News of the day:

1.

Heat-free, no corona-free

While the youth are roasting in the sun at the climate protection demonstrations, parents watch the Spahn-Wieler show

"Fridays for Caution":

"It is not a question of whether

Delta will

become the leading variant, but when," warns the RKI boss today.

In autumn at the latest, according to Wieler's forecast, she will take over sovereignty in Germany.

No need to panic, the number of infections is falling, in many places the incidences are in the single digits.

But: Be careful in summer and avoid frustration in autumn.

My colleagues Heike Le Ker and Julia Stanek

talked

to

virologists and aerosol researchers

about

how vacation can be reasonably safe

and relaxed

despite the aggro mutant

, even for unvaccinated and semi-vaccinated

people. Tour operators assure that everything has been "prepared as best as possible" and promise "the greatest possible security", but that sounds to me as if the Chancellor was expressing her full confidence in a minister.

There are some things travelers can do themselves, some things are close at hand,

for example,

keeping

your

distance

, others are a matter of weighing up:

flying, taking the train or taking the car?

At the moment everything is justifiable, write Heike and Julia. Airplanes have by far the best air filters of any form of transport, a virologist tells them. Not only do you have to sit well on trains, but also your FFP mask, then the residual risk is low. And in the car it only gets a bit risky when you stop at overcrowded, poorly ventilated rest stops.

Otherwise, gnihi, you should follow these rules of thumb: Better a single holiday home than a hotel room, better beach or outdoor pool than indoor whirlpool.

If camping, avoid the crowds of washrooms at rush hour.

Masks are more important than Sterilium.

And not having the children looked after, even if it takes some effort after the homeschooling months and daycare emergency weeks.

• You will find the tips in detail here: How to protect yourself from Corona while traveling

• And here you can read what the spread of the Delta variant means for children

2.

Five friends and the UEFA own goal

Two exciters from Great Britain:

The

European football association Uefa is apparently threatening the British government

to move the final of the European Football Championship from London's Wembley Stadium to Hungary. As the news agency Reuters and the "Times" report, the authorities should relax the quarantine rules so that sponsor representatives can enter more relaxed. That could be an epidemiological own goal. (More here.)

There is new excitement over old

racism allegations against the children's book author Enid Blyton

("Five Friends"). The English Heritage organization, which manages historic houses and cherishes the memory of their famous residents, has updated the entry on its website about the writer, who died in 1968, the Daily Telegraph reported this week. There it is now said that Blyton's work had been criticized because of its "racism, its xenophobia and because of its low literary value." Conservative media reacted indignantly that Blyton had become a victim of the so-called cancel culture, wrote the Daily Express. Great outrage. The entry for Blyton had already been changed in July 2020. The summer slump is early this year. (More here.)

3.

"Fear the Walking Debt" - the review

A year

ago

today, the former stock market

star Wirecard had to

admit that 1.9 billion euros were missing, and dragged his way through the summer of 2020 as a Dax zombie. Meanwhile, the undead group is being dismantled like in a splatter movie, the insolvency administrator sells parts of the company.

The core business itself, however, no longer twitches;

The criminal investigations and the political reappraisal are all the livelier.

The alleged fraudsters are exposed, their helpers and overseers exposed.

One of the bizarre figures is key witness Oliver B.

, says my colleague David Böcking from our economic department, "even if the choice is difficult". It is said of B. that he chauffeured company guests over the autobahn at a speed of 200 and racing helmets. "The

fleeting deputy chief Jan Marsalek

was also a very colorful figure

with his contacts to secret service agents and irregulars from the former Soviet Union," says David. "The scandal was filmed several times, but before the revelations some scenes would probably have been deleted from the scripts as being too overdone." My colleague Martin Hesse reports on the latest plot twist:

Some ex-Wirecard managers are demanding millions from the bankruptcy estate, at least one out of custody.

• Here you will find an overview of twelve key figures in the Wirecard scandal: Black Thursday in Aschheim

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What else is important today

• Apparently, several right-wing extremist incidents with the Bundestag police:

  Hitler salute and anti-Semitic slogans: According to a report, several Bundestag police officers are said to have made right-wing extremist statements or acted unconstitutional.

  Bundestag President Schäuble announced an examination.

• Germany is the European heat champion:

  At the weekend, the temperatures in Germany climb back to over 30 degrees.

  But meteorologists also warn of violent storms.

• Expert group recommends the Olympics in camera:

  A few weeks before the start of the Summer Olympics, it is still unclear whether the competitions in Japan will be allowed to take place in front of spectators.

  Government advisors are critical of fans in the arenas.

• 82 million people have been displaced from their homeland:

  wars, droughts, economic hardship in the pandemic.

  The UN reports a new all-time high of displaced persons and refugees worldwide.

  Some have been stuck far from home for years.

My favorite story today: heroic deed on the A4

Great world politics, profound corona reports, everything is important.

But I was particularly impressed by a maneuver that Corporal Denis Gebhardt, 29, performed this week on the A4 between Gotha and Erfurt: On the way home from the barracks, he noticed on Wednesday evening that the driver in the car in front of him had passed out has, her seven-year-old son turns on the hazard lights with presence of mind.

The police describe what follows as “ready for a movie”: Gebhardt sits down next to the car at 70 km / h with his Skoda Octavia and carefully pushes it into the right lane, “side mirror to side mirror to keep the damage to a minimum and not too much force as he told my colleague Alexander Preker on the phone.

The soldier looked calm and sober, says Alex, and he has shown himself to be modest.

With the braking maneuver, Gebhardt rescued the woman and her son from an emergency.

Simply because he felt responsible and intervened.

Don't look the other way, act.

Sorry, that sounds a bit like a word about Sunday.

But it's also the weekend now.

• Read the full story here: "I just acted"

What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +

• The miracle weapons for a healthy life:

  The vaccine success of Biontech and Moderna is just the beginning - doctors and researchers want to use the revolutionary mRNA technology to defeat the greatest ailments of humanity.

  Can it work?

  The SPIEGEL cover story.

• "You can earn a lot of money with intensive care medicine":

  Heyo Kroemer, CEO of the Berlin Charité, explains here how some clinics made the business of their lives during the pandemic - and how devastating the German corona blind flight actually was.

• Is that the man who can solve the national team's problems?

  Before the next European Championship game against Portugal, many hopes rest on Leon Goretzka.

  The Bayern professional would combine dynamic forward and discipline behind.

  But the national coach hesitates.

• "How many Germans do you need to change a lightbulb?":

  Satirist Jan Böhmermann reveals who he would like to have dinner with and which question he can no longer hear.

Which is less important today

• Screen-free upbringing

  : US actress

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  , 48, believes her daughter Apple, 17, has never watched one of her films, she told NBC.

  Her son Moses, 15, probably knows the "Iron Man" series in which she plays, but his sister thinks the idea of ​​seeing his mother on the screen is strange.

  She doesn't like it either: "I hate, hate, hate to see myself in a movie."

Typo of the day

, corrected in the meantime: "The judgment is not yet final."

Cartoon of the day:

China

And on the weekend?

Could you follow a recommendation from my colleague Oliver Kaever and use

»Luca« to

check into a world of Italian ease and joie de vivre.

No, not with the app in the trattoria you trust (and there is nothing against it), but in the new Pixar animated film, which is also called "Luca" and is available from today at Disney +.

"A light summer joke about a boy who is actually a sea monster and who discovers the world on land," says Oliver.

"With sun-drenched images that allow us a deep look into ourselves, and an astonishingly emotional finale." (Click here for the film review, you can find the film here.)

With this in mind: check in, preferably outside.

You nice and relaxing days.

Next week my colleague Wolfgang Höbel will write the »Situation in the Evening«.

Sincerely

yours, Oliver Trenkamp

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