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Maori tribe call for anti-vaccination protests to end haka performances
5.34 a.m.:
The New Zealand Maori tribe Ngati Toa has spoken out against the performance of the traditional haka dance at demonstrations by opponents of vaccination.
"Ngati Toa condemns the use of the Ka Mate Haka to spread messages against the Covid-19 vaccination," said the tribe based near Wellington on Sunday.
"We insist that the demonstrators immediately stop using our cultural treasures."
The haka dance has different forms.
The best known is the ka mate, which has been performed at rugby games for over 100 years.
In 2014, the New Zealand Parliament had legally recognized the Ngati Toa as the keeper of the Ka Mate.
RKI registers 23,607 new corona infections - incidence at 303.0
4.03 a.m.:
The nationwide seven-day incidence has risen again to a new high. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Monday morning as 303.0. For comparison: the previous day the value was 289.0, a week ago it was 201.1 (previous month: 68.7). The health authorities in Germany reported 23,607 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. This is evident from the numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 3:52 a.m. Last Thursday, the number of new infections reached 50,196, a record since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to the new information, 43 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.
A week ago there were 33 deaths.
The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 97,715.
The RKI has counted 5,045,076 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected.
FDP is reluctant to work from home
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Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) wants to reintroduce the obligation to work from home in the fight against the rising corona numbers. But the FDP, which is negotiating a government coalition with the SPD and the Greens, has not yet been convinced. »The way out of the crisis is and will be vaccination and testing. We will re-evaluate the question of an obligation to offer home office open-ended, "says FDP parliamentary group vice Michael Theurer of the newspaper" Augsburger Allgemeine ". "We do not rule out the need for such a measure across the board." The Greens support the SPD plan. »With a home office requirement that is as binding as possible in companies and public administration, we can all help to get the infection process under control. Only those who can present compelling operational reasons against it should be excluded.In addition, the 3G rule should be applied in the workplace. "
World Medical Association boss Montgomery warns of a deadly Corona winter
2.20 a.m.:
In view of the high number of corona infections, the chairman of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, calls for an extension of the epidemic situation.
“We continue to have a national pandemic.
It is absurd to want to speak of repeal in view of incidences of around 300 ", says Montgomery of the newspaper" Rheinische Post ".
“The winter is going to be cold.
It's up to us that it doesn't become bitter and deadly. ”Anyone who says
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no compulsory vaccination and never again lockdown
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has not understood the epidemiology of the virus and is playing into their hands.
But it could still be possible to break the trend of the fourth wave.
»Vaccination is compulsory wherever people have a guarantee towards those who are being weaned, ie in old people's homes, in hospitals or at school.
If you don't want that, you can't work there. ”He also advocates an obligation for employees to inform their employers about their vaccination status.
"How should employers regulate shift schedules, office staffing and counter services if they are not even allowed to know who has been vaccinated or recovered and who is completely unprotected in their service?" Those who do not get vaccinated are playing with their own lives - and that of many others.
Mittelstandsverband against reintroduction of the home office obligation
1.46 a.m.:
Business representatives criticize the plans of Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) to reintroduce the home office obligation in view of the increasing number of cases.
The proposal is an expression of the planlessness of the corona policy, says the managing director of the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Businesses, Markus Jerger, the newspapers of the Funke media group.
The majority of medium-sized companies have long since found individual business solutions.
There is also no obligation to work from home if the 3G rule should generally apply in companies.
"Home office was and is not practicable for entire industries, for example in retail or in craft businesses."
Lauterbach expects the clinics to be overloaded at the beginning of December
1.30 a.m.:
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach expects the clinics to be overloaded across the board at the beginning of December.
"With the number of cases that we now have, the clinics will exceed capacity nationwide in the first two weeks of December," Lauterbach told the newspapers of the Funke media group.
That can hardly be avoided now.
"Unvaccinated people should only have access to their workplace, to grocery stores, drug stores and pharmacies"
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach
So that the maximum load does not lead to a comprehensive collapse, drastic measures are now necessary.
"Unvaccinated people should only have access to their workplace, to grocery stores, drug stores and pharmacies." That is the only way to regain control of the infection situation.
Internal resistance to compulsory vaccination in the Bundeswehr
1.24 a.m.:
The introduction of compulsory corona vaccination for members of the Bundeswehr has apparently failed due to internal resistance from the troops.
Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) called for this step "already in spring" and "emphatically," a ministry spokesman told the newspapers of the Funke media group.
But until today the necessary approval of internal "participation committees" is missing.
So far, only soldiers deployed abroad have to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
According to information from the Funke newspapers, the Territorial Tasks Command also decided on Wednesday that in future only vaccinated soldiers should provide administrative assistance in health authorities, vaccination centers or hospitals.
That is also the right thing to do, said chairman of the reservists' association, Patrick Sensburg, to the Funke newspapers.
"After all, we want to help people, not endanger them."
Sensburg also advocates a general compulsory vaccination in the troops.
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