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The number of new coronavirus infections hit a record in the United States for the third day in a row. As of Friday, more than 127,000 new infections were recorded in 24 hours. Johns Hopkins University announced. According to a Reuters poll, the number is even 129,606 new cases.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the death toll increased by 1,149. It was the fourth day in a row that the death toll exceeded 1,000. In total, more than 9.7 million corona infections and more than 236,000 deaths have been recorded in the US.
Experts: Corona’s Economic Fallout Could Boost Migration
7:05 am: According to experts, the serious economic consequences of the crown crisis in many African countries could drive migration. In the future, the drivers of migration would increase, said Bram Frouws, director of the research institute of the Joint Center for Migration, the dpa. “People’s need or desire to emigrate will only grow, but the options to emigrate may diminish.” Roland Nwoha, from the Idai Renaissance organization in the Nigerian city of Benin City, also said that he expected “a huge movement of people in their home country, because the pandemic has caused so much suffering and poverty in Nigeria.”
However, according to experts, new dynamics and routes could be developed. Frouws expects less migration from sub-Saharan countries to Europe in the coming years, but migration within countries or the region could increase, already accounting for most of the migration in Africa. Additionally, smugglers are increasingly testing new routes due to crown restrictions, Nwoha said.
This year, the number of immigrants arriving in Europe via the Mediterranean has dropped significantly, according to Frouws. This was partly due to travel restrictions and border closures that were imposed in many places as a result of the crown pandemic. On the other hand, it was because the incomes of many people have fallen and they could not make the expensive illegal trip or could not continue traveling. According to the World Bank, the economies of sub-Saharan countries will contract 3.3 percent this year.
New corona rapid tests are starting in the first countries
6:15 am: The use of new rapid corona tests is beginning to protect against infections, especially in clinics and nursing homes. According to the responsible ministries, the additional test options can already be used in the first federal states and preparations are being planned for some. As of November, the federal government has secured nine million tests on manufacturer’s acceptance warranties for states or federal institutions to purchase. This monthly fee will gradually increase to 22 million rapid tests in January, as the Federal Ministry of Health called it.
Saxony-Anhalt has equipped the first houses and clinics with tests. At the request of the dpa, the Ministry of Health announced that a good 11,000 tests were sent to the Wittenberg facility. More will follow in the coming days. The country wants to acquire a total of 500,000 tests. In Bavaria, 464,000 rapid tests have so far been distributed to 67 municipalities. The country has ordered a total of 10.5 million tests, as a reserve when demand is high.
In Brandenburg, the ministry said: “Rapid tests are not yet being used across the board, but individual facilities are already using them.” According to the Ministry of Social Affairs, the first institutions are also using rapid tests in Schleswig-Holstein. “Overall, the acquisition of the tests is currently under construction.” In Saxony there are also rapid tests that the facilities themselves purchase.
According to a regulation by the federal minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU), which has been in force since mid-October, the new rapid tests can be used on a wide front, especially in clinics and nursing homes. This should help better protect residents, staff, and visitors. Facilities should create a test concept for this. The health department then determines how many tests can be purchased and financed at health insurance costs: In nursing homes, up to 20 tests per month per resident are possible, as explained by the Federal Ministry.
With rapid antigen testing, it is not necessary to bring samples to the laboratory for analysis. However, they are not considered as accurate as other used PCR tests. They must be carried out by personnel with medical training. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), a positive rapid test result must be confirmed by a PCR test.
This year, six million rapid tests will be purchased in Berlin and another 6.58 million in 2021. The first 260,000 have been delivered. They would be distributed to care centers and the homeless, the health administration said.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, residents of nursing homes and for the elderly must be catered for first. According to the general decree, the tests will begin on November 9.
In Thuringia, the Health Ministry said it was currently obtaining an overview of the areas for which costs were covered on the basis of federal regulation. “We have activated a trial order to clarify where the country can intervene.”
More than 50,000 new infections in India
06.00 am.: India reports 50,356 new corona infections. The Ministry of Health announced that the total number of infections increased to 8.46 million in 24 hours. The number of deaths grew from 577 to 125,562. India has the second highest number of confirmed infections worldwide after the United States, but has seen a downward trend in new infections since September.
Once again, the largest number of new corona infections reported in the US.
3.40 am: The number of new coronavirus infections hit a record in the United States for the third day in a row. As of Friday, more than 127,000 new infections were recorded in 24 hours. Johns Hopkins University announced. According to a Reuters poll, the number is even 129,606 new cases.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the death toll increased by 1,149. Thus, it was the fourth day in a row that the death toll exceeded 1,000. In all, more than 9.7 million corona infections and more than 236,000 deaths have been recorded in the US.
The medical union asks for alternatives to home quarantine
03.25 am: In view of the increasing number of new corona infections, the Marburger Bund doctors union has called for alternatives to home quarantine. The number of people who contracted infected family members or roommates at home is increasing rapidly, the president of the doctors union, Susanne Johna, told the newspapers of the Funke media group. She suggested isolating people who tested positive at the hotel.
For many infected people, it is difficult to isolate themselves at home. Many couples only have one bed together, and even in large apartments there is usually only one bathroom. “The reduced living conditions jeopardize the success of the quarantine,” Johna said.
Therefore, to reduce infections at home, people who tested positive should have the opportunity to spend the 10-day quarantine in a hotel room, said the president of the Marburger Bund. The offer must be voluntary and only applies to people who have no or only weak symptoms.
Such regulation would not only have the advantage of preventing family members from being infected, but would also benefit hotels and pensions that barely made any income during the crisis. The state must bear the costs of accommodation.
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The Minister of Education wants to expand aid for students
3:05 am: Federal Education Minister Anja Karliczek wants to extend the crown aid for students that was reissued for the partial shutdown in November to the entire winter semester. One can imagine that this bridging aid will continue during this period, says the CDU politician of the “Rheinische Post”. “That would give some security to students who have lost their jobs and may also not find new job opportunities so quickly due to the pandemic in the coming months.”
In the Corona crisis, the Ministry of Education launched bridging aid that does not have to be repaid. Those who could prove with bank statements were paid from June to September that they were in a pandemic-related emergency, for example, because regular job payments were not being made. They were paid from 100 to a maximum of 500 euros per month.
Argentina expects the corona vaccine by the end of the year
02.15 am: The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, hopes that a corona vaccine will be available by the end of the year. “If all goes well,” Fernández said, the country will have enough vaccine doses for 10 million people by the end of December. He had held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin about direct delivery of the Sputnik V vaccine.
There are also negotiations with pharmaceutical companies that are currently in the final phase of vaccine development. Pfizer should deliver 750,000 doses of its vaccine starting in December, and the AstraZeneca vaccine could be available starting in March.
Argentina is one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, with more than 1.2 million cases and almost 33,000 deaths.
In late October, Russia applied to the World Health Organization (WHO) for expedited approval of its corona vaccine. In August, Russia approved the Sputnik V vaccine without waiting for the final testing phase with tens of thousands of subjects. Western scientists of the time harshly criticized this approach. You have doubts about the safety of vaccination.
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