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More than two thirds consider corona measures to be correct
12.31 p.m.:
According to a survey, the vast majority of the German population is behind the state's corona protective measures.
69 percent of those surveyed consider the procedure to be the right one, as the current ZDF Politbarometer shows.
Almost one in five would like to see even more extensive measures.
Only eleven percent thought the protective provisions were excessive.
The assessment of the protests against the corona measures, which have occurred more recently, was correspondingly poor.
Only 14 percent think the protests are "good", while 83 percent think they are "not good".
Around 600 guests
affected
by the
corona
outbreak in Hamburg's bar
12.09 p.m.:
After the Corona outbreak in a bar in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel, the authorities assume that around 600 people are affected.
500 people from almost all Hamburg districts who visited the "Katzen" bar on September 5th, 8th or 9th have already been reached, said the spokesman for the health authority, Martin Helfrich.
Many are already in quarantine.
So far, six corona tests have been positive, "including several bar employees".
We are still looking for around 100 bar visitors.
According to the information, many had left incorrect contact details.
Everyone who is classified as a so-called "contact person one" must be in a two-week quarantine.
Since infected waitresses were working in the bar, these were all guests who entered the interior of the "cat" after 7:00 p.m. on the days in question.
"I assume that the majority of them are classified as contact persons and have to go into quarantine," said Helfrich.
"Wiesn light": Doubts about the planned Oktoberfest alternative
11.34 a.m.:
Doctors view the Oktoberfest alternatives planned in Munich with increasing corona numbers with skepticism.
At least distance and hygiene rules must be observed, warned doctors in front of the "WirtshausWiesn" starting on Saturday in more than 50 Munich restaurants.
"In view of the increasing numbers of new infections with Covid-19, I see a" Wiesn light "rather skeptical to worrying," said the chief physician of the clinic for infectious diseases in the Munich clinic Schwabing, Clemens Wendtner, the German press agency.
A seven-day incidence of more than 40 cases per 100,000 inhabitants speaks against such events "with all due understanding for this traditional festival".
Meetings in the open air with a limited number of people are in principle conceivable if the Corona rules are observed, Wendtner also said.
However, reality shows: "Small gatherings, not least with increased alcohol consumption, can easily turn into super-spreader events again, which throw us all back in our fight against the virus," said Wendtner.
Sagrada Familia will not be finished in time
11.27 a.m.:
Because of the corona pandemic, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona will not be finished as planned on the 100th anniversary of the death of architect Antoni Gaudí in 2026.
Due to the general economic uncertainty, there is no new schedule for the time being.
The church, the construction of which began in 1882, will thus live up to its reputation of the "forever unfinished" for a little longer.
Split opinion on testing phase by fans in stadiums
11:01 a.m.:
Before the start of a six-week test phase with the return of fans to the Bundesliga stadiums, German citizens disagree as to whether this is a good idea.
According to a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov, 42 percent of those questioned reject the test phase for soccer arenas and sports halls decided by the federal states, while 41 percent are in favor of it.
17 percent gave no answer.
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Fans at the cup match between Dynamo Dresden and Hamburger SV last Monday
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Among the 18- to 24-year-olds, only slightly more than one in five (21 percent) thinks the test phase is not good, while it is almost one in two (48 percent) among the 25 to 34-year-olds.
Biontech wants to take over the plant for possible vaccine production
10:51 a.m.:
For the production of a possible corona vaccine, the Mainz company Biontech wants to take over the production facility in Marburg from the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis.
The deal should be completed before the end of the year, as the company announced.
Subject to official approval, Biontech plans to be able to manufacture up to 250 million doses of the potential vaccine in the plant in the first half of the year.
Around 300 people are employed in the plant in Marburg.
No information was given about the purchase price.
No expedition trips until the end of the year
10.46 a.m.:
The Norwegian shipping company Hurtigruten will not offer any trips on their expedition ships to the Antarctic until the end of 2020.
Due to the increasing number of corona infections in Europe, North and South America, the decision was made to suspend all expedition trips by ship until the end of December, Hurtigruten said.
Operations are scheduled to resume in January 2021.
Dorothee Bär is waiting in quarantine for the test result
10:35 a.m.:
Germany's Digital
State Minister
Dorothee Bär has had herself tested for the corona virus and is in quarantine, where she is waiting for a result.
The CSU politician's corona warning app has found an increased risk.
The 42-year-old announced on Thursday morning on her Instagram channel.
For the first time more than 2000 new
corona
cases in the Czech Republic
10:22 a.m.:
In the Czech Republic, the threshold of 2,000 new corona infections was exceeded within one day for the first time.
On Wednesday, 2139 cases were added, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
The total number of people ever infected rose to around 41,000.
In connection with Covid-19 disease, 482 people are known to have died.
The number of new infections every day is currently almost as high as in Germany, although the Czech Republic has just under 10.7 million inhabitants.
The German federal government had extended its travel warning for Prague on Wednesday evening to the neighboring Central Bohemian region.
Flight to nowhere
10.13 a.m.:
The Australian airline Qantas wants to win back guests with a strange sightseeing flight.
A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner will take off from Sydney on October 10 and then fly relatively low over the country's most famous attractions, only to land in Sydney seven hours later without stopping, the company said.
Among other things, the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, Byron Bay and Sydney Harbor are to be overflown.
Because of the corona pandemic, not only have the borders down under been closed to visitors from abroad for months, travel between the individual states is still largely prohibited.
Investigations into more than 10,000 cases of fraud in Corona aid
9:59 a.m.:
According to a newspaper report, the judiciary is investigating more than 10,000 cases across Germany due to fraudulent Corona emergency aid and other allegations of fraud in connection with the pandemic.
This is the result of a survey by the German judges' newspaper among the justice ministries and public prosecutor's offices in the 16 federal states, on which the newspapers of the editorial network Germany reported.
The damage amounts to several million euros.
"The criminal law processing of the corona crisis should keep the judiciary busy well into next year," said Sven Rebehn, federal manager of the German Association of Judges, the newspapers.
"Despite the expiry of the state aid programs, the public prosecutor's offices continue to reach new suspected cases of fraudulent Corona emergency aid."
Fewer electric cars are leaving the country
9.30 a.m.:
The corona pandemic significantly slowed the export of electric vehicles from German production in the first half of 2020.
The number of exported cars was 41,300 in the six months, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden.
In the same period last year there were 52,200 vehicles.
Around a quarter went to the main customer country Norway.
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Electric vehicles at a charging station
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Imports, however, continued to grow: They rose to 45,300 vehicles after 30,200 in the first half of 2019. France remained the main supplier with a share of almost 25 percent.
In the past year, both export and import figures grew significantly.
Virologist Streeck dampens vaccine hopes and warns of "alarmism"
6:20 a.m.:
According to the "Handelsblatt", the Bonn virology professor Hendrik Streeck says when an effective vaccine against corona will be ready for the market "cannot be predicted".
"I already consider the debates about that to be quite dubious," he is quoted as saying.
"While an active ingredient can be created quickly, we cannot predict whether it will work or not."
The test phase in particular is "always full of surprises".
According to the newspaper, Streeck warns against both "alarmism" and "public opinion" in Germany, especially since the pandemic is currently "comparably easy to manage".
"You don't have to paralyze the whole country anymore."
Almost 2200 new infections registered in Germany in one day
5.15 a.m.:
Germany recorded 2194 new positive coronavirus tests within 24 hours.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), this increases the number of coronavirus cases to 265,857.
There were also three other deaths.
According to the RKI, the total number of deaths is 9371.
Lambrecht wants to reform bankruptcy law
04.01 a.m.:
Federal Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht wants to propose a bill to reform insolvency law in the autumn to save companies in distress due to the corona crisis.
"The draft will contain a fundamental reform of the restructuring and insolvency law, which should also last beyond the current crisis," said the SPD minister in the newspaper "Augsburger Allgemeine" (Thursday edition).
"If everyone pulls together, the plan can come into effect at the beginning of next year," announced the minister.
Investigations in more than 10,000 cases due to
fraudulent
Corona
emergency aid
3:50 a.m.:
Nationwide, public prosecutors are investigating more than 10,000 cases of fraudulent emergency aid and other allegations of fraud in connection with the pandemic.
This is the result of a survey by the German judges' newspaper among the justice ministries and public prosecutor's offices in the 16 federal states, which is available to the "editorial network Germany".
The damage runs into the tens of millions.
"As a rule, it is about cases of subsidy fraud that require in-depth, case-by-case investigations and cannot be dealt with in a standardized way as mass proceedings," says Sven Rebehn, Federal Managing Director of the German Association of Judges.
Due to the corona pandemic, 150 million additional children in poverty
02:04 a.m.:
According to Unicef, the corona crisis has plunged 150 million children into poverty.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the number of children living in multidimensional poverty has risen by 15 percent to around 1.2 billion, according to a report by the UN Children's Fund and the aid organization Save the Children.
For the report, data on education, health systems and nutrition from more than 70 countries were evaluated.
According to the report, an analysis by Unicef shows that around 45 percent of children in the countries studied were disadvantaged in at least one of these aspects before the pandemic.
"The coronavirus and the lockdown measures to prevent the spread have plunged millions of children deeper into poverty," said Unicef boss Henrietta Fore.
"Families in the process of escaping poverty have been drawn back into it while others deal with unprecedented deprivation. Most worryingly, we are closer to the beginning of the crisis than to its end."
The organizations called on the world's governments to address the problem as a high priority.
White House staff tested positive
1:38 a.m.:
A White House employee has tested positive for the
corona virus
.
That said US President Donald Trump.
However, the person was not "close" to him, nor was they connected to the US President.
The announcement follows a visit by high-ranking foreign politicians a day.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the two foreign ministers from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates were guests at the White House to sign a formal agreement.
Trump's spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said the meeting was not affected by the corona case.
The press representatives did not come into contact with the tested person either.
More than 35,000 new infections in Brazil
12:26 a.m.:
The
corona virus
continues to spread in Brazil.
The Ministry of Health reported 36,820 new infections, bringing the total number of infections to 4.419 million.
The number of deaths rose by 987 to 134,106 within 24 hours.
After the USA and India, Brazil has the most infections and deaths worldwide in the corona crisis.
South Africa opens its borders
12:20 a.m.:
In view of a decline in new infections, South Africa will open its borders from October.
"We will gradually and cautiously relax the restrictions on international travel," President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a speech to the nation.
For some countries with "high infection rates" travel remains restricted.
A list of these countries will be published soon.
South Africa was hit hard by the corona crisis: So far, more than 650,000 people there have been infected with the corona virus, and more than 15,600 have died as a result of the infection.
On March 27, the government closed the borders and imposed a strict lockdown.
The restrictions have been gradually eased since June.
The country "managed to overcome the worst," said Ramaphosa.
The number of new infections fell from an average of 12,000 per day in July to fewer than 2,000 cases.
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