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Olympic Games: 16 more
corona
cases
04.25 a.m.:
Three other athletes tested positive for the
corona virus
at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The organizers announced on Monday.
There were a total of 16 other new infections in the area of the summer games.
This means that the number of positive tests in the games since the start of recording on July 1 has risen to 148.
The organizers did not announce which athletes are affected.
The German team had the first corona infected on the opening day in cyclist Simon Geschke.
Scientifically proven: Music helps through times of crisis
4:03 a.m.:
Music helps people get through crises such as the corona pandemic better. This is confirmed by a study by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main with people from six countries on three continents. During the first lockdown from April to May 2020, demographically representative samples were collected: Over 5,000 people from Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, India and the USA answered questions online about their handling of music during the crisis. “More than half of the respondents stated that they use music to cope with emotional and social stress factors,” the researchers report in the journal “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications”.
"It is remarkable that it is not the music itself that serves as a coping aid, but the music-related behavior, that is, the way in which people changed the way they dealt with music during the crisis," explained Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Director at the Max Planck -Institute. "Listening to music and making music offer different coping potential."
People with stronger negative emotions due to the pandemic use music primarily to regulate depression, anxiety and stress.
This strategy is used particularly when listening to music.
People with a predominantly positive mood, on the other hand, used music primarily as a substitute for social interactions.
Music gives them a sense of belonging and community both while listening and making music.
When making music, the music can also serve as a »means of self-reflection«.
Dehoga calls for positive incentives for vaccinated people
1:37 a.m.:
The German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) calls on the federal government to create positive incentives for those who have been vaccinated in order to increase the vaccination rate.
"This means that a visit to a restaurant and a hotel stay must in any case continue to be allowed for people who have been vaccinated twice, even in autumn and winter," says Dehoga managing director, Ingrid Hartges, the newspapers of the "Funke Mediengruppe" Monday editions.
In addition to incidences, new decision criteria are also required for assessing the infection situation.
"In the 17th month of the pandemic and a vaccination quota of currently 50 percent, it is urgently necessary to define other parameters." Other factors such as the vaccination quota, the development of the disease course, the degree of hospitalization and the death rate would have to be taken into account.
jok / dpa / Reuters
