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The vaccination was also carried out on New Year's Eve: people waiting in a vaccination center in Potsdam
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ARD boss: Perhaps they responded to vaccination reservations too late
6:15 a.m.:
The new ARD chairwoman Patricia Schlesinger also sees critical points in her own reporting on the corona pandemic. The 60-year-old said in an interview with the German press agency when asked what mistakes the ARD had made: “As far as mistakes are concerned: Perhaps we were too late to address those people who had reservations about vaccinations. We could have explained to them earlier why vaccination is right and important. "
Schlesinger, who is also the director of Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), emphasized at the same time: "ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio have really achieved a lot under difficult conditions." The RBB itself had corona cases and had to work mobile overnight .
"But we met the need for information well and also made large additional cultural offers on all channels, which was particularly important to me."
Schlesinger has been the new ARD chairwoman since January 1st, representing the ARD companies in politics and society.
She took over the post, which rotates between the broadcasters, from WDR director Tom Buhrow.
New euro banknotes: EU politician calls for Biontech founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci as a motive
6:01 a.m.:
In search of motives for future euro banknotes, the European Central Bank (ECB) receives a suggestion from the EU Parliament: FDP politician Moritz Körner demands that Biontech founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci be shown on one of the banknotes . Important European personalities such as the Biontech founding couple should be printed on the new banknotes, said the member of the European Parliament of “Welt am Sonntag”. Your work saved the lives of millions of Europeans. "Her life is an impressive story about integration, advancement, entrepreneurship, scientific excellence and the potential of an open immigration society."
In the wake of the corona pandemic, the Mainz vaccine manufacturer Biontech managed to develop a vaccine against Covid-19 based on the so-called mRNA technology and to bring it to approval with completed studies.
After the triage ruling, the family minister also calls for special protection for seniors
05.16 a.m.:
After the triage decision of the Federal Constitutional Court, Federal Family Minister Anne Spiegel (Greens) also called for special legal protection for the very old. "The state and we all as a society have a duty to protect the weakest among us," said the mirror to the newspapers of the Funke media group. She does hope that the protective measures and contact reductions that have been taken will prevent such triage situations from occurring in Germany. "Nevertheless we have to take precautions."
The Federal Constitutional Court asked the federal government on Tuesday to take immediate precautions to protect disabled people in the event of a corona-related triage.
Otherwise there is a risk that people would be disadvantaged in the allocation of scarce intensive care beds and equipment because of a disability.
The federal government announced that it would quickly submit a corresponding law.
Triage concerns situations in which there are fewer spaces or fewer devices available than are necessary for the patient.
Doctors then have to decide which patients will be given a ventilator, for example.
There is currently no legal regulation for a feared triage situation.
At the same time, Spiegel warned against closing retirement homes to visitors because of the pandemic.
"An absolute ban on contact and visits, as we experienced last winter, must be avoided at all costs because of the negative health consequences for the elderly," she told the Funke newspapers.
The best protection for the residents of retirement homes is the vaccination plus booster, said the senior minister with a view to the expected Omikron wave.
The year 2022 has begun - again rather restrained celebrations worldwide
12:19 a.m.:
Hundreds of millions of people in Europe have welcomed the year 2022 - in the hope that the corona pandemic will end soon. In Germany the old year ended with unusually mild temperatures. Despite another general ban on the sale of fireworks in order to relieve the hospitals of additional patients, firecrackers could be heard in many places in Germany, and colorful rockets could also be seen in the sky. Compared to previous years, however, the night was much quieter. Because of the pandemic and above all because of fear of the new Omikron virus variant, private celebrations were only permitted on a small scale nationwide - with a maximum of ten vaccinated or recovered.
Germany's largest New Year's Eve party at the Brandenburg Gate had been canceled.
From there, ZDF broadcast its traditional New Year's Eve show live, but without an audience on site.
The Berlin police reminded about midnight on Twitter that there would be no fireworks this year.
On Unter den Linden, near the Brandenburg Gate, more and more people came together to celebrate the turn of the year.
In many countries around the world, New Year's Eve celebrations were more cautious than usual due to Corona. Many large parties and fireworks were canceled, including festivities in Paris and London.
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