just one of many makeshift border controls set up on monday in a bid to stem the coronaVirus Outbreak german citizens and residents may continue through as can delivery drivers and those commuting to work and you on display in corona virus symptoms will be handed over to Health Authorities trying doesnt find it normal actually they need to protect the somehow from everything thats been happening its really bad at the moment there is no set time frame for these travel restrictions and the government says it might extend them to borders with other neighboring countries. Or more borders are being closed the world is trying to seal itself off away from the coronavirus where are we on this monday well lets pull in a man who is known as the voice of reason in the voice of calm in all of this John Campbell is a british physician and he has been educating the public about the al break on his you tube channel dr campbell that its going to have you back on the day would you agree that here in europe and in north america we are now entering what will be the worst phase of this pandemic. Well you know im afraid not i think were still in the relatively early stages because we can expect the number of cases to carry on increasing for some time at the moment so the number of cases in germany at the moment is only under reported as it is in all European Countries because were not testing everyone so my government has estimated that theres actually 10 times to 20 times more actual cases than the testing would indicate but chancellor merkel for example has estimated that this could affect 70 percent of the german population so we are nowhere near that yet so im afraid were going to see a continuation of increasing numbers of cases and the french author which is of estimated that the doubling time at the moment in france is every 3 days which is quite a horrendous rate of increase for the number of cases unfortunately and thats probably going to go increasing what we need to do now is slow down the rate of increase we absolutely have to slow down the rate because its increasing too quickly at the moment and this means this sumo going to be overwhelmed in Health Services are going to be over well im delighted that the german hospitals are coping at the moment when people get got doubling numbers every 3 or 4 days then thats only going to be a matter of time till they asked the v. N. D. Challenge and we need to delay that as long as we can and reduce those numbers as much as we possibly can so that we can know if i could i want to take a listen to what the head of the w. H. O. Said today about the outbreak we have a simple message for all countries test test test test every suspected case if they have if they dispose of deve isolate them and find out who they have been in close contact with. To 2 days before they develop symptoms and test those people to. Dr campbell there are still significant supply problems with tests in the United States im wondering at this stage how valuable are these tests i mean should we still be trying to test everybody. Theres very much 2 views on that ground there is the view taken by the World Health Organization which says testing is absolutely essential and theres a view taken by my government which says that testing is less essential in my government are actually reserving testing now for people that are clinically ill it will inform the clinical Decision Making but i think a lot of this rationale is given for the lack of testing in my country and in the United States has actually driven by a lack of the number of tests so for example in the United States rather than adopt the World Health Organization standard test at the start of this pandemic the center for Disease Control in Atlanta Georgia decided to produce their own test and there was great delays in not so not resulted in much reduced testing and in the meantime there was Community Spread within the United States where is the World Health Organization position on this where they say test test test is based on the chinese experience and on the south korean experience and to some degree on the singapore and hong kong experience where there was extensive testing in every case was isolated every case was diagnosed because the World Health Organization is saying that we cant fight a virus that we cant see and the only way we can see this virus is with testing and so we have to take really quite extreme measures in my view to to coincide with the World Health Organization is guiding on this and try and increase testing as much as we can now fairly soon there should be an Antibody Test so the tests at the moment are what we call the anti gen tests that are actually testing for the presence of the virus itself but soon will have testing for antibodies which are the immune response that the human body makes in response to the virus in response to the anti gen and that will not tell us who has the infection acutely necessarily but it would tell us who has had the infection in the past and that will give us a lot more information it would also tell us whos got the infection after probably do. Late about 3 or 4 days depending on the sensitivity of the test i really feel providing more testing she is a priority just now yeah and we go from term testing to vaccines in seattle in the United States we understand that the 1st trials of human trials for a Coronavirus Vaccine have begun i mean it seems very fast what do you think about that. Its remarkably fast its really incredibly fast the progress thats been made theres lots of candidate vaccines at the moment and theyre on close stage one Clinical Trials now that means the very done some animal toxicology testing and pua b. Is past that to go into the phase one human trials so phase one human charles is going to be with Healthy Volunteers basically t. Check for the safety of the vaccine and then to have to test on larger numbers of human volunteers to test for the efficacy of the vaccine to make sure the vaccine is producing antibodies to make sure its confirming immunity and to make sure the vaccine is safe because of course vaccines that biological substances and they have the potential to do significant harm so theres still a long way to go yet and basically were not going to have a vaccine available for me to inject into peoples arms in 2020 is going to be 2021 before we have it here in germany there are reports that u. S. President trump tried to purchase a German Research lab by the name of cure back which is working on a Coronavirus Vaccine or take a listen to what your backs cofounder said earlier this month about what theyre doing take a listen. Were seeing a lot of Political Support and the issue is being taken very seriously from all sides specifically we have received support from an International Vaccine initiative so that these Clinical Trials can also begin here we now have a platform process where we can quickly respond to new threats so we believe that they star in a technology is a very good way to rapidly provide solutions. And to beat and so thats what theyre doing backed today have rejected all reports that it was or is up for sale but it did not deny that it may have been in talks with the u. S. President so dr campbell i want to ask you as a medical professional do you consider political leaders wheeling and dealing in the middle of a pandemic is that a contribution to helping in healing the infirmed. Well i dont know if thats the case but if it is the case then patently it is not this is a time for all people to Work Together in the World Health Organization of stress this we really need to share information we need to share data to move forward as one human race i do hope theres no wheeling and dealing going on behind the scenes if there was ive been remarkably disappointed but ah a simply cant comment when i was the case or not but there are a lot of vaccine candidates because people have taken different parts of the virus and trying to make vaccines from different anti genic components of the virus that you need system can learn to recognize so theres quite a few candidate vaccines going around midnight maybe 20 or more that a serious contenders fought for vaccines at the moment and i would hope that fall all 5 of those may result in clinically successful vaccines that we really need to collaborate together on this is not about money did this is a lot of human lives at stake here this is theres no highest stakes than this and you know were looking at possibly 23 months maybe even longer of this social distancing i mean this is tough on everybody especially on the elderly and weve got reports now that loneliness has become an epidemic itself in that is an unintended consequence you could say of the coronavirus how should we address that. Yeah i dont really see any alternative to what were doing now we have to have the social isolation because we have no antiviral drugs and we have no vaccines that are proven to be effective against this virus so i dont think theres any real alternative but we have to realize that human beings of course are holistic we are mind body spirit and our social interactions and we cant ignore the mind on this theres a lot of anxiety thats giving rise to a lot of stress and a lot of people are suffering as a result of this social isolation older people and people with chronic conditions