Many medics air testing positive for the virus on that's threatening staff shortages.

Belgium is expected to record a daily rate of 20 0 new infections by next week.

WAY do have a significant influx of covert 19 patients due to the second wave that we in Belgium all hoped to avoid way.

Therefore, the intensive care department gradually fills up.

So far, half of our patients are infected with the coronavirus to varying degrees.

Millions of Britons have headed into lock down as coronavirus measures become increasingly stricter.

The whales government has ordered its three million residents to stay at home after six PM in Scotland, most of the country's bars and restaurants are closed until at least the third of November.

I don't see any other Rio, so although we like the restrictions, the pubs that you can't socialize, can't even meet people's house.

This is a glass of wine or anything, but I just sort of shot in the shoulder, just go along with it.

NAVARRA Spain has banned most travel into and out off the region and closed all restaurants and bars.

Its infection rate is three times the national average.

The capital, Madrid, has been under a similar lock down for the past two weeks and now faces a night curfew between midnight and 6 a.m. Spain became the first Western European country to exceed one million cases earlier this week on its death toll.

Like so many other nations continues to claim, Ah, worrying milestone in the coronavirus pandemic has been passed here in Germany.

A total of more than 10,000 people have now died from Cove in 19 here.

This follows a sharp rise in cases in recent weeks, and you record and daily new infections has also been set just in the last 24 hours.

With more than 14 0 new cases reported to a peak in mid April, the daily death toll was much lower over the summer.

For most of July, August and September, Corona deaths in any 24 hour period were in single figures In the last two weeks, The mortality rate has begun to rise sharply, but there are hopes it may not return to the level it reached earlier this year.

We had a very high death toll in the springtime, especially for the elderly, and now we have.

Our morbidity rate is higher in the younger population and that explains why the mortality rate is lower because younger people do not succumb by covert 19 they usually get sick, sometimes also very severe, severely sick.

However, they usually do not diet.

Compared with some other countries.

Fewer people in Germany have died from the disease.

The number of deaths per million of population is 120.

Neighboring France has seen more than four times that death rate.

Meanwhile, China and India have reported much lower numbers of fatalities per head of population.

Those figures show Germany may have dealt well with the virus so far, but infections are also rising again more steeply than deaths.

Experts are increasingly concerned as they look towards the coming months.

We don't know how the infection situation will develop.

We have to assume that the number of serious cases will increase and that the number of deaths will also rise well.

With me in the studio now is D W political correspondent Hans Bronze.

Hello to you Hans, So 10,000 dead in Germany from cove in 19.

That's 10,000 families who are suffering.

What are the implications of Germany passing this milestone?

Of course, you can say it's just a symbolic number.

It doesn't have any meaning in itself, but it is a signal.

It's, Ah, warning signal to the German society to the German population that not only other infections increasing again very, very quickly, but also the number of deaths are increasing exponentially.

The number of deaths are increasing in parallel to the number off infections on board.

So there has to be the continued appeal to the population to heed the rules, toe wear, masks to stick toe hygiene protocols and so on.

One has to say that Germany is not as badly affected as other countries, but these are tens off thousands of people who have been affected by somebody dying in their family.

That's right.

We could even say Germany was perhaps very lucky.

It didn't suffer nearly as badly as other European countries, even, But we're seeing this increase now very sharp increase.

So what's causing that?

I think what you have to say is that the first wave was overcome or was stopped, in a sense by using the most heavy measure that was available a total lock down of the country on bond.

As a result, the number of infections did get reduced very quickly and people then have thought, well, this is over that the virus has in some sense being defeated on.

During the summer months, the lockdowns were obviously relaxed.

People relaxed, They went into gatherings, they had parties and so on on Daza result as the autumn started as the full season started here in the Northern Hemisphere, people continue to go into parties to go into bars, to meet in clubs and inside in locked in closed rooms.

That is a very dangerous behavior, and that's the result of what we're seeing now.

Well, Hans Germany's chancellor has been speaking out to the public about the coronavirus pandemic.

She again called on Germans to help fight the rising infection rates.

Let's have a quick listen to what she had to say way.

We're not helpless in facing the virus.

Our actions determine the strength and speed at which it spreads on.

The imperative thing is for all of us to reduce contact to meet fewer people.

If we all stick together, we will meet the enormous challenge posed by this virus.

Christine So Hans Angela Merkel.

They're stressing the importance of individual responsibility, which I found very interesting.

So does that mean she's not about to impose a nationwide locked down and response to the search?

That is something that the government is trying at all costs to avoid a nationwide locked on.

Instead, one is trying, at the moment, to focus the measures mawr on areas where the numbers off infections are in danger of getting out of control.

So there's at least one area and Germany and southern Bavaria, which at the moment has a local lock down already.

But what she's saying is that everyone in Germany has the responsibility to to actually stick to the rules, and what she's been doing has been very unusual.

She has been accused of being alarmist, but in fact her warnings have proven correct.

And a week ago, in a in a weekly podcast, she criticized the regional leaders in Germany, saying that they're measures were not strict enough.

And now this week, in her podcast, what she is, in fact, done is repeated her podcast of last week.

So she's really raising her finger to the population and saying, Stick to these rules.

Be careful.

There's still a chance of getting this under control if you where mosques wash your hands, stay away from people and do not go into gathering well.

Here's hoping that people actually heed the warnings from the chancer.

Brandt.

Thank you very much.

Always good to talk to you.

And here's a look at some other developments in the global health emergency.

Poland's president, Andre Duda, has tested positive for covert 19 as the country faces a record rise in cases, a spokesperson said Duda is feeling well.

Chechnya has also hit a record number of daily infections.

On Friday, more than 15,000 new cases were counted in the country and Japan's government is asking businesses to extend their New Year holidays until mid January.