You for having me there have been concerns that i book profaned might have a situation if youre treating see the. 19 but theres very weak knowledge about this and very weak. Evidence sold the 1st reviewer lives it rich or she has not shown any evidence on this but were looking deeper into it during this time it might be recommendable double not to self medicate and thats what its all about dont self medicate it isnt sense check with your Health Care Provider check with your doctors and follow that advice ok lets talk about the response to the pandemic so far a china won praise from the w. H. O. For its efforts to contain covered 9 taking a countries here in europe doing enough. Yeah this is a an Interesting Development now just a few weeks to go. People were criticizing all over europe of the strong measures and then china indeed. As joe was. Kind of praising but not on the strong measures mainly the strong. Working on testing and treating and tracing of the patients as a combination of efforts which are importantly its the. Comprehensive approach of trying to limit any photo options for source human spread and of course larger gatherings and cafes and bars and restaurants are definitely a risk yes. And on the other hand dont forget to test feet and face every single patient thats important so in Europe Countries have now as weve seen many cases rising up in europe have seen the examples of china and they have shown good results in china hence many countries across europe and maybe across the world are looking at similar actions and so we just go back to the question i asked you do you think that they are doing enough. He said possibly no country is doing all the all the actions they could do a solo nobody is reaching 100 percent on the scale but that has to do with a lot of factors and its not easy to onset because in many cases were simply lacking material electing capacity were letting hospital beds were letting masks tests laboratories ventilators and in in hospitals Emergency Rooms and and so on so forth or even medical stuff so theres not one onset of this every country is stretching as far as they can and theres certainly just certainly more to do and testing testing testing is the utmost recommendation and should be at the forefront that were going to get to every single patient who is infected with this virus looking ahead how far do you think we ought from a vaccine. That it works in discussion is of course a strong will and cause its something we are looking forward to in order to release us from this from this virus and from this outbreak but again as the commentary just said before even if we had a successful candidate that scene tomorrow we will not have a vaccine before the end of the year not before 1218 months so while of course every development in the right ramos you know vaccines or treatment is welcomed we still have to look at the measures today and tomorrow because before we think about the day after to morrow even so there is a good talking to you thank you for joining us kristin lynn mine from the World Health Organization. Meanwhile the u. S. Trad treasury secretary stephen minu chin is to ask congress to approve an 850000000000. 00 emergency aid package to protect the u. S. Economy is being reported that these measures include plans to provide beliefs who brought us the airlines which have suffered the 10s of billions of dollars in losses due to the pandemic if approved the stimulus plan would also help Small Businesses stay afloat and cut taxes for millions of american workers. All fake news about the coronavirus is making the rounds online and on social media making it harder for authorities to inform people about what to do now social media giants Google Facebook and twitter partnering with Tech Companies like microsoft and apple as a go to try to fight misinformation of the public but its not easy. Videos of how italians are coping with a coronaVirus Outbreak shutdown went viral no surprise internet traffic increased 70 percent last week as italians stayed indoors amid the countrys lockdown according to Telecom Italia and while that could have been good news for social media firms its also bad news the irish Prime Minister leo varadkar has warned against the spread of unverified information and so has germanys ministry of health it encourages people not to share fake news. Meanwhile the u. K. Government has announced more funds to help fight fake news about the coronavirus not just in britain but also in africa and asia where it is working with bloggers. However beyond us maybe on social media firms which are currently struggling with staffing problems they have had to send workers home amid the coveted 19 pandemic. Take a look at more of the latest coronavirus developments britains than announced a Financial Aid for businesses affected by the pandemic amounting to more than 363000000000 euros of guarantees of germanys announced plans to double the number of intensive care places available so that patients suffering the effects of Novel Coronavirus can be treated iran has temporarily frayed 85000 prisoners in response to the pandemic and among them is nazanin is the guardian radcliffe a British National health since 2016 and the chinese city reservoirs was 1st detected as reported just one new locally transmitted case on tuesday. Its by this in of the 20 new cases were reported in the rest of china but these can all be traced to people returning from abroad the 1st group of medical workers deployed to. Abate been supporting temporary hospitals after more than a month or than 40000. 00 Health Care Workers from across china have been dispatched to the region since the outbreak began and. Began to claim victory over the coronavirus. 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 day by day. 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. Mark you what if 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. Well a year sports calendar has also been hit hard by of a pandemic the french open tennis tournament has been shifted from may to september and european footballs governing body you wait for has confirmed that the euro 2020 tournament will be postponed until next year its also put all of the mens and womens competitions on hold now it has been Holding Meetings with clubs and Member Associations today it hopes for spawning a europe 2020 means domestically will be able to play into maid to complete their seasons perhaps minimizing the Financial Impact on clubs. Another major football tournament this years copa america has been postponed because of the pandemic a south american football tournament had been originally scheduled to take place this summer in colombia and argentina starting on the 12th of june instead the 12 Team Tournament played next year from june 11th to the 11th of july as several other marquee players were expected to take to pot this year people like messi sergio and Naima Copa America it is the oldest International Football tournament of the world. And on to culture so how a top level musicians actors and Opera Singers responding. In concert venues in closed the bavarian state opera in munich has found one answer life streaming performances online. The bavarian state opera may be performing to empty seats but the music is still alive stop pianist eagle leavitt says its more difficult with no audience beyond 40 homes are playing to an empty auditorium and sharing music and thinking about how many friends and colleagues are struggling to make ends meet is not easy. By Live Streaming on state upper t. V. The bavarian state opera wants to send a message rehearsals a continuing performance artist Marina Abramovich was hoping to permeate her maria callas project in 3 weeks and were still hoping that maybe on the 20th of april we can have the public and see the work because for me when i perform public is a session its or otherwise i have to have a very good imagination the public is someone who has some space else for as long as audiences must keep away the performances will be strained selected productions and a growing number of artists at taking part in the initiative. They all agree that art has the power to heal. What you didnt lose a lot from but in german chancellor Angela Merkel is due to make a statement very shortly which we will bring to you live ahead of well hear from chief Political Correspondent melinda crane welcome melinda were presuming this is a coronavirus related and it was only yesterday but. President it measures against this pandemic so what should we expect today what she has been in Video Conference this afternoon with other e. U. Leaders so she may have some things to say about what they decided it was reported already yesterday that the e. U. Will essentially be shutting down its external borders to any form of incoming and outgoing and outgoing travel and i think were likely to hear her talk a little bit about that there has been a lot of pressure especially from french president mccraw for that measure to be taken beyond that its hard to imagine that she would announce a raft of new measures after the pretty strict ones that she did come up with yesterday on the other hand other countries are moving even to 2 more draconian measures for example as you know france spain italy all essentially have imposed curfews preventing people from leaving their houses for anything but the most urgent crucial matters now germany hasnt gone that far yet the chancellor made a very strong recommendation yesterday that people should stay home but if i travel around berlin at the moment with the beautiful spring weather were having i see a lot of people out in the cafes and the parks lined up at the Grocery Store definitely not social distancing so you could be forgiven for concluding that at some point this country too may want to think about even stricter measures than the ones its already taken a busy day for the child. Speak with the e. U. Leaders about corona virus the pandemic. Well a separate talks with the british french and took its leaders about syria thats right we dont actually know anything about the outcome of those talks we simply know that they have occurred but possibly she may have something to say about that as well though i would suspect as you said that this statement shes about to give will be more khurana related well what a source would be running today about this multi 1000000 euro plan for germany to bring a repub treated systems were stranded abroad indeed ive just been talking to the foreign minister about that plan and he said that indeed there are in fact tens of thousands of germans ranging from latin america to Northern Africa south africa maldives who essentially have no means of getting home because flights havent been cancelled because of travel bans in place so the government will be working together both with the German Military and with lufthansa with private carriers to repatriate these people as well as their family members who are not german citizens if needed possibly even other e. U. Citizens if theres enough room in the planes that this will become this will begin within the next couple of days and be ongoing given that it is a very large number of people in that anyone affected in case anyone out there is perhaps watching us from abroad anyone affected could contact either the Foreign Ministry or the local German Government representatives at the embassy in order to get more information about that lets talk about the situation here in germany with the Health Care Infrastructure as a coping infrastructure itself is pretty good this country has more hospital beds more intensive care units more respirators than any other country in europe and also per capita more so its well equipped on that front what it doesnt have and where there could be. Definitely bottlenecks is Adequate Health care personnel now but people in retirement people who are on vacation are all being brought back to help get ready the countrys taking other measures as well were hearing the berlins about to build a 1000 bed hospital at the trade fair grounds for hospitalizing people who have corona but that particular kind of infrastructure is not particularly useful unless you have the personnel who can help to take care of those people and that really is apparently going to be the crunch issue other than that the picture varies across the country the state of north rhinewestphalia its its state premier called the situation there today in public remarks dynamic and dramatic the numbers are somewhere around 3000 infected 12 deaths so far but in the past 4 days the number of infected has doubled so we do have an ongoing situation here and whats important to remember about germany as as good as the Health Care Services are and as much as theyre trying to prepare this is an aging population like the one in italy and those are definitely the most at risk people yes so what is the feeling amongst the germans about the way the government is handling this crisis so far polls are showing quite a bit of support for the measures that are being recommended somewhere around 80 percent of germans are saying they either are completely in agreement or largely in agreement with whats being done so i think what were seeing in general feel is that its taken quite a bit of time both for germany and for the e. U. As a whole to begin to really put measures in place and i think that is a product of the fact that these are open federalist stick governments whether at a you level or here in germany its taking time to get different. Parts of the government on board its taking time to get citizens on board but they are on board now if you look at the polls were seeing i want to ask you about just the issue of how much you think the chances hands are balanced by the fact that she cant impose her will as it were on the germany states fred federal systems are complicated and so were seeing a mix of recommendations requirements were seeing some states move faster and tougher than others but varia for example quickly declared an emergency situation which has allowed it to take especially strong measures so there is to some degree a patchwork but i think were seeing now much clearer messaging from the government and a much greater attempt to now come up with a coordinated response and that is absolutely crucial because of course this virus is here present in germany now we may as i said hear the chancellor talk about new restrictions at the e. U. Borders but nearly everyone is in agreement including the chief of staff of the e. U. Commission president that those kind of travel bans are by no means all that effective because the virus is now in the local community it is here in germany it is in every e. U. Country and therefore trying to shut down borders may have some marginal effect on slowing slowing the curve but its not going to make as much of a difference as the other kinds of measures weve been talking and its room of im going to work is remarkably consistent in her approach that will just about anything its interesting that in this these extreme circumstances when she made her statement yesterday douglas when she speaks in the next few minutes she made reference and probably will make reference to her working closely with a. You and International Partners for this is a chance of who everything is about weighing the options and then speaking to other people thats absolutely right and she proceeds for that reason sometimes more slowly than many people would like. But by the time she acts she does have the relevant actors on board as i said and you know she has been meeting in recent days with representatives of the Employers Association with representatives of labor groups with representatives of small or semi small and Medium Enterprises so theres really a push here to try to get that round table approach that germany and North