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Lots of mask violations on trains and at stations
4:05 a.m.:
According to a report by the Funke media group, corona infection protection is being violated
en masse
in the trains and stations.
In just two months, the federal police warned 145,000 people because they either wore the mouth-nose protection incorrectly or not at all.
In most cases, the travelers would have responded to the address.
On the other hand, in almost 2,500 cases, those addressed showed themselves unreasonable and continued to violate the mask requirement.
Here the police switched on the responsible health department "to punish possible administrative offense proceedings".
Too few freezers for corona vaccine
3:50 a.m.:
Eva van Pelt, head of the Hamburg laboratory technology manufacturer Eppendorf, criticizes the federal government: There is an urgent need for a plan how the vaccine can be cooled, stored and transported.
Read more here.
Ministry wants to secure up to 60 million rapid tests per month
1.55 a.m.:
The Federal Ministry of Health wants to secure 60 million rapid tests for the months from January to March, as reported by the Rheinische Post, citing a ministry spokesman.
Accordingly, it should be 40 million for the three months thereafter and 30 million monthly from the middle of the year up to and including December 2021. These rapid tests are to be delivered primarily to the health and care sector, as the newspaper reports.
Model for a life with the coronavirus
0.35 a.m.:
Sars-CoV-2 will not go
away anytime
soon, experts agree.
But how will we deal with the pandemic in the coming months?
Researchers have calculated two options.
Read more here.
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