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Mayor Tschentscher gives a citizen of the city his booster vaccination
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Pandemic consequence: ophthalmologists expect more myopia in children
06:30:
As a result of Corona pandemic with limited leisure activities and a lot of time at home expect ophthalmologists with an increase in myopia in children. "It is to be expected that in the pandemic, too close vision on cell phones or tablets has increased myopia among children," said the spokesman for the professional association of ophthalmologists in Germany (BVA), Ludger Wollring, of the German press agency. "We don't have any data on this, but earlier studies suggest this effect." Daylight is an important factor in preventing nearsightedness in children. Even dim daylight is better than artificial light.
"Long-term play on the cell phone or tablet, in particular, can lead to myopia in children," said Wollring.
"Under lockdown conditions with few leisure activities, parents should go out a lot with their children."
189,000 new infections -
British government still does not want any new restrictions
03:23 a.m.:
Regardless of the increasing number of infections, the British government does not want to impose any new corona restrictions for the time being.
The country must "try to live with Covid-19," wrote Health Minister Sajid Javid in an article for the Daily Mail newspaper on Saturday.
There will only be new restrictions "as an absolute last resort."
Meanwhile, according to a report, almost one in ten employees is absent in the health sector.
Great Britain is currently facing new record numbers of new corona infections.
This is mainly due to the omicron variant of the virus.
189,000 new infections were reported within 24 hours on Friday.
The number of hospital admissions for Covid-19 has also been rising again for some time and is not higher than it has been since March.
Injured in Corona protest in Greiz
03.06 a.m.:
Several demonstrators and police officers were injured during a protest against the federal and state corona policy in Greiz, East Thuringia.
About 400 people took part in the action on Saturday evening, as a spokesman for the state operations center of the Thuringian police said on request.
The police have stopped the planned move through the city.
Pepper spray and batons were used.
Six demonstrators and four police officers were injured.
In Greiz there had already been clashes between demonstrators and police in the past few weeks.
Lauterbach sees great benefits from the first corona vaccination against the Omikron variant
02.16 a.m.:
Federal Health
Minister
Karl Lauterbach (SPD) sees a great protective effect even with corona first vaccinations.
"The first vaccination drastically lowers the risk of death after just 14 days," he told the "Bild am Sonntag".
With an increase in the first vaccinations, the number of corona deaths could also be effectively reduced in the »Omikron wave«.
The feeling of many unvaccinated people that the train has left for them anyway is not true.
Studies have shown that the Omicron variant spreads much faster than the Delta variant, but also causes slightly less severe cases.
"But that is not the all-clear for older people who have not been vaccinated," emphasized Lauterbach.
He is waiting for further scientific studies.
In Denmark and Great Britain, where scientists reported milder disease courses with an Omicron infection, the vaccination rate for older people is significantly higher than in Germany.
Lauterbach wrote on Twitter that Omikron resulted in "very many" hospital admissions in Great Britain.
Intensive care admissions, however, rose more slowly.
A "tragedy" has so far not occurred there because the elderly have a "high" vaccination rate and 75 percent have been boosted.
In the "BamS", Lauterbach was "very, very concerned about the unvaccinated" in Germany.
France relaxes quarantine rules for infected people and contact cases
1:33 a.m.:
Despite a record number of new corona infections, France is shortening its quarantine periods.
Health Minister Olivier Véran announced in the Sunday newspaper "Le Journal du Dimanche" that those who were fully vaccinated would only have to be quarantined for seven days if they were infected.
The quarantine can be shortened to five days with a negative rapid test or PCR test.
For those who are not or not fully vaccinated, there is a quarantine of ten days, which can be shortened to seven days with a negative test.
Contact persons who are not or not fully vaccinated must continue to be in quarantine for seven days.
Fully vaccinated contacts, on the other hand, no longer have to be quarantined in France from Monday, provided they test themselves every other day within six days.
The corresponding tests are available free of charge in the pharmacy.
The relaxation of the quarantine rules should prevent a destabilization of social and economic life, stressed Véran.
Because if all of France is in quarantine, the country will come to a standstill.
There were over 219,000 registered new infections on Saturday alone.
The seven-day incidence was last at 1456.
Lindner: Germany should be able to vaccinate the population in a month
12:38 a.m.:
In order to be prepared for the Corona crisis, Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner
believes
that Germany should be able to vaccinate the entire population within a month if necessary. "Germany should never again be caught unprepared by a wave of infections," said the FDP leader of "Bild am Sonntag". One does not know what development the pandemic will take. “So we should soon be able to vaccinate the entire population within a month if necessary. We have to create the necessary infrastructure and secure access to the appropriate amount of vaccine. "
Lindner also announced a corona tax law.
"A number of aid measures will be created or expanded in it," said Lindner.
For example, losses in 2022 and 2023 should be offset against profits from previous years.
Nobody should be ruined by tax debts during the pandemic.
At the same time, Lindner called on his cabinet colleagues to be thrifty.
The leeway in 2022 is narrow.
The regular debt brake should apply from 2023.
"So only the prosperity that was previously generated can be distributed."
After the pandemic, Germany had to go back to solid public finances.
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