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The number of sick leave due to
back problems is
increasing
4:01 a.m.:
The more frequent work at home due to the corona causes increased back problems, according to the commercial health insurance (KKH).
As the health insurance company announced, in the first half of 2021, 20.4 percent of the certificates submitted nationwide at work are due to musculoskeletal disorders.
In the previous year, the share of such sick leave was still 17.3 percent.
And in the previous years it was between 15 and 16 percent.
According to the KKH, the duration of illness has also increased: 25.4 percent of the days absent are due to diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
In previous years, the share in this fund was between 22 and 23 percent.
The fund suspects the working conditions in the home office as the reasons.
There was often a lack of a suitable desk and office chair.
Sitting in front of the computer in an unhealthy position for long periods of time results in more neck, shoulder and back problems.
Australian state reports record number of new infections
02.45 a.m.:
The authorities in the Australian state of New South Wales reported 633 new corona infections on Wednesday - more than ever since the pandemic began.
NSW Prime Minister Gladys Berejiklian said at a press conference that each infected person infects more than one other person.
So the worst is yet to come.
Large parts of the state - which also includes the metropolis of Sydney - have been in a strict lockdown for weeks.
The restrictions for people in Sydney should actually be relaxed at the end of August.
But in view of the latest figures, nobody expects that anymore.
Federal states are apparently closing vaccination centers after the end of federal funding
1:55 a.m.:
According to a media report, the federal states want to close their supraregional corona vaccination centers when funding from the federal government expires.
This is reported by the newspapers of the editorial network in Germany, citing a survey among all 16 state health ministries.
This means that it is unlikely that any country will operate its central vaccination centers beyond the end of September at its own expense.
Accordingly, among other things, the Ministry of Health in Thuringia announced: "For the future, we will no longer rely solely on the network of vaccination centers, but will create more low-threshold offers exactly where there are many people." From North Rhine-Westphalia it was said that vaccination should " regularly transfer from the vaccination centers to the doctor's office «.
At the end of June, the health ministers' conference decided to realign the national vaccination strategy.
Vaccination centers should be closed or their number reduced and the focus should be placed on mobile vaccination teams.
However, the federal states should ensure that vaccination capacities can be ramped up again in a short time.
The federal government contributes half of the costs of the vaccination centers, the financing was fixed until the end of September.
New Zealand back in lockdown after six months - seven cases
12:25 a.m.:
A nationwide, three-day lockdown has begun in New Zealand.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced it after a new corona case became known in the country on Tuesday.
Previously, there had been no reports of new infections in New Zealand for six months.
It is now also clear that the infected person was infected with the Delta variant of the virus.
The infection is due to the recent coronavirus outbreak in the Australian state of New South Wales, according to Ardern.
At a press conference on Wednesday, the government in Auckland also announced that the number of cases in the country had now risen to a total of seven.
In one case, a nurse in an Auckland hospital was affected.
An "internal lockdown" has been imposed on the clinic, said Ardern.
All employees and patients would now be tested.
aar / dpa / AFP / Reuters
