When it comes to corona infections, there is still no country that has enough water in the USA.
Donald Trump may even have conjured up a superspreader event recently.
Now the country is tightening the rules for air travelers.
The
USA
records six-digit numbers of new
corona infections
every day
.
In addition to having most cases worldwide, the country also has more
deaths
than any other nation.
The US health authority CDC is expanding the corona tests to all air travelers.
This
news ticker
is updated regularly.
Update from January 13th, 7.56 a.m.: Air
passengers entering
the
USA
have to show a
negative corona test
from January 26th due to the pandemic
.
This must not have been made more than three days before departure, as the US health authority
CDC announced
on Tuesday.
Accordingly, airlines are only allowed to let passengers on board who can show a
negative test result
.
Coronavirus in the USA: Death numbers exceed dramatic daily figure
Update from January 13, 7:40 a.m
.: The number of corona deaths in the
US
has reached another sad record.
For the first time, the death toll of 4,000 was exceeded in one day.
4,470 people died within 24 hours
, according to data from
Johns Hopkins University
(JHU).
250,000 new corona infections
were recorded.
The USA is the country in the world hardest hit by the corona pandemic.
So far,
380,766 people have
died of or in connection with a corona infection.
22,846,796 people have been proven to be infected with Sars-CoV-2.
Corona in the USA: Another MP infected after the Capitol storm - allegations against Republicans
Update from January 12, 7:55 p.m.:
In the middle of last week, supporters of Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
After two MPs tested positive for the virus, another came on Tuesday.
Democrat
Brad Schneider
announced on Twitter that he had tested positive for the corona virus in the course of the Capitol storm.
Corona in the USA: Third MP infected - serious allegations against Republicans
Most of the parliamentarians were taken to safe rooms in the building during the attack.
However, they had
to
sit
close together
for several hours
until the situation resolved.
"Several
Republican
MPs in the room have consistently
refused
to wear a mask," wrote Schneider on Twitter and described the behavior towards the broadcaster MSNBC as "selfish and arrogant".
Unfortunately, I received a positive COVID-19 test this morning following being tested yesterday on the advice of the House Attending Physician.
- Rep. Brad Schneider (@RepSchneider) January 12, 2021
The two MPs
Bonnie Watson Coleman
and
Pramila Jayapal confirmed
positive corona test results
on Monday
.
As Jayapal says, several Republicans are said to have not only refused the masks, but also
made fun of
"colleagues and employees
who
offered them one".
The medical service of Congress had asked the MPs to test because they may have come into contact with infected colleagues.
Schneider got very clear and called for MPs who did not comply with health regulations to be escorted out of Congress.
He described the behavior of individual parliamentarians as “inconsiderate endangerment of their colleagues” and emphasized: “Wearing a mask is
not a political statement
”.
Corona in the USA: 283,204 new infections in one day!
Superspreader event in the Capitol?
First report from January 10th:
Munich - The US is heading towards the final days of a presidency that was unprecedented in many ways.
Because of the rhetoric of
Donald Trump *
.
And many of his political decisions, in which, at best, he had the
well-being of large groups of voters
in mind, but usually only
wanted to
polish up his own reputation
.
The
storming of the Capitol * by
his previously heated supporters on the day his election defeat to
Joe Biden
* was
officially approved
by the
Senate *
and the
House of Representatives *
was the
low point of the 45th US President's four years
in the
White House *
.
At the same time, this last momentous rebellion against the inevitable could make the start of the term of office much more difficult for his successor.
More than feared.
Corona in the USA: Was storming the Capitol a super-spreader event?
Because the assumption arises that some of the
Trump fanatics
could have
turned into super spreaders
.
Some wore masks during the gathering and the riots that followed, but there was no trace of distance or decency.
How much the event will be reflected in the
corona numbers
remains to be seen for the time being.
The virus waves that the
once self-infected Trump
never really cared about, at least not from.
According to
Johns Hopkins University,
283,204 new infections were registered
within one day,
and
3,534 other citizens in the country succumbed to Covid-19.
Video: Corona state of emergency in clinic in Los Angeles
Corona in the USA: Almost 22 million infected, soon 400,000 deaths
This means that the USA is expanding its
sad top position
in both statistics
.
Since the
beginning of the pandemic *,
more than 21.87 million
infections have been
reported, and it was fatal for more than 368,900 people.
Biden will have to stop this trend as quickly as possible.
And hope that there will be no
further mass marches
.
They can
not be ruled out
in the unmanageable situation in which the
oldest democracy in the world is
located around the change of power.
(mg, dpa) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network