Anschober is confident that the second wave will not materialize; Rendi-Wagner calls for a rapid test strategy

Support comes from AGES epidemiologist Schmid. Health Minister Anschober is confident that there will be no “second wave”.

You can read here what was said in Im Zentrum:

We come to Germany. The Robert Koch Institute reported a comparatively low number of new corona infections on Monday. Consequently, the health authorities had presented 922 cases within one day.

Experience shows that the number of reported cases is usually lower on Sundays and Mondays, also because not all health authorities report data to the RKI during the weekend.

Tighter measures to contain the corona virus will not have any new effect on judicial operations for the time being. Regardless of the restrictions imposed on events at present, court hearings will not only remain open to the media, but will also be accessible to interested audiences, the so-called misdemeanors. The Justice Ministry made this clear in the APA request.

“Restrictions on events are not transferable to judicial operations, because the principle of publicity of parties in negotiations can only be restricted for the reasons provided by law: the code of civil procedure or the code of criminal procedure,” he said the ministry. To protect against Covid-19, security measures in court buildings and negotiating rooms (wearing mouth and nose protection in the negotiation room, observing distance rules, observing hygiene regulations) have been around for a long time, it was emphasized.

“To that end, there are certainly numerical restrictions on the number of listeners in court, depending on the size of the respective courtroom,” the Justice Ministry said. However, these restrictions would be determined by the direction of the respective agency within the framework of the house rules or by the decision-making body, the respective judge, within the framework of the judicial police.

The exit restrictions imposed six months ago by the corona pandemic in Argentina have been extended. Now they are valid until October 11, according to a decree of the government of the South American country this Sunday. In the metropolitan area of ​​the capital Buenos Aires and in other particularly affected areas, people can only leave their homes for certain purposes.

Argentina imposed strict exit restrictions on March 20, largely shutting down economic operations and closing borders. Initially, this made it possible to slow down the spread of the virus, much better than in neighboring Brazil, for example. Recently, however, the discipline of the population declined. There were also demonstrations against the anti-crown measures. Argentina is now the country with the 10th highest number of coronavirus cases worldwide, with more than 630,000 confirmed infections, according to statistics from Johns Hopkins University.

Prince Charles sees global warming as a far greater danger than the current corona pandemic. Although this is widely denied, the climate crisis has been aggravating “for too many years,” the British heir to the throne said Sunday in a message to be played at the inauguration of Climate Week in New York on Monday.

Currently, climate change “is rapidly turning into a major catastrophe that will overshadow the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic,” the 71-year-old added. “Without rapid and immediate trade at an unprecedented rate and scale, we will miss the window of opportunity to create a better future.”

For the first time since the beginning of the second national shutdown in Israel, opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have joined together to protest. Several thousand people took part in the rally in Jerusalem on Sunday night to demand Netanyahu’s resignation. The Prime Minister is criticized for accusations of corruption and his handling of the Corona crisis. The rally was approved despite the new crown restrictions. Roughly the same number of people participated as in the weeks before the blockade came into effect. The participants wore masks, but did not abide by the distance rules, as reported by a reporter from the AFP news agency.

Police complained that the protesters had removed the barricades that had been erected around the demonstration site for security reasons. A driver who tried to ram the police barricades with his car was arrested.

Since midnight, there have been more restrictions in the fight against coronavirus and Covid-19, affecting private celebrations, leisure activities, restaurants and markets and trade shows. The government hopes this will avoid a second lockdown. The Minister of Health, Rudolf Anschober (Greens), was confident that “we will not turn into a second wave.”

Josef Siffert and I will update you today on the latest news related to the coronavirus.

Good start to the week!

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The Federal Rescue Commander of the Red Cross warns of a sharp increase in new infections in the coming days.

As of Sunday night, 702 people were infected with the corona virus in Tyrol. Since Saturday night, 34 positive test results have been added, at the same time as another 60 people recovered from the virus. The situation in the hospitals remained stable, as it had been for many weeks: 18 patients with crown were treated in normal wards. Only three infected people required intensive medical treatment.

The number of crown tests in the US has reached a new record. On Saturday, more than a million tests were performed there in one day, according to data from the Covid Tracking project. In the week leading up to September 13, there was an average of just 650,000 tests per day after a peak in late July with more than 800,000 tests per day.

However, according to experts, the United States would have to perform between six and ten million tests a day to control the disease.

Italian health authorities also recorded a decline in the number of coronavirus infections on Sunday. 1,587 new cases were registered in more than 83,000 tests in 24 hours from Saturday to Sunday, compared to 1,638 the day before. Additionally, 15 deaths were reported, up from 24 on Saturday, bringing the death toll since the epidemic began in February to 35,707.

The number of active cases is currently 44,098, while that of Covid 19 patients treated in hospitals fell slightly from 2,380 to 2,365. There were 222 patients in intensive care units on Sunday, seven fewer than the day before. 41,511 people are in quarantine.

Thousands of people protested in Madrid against the crown-related blockade of various low-income areas of the Spanish capital. In the large demonstrations on Sunday, the measures were rejected as unfair and discriminatory. They should go into effect on Monday.

In light of the growing number of corona infections, Madrid will introduce strict corona restrictions in parts of the Spanish capital starting Monday. In Madrid, the registered cases are “double the national average and the number of hospital admissions is three times higher than the national average,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in a television interview on Saturday.

In the federal state of Upper Austria, health authorities registered 49 new Covid 19 infections on Sunday (at 3:00 p.m.), in the state of Salzburg there were 15 cases (at 4:30 p.m.). The infections were again recorded around a parcel service provider in the Linz-Land district; now there are 112 cases in total. There will be a second series of tests there in the next few days.

In Burgenland, 109 people are currently registered with a coronavirus infection. There have been eight new infections since Saturday, 13 people have recovered, the Coronavirus coordination team announced Sunday. The total number of confirmed cases so far is 662 and 542 people are considered to have recovered.

The renewed assessment of the amendment to the Covid Measures Law came to an end over the weekend. Again several thousand comments were received, although only a very small proportion dealt with precisely the text. The majority came from opponents of the measure, who had asked that Parliament’s website be flooded with a ready-made text.

According to internal sources, the Italian government expects the economy to contract by nine percent this year due to the corona pandemic. For next year, they expect growth of more than five percent, two government officials in Rome told Reuters on Sunday. In April, the government had assumed less than eight percent for 2020 and an increase of 4.7 percent for 2021. The new forecasts will be presented next week. They form the framework for the 2021 budget, which is due to be presented to the EU Commission in mid-October. Italy will receive around 209 billion euros from the EU crown reconstruction fund, which has yet to be approved by the European Parliament and EU national parliaments. The country is one of the EU countries that has been particularly affected by the pandemic in Europe.

If the significant increase in infections continues, the Czech government, Health Minister Adam Vojtech, could declare a state of emergency. The government should discuss such a measure on Monday, he said in a television discussion. In the last 14 days, the number of infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the Czech Republic was 193, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.

The police and the magistrate searched 26 companies in Vienna. The naivete of some visitors and operators is scary, it is said.