So far, 30,000 announcements, 3,600 criminal terms; Missing to eat – shopping is not

No country in Latin America is more affected by the crown pandemic than Brazil: the largest country in the region has registered more than 66,000 infected people and 4,205 people have already died as a result of the virus. This emerges from the latest data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health in Brasilia on Monday.

It was the second highest number of infections recorded in Brazil in a day since the Covid 19 pandemic, after Saturday. According to the observatory of Brazilian universities, the number of corona deaths recently doubled in eight days. “This is the beginning of the most difficult phase in Brazil,” political scientist Mauricio Santoro of the Rio de Janeiro State University told the German Press Agency.

Regardless of the coronavirus pandemic, Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air is known to want to resume flights from Vienna. The kick-off will take place on Friday, seven destinations will be served: Dortmund, Thessaloniki, Rome, Milan, Lisbon, Oslo, Eindhoven. On Saturday, six other destinations will be added: Athens, Cologne, Reykjavik, Tenerife, Tel Aviv and Varna. And more is planned.

For some destinations only there is no landing permit and several travel warnings are still in operation. More here:

A Swede had the face of chief virologist Anders Tegnell, who became famous across the country due to the crown crisis, tattooed on his left arm. “I like having tattoos that mean something to me. And well, Covid-19 will be part of my life for the rest of my life,” Gustav Lloyd Agerblad, 32, of Stockholm, said yesterday.

The IT team in schools is very different: even in the Ministry of Education, there is no precise description of it. This shows the answer to a NEOS parliamentary question from the Minister of Education, Heinz Faßmann. This is also due to different legal responsibilities. The NEOS hope that the current crisis is “a wake-up call for the government.”

The respective school maintenance managers are responsible for the IT infrastructure in the schools. This is only the federal level in the AHS and in the intermediate and higher vocational schools (BMHS), otherwise the federal states or municipalities. Also in federal schools, hardware is purchased primarily by the schools themselves within the scope of their financial autonomy. However, schools are subject to framework agreements with certain providers stipulated by the Bundesbeschaffe GmbH. Except in exceptional cases, you cannot make independent acquisitions.

NEOS find this construction “absurd”.

The city of Vienna is organizing a round table on May 5 with stakeholders from all cultural sectors, health care experts and administrative representatives to “discuss various planning perspectives for Vienna in the face of the crown crisis.” Councilor Veronica Kaup-Hasler and Councilor Peter Hacker (both SPÖ) will also participate in the “Culture and Health Forum”.

In a first step, it’s about “first-hand” information as well as “exploring all the possibilities for the summer and later weather,” he told the APA.

United States President Donald Trump has rejected rival Joe Biden’s speculation about a possible postponement of the presidential election due to the crown crisis. “I never thought about postponing the election date,” Trump said at a news conference in the White House rose garden on Monday night.

That was “made-up propaganda” that an employee of former Vice President Biden had launched on his behalf. November 3, the planned election date, is a good date. “I am looking forward to this choice.”

US aviation giant Boeing plans to resume production of its long-haul 787 “Dreamliner” jet, which was halted due to the corona crisis. Operations at plants in the state of South Carolina will restart next weekend, the group in North Charleston announced today.

Boeing temporarily suspended production on April 8 due to the pandemic. Various security measures have been implemented, the company said.

In Australia, some states are slowly loosening restrictions. In the state of New South Wales (NSW), which records nearly half of the approximately 6,700 cases of Covid-19 in Australia, up to two adults can visit someone else at home as of Friday. Bondi Beach and two neighboring beaches in Sydney are again open to residents.

The rate of new local infections had dropped to just under 1 percent a day, a month ago it was 25 percent. 84 virus-related deaths have been confirmed across the country.

Josef Siffert and I will accompany you again today and provide you with the latest information on the coronavirus.

The National Council decides today on the next crown package: the massive criticism comes from the ranks of the opposition.

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The infection rate with the new type of coronavirus has increased again in Germany, according to the Robert Koch Institute. According to RKI statistics released on Monday night, each infected person is now infecting another person, the so-called reproductive rate is 1.0 (data as of 04/27, 00:00).

This means that the number of new cases no longer decreases as easily as in the past few days.

In early March, the key number was three, on April 8 1.3, in the last 0.9 days, each with a certain range of fluctuation. The key figure indicates how many people infected an ill person on average.

VW chief Diess calls for government investments in favor of automakers. “We urgently need an economic stimulus package for the auto industry,” VW chief Herbert Diess said on a Monday night on the online website of the ARDAired the published interview “Tagesschau”. Germany is a car country and the car is “probably the best way to boost the economy in this country.”

This explains that the main effect is that “an order chain begins as soon as the customer enters the retail operation.” This protects jobs at retailers, manufacturers, and suppliers.

Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens), Tourism Minister Elisabeth Köstinger, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, and Finance Minister Margarete Schramböck (all ÖVP) will report to the Federal Chancellery at 8 a.m. morning on the latest news about the coronavirus.

Online mail order company Amazon wants to close its logistics centers in France until May 5 due to a legal dispute over crown protection measures. Employees had to stay home on their full salary until then, the company said Monday night. “Our distribution centers in France and around the world are safe,” he said.

The National Council will launch the next Corona package on Tuesday. For example, amendments to the Epidemic Law are approved, which establish the framework for crown detection programs. Furthermore, the possibility of video proceedings is now also being created in civil law.

It defines more precisely how risk groups should be treated in the workplace. This makes it legally clear that employees in critical infrastructure are now also released from service if neither the home office nor the corresponding safety precautions in the workplace are possible.

The United States Senate plans to end its break for the crown pandemic as planned and meet again next Monday. “We will be together again next week,” confirmed Republican House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Twitter.

Ryanair’s subsidiary Laudamotion is demanding a new union agreement due to the coronavirus pandemic. Savvy pilots and flight attendants’ salaries are expected to drop 10 percent or more, such as the online portal AviationNet reported. In an interview with the portal, Lauda management once again threatens to leave the Airbus base in Vienna and fire all 560 employees.

According to the report, the airline presented its draft contract for the new collective agreement (KV) to the Chamber of Commerce and the Vida union on Monday. It should be signed before May 21. Otherwise, the current short-term job would end on May 31, 2020, a month later the termination protection would end.

Fear of spreading the coronavirus in overcrowded prisons in Uganda is expected to free more than 800 prisoners. President Yoweri Museveni has pardoned 833 prisoners, a prison spokesman said. According to the report, these include prisoners who have been arrested for minor crimes and who have already served three-quarters of their detention.

The East African country has confirmed 79 cases of Covid-19 to date, according to the pan-African health agency CDCC in Africa. Human rights activists have been calling for the release of some of the approximately 62,000 prisoners in Uganda for some time because the prisons are overcrowded.

In the New York metropolis, up to 100 miles of highway could be closed to cars and trucks. Mayors Bill de Blasio announced Monday that sidewalks and bike paths will also be expanded. The first approximately 65 kilometers of roads should be closed in the next four weeks, the rest later in the summer.

It has yet to be planned which of New York’s streets, which are nearly 10,000 miles long, will be car-free.