Championship. Next year. To the. France has joined neighboring italy and spain in ordering a complete lockdown to try and hold the spread of coronavirus president emanuel mark wrong describe the situation as a Public Health war the virus has killed nearly 150 people in the country and infected more than 6600. As the clock struck noon in france the lock down took Effect People must now carry a document justifying their reasons for going outdoors only essential trips and exercise alone are permitted those who break the rules will be fined. The president has called the outbreak a war 100000 Police Officers have been deployed across the country officials stress that every day life must be up ended to contain the virus. Could cause example conflict to give you some examples a family lunch dinner with friends a Football Game with friends a game of cards all of that which might not seem important normally is now for didnt more not only ill advised but forbidden each of those meetings lets not play it down is a moments when the virus can be transmitted it means running the risk of speeding the spread of 19. In the capital paris an unusual quiet has taken hold reactions to the lockdown are mixed i think its a bit through here to be able to walk on the streets if you want people to be true to what they want. Because it is i think its necessary its an epidemic that spreading exponentially so is the contamination there are many asymptomatic carriers i could be one of them. The Health Ministry says the restrictions could be eased in a fortnight if the virus is sufficiently contained. A straight to to the french capital where we joined journalist to Catherine Field welcome back catherine tell us more about peoples reactions to this lockdown. Will feel a lot of people are just taking on the chin and realizing that they have to be responsible about that having instead police and harrison says how some 150. 00 checkpoints are mostly on the exits a paris to check people see whether they are really going to harm or just going out and shopping weve got some 3000 Police Patrolling cattle look also checking to see if everyone knows whats going on and also just making sure the shops are closed weve had quite a few incidents according to the prefect of police. Staying open are hoping at least shift some goods get some money in before the big lockdown comes weve also seen at the gabba montanas a larger role we stations around paris a lot of people still fleeing the capital they saying that it is going to be a lot tell they want to be in the countryside and police instead have got till the same evening to get out of paris and then the lockdown will really come into effect failed and so how is frances Health Infrastructure coping. At the moment most. Of the region in the eastern france is struggling and those regions the aus was the most sell a long letter general direction they are really struggling though there were big clusters of the virus there in the early days that we are hearing both from the prefect of alsace and from the Health Department and myself that they are reaching saturation point and theyre just hoping that that promise that the president emanuel macron made last night when he said that the army would come into that region and set up military field hospitals but that will come sooner rather than later because they really are struggling meanwhile here in paris theyre saying that its tough but theyre still on top of that but whats worrying them and the large numbers of people who are coming and who are younger than 60 years old a lot of people had thought this virus only affected older people but theres a lot of younger people coming and there is concern to go ok so thats thats the Health Impact lets talk about them the money whats being done to lessen the economic impact. 2 strings here on the one hand you have got what the ministry of finance announced this morning it was about 45000000 euros going to put aside to help companies through this next couple of weeks and that will mean giving them money make sure i think people are racing and make sure they complete stock you know your stock may still be at home at the governments also said that Companies Wont have to pay for the time being paid a gas electricity and water bills the minister of finance also said unfortunately that france will probably go into recession now but he had some very comforting words but companies he said that if need be france will nationalize firms if it comes to that and that comes on top of a big bundle of money are you 300000000000. 00 euros that emanuel might wrong the president said yesterday would be made available to make sure that the country just doesnt fall of party cannot both of them the minister of finance and the president said the money will be there dont worry if france sticks together it one stays home and nobody loses their head they say france can get through this next 2 weeks i Catherine Field in paris thank you thank you. From france to germany where the countrys Disease Control agency has raised its coronavirus Risk Assessment to high indications from the countrys clinics that the number of serious cases is increasing has led the head of the robert cock institute to say that stricter measures are necessary to contain the virus has spread germany now has nearly 8000 confirmed cases of them for the last week and one of the candidates for the leadership of the german chancellor Angela Merkels conservative party has tested positive for the coronavirus friedrich met says he only has mild symptoms and will stand home until the end of next week term hes not yet on the general lockdown but the governments appeals for people to stay at home and avoid unnecessary contact are having an effect Political Correspondent simon young reports. Theres a curious calm in the normally pulsating heart of berlin on Tuesday Morning far fewer people than usual were out in about in the german capital foreign minister heiko must announced another unprecedented measure a travel warning for the entire planet and said no unnecessary trips should be made in addition the government will provide 50000000 euros so german citizens currently abroad can come home. Also i think the ministry of Foreign Affairs has agreed on a unique program with commercial airlines which will bring back german travelers from particularly affected areas within the next few days. We are talking above all about iraq o. The Dominican Republic the philippines egypt and the maltese in coordination with us airlines will make flights available for those. Pfluger. On monday drastic steps were announced to beat the virus shutting many shops apart from essential businesses such as food stores and pharmacies civic life is shutting down schools the actors and museums are being closed nationwide chancellor merkel germans to stay at home but strict controls on movement as in france have not been imposed so far that. Hes been on these measures are unprecedented in our country. They are severe but they are necessary. Limiting close contact will reduce the number of people falling ill which in turn will reduce the number of severe cases. As even childrens playgrounds are deserted many parents are having to stay at home to look after their families the government is offering them extra support thats just fewer fly endings in what were seeing is that many families are wondering about money issues they want to know how to deal with a drop in income this is a huge concern its not a private matter it needs to be resolved and the state has to help that if you understood. Politicians continue to search for the right responses to this rapidly evolving crisis machall and the other e. U. Leaders will come together to discuss it later on tuesday by video link all schools and Daycare Centers around the world have closed as far as his respond to the pandemic as more such matters are introduced but the parents have been wondering how to explain whats going on so that children know we didnt Prime Minister sahlberg even held a special Coronavirus Briefing just for kids why am i not allowed to celebrate my birthday there for the uk its because many people should not be gathered in order to prevent people from being infected or you can be a little bit extra creative and try to celebrate your face time with them or think of another way to celebrate you think its good. I think that if someone in the class has a birthday all the others should call and sing a birthday song individually to have something to do. So how should we talk to our children about this pandemic dr rod came as a child a clinical psychologist from the u. K. s university of southampton a she consulted on the parenting book whats my child thinking welcome to you dr many parents have i mean staying to try to shield their children not just from the virus but also from all the bad news about is that the right approach. It depends really i mean you dont want to shield them and pretend nothing is happening because children are very very clever and they figure out that things arent quite the same as they usually are but you dont want to overload it with too much information either because children think by things differently to adults and they worry about Different Things so whereas they may not need to know that by a chemistry of how korean viruses passed to impress internet or what they do want to know is like you know footage showed when i was going to have my best day and when i said we have to go my school trips so we need to give them enough information that they understand a little bit about what is going on but they dont need to know as much as we do adults and the reality of the situation is often when schools are closed or when the kids are not at school that go to their grandparents to be looked after. How do we explain to children that thats not happening this time without sort of warning them that granny is going to die. Yes and by explaining this is an illness that seems to particularly. Hit older people and people at risk so you want to protect gran and grandad from getting ill and reassure them that granny grandad are doing everything they can to stay safe and if you can stay in touch through skype or face time we could even write letters to them but that we might not see them for little while if your child asks well is does that mean grandads going to die we need to be very honest with our children and not make promises that we cant keep so you dont want to say of course he wont because you know we just dont know so you need to say what we doing everything we can to keep granddad safe and chances are hes going to be absolutely fine and we just need to know how much we still think about him even if we cant see him so theres a lot for children to take in and children tend to take their mission from parents if you are very anxious as a parent chances are your childs going to feel very anxious a go to try and stay very logical and rational as much as possible when youre with your children and dont let them watch too much news tonight than this into the news too much either just that they only get the information they need but i think thats thats very clear thank you so much for that dr rod can. About to close or most of its european plants as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts supply chains and demands protection of the companys workers the car maker also expects demand to plummet with customers in many countries staying home and away from dealerships production will be halted this week after volkswagen plants in spain portugal and slovakia as well as a lamborghini and katty plants in it i will be followed by a whole production in germany and other european plant management expects the break to last 2 to 3 weeks. We can look now at some more of the latest coronavirus developments iran has temporarily freed 85000 prisoners including political date detainees in response to the pandemic North Macedonia has been spurned its general election szechuan for the 12th of April Berland is planning a special hospital for patients with covered 19 with a capacity to treat a 1000 patients and with the chinese city where the virus was 1st detected reported just one new locally transmitted case on tuesday said another 28 new cases were reported in the rest of china but Authorities Say these can all be traced back to people returning from abroad the city of who has announced it all overseas return these must now go into quarantine for 14 days the 1st group of medical workers deployed to move out at the height of the leaving ive been supporting temporary hospitals after more than a month more than 42000. 00 Health Care Workers from across china have been dispatched to the region since the outbreak began that departure comes as chinese authorities begin to claim victory over corona virus. China has fought the coronavirus with unified strength and the crisis will soon be over at least thats according to the daily stream of news from chinas state television the drastic measures undertaken by the Chinese Government at the beginning of the crisis have led to a drop in new infections and thousands of patients have recovered many chinese factories have started up production again or at the moment we are at 70 percent of our capacity but that figure will increase dave idea. The World Health Organization has commended chinas response praised china again and again because its actually helped in reducing the spread of. This to other countries the construction of an Emergency Hospital in just 10 days impress the world the hospital was closed on the 8th of march with all patients fully recovered a fact that was proudly announced on Chinese State television. What state media doesnt report is that chinese president xi jinping already knew about the Virus Outbreak by january the 7th the public was only informed 2 weeks later chinese dr lee when young had already discovered the virus and warned of the dangers posed by it in december last year he received a warning from police and was forced to write an official apology he later became infected and died in early february. The. Other attempts by journalists and doctors to draw attention to the gravity of the situation were brutally repressed the whereabouts of several whistleblowers is still unknown. China has had success in battling the epidemic but with nearly 9000 people still infected the battle is far from over. We get more on this from. The World Health Organization that praising the chinese response. For example adopting the same down tactics. Well the challenges that china appears to have faced successfully are challenges that every country on the planet has a benchley i think going to have to face but the chinese model is not going to work equally well everywhere and i think the goals arent the same either i mean the draconian measures that china instigated have allowed it in teaching the pirates but at least for the time being but the experts here in europe Start Talking about containment actually a couple of weeks ago at this point its all about mitigation now the lockdowns were seeing in countries like italy and spain and france there are attempts at mitigation theyre just trying to slow down the spread of the virus enough to keep the Health System from kind of being completely overwhelmed and it sounds like actually like italy in particular is is right on the edge of that interestingly as we just heard in a replication of a measure that helped china 5 down make officials here in berlin announce the construction of this new hospital today with a 1000 for corona favorite virus patients ok just in some other coronavirus related news that the World Health Organization is warning us against taking ibuprofen if we think we have a corona virus why. Well this actually kind of an interesting story i mean like many of the people in the german speaking world i received this this is whats out message over the weekend made exactly this claim from a young woman who said the University Clinic in vienna had discovered this fact because there were no heart studies backing it up that was it was kind of being hushed up the University Clinic quickly call that fake news but then a few hours later the French Health minister basically issue a warning making the same claim now w. H. O. Is also saying that there might be something to it so theres still no firm Scientific Evidence that i would program does really indeed make a virus infection worse but the w. H. O. Has decided to treat the matter with caution and its recommending that people with copd 19 take paracetamol instead if youre in the United States thats what they call a c. The medicine i wear away all may development of a vaccine. Well yesterday there was an announcement of a 1st attempt at human human testing and seattle which is a hot spot in the u. S. And to explain a little bit more about that i should probably quickly run through how vaccines work in general generally but since the way that they work is they stimulate an immune response in the body by giving me a new system to recognize these very highly specific proteins that are displayed on a target have the germans our surface so a classic vaccine is generally made us who we can urge and that have vision that thats displaying no specific proteins or sometimes its made only those specific proteins right so the problem is growing by reason of large scale or producing but were proteins on large you know takes really a lot of time and it takes a lot of resources now this new vaccine candid