turn to Spain now husband a big increase
in the number of coronavirus deaths 462
more people died in the last day that
takes the total number of people killed
by the virus to more than 2,000 Spain
has recorded the fourth largest number
of cases and has imposed a nationwide
lockdown in response let's go live to
Madrid and we can speak to guy hedge Co
our correspondent their guide just tells
more about these numbers
well it's continuing a trend that we've
seen over the last few days whereby
infections continue to increase and
accelerate as have the deaths you
mentioned that figure of well over 400
more deaths in the last 24 hours that
was an increase on the the weekend
figure we saw which was around 400 more
deaths from between Saturday and Sunday
so there was obviously enormous concern
about that the number of deaths that
we're seeing in Spain which is
relatively high compared to other
countries can at least partly be
attributable to the fact that the corona
virus has been spreading through
retirement homes where obviously you
have a very vulnerable group in the
elderly population there but also it's
very much concentrated in certain areas
of the country particularly here in
Madrid which has seen well over half of
the deaths so far and is there any more
breakdown in terms of the age group is
it mostly the elderly who are losing
their lives and also do we know in terms
of the time lag was the lockdown imposed
due to weeks ago
I obviously that there's always a gap
isn't that between how strict these
clamping down measures are and then what
happens to the population as a result
yes I mean regarding the age groups of
those who have been killed by the virus
it's very much over 60s certainly people
under the age of 60 there have been some
deaths there was a 52 year old nurse
from the basque country last week who
died but that's relatively unusual but
it is very much older people but also
health professionals are being infected
at quite a high rate one in 10 of those
who are infected are health
professionals now the lockdown began
just over a week ago the weekend before
last so it's
been in place eight or nine days or so
the government says that it hopes to
start seeing the benefits of that
lockdown which means you could not leave
your house at all unless you have a
specific reason it hopes to start seeing
those benefits in the coming days but at
the same time we're likely to see a
continued increase in a number of
infections and a number of deaths in the
coming days as well which is putting a
lot of pressure on the Health Service
okay gosh Khomeini Thanks while the
pandemic is far from over there is some
positive news emerging from Germany the
number of confirmed cases is over 26,000
with a hundred and eleven deaths but the
head of Germany's Public Health
Institute says the number of new cases
may be slowing down the flattening of
the curve as some people described it
take a listen
via Xion einen trend we're seeing signs
that the exponential growth curve is
flattening off slightly but I will only
be able to confirm this trend
definitively on Wednesday but I'm
optimistic that the measures are already
having an effect which is very early
because they've only been in place for a
week Kevin Lee is in brothels just Gavan
just to pick up on those germany figures
but in contrast to spain germany was
also credited with doing more testing I
think quite early on wasn't it
you know the capacity in Germany is
quite incredible actually comparatively
to the rest of Europe they're able to
test up to 160 thousand people a day and
that was one of the the reasons there
are suggested to be several why the
death toll is so comparatively low 106
people in Germany with more than 26,000
cases when you've seen Italy for example
60,000 cases five and a half thousand
people dead of coronavirus being the
fact that people have tested so
thoroughly so quickly in Germany they've
managed to get the virus testing kits
out to a lot of people and also now
Germany is famed for its standard of
health care in Europe and we're starting
to see that like the health a head of
the Health Service in Germany just said
there that they are still not sure it's
a cautious optimism as to whether the
curve will start to go down because
Germany I think is the the sixth highest
level in the
now in terms of coronavirus cases of
course we now know that the Chancellor
64 year old Angela Merkel is among those
now in quarantine after her vaccinations
doctor she had a flu jab on Friday
the doctor has coronaviruses she is in
isolation let's look at as well as some
of the other countries guy was talking
about Spain but Italy for a moment I
mean the case is there there's been a
similar small note of optimism by the
the government they're saying that
whilst the rise over the weekend was
terrifying in terms of the deaths
five-and-a-half thousand deaths a
thousand of those at the weekend the
curve that trajectory of cases per day
went down to nine percent so they are
hoping there that that curve slows with
Giuseppe Conte the prime minister says
this is that key week they've closed
down all non-essential businesses have a
massive effects on economy of course
PITA
up until the third of April that too I
mentioned as well for a country and of a
reason we haven't mentioned as much
about the Baltics and Estonia most of
those countries Lithuania Latvia Finland
for example of all close the borders now
to non-residents over the weekend the
Finnish said to the Estonians that there
are 20,000 who commute by ferry each
week said pick a side you either stay in
Finland or stay in Estonia and so 20,000
people have decided roughly decide to
stay in Estonia cannot get across to
work in Finland the case is there about
356 way higher than Lithuania and Latvia
part of the reason there is a an island
called sanam eyes the biggest estonian
island where a volleyball team from
milan played there two weeks ago it is
now seen as the hot spot in estonia and
the island is in complete quarantine and
i don't to ask you to speculate outside
what we know but obviously for example
the UK is looking at being behind a two
weeks behind italy from what you can see
across europe does it look like you put
lockdown measures in and then you do get
the results about two weeks later and
we're still waiting to see if that's the
case I mean look at Spain and Italy the
highest cases still frightening levels
of deaths and still frightening levels
of cases rising we're not seeing
anything clear either in France as well
they've probably had a bit less time
we're talking about 16,000 cases in
France now more than
thousand deaths there and the
enforcement just to give a sense of what
might be coming in the UK if the domino
effect continues in terms of the
measures as it has a week or so behind
there have been more than 100,000 French
police in car by helicopter using drones
as well and in Belton with messages to
stay apart or stay in there have been
90,000 penalty fines for people
breaching those orders people being
caught on benches eating food pastries
in one circumstance eating drinking
beers up side cafes you know this is a
real strict enforcement now people in
France being told you cannot leave your
area unless you have documents even for
walking a pet for example to prove it
okay Keaveney thanks very much indeed
for that