Nonessential activities have been suspended and over sixties told to stay home. Italy is to extend its nationwide lockdown on till at least april 12th it is already been in place for 3 weeks the country is the worlds hardest hit by the corona virus with over 100000 infections and 11000 deaths. A painting by Vincent Van Gough has been stolen from a museum in the netherlands thieves broke into the singer lauren museum which is closed because of the corona virus. This is d w news from berlin for more follow us on twitter or visit our website w dot com. There are signs that the coronavirus pandemic in spain and italy may be starting to slow but in the u. K. The government today again warned things will get worse before they get better and across the atlantic in the United States predictions of 200000 deaths no lifting of restrictions until may at the earliest and and easter reality check for us president no sunday in america with churches full of people instead sundays in america with hospitals full of patients im burnt off in berlin this is the day. That you personally spent a considerable amount of time going over all the data why we felt this was a best choice of us and the president accepted it she took in about 2200000 deaths 2200000 people from the us we feel that the mitigation that we do