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Restaurant in New York: You can eat inside again
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New York restaurants are welcoming guests again
12:20 a.m.:
At the start of the pandemic, New York City suffered like few other cities from the corona virus.
A rigorous lockdown was the result, and public life is only slowly returning to routine.
It was announced three weeks ago that restaurants would be able to welcome guests indoors again at the end of September.
On Wednesday the time had come.
For the first time in months it was allowed to eat in restaurants again - but under specific rules.
The restaurants are only allowed to fill around 25 percent of normal capacities.
Tables must be two meters apart, staff must take the temperature of guests before they enter the restaurant, and counters must remain closed.
A few days ago, New York had more than 1000 new infections within 24 hours for the first time in months.
Accordingly, Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to ensure that the mask requirement is observed in public.
He announced that those who fail to comply could be fined $ 1,000.
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Restaurant in New York: You can eat inside again
Photo: Mark Lennihan / AP
Schools, cinemas and swimming pools in India should be allowed to reopen
00.15 a.m.:
Despite the increasing number of corona infections, all schools, cinemas and swimming pools in India should soon be allowed to reopen.
As announced by the Ministry of the Interior, all schools can gradually reopen from mid-October.
The decision is therefore left to the governments of the Indian states and territories.
In some states, classes for 14- to 17-year-old students started again last week.
The new announcement now applies to all schools.
However, the Ministry of the Interior continues to recommend online and distance learning.
Students should also not be forced to go to school.
In the Indian cinemas, only half of the seats should be occupied in the future, in the swimming pools it should be allowed to exercise again.
Brazil has over 1000 corona deaths
00.15 a.m.:
Brazil registered
1,031
corona deaths within 24 hours.
The Ministry of Health announced.
Accordingly, there were 33,413 new infections in the same period.
The country has a total of 143,952 corona deaths and 4.8 million infections.
34 million jobs in Latin America victims of the corona crisis
12:10 a.m.:
The International Labor Organization (ILO) of the United Nations estimates that around 34 million jobs in Latin America have fallen victim to the corona crisis.
The number was higher than the ILO's early August estimate that 14 million jobs had been lost in the region.
The organization urged countries in the region to immediately develop strategies to counteract the loss of jobs.
The Organization's director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Vinicius Pinheiro, called this "an unprecedented challenge".
The ILO estimate is based on data from nine countries that employ 80% of the region's workforce.
According to the organization, Latin America is one of the regions worldwide that have been hardest hit by the corona crisis.
Germany classifies other regions as corona risk areas
00:05:
Due to the high number of corona infections, Germany has classified Iceland and individual regions in nine other European countries as risk areas in addition to Belgium.
The Robert Koch Institute updated its risk list accordingly on Wednesday evening and included parts of Great Britain for the first time, including Wales and Northern Ireland.
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