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Coronavirus news on Saturday: the community in Lower Saxony is running out of water

2020-08-08T17:41:06.184Z


Because many citizens in Lauenau did not travel because of the pandemic, water consumption there has risen sharply. Nothing works now. And: Danish slaughterhouse closes for a week after the corona outbreak. The overview.


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At the Lauenau fire station, containers with process water, for example for flushing toilets, have been set up, which citizens can pick up

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Karliczek : Wear masks in school where distance is not possible

5:50 p.m.: Federal Education Minister Anja Karliczek (CDU) has asked "that mouth and nose covers should be worn at school if the distance rules cannot be adhered to". She said that to the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung". In view of the corona pandemic, she sees schools facing challenges such as "perhaps never" existed.

"Now, understandably, many would like to return to face-to-face teaching. Personal encounters are indisputably of particular importance for learning success," Karliczek is quoted as saying. Disadvantaged students in particular suffered particularly from the school closings. "Because we are not yet achieving them well enough with digital learning formats." With digital teaching and learning, progress has been made, even if not all goals have been achieved: "The crisis has also shown us the opportunities digital learning formats offer," said Karliczek.

Paris also makes mask compulsory outdoors

5.40 p.m.: In view of the increasing number of infections, Paris is tightening the mask requirement. As of Monday, the mouth and nose will have to be covered outdoors in certain parts of the French capital, the authorities said. The exact locations are to be announced and a corresponding list will be updated regularly.

Danish slaughterhouse closes for a week after the corona outbreak

5.30 p.m.: After a corona outbreak with dozens of infected employees, a slaughterhouse in Denmark is temporarily closed. After another 22 employees tested positive for Corona, the company in Ringsted will initially be closed for a week from Monday, the meat processor Danish Crown announced on Saturday. This should try to break the chains of infection within the staff.

Almost 150 Danish Crown employees in Ringsted have now tested positive for the corona virus. Danish Crown had been informed about a first corona case among the approximately 850 employees in Ringsted almost two weeks ago. Around 35,000 pigs are usually slaughtered weekly in the farm there, but this has already been reduced significantly as a result of the outbreak.

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Everyone at home because of Corona - Lower Saxony community is running out of water

5 p.m.: In the Lower Saxony municipality of Lauenau, the water supply collapsed after warm days and during the corona pandemic, the Rodenberg municipality announced on its website. The purchase volume in the private sector has increased drastically - even compared to other peak times, said Mayor Georg Hudalla (non-party). "Otherwise people would be away in the summer and now they are at home." The drinking water storage tank can no longer be completely filled overnight. So he ran to zero on Saturday afternoon. "It can happen when people open the tap: it really doesn't come off," said the mayor. The NDR had previously reported.

Containers with process water, for example for flushing toilets, have been set up at the fire station, which citizens can collect. For this purpose, fire fighting vehicles distributed their fire water in the districts. People have to buy drinking water in the supermarket. Almost 4,000 people are affected. According to the mayor, it is unclear when the problem could be solved.

Danish region only allows one visitor per patient

4.40 p.m.: Due to an increase in the corona numbers, a region in Denmark is again restricting the options for visiting patients in the hospital. From now on, only one companion or visitor per patient will be allowed, announced the Central Jutland region (Midtjylland) on Saturday. Children's wards are excluded. Two companions are allowed here.

All patients and hospital visitors must also wear face masks unless they have a negative corona test. General mask requirements do not apply in Denmark. The country responded to the coronavirus outbreak early and strictly in March, quickly bringing its infection and death rates under control. For a few days, however, the numbers have been increasing again, among other things due to an outbreak in Aarhus in central Jutland.

Bundeswehr supports corona tests at four airports

4.20 p.m.: Soldiers are currently deployed at four airports in Germany to support local employees with the corona tests of travelers returning, the Bundeswehr said in response to a request from SPIEGEL. Ten soldiers are currently deployed at Bremen Airport, 40 in Berlin-Tegel, eight in Frankfurt-Hahn and, since Saturday, 100 at Frankfurt Airport. The deployment at the four locations is initially planned for several weeks each, in Bremen until October 25, in Frankfurt-Hahn until the end of September. The number of soldiers deployed and the implementation periods could be adjusted at any time. At first, the Bundeswehr had been at the airport in Bremen since last month.

The Bundeswehr takes on administrative tasks at the airports such as collecting disembarking cards or scanning and sending documents. In addition, the execution of the tests is supported, also by taking smears, announced the responsible head of unit. The enforcement of the ordered measures is the responsibility of the police and law enforcement officers.

Since Saturday, travelers returning from risk areas have had to be tested for the corona virus upon entry. Alternatively, a negative test result that is no more than two days old can be submitted. Vacationers from non-risk areas can also be tested free of charge. A list of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) lists the countries that are considered risk areas.

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Travelers are waiting for the coronavirus test at Frankfurt Airport. Bundeswehr soldiers support the test center with administrative tasks

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Corona test obligation at airports started largely smoothly

4:09 p.m.: The corona test obligation for returnees from risk areas, which has been in force since Saturday, initially did not cause any problems at many German airports. At the largest German airport in Frankfurt, numerous returnees made compromises on the first day of the mandatory test. The operators of the test centers do not see any problems. "That is slightly more than in the past few days," said Benedikt Hart, head of the test center operated by the German Red Cross (DRK) at the airport, to the dpa news agency. "People understand. There are no disgruntled passengers."

At Hanover Airport, longer queues formed in front of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (JUH) test center at noon, as a spokeswoman for the Lower Saxony / Bremen state association announced. A total of over 1000 tests are expected for Saturday. In the past few days, the center, which was set up a week ago for initially voluntary tests, recorded an average of 700 to 900 tests.

According to the responsible social authority, there were no problems on Saturday at Hamburg Airport. Passengers returning to Germany from holiday countries with high numbers of infections would have had to wait no longer than 30 minutes for the smear, even at peak times, said a spokesman for the authorities. However, not all travelers would have used the free service at the airport.

Survey : Clear majority rejects demos against corona measures

3:55 p.m.: The demonstrations against the measures to protect against infection with the coronavirus are rejected by a large majority of the population according to a survey. In a survey published on Saturday by the Forsa Institute on behalf of Mediengruppe RTL of 2502 respondents, 91 percent said they did not understand the protests. According to the "RTL / ntv trend barometer", only nine percent expressed their approval. A clear majority (87%) also believed that the people who took to the streets against the measures represent only a minority of the population.

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According to the survey, supporters of almost all parties share the lack of understanding for the demos, with one exception: 59 percent of AfD supporters said they welcomed the anti-corona protests. The demos in two age groups met with particularly strong rejection: 93 percent of those over 60 and 94 percent of 18 to 29 year olds said they had "no understanding" for the protests against corona measures.

Anti-Corona demonstrations are planned again for the weekend (read more about this in the entries at 3:31 p.m. and 3:09 p.m.).

Tschentscher : Corona demo like in Berlin would be banned in Hamburg

3:31 p.m.: A demonstration like that of the opponents of Corona rules in Berlin with around 20,000 participants would, in the opinion of Hamburg's Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD), never be allowed in the Hanseatic city. "Demonstrations on such a large scale as in Berlin and without the necessary precautions to protect against infection are not justifiable, regardless of the embassy. We would not allow that in Hamburg," Tschentscher said in an interview with "Welt am Sonntag".

It is not about negating the right to demonstrate. Democracy is not overridden. "But we expect, and this has also been confirmed by the courts, that in each individual case the interests of the registrants of a meeting are weighed against the necessary protection against infection."

Thousands of people protested against the corona restrictions in Berlin last weekend. Read more about this in the following entry (3:09 p.m.).

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"We would not allow that in Hamburg", Mayor Peter Tschentscher on the large demonstration by Corona opponents on August 1st in Berlin

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Several hundred participants in demos against corona measures in Stuttgart

3:09 p.m.: According to the police, several hundred people took part in a rally against the Corona policy in Stuttgart on Saturday. They then ran from Marienplatz in the city center to another rally in the lower palace garden, as a police spokeswoman said. The demonstrators tried to keep the prescribed distances, that worked "on the whole quite well". The police are so far satisfied.

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There were 500 participants registered for the first rally under the motto "lateral thinking 711". A total of 1500 participants are registered for further events under the motto on Saturday in the capital of Baden-Württemberg. Demonstrators showed banners with inscriptions such as "With a mask - without me" or "We saw through you". They chanted "freedom, freedom". The demonstration was organized by the Stuttgart initiative "lateral thinking 711".

Last Saturday, around 20,000 opponents of the corona policy met in Berlin. "Quer Think 711" called for this demo as well. In Berlin, the Corona requirements were deliberately disregarded, the minimum distance was not observed, the police had broken up the rally. In addition to corona deniers and opponents of vaccination, there were also many participants with clearly right-wing flags or T-shirts in the crowd.

A demonstration in Dortmund is planned for Sunday. Around 1500 people are expected there.

Two corona cases at 1.  FC Cologne

3 p.m.: At the Bundesliga soccer club 1. FC Köln, two players tested positive for the corona virus. This is shared by Tables-14. the past season on Saturday on Twitter. The two actors went directly into quarantine at home in consultation with the health department.

The club trained on the field for the first time on Saturday, and players and staff were tested for Covid-19 on Wednesday and Friday. In the past season, the Cologne professionals Ismail Jakobs and Niklas Hauptmann (now Holstein Kiel) were infected with the corona virus.

Ukraine closes crossings to the Crimean peninsula

2.30 p.m.: Ukraine temporarily seals off the border with Crimea to prevent the corona pandemic from spreading further. All three crossings from the mainland to the peninsula were closed from August 9 to August 30, the government said. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.

Summer vacation in China: It's most beautiful at home

2.26 p.m.: Heidelberg, Neuschwanstein or Venice are inaccessible to Chinese tourists in the Corona summer. All that remains is home leave in the Scharbeutz of the People's Republic - but many do not really dare. Read more here.

Partial travel warning  for Bulgaria and Romania - Golden Sands affected

2 p.m.: Due to a significant increase in corona infections in Bulgaria and Romania, the federal government is now warning against tourist trips to several regions of the two EU countries. This also includes the Bulgarian tourist stronghold of Varna with the Golden Sands resort, which is also popular with German tourists. Varna is also one of the two most important airports on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.

According to the travel advice from the Foreign Office on the Internet, Blagoevgrad and Dobritsch are also affected in Bulgaria, and Arge, Bihor, Buzau, Neamt, Ialomita, Mehedinti and Timis in Romania. The most important Romanian holiday regions in Transylvania and on the Black Sea are exempt from the warning. The regions in Bulgaria and Romania were also designated as risk areas by the Robert Koch Institute (the complete list can be found here). Holidaymakers returning from such areas have had to be tested for Corona since Saturday.

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The Bulgarian Black Sea coast: The Germans are the most important tourist group for the country alongside the Russians and the British 

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Bulgaria and Romania are already the fourth and fifth countries in the European Union to be warned against holiday travel in whole or in part. There are also travel warnings for Luxembourg, the Belgian province of Antwerp and three regions in Spain: Aragon, Navarra and Catalonia with the tourist metropolis of Barcelona and the beaches of the Costa Brava. The only regions outside Europe for which the travel warning has so far been lifted are four holiday areas in the Asian part of Turkey, the third most popular travel destination for Germans.

A travel warning is not a ban, but is intended to have a significant deterrent effect. However, it also has a positive side for consumers: it allows travelers to cancel bookings free of charge.

Corona in South Africa: "The government is looking for solutions from the perspective of the upper class"

1:20 p.m.: South Africa is a deeply divided country, and that hinders the containment of the corona virus, says the renowned political scientist Steven Friedman. The consequences for people and the economy are fatal. Read more here.

Federal Parents' Council: Holidays not used for sensible preparation

1:10 p.m.: After two schools in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were closed due to the corona virus, the chairman of the Federal Parents' Council criticized the lack of preparations during the summer vacation. "It is annoying that the ministers of education have approached it so casually and did not use the summer vacation to properly prepare reliable lessons even in times of the Corona," said Stephan Wassmuth of "Welt". For weeks there has been a call for classes to be divided so that only a few students have to be quarantined in the event of an outbreak. The schools were opened too quickly and carelessly.

Reluctant ticket reimbursement: Lufthansa angered the federal government

12.56 p.m.: There is another crisis between the federal government and Lufthansa. According to SPIEGEL information, they are dissatisfied that the airline is hesitant to reimburse canceled flights despite billions in government aid. Read more here.

Thuringia stores infection protection goods worth 12 million euros

12.45 p.m.: In the course of the corona pandemic, Thuringia has a six-week supply of infection protection goods worth around 12.4 million euros. The materials are housed in several warehouses in the Free State, as the Thuringian Ministry of Health announced on request. The inventory includes around 6.3 million masks of various protection levels, almost a million pieces of protective clothing such as shoes, gowns, gloves and around 50,000 liters of disinfectant.

According to the information, enough protective material should be available for about six weeks with the stocks. Thuringia's Minister of Health Heike Werner (left) told the dpa news agency that the country is now well equipped with protective materials. At the beginning of the corona pandemic in particular, it became clear that "not all hospitals had set up the pandemic camps as they might have been necessary," said Werner.

Beaches on the Bay of Lübeck are full

11.43 a.m.: Because of the hot summer weather, the seaside resorts in Schleswig-Holstein have been reporting high occupancy since Thursday, on Saturday lunchtime most of the beach sections in the Bay of Lübeck are already closed to other tourists due to the corona measures. All "beach lights", including those in Niendorf / Baltic Sea, Timmendorfer Strand, Scharbeutz and Haffkrug, are now red.

The beaches of the Bay of Lübeck had already been temporarily closed several times this year. Information on how full a certain beach section is can also be obtained from a distance via Strandticker.de. A so-called virtual traffic light against overcrowded beaches was put into operation on the website at the beginning of July. In this way, day guests can find out in good time about the crowds on the beaches between Scharbeutz and Rettin.

The seaside resorts on the coasts of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are also preparing for a rush of guests - although day tourists from other federal states, i.e. visitors without a booked overnight stay, are not yet allowed to enter due to corona. Infringement can result in fines of at least 150 euros. According to the police, there will be no area-wide controls. However, the arrival traffic and the occupancy of the beaches would be closely monitored and, if necessary, intervened, according to a message from the Rostock district.

"The wave of travel is already rolling in pretty well," said a spokesman for the motorway police in Grimmen in West Pomerania. The main travel destinations are the holiday islands of Rügen and Usedom. This is particularly evident in the number of vehicles on the A20 Baltic Sea motorway, but also on the B 96, which leads directly from Berlin to Rügen.

Experts expect decline in  Argentineeconomy

11:23 a.m.: The coronavirus pandemic is likely to hit the already battered Argentine economy a little harder. According to a survey by the country's central bank of 44 economists, gross domestic product will collapse by 12.5 percent this year. A month ago, the experts were still assuming a minus of twelve percent. The once richest country in South America declared itself insolvent for the ninth time in its history in May.

Trump  defends guests without mask at press conference

10:27 a.m.: US President Donald Trump has defended guests of his golf club who did not wear a mask at his press conference in a closed room despite the ongoing corona pandemic. There are exceptions to the mask requirement for "political activities," said Trump on Friday evening (local time) at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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Members of the golf club had been invited to attend the US President's press conference. The guests knew that the media only spread false information ("fake news"), so their presence constitutes a political protest, Trump said - to great cheers. According to reports from journalists present and in photos, most of the guests did not wear a mask.

Journalists present at Trump's press conferences are routinely tested for coronavirus infection. According to journalists traveling with them, the guests of the golf club were measured before the press conference to see whether they had a fever.

Republican Trump has long been criticized for not wearing a mask over his mouth and nose during public appearances, despite a recommendation from the US health authority CDC. This also made wearing masks a political issue in the USA. In the meantime, Trump, who has traveled to the exclusive golf club for the weekend, has appeared several times with a mask. 

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Invited guests at Trump National Golf Club: Other pictures show how some people put on masks during the event.

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Medical Association Marburger Bund: Masks in class make "no sense at all"

9.30 a.m .: The Marburger Bund Doctors' Association has criticized compulsory masking in school lessons - as provided by North Rhine-Westphalia - as pointless. "If everyone is seated and their distance is ensured, wearing masks during lessons makes no sense and would be an unnecessary handicap," said Federal Chairwoman Susanne Johna in an interview with the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" (NOZ). "The mask is useful when things get tight, for example when leaving the class, in front of the school kiosk or in the playground, when several classes have a break at the same time."

Several federal states have announced that a mask is compulsory at schools - but NRW has so far been the only one with at least a temporary obligation to wear secondary and vocational schools. The move had sparked a nationwide debate.

 General practitioners' association criticizes compulsory corona testing for return travelers

9:20 a.m.: The German Association of General Practitioners criticizes the compulsory corona test for travelers returning from risk areas. "To test a lot is sensible in itself, but the obligation to test is activism, which I think little of", said the association chairman Ulrich Weigeldt of the "Welt". The risk areas have been classified "far too broadly" and many general practitioners are not equipped for a huge "rush of people willing to test".

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Weigeldt also described it as "absurd" that returning travelers would have to make the doctor credible that they had actually been abroad - for example with a boarding pass or a hotel bill. "We are doctors who are there to treat people and not the branch of the Federal Ministry of Health. How am I supposed to check a hotel bill at all? Who was where and when exactly?" Said Weigeldt. "That's crazy."

Anyone who comes to Germany from risk areas has to be tested for the corona virus when entering the country this Saturday. Alternatively, a negative test result that is no more than two days old can be submitted.

Most countries in the world are currently classified as risk areas, including the USA and Brazil. In the EU, the Robert Koch Institute has designated Luxembourg, the Belgian region of Antwerp and some regions of northern Spain as risk areas, as well as several European countries outside the EU. The four Turkish coastal provinces, for which the Federal Foreign Office no longer issues travel warnings, continue to be classified as risk areas.

Again more than 1000 new corona cases in Germany

9 a.m.: For the third day in a row, the number of people newly infected with the coronavirus in Germany increased by over 1000. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported 1122 new cases on Saturday, bringing the total to 215,336. The number of deaths related to the virus rose by twelve to 9195. On Thursday, 1045 for the first time since May, more than 1000 new infections per day were recorded. On Friday, the RKI reported 1147 cases. According to the RKI statistics from Saturday, there were most of the newly infected in North Rhine-Westphalia with 444, followed by Hesse with 158.

The experts are particularly concerned about returning travelers. From today, all travelers from risk areas must be tested according to a regulation by Health Minister Jens Spahn. The state bears the costs. Many travel countries around the world are classified as risk regions by the Federal Foreign Office and the RKI, including Turkey. In Europe, they include Barcelona and the Costa Brava in Spain.

Many people are likely to return from their trips to Germany in the coming weeks. School has started again in several federal states, in many the summer holidays are coming to an end, such as in the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the coming week. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where lessons had already started, two schools had to be closed again.

Italy supports economy with 25 billion euros

9 a.m.: Italy has extended its anti-corona measures by a month. The government wants to get the economy going again with financial aid for companies and families. The south in particular could benefit from this. Read more here.

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