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Report: Major corona outbreak at Deutsche Bahn in
Fulda
04.45 a.m.:
According to a media report, there has been a major corona outbreak at a Deutsche Bahn location in Fulda.
As »Buzzfeed News« reported on Thursday, more than 60 of the approximately 600 employees tested positive.
The outbreak is said to have occurred in a vehicle maintenance plant in the past 14 days.
This is where mainly brake parts are repaired.
Deutsche Bahn confirmed to »BuzzFeed« that »an increase in employees who tested positive was quickly noticed«.
The employees were therefore tested daily for the corona virus, "which is why the affected employees were identified extremely quickly and sent directly to domestic isolation".
More than half of those infected have now recovered.
Survey: half of parents would have children
vaccinated
against
corona
4:05 a.m.:
Around half of families in Germany probably want their children to be vaccinated against the
corona virus
as soon as possible.
This is the result of a representative survey by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of the »Augsburger Allgemeine«.
According to this, 51 percent of those surveyed with children living in the household are in favor of vaccinating the offspring, 40 percent of the legal guardians are against the vaccination for the children currently.
The rest were undecided.
The federal and state governments agreed on Thursday that from June 7, children from the age of twelve in Germany could also be vaccinated with the vaccine from Biontech / Pfizer. The prerequisite is that the EU Medicines Agency EMA approves the vaccine for this age group. She wants to discuss it this Friday. So far, the preparation has only been approved in the EU for people aged 16 and over, the other vaccines even only for adults.
The survey did not differentiate according to the age of the children, but basically asked about the willingness of parents to vaccinate.
37 percent of those questioned said that they "definitely" wanted to have their children vaccinated, another 14 percent answered "probably yes".
A third said they would "definitely not" do this.
According to this, 47 percent of women reject a vaccination for their offspring, compared to 35 percent for men.
Record
number of
new
corona
infected people in Argentina - despite lockdown
3.10 a.m.:
Despite restrictive exit restrictions, more people in Argentina than ever before have been infected with the corona virus since the pandemic began over a year ago.
On Thursday, the South American country registered 41,080 new infections within 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health in Buenos Aires.
The previous peak of 39,652 new infections was reached a good week ago.
So far, around 3.6 million people in Argentina have been proven to be infected with the coronavirus, and more than 76,000 patients have died in connection with Covid-19.
The utilization of the intensive care units is over 75 percent.
WHO: Africa urgently needs 20 million
corona
vaccine doses
12:25 a.m.:
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Africa needs at least 20 million vaccine doses from the manufacturer AstraZeneca within the next six weeks.
This is the only way that everyone who received a first dose of this vaccine could get the second spade within the recommended eight to twelve week interval, the WHO announced.
In addition, another 200 million corona vaccine doses would be needed so that the continent could vaccinate ten percent of its population by September 2021.
According to WHO information, 28 million Covid-19 doses from various manufacturers have been administered in Africa so far.
That is less than two doses per 100 people in Africa.
According to the WHO, 1.5 billion corona vaccinations have already been administered worldwide.
jok / aar / dpa / Reuters