Name: Coronavirus lockdown: different routes back to normal life - BBC News
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the European Commission has launched a global campaign to find a cure for the Corona virus.

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It says research must be supported by Global Corporation if the effort is to succeed just a few hours.

Three You secured $8 billion in pledges contributed by world leaders to accelerate the hunt for a vaccine.

$1 billion will come from the EU itself, which the commission president says will also go towards developing tests and treatment for Cove in 19.

The fourth, off May 2020 will mark a turning point in our fight against the Corona virus because today the world is coming together.

Governments from every continent will join hands and team up with global health organizations and other experienced partners.

The partners on many the gold is one to defeat this virus.

World leaders from 30 countries dulled into the summit, announcing their pledges one by one by video link, Norway committed $1 billion.

Angler Merkel and Emmanuel Macron pledged half a 1,000,000,000 from Germany and France each, while non EU members from the UK in Japan to Saudi Arabia and South Africa vowed to contribute to our Europe.

Correspondent Gavin Lee sent this update will be no coincidence that the people who make you're a vision, e b u.

Perhaps it makes up for the fact that it was mawr than a nod.

I think to the way that they were doing this with us.

Live on the lion crossing from Paris, Germany, saying Merci gracias to the French and Spanish prime ministers.

Many technical problems in there as well.

Ultimately, every time she crossed to one part of the globe, it was other prepare, recorded or life pitch.

There was a message from the leader, for example, Emmanuel Macron, French president, saying that this has to be for a vaccine that is universal for everybody to use.

In this, 7.5 billion or $8 billion has to be something that everybody can access, and it's affordable.

But with that came a pitch from every single country.

Well, one country notably absent from the summit was the U.

The Trump Administration says that thanks to its own efforts dubbed Operation Warp Speed, US is working urgently to develop a cure for the virus were last night, President Trump predicted that American firms would develop a vaccine by the end of the year, although he acknowledged the projection was his own Onda shorter timeline than the one doctors from his own administration are working with.

We're pushing very hard, you know, we're building supply lines now.

If you look at Johnson and Johnson is doing it, we have many companies.

I think close because I meet with the heads of him and I find it very interesting subject because it's so important.

But I think we'll have a vaccine by the end of the well.

Earlier, I spoke to our State Department correspondent Barbara Pet Usher, about what happened when the administration officials will talk today pressed and a briefing to explain why exactly the U.

Was not taking part in the scheme switch and to say they didn't give us a clear answer at all.

Instead, we were blasted by statistics about what they were doing and declarations that the U.

Is at the forefront of the international fight against Covered 19 the main international donor and you know the numbers are impressive.

They said $6.5 billion if you put together with the government and the private sector is giving towards fighting the pandemic.

They said that they were already giving money to many of these organizations for which the vaccine conference was raising money on that this was not about pulling back from multilateral institutions quite the reverse, that they were coordinating internationally with the G seven, the G 20 and that they would continue working together with European partners.

So all that sounded like an explanation for why they should be at the conference.

I mean, it might have been because of who was there.

And the Trump administration has really stepped up its criticism of China lately, accusing it of covering up information, crucial information at the beginning of the outbreak, which then led to it going worldwide.

But also the World Health Organization was there on.

The Trump administration has cut off the W.

O, saying it's not an effective body and that it should have challenged China about the information it was getting.

But I'm reading between the lines but Beetle, we were definitely not given a clear answer like that.

But But, you know, they have talked about Operation Warp speed, this vaccination program.

What are they saying about how that is going?

And you know what the research Intel's in general again.

We were told that they were extremely active on the vaccination front that they have been given, given billions and billions of dollars again both the government and the private sector towards vaccination development and research on drugs on DSO on and the point was made to them.

This is about international coordination for the development of a vaccine and rolling up the vaccine and shouldn't the USB there and again, they came back to us and said, Look, we put out reams of research on and resources.

So they said, 52,000 pages of scientific articles uncovered 19 which were being used around the world.

They had unleashed supercomputers that were being used in public private partnerships with technology companies on with universities, and this had led to dozens of research projects again that involved international participation.

So we did get a full throated description of the US being very active on this front, just not being active at a global conference on fight on finding a vaccine.

Now a raft of countries have started to ease their lockdowns.

In each case, the decision has followed the rate of infection beginning to fall was Aikens has been taking a look at what's happening is interesting.

Isn't it rolls to take a look country by country at their different tactics of dealing with this pandemic?

However, Bt yes, in the same way that the experience of each country has bean different on the death raids and infection rates have been different.

So the government responses, as those rates have fallen, are also proving to be different.

So let's start with Italy 4.5 1,000,000 Italians of market work today.

These restrictions are being eased, but only a little construction sites and parks are open again, and perhaps most importantly, people can visit relatives, though only if they live in the same region.

There's one big difference from life before everyone going out in Italy has to wear a face mask.

Let's hear from Naples in the south of Italy.

A nation that has shed so many tears alone can finally grieve together in Naples today, the first funerals allowed with a maximum of 15 people.

As Italy opens up being unable to say good bye.

All visit Graves has been one of the cruelest losses of the lock down as the world's longest shutdown of the pandemic starts to fade.

Outdoor exercise is now allowed, parks and some businesses are reopening, and relatives concede each other again with distance and masks.

So finally, people can come and visit the family members that they've been stopped from seeing for eight long weeks.

But it does present a danger because this train has come in from Milan, in the region of Italy, worst hit by the virus.

So with freedom comes hugely increased risk of spreading the outbreak.

Keep your distance there warned before everyone fills in a form to explain why they're here.

Europe's worst hit country is taking no chances.

Olivia De Santis last saw her daughter, who lives in Milan in January, resisting a motherly urges tough normality so near.

Yet so far it's been difficult to not to seek, not to see her.

Sorry, but the lock down has left deep scars.

We were taken by police to one of the roughest areas of one of the EU's poorest regions.

The worry here is of organized crime preying on poverty.

Carpenter Rafael s says with work stopped, he may have to sell his TV to get by.

There's been lots more crime since the lock down, he says.

Even kids dealing drugs and stealing cars since they need to eat through the Mafia has always exploited interest, moments of weakness.

They give people help, but then ask for drug dealing or money in exchange.

And this is what other countries to may face as they reopen from a lock down that is stopping the dying but killing the economy.

Mark Lowe and BBC News Naples Now his baby too, was saying Italy isn't the only country starting to ease its restrictions.

Let's see next from four BBC correspondents in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, first of all, his Adam Eastern in Poland.

Here in Poland, they're reopening museums, hotels and shopping centers like the one behind me, which had been closed.

Now for seven weeks, the number of customers is limited, and they must observe social distancing, where face coverings and protective gloves.

Poland was quick to introduce a strict locked down on the number of Corona virus infections and deaths here is much, much lower than in many Western European countries.