714 new infections in Austria; People with face visors are increasingly unpopular

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is sick with Covid-19 and had to spend twelve days in a Milan clinic, has yet to recover.

A test showed that the media entrepreneur is still corona-positive, the Milan daily reported “Corriere della Sera” on Saturday.

Hallein-based milling and turning machine manufacturer Emco GmbH will sign up to 100 employees for dismissal in the labor market service, they write Salzburg News. The reason is a 20 percent drop in sales caused by the Corona crisis.

About a quarter of the total of about 400 employees at headquarters should have to leave the company. Until now, Emco has been able to maneuver the company relatively safely through the economic crisis with the part-time system. Due to the change in billing modalities for the second phase of short-term work and the conditions of the unclear financial framework of the third model of short-term work confirmed by the government, planning is limited, according to the company.

In the worst case, 100 layoffs were expected. Management’s first talks with the union were ongoing. “I am open to creative solutions,” the ÖGB state president and president of the Chamber of Labor, Peter Eder, are quoted in the report.

The Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden has to stop the show on short notice and cancel a premiere. The reason for this is a dispute between the theater management, the Wiesbaden health department and the Hessian art ministry over the concept of house crown hygiene.

In the theater, a minimum distance of 1.50 between seats could not be maintained.

More than seven million corona cases have been confirmed in the US.

The symbolic threshold was exceeded on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University. It is by far the highest number of recorded corona infections in the world. The United States has a population of almost 330 million.

The 200,000 crown death mark was surpassed in the United States on Tuesday. This is also the highest number in the world. Critics blame US President Donald Trump for the scale of the crisis in the country.

The right-wing populist had long publicly disparaged the danger posed by the virus. After the spring closed, he insisted on a quick return to normalcy so that the economy would get back to work in the election year.

Trump himself regularly describes his handling of the pandemic as a great success: Without his commitment, many more people would have died, he said. It justifies the large number of infections with the large number of tests in the country.

56% of Austrians are concerned about a second lockdown in Austria. According to opinion research institute Unique Research, 35% of respondents are for the current issue of the news magazine “profile “ survey conducted consider this concern unfounded, 9% are undecided.

The majority of FPÖ voters (65%) fear a new lockdown, followed by SPÖ voters (64%) and the Greens (56%). Among ÖVP voters, 50% are concerned, while Neos voters are less concerned about a shutdown at 38%. (n = 507 fluctuation range: +/- 4 percentage points).

In Lower Austria, the number of confirmed coronavirus infections increased by 119 to 6,323 on Saturday morning compared to the day before.

With 5,062 recovered, there were 138 more than on Friday, according to state medical personnel. 111 deaths will be mourned unchanged in relation to Covid-19 in the state. Therefore, 1,150 people were considered to be currently ill. So far, 258,344 tests have been conducted in the state.

At 8:00 a.m. Today, 14,863 positive tests have been confirmed in Vienna. The number of deaths associated with the virus is 244. The death is a 91-year-old man.

10,288 people have been recovered.

Yesterday 5,488 corona tests were carried out in Vienna, making a total of 434,992 tests.

Also for Estonians, Poles and Icelanders (already applies to Austrians)

In Lower Austria, a total of 46 schools participate in the Federal Ministry’s gurgling test study. Together with the University of Vienna, important findings will be made on the degree of infection in Austrian schoolchildren as part of a research project.

“By participating in the monitoring project, Lower Austria is fully committed to effective coronavirus research. In this difficult situation, professional research is an indispensable measure to stay one step ahead of the virus in the future,” explained the Regional Councilor of Education Christiane Teschl-Hofmeister and the Director of Education Johann Heuras There are currently 92 corona positive cases among students and 10 corona positive cases among teachers in Lower Austrian schools.

A Carinthian police officer tested positive for the corona virus. Another 15 officers are also in home quarantine.

“The person in question is currently in quarantine. It is likely that the man was infected at the GTI meeting,” quoted the Crown Police spokesman Rainer Dionisio.

Plato Günther at the ZiB2: “We have to go down as quickly as possible with new infections.”

After the start of the new school year, around 50,000 students are currently in quarantine in Germany, according to a survey by “Bild” among the responsible ministries of the federal states. In the next three months, the number will more than double, probably even multiply, said the president of the Association of German Teachers, Heinz-Peter Meidinger.

“We fear that, as a result, it will become increasingly difficult for our schools to control and contain outbreaks of infection,” Meidinger said. Meanwhile, the number of cases in which an infection within the school could be considered probable is increasing.

In light of the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for a rethink at the UN General Assembly. “We need a new way of thinking. When it comes to climate, inequality, health.

Because the way we’ve been doing it so far isn’t working well enough, “Trudeau said on Friday (local time) in a pre-recorded video message at the UN general debate in New York.

All too often political action is impeded around the world because decisive institutions are blocked. “Because there are few consequences for countries that ignore international laws. For regimes that think that power gives you rights,” Trudeau criticized.

In Germany, 2,507 new corona virus infections have been confirmed since Friday. As the Robert Koch Institute announced on Saturday morning, the total number is now 282,730. Nine other people who tested positive died. The number of deaths calculated by the RKI amounted to 9,452.

On Friday, the number of new infections in Germany was 2,153, after 2,143 on Thursday, 1,769 on Wednesday and 1,821 on Tuesday.

I wish you a nice good day that, when you look out the window, I invite you to stay at home. More time to read the KURIER in peace.

As usual, you will find the latest news on the corona pandemic here. At first we looked at France, where a new record for new infections was reported yesterday with 16,096 cases. Now, almost 16,000 people have been infected by the corona virus.

According to the information, 56 new deaths have been registered in hospitals since Thursday. With more than 31,600 deaths per corona, France is one of the countries most affected by the pandemic in Europe.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a massive increase in the number of deaths from coronavirus. The two million death toll is unimaginable, “but not impossible,” emergency aid coordinator Mike Ryan said Friday night in Geneva. The WHO expects the number of one million deaths from Covid reported to be reached in the next week.

The federal government and governors fear more regional or even Austria-wide travel warnings. That would seriously damage tourism and the economy as a whole, the governor’s conference spokesman Wilfried Haslauer said Friday night after a crisis meeting at the Foreign Ministry. More about this here.

This is a “severe blow to the commercial location” of Tyrol, said Governor Günther Platter on ZiB2 about the classification of the state as a risk area by Germany. “It’s also about the existence of a lot of Tyrolese. We have to get down to business with new infections as soon as possible so that we can be removed from the list. ” More about this here.

More than seven million corona cases have been confirmed in the US The symbolic threshold was crossed on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University. It is by far the highest number of registered corona infections in the world. The United States has a population of nearly 330 million.

A three-hour meeting between the federal government and state representatives on Friday night yielded no concrete results. In a subsequent press conference, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) called on Vienna, in particular, to impose more restrictions. Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) once again appealed to the federal states to accept offers from the federal government to use the army and the police in contact tracing.

Kurz recalled that Vienna had about twice as many cases relative to Lower Austria, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, which had also faced travel warnings. Obviously, the vice president is not good enough for the federal capital to be required to register in the restaurant sector. He expressed the hope that further “necessary” measures would be taken in Vienna. Interior Minister Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) saw “room for improvement” in the federal capital and stressed that these assessments had nothing to do with the electoral campaign.