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  • best has garden, a land in Bavaria, a mountainous, it'll on the Austrian border, now the number one coronavirus hotspot in Germany.

  • The number of new cases there in the last week is five times above the threshold for a high risk area.

  • As of Tuesday, locals air back in lock down on only allowed to leave their homes with a valid reason.

  • The number of new daily cases in Germany is rising nationwide.

  • With the South and the West worst hit, more than 129 areas are now deemed high risk.

  • As the second wave hits, Berlin authorities are urging people to wear masks in all crowded places where social distancing isn't possible.

  • Masks a compulsory it markets while queuing and on some shopping streets.

  • For now, the public is largely remaining calm.

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  • Of course we're afraid, but not in the sense that you think about it all the time.

  • But we're protecting ourselves, just like before.

  • E still live with my parents, so I won't go panic buying.

  • But I already found it bad the first time around, this time too.

  • E think we're better prepared this time around, compared to the first time I see how people are behaving and it's much better but what it means for us.

  • I'm in Berlin for the first time in 10 months on of course I'm a bit afraid for in political spheres, pressure is growing from or involvement of the parliament in coronavirus decision making.

  • Bundestag president Wolfgang Shiebler wrote to MPs on Monday, saying that Parliament's rollers lawmaker must be more distinct in the handling of the pandemic.

  • Ah polite reminder that in Germany's democracy, Parliament makes the laws, not the government.

  • Mhm and we're joined now here in the studio by Excuse me, we're joined from bashes Garden Island by Yulia South Delhi Um, Julia, tell us, why are infections there so high?

  • Well on Monday, when the lock down measures were announced, minister president of Bavaria's ODA suggested that it all could be connected to a party that happened here in the area.

  • Others have alleged that the clothes do area of cushion in Austria, which has been a hot spot and has been put into lock down since last week, could have also been a source of new infections.

  • But local authorities here are saying that there is no clear indication that one event triggered the spread of the virus.

  • It is a widespread event.

  • The virus is everywhere here and they can't trace it back toe.

  • One single event.

  • How are people there coping with the lock down?

  • Well, people here are going about their business.

  • They are walking their dogs, They're going to the bakery and shopping.

  • They're doing what they are allowed to dio.

  • They say that they are okay with the new restrictions with the stay at home order.

  • If that helps bring the infection numbers down, obviously they're not very excited of having to spend more time at home.

  • But what they say is that they're lucky that they live in a beautiful, mountainous area that they are still allowed to go out for walks.

  • Tell us a little bit more about the local economy because it's highly dependent on tourism.

  • What does that mean for the lock down?

  • The situation is troubling for people here.

  • Many own hotels have businesses, restaurants or shops, and what we have seen today is a lot of these, um, situations where they are closed.

  • We have seen hotels locked down restaurants close, and that is a big loss in income for the owners.

  • 2500 tourists were here and had to leave suddenly yesterday at 2 p.m. When the lock down came into effect.

  • And people are worried that these two important weeks where ah lot of people are in holiday it is a school fall holiday season that a lot of these, uh the money that was meant to come in won't and that they will have lost it.

  • Thank you so much.

  • Dws Yulia Sal Delhi, reporting from Bosch's Garden Island We appreciate it way go first to Spain, which is nearing one million cove in 19 infections.

  • Standing by for us in Sevilla is DWS John Philip Schultz.

  • Um how is the country?

  • They're coping with the latest strike?

  • Well, the situation here in Spain it's once again very tense.

  • And what makes it even worse is that the pressure on the health care system is rapidly increasing.

  • I received a message from a medical doctor who works in a local hospital here in severe yesterday, and what she wrote really sounds like a cry for help.

  • Let me just quote a few sentences, she writes.

  • I'm sending you this message because he at the hospital were deeply worried.

  • The numbers have skyrocketed, skyrocketed the emergency unit of schools.

  • It's horrible, and it will get even worse.

  • I'm not alarmist industrial estate, and she also says that she feels that in the coming days, even going to get worse.

  • So I'm afraid.

  • No good news at all here from ST Yon, full of Schultz in Spain and Belgium, is also one of the Corona hotspots in Europe, with new restrictions in place since Monday.

  • Barbara Veysel standing by in Brussels.

  • How's the Belgian government trying to get the outbreak under control?

  • The Belgian government is desperately trying to stave off a second riel lock down.

  • So they've closed all bars.

  • Restaurants said they have put out a nightly curfew.

  • You're not supposed to go out at night at all any more limited the sale of alcohol, everything we've already seen in France.

  • But they also appealing to its citizens to sort of stick to the rules.

  • You're not supposed to meet more than one other person here outside of your direct family, and so they're really playing for time.

  • But the figures seem to be running away for them.

  • They've seen a 70% increase of new infections throughout the last 10 days.

  • And they also fear that by mid November all their emergency beds in the hospitals could be full, so desperate holding measures, and they don't know yet whether this is going to work.

  • Barbara in Brussels, Thank you, and Poland was praised for successfully controlling the virus in March.

  • In April, Olivia Cortes is in Warsaw.

  • What's the situation now?

  • The situation at the moment, it's really alarming.

  • Earlier this year, in spring, Poland introduced one off the earliest and toughest lockdowns off all of Europe and was hit less hard.

  • However, right now the government is failing to curb the infection rates.

  • We hear more and more reports from hospitals that cannot take patients anymore.

  • And at the moment the government even turned the National Stadium in Warsaw into a field hospital.

  • We hear reports that similar emergency entities will be established in the rest of the country.

  • The system is not breaking down yet, but we expected to reach its limits in a couple of weeks.

best has garden, a land in Bavaria, a mountainous, it'll on the Austrian border, now the number one coronavirus hotspot in Germany.

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