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Police officers in Paris: "Freedom, Freedom"
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Professional cyclist Geschke on quarantine: "Half psychiatry, half prison"
7.23 a.m.: Professional
cyclist Simon Geschke, who tested positive for the
corona virus
at the Olympic Games, complained about the quarantine. “A loudspeaker in the room wakes you up at 7:00 am. Then you have to measure your fever and oxygen saturation. For me it is incomprehensible why it has to be so early when you then have hardly anything to do all day, «said the 35-year-old on Sunday of the news agency dpa. Geschke compared the hotel, with the doors and windows locked, to a psychiatric ward.
The residents of the hotel have to wash their laundry in the sink themselves, and they are allowed to pick them up in the lobby to eat three times a day.
It is forbidden to order your own food.
Geschke must spend at least eight days in quarantine.
According to regulations, the Berliner will only be tested again on the sixth day and then again 24 hours later.
If these tests are negative, you can leave them on the following day.
French Senate approves law on compulsory vaccination for health workers
7.02 a.m.:
The French Senate has voted for a law with stricter corona rules, including mandatory vaccinations for healthcare workers. The text was adopted on Sunday night with 199 votes in favor and 123 against. After a number of changes to the original proposal, the Senate and the National Assembly still have to agree on a joint text. On Saturday, more than 160,000 people in France protested against the new rules.
In Paris, the demonstrators chanted, among other things, "freedom, freedom" and called for the overthrow of President Emmanuel Macron, whom they described as a "tyrant".
On the sidelines of the protest, riots broke out in the capital in the area of the Champs-Élysées boulevard.
The police then used tear gas and water cannons, as TV images showed.
Among other things, the law provides for an extension of the health passport for non-vaccinated people.
For entering restaurants and long-distance trains, a test would then apply.
In cinemas, theaters or museums, a vaccination, a survived infection or a negative corona test must be proven since Wednesday.
Algeria announces production of Chinese Sinovac vaccine
6.18
a.m
.:
Algeria wants to manufacture the Chinese corona vaccine Sinovac in their own country in the future.
Experts from China arrived in the North African country on Friday to inspect the production facilities of the state-owned pharmaceutical company Saidal, the government in Algiers announced on Saturday.
A date for the start of production was initially not given.
Production of the Russian vaccine Sputnik-V is also planned in the country from September.
So far, the authorities have registered more than 160,000 corona cases and 4,000 deaths since the pandemic began.
On Friday, a new high was reported with 1350 infections within one day.
Around six months after the vaccination campaign began, just under ten percent of the country's 44 million inhabitants are immunized.
Japanese threw leaflets from the train in protest against the Olympics
6.16 a.m.: In
protest against the Olympic Games, a Japanese man threw leaflets from a train.
He was arrested in his hometown of Nagoya on charges of disrupting business activities the previous day, police said on Sunday.
Sections of the Japanese population are against the games taking place amid the ongoing corona pandemic in their country.
In surveys, a majority had repeatedly spoken out in favor of postponing or canceling the games again.
Kretschmann does not rule out compulsory vaccinations
6 a.m.:
The Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, considers compulsory vaccination in the further fight against the Corona crisis to be conceivable.
“We're not planning to have any vaccinations.
I cannot rule out compulsory vaccination for all times, "said the Green politician of the dpa news agency.
"It is possible that there will be variants that make this necessary." It could well be "that at some point we will only allow certain areas and activities to be restricted to vaccinated people."
He cited measles as an example: "There is also compulsory vaccination for daycare centers because measles is highly contagious." Without vaccinations, the pandemic will not be able to be brought to its knees.
Head of the Chancellery - "Vaccinated people will have more freedom than unvaccinated people"
00:01 a.m.:
In view of the rising corona numbers in Germany, people without a vaccination must expect more severe restrictions, according to Chancellery Minister Helge Braun. "Vaccinated people will definitely have more freedom than those who have not been vaccinated," said the CDU politician of "Bild am Sonntag". If there is a high incidence of infection, unvaccinated people would have to reduce their contacts. "That can also mean that certain offers such as restaurant, cinema and stadium visits would no longer be possible even for those who have not been vaccinated because the residual risk is too high."
The Chancellery Minister fears that the incidence in Germany will rise to 850 and thus 100,000 new infections per day by the Bundestag election on September 26th. "We currently have an increase in the numbers of 60 percent per week," said Braun. If the delta variant of the virus continues to spread rapidly and it is not possible to counteract it with a very high vaccination rate or behavioral changes, "we would have an incidence of 850 in just nine weeks," the CDU politician calculated.
He worries about starting school after the summer vacation.
“Parents, teachers, caretakers and school bus drivers have to get vaccinated.
If these groups are all vaccinated, the risk to the children is less, ”said Braun.
A new lockdown as before is probably no longer necessary.
"Because the vaccinated and recovered no longer play an essential role in the infection process."
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