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Employer president for general vaccination requirements
6.45 a.m.:
Employer President Rainer Dulger has given up his initially hesitant attitude to a general vaccination requirement.
"For a long time I relied on the common sense of the people, but now I am very much in favor of a general vaccination requirement," said the head of the Federation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) to the "Handelsblatt".
"I consider it the only viable way to get the pandemic under control." The Heidelberg entrepreneur welcomes the planned renewed extension of the easier access to short-time work allowance in order to contain the economic consequences of the Corona restrictions, but at the same time warns of habituation effects and increasing contributions to unemployment insurance.
Hospitals are warning of the escalation of the corona situation by Omikron
06.35 a.m.:
In view of the rapid spread of the Omikron variant, the German Hospital
Society
(DKG) has warned of an escalation of the situation in German hospitals. "If the prognoses are confirmed, according to which the Omikron variant is much more contagious than Delta and the vaccination protection against severe courses is also weaker in non-boosted people, in the worst case we will have to deal with a large number of seriously ill patients at the same time." , said the DKG chairman of the board Gerald Gaß of the Düsseldorf »Rheinische Post«.
For the hospitals, this would be a further aggravated situation "that goes beyond everything we have seen so far," warned Gass. "According to the scientists' calculations, this fifth wave would hit us before the current high level of occupancy in the intensive care units has dropped significantly," he told the newspaper. Further personnel bottlenecks are also conceivable: In countries such as Great Britain and Denmark, one can see that the high number of infections means that significantly more employees in the health sector are absent due to corona. "Even more seriously ill patients and massive staff absences at the same time would be a further escalation of the situation that goes beyond the previous one."
Gass appealed to the government not to rule out further restrictions on contact.
"We must then not lose any time, then we have to act immediately, even before the numbers go up in Germany and an overload of the hospitals can no longer be prevented."
Great Britain now corona virus variant area
6 a.m.:
Great Britain is now considered a virus variant area again.
The federal government's new classification came into effect on Monday night.
The reason is the massive spread of the Corona virus variant Omikron in the country.
A virus variant area is the highest corona risk category.
Entry into Germany from such areas is only possible with severe restrictions.
Airlines are now essentially only allowed to carry German citizens or people living in Germany from Great Britain to Germany.
But it is not a flight ban.
The rule also applies to rail or ship traffic.
A two-week quarantine period applies to those arriving from virus variant areas - including those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered.
It cannot be shortened by negative tests.
Great Britain had already been classified as a virus variant area by Germany in May, but it was downgraded to a high incidence area at the beginning of July.
Around 5.64 million deaths worldwide
5.48 a.m.: So
far, around 273.85 million people around the world have been proven to be infected with the corona virus, according to a survey by the Reuters news agency based on official data.
More than 5.64 million people died with or from the virus, which was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
The United States has the highest number of infections and deaths.
In terms of infections, India and Brazil follow.
Two US senators infected
5:38 a.m.:
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker have both tested positive for the corona virus.
They felt mild symptoms, announced the two democratic politicians on Sunday.
The 72-year-old Senator Warren from Massachusetts spoke of a vaccination through, she was vaccinated, boobed and regularly tested.
Senator Booker from New Jersey said, "I'm sure I would be much worse without her."
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