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Apparently, several drug companies are preparing a joint public commitment to high safety standards for corona vaccines. For vaccine candidates, approval should only be requested when they are safe and effective, the Wall Street Journal reported. Clinical trials and manufacturing must be based on high scientific and ethical standards. Signatories included Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna, among others. The reason for the move to the public is fears that vaccine safety could be affected by political pressure ahead of the US presidential election on November 3.
+++ 06:24 Brazil corrects numbers up +++
Brazil revised up its latest crown numbers immediately after publication. Now, the Ministry of Health reports 51,194 new infections and 907 more deaths in the last 24 hours. This brings the numbers to a total of nearly 4.1 million infections and 125,521 deaths.
+++ 05:34 Steinmeier considers the second block unlikely +++
In his own words, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sees the fight against Corona as “light at the end of the tunnel.” Reports of promising vaccine research are “quite encouraging,” Steinmeier told the German editorial network. The head of state does not expect that there will be necessary restrictions on public life in the lead up to the crisis in Germany. Everyone knew “that a second lockdown would be extremely damaging to the economy. And we shouldn’t expect the same level of acceptance that we had four or five months ago,” Steinmeier said.
+++ 04:44 Canada: Juicy penalties for those who reject the mask on the plane +++
Canadian authorities have for the first time fined air passengers for refusing to wear masks to protect against the coronavirus. Two Canadians each have to pay a fine of 1,000 Canadian dollars, the equivalent of 650 euros. The Canadian Department of Transportation announced. “In both cases, the crew repeatedly asked the crew to cover their faces, and in both cases, people refused,” the ministry said. Therefore, the incidents occurred in June and July on domestic flights. As in Germany, travelers in Canada must wear masks on public transport to protect against the coronavirus. In Canada this applies to aircraft boarding, flight and disembarkation. Canada has recorded more than 130,000 infections and 9,000 deaths in the pandemic so far.
+++ 03:52 The Russian pharmaceutical company has manufactured a vaccine in Neu-Ulm +++
The Russian pharmaceutical company R-Pharm is investing more than € 20 million in the Illertissen location in the Neu-Ulm district. According to the site manager Ivan Semenov, production of the so-called Oxford coronavirus vaccine will start there in the first quarter of 2021. The capacity is designed for 500 million vaccination doses per year. The Neu-Ulm district vaccine will be supplied to 35 countries, including those in the CIS, but not to Germany or other EU countries. The Oxford vaccine (AZD1222) is currently in testing phase III, which is the decisive one. The plant in Illertissen can also produce the Sputnik V vaccine at a later date, Semenov told the “Südwest Presse”. It is already approved in Russia, but the tests still do not meet international standards.
+++ 03:04 WHO warns of vaccine nationalism +++
The World Health Organization (WHO) calls on all countries of the world to join forces in the fight against the coronavirus. “Vaccine nationalism” would only prolong the pandemic, says WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. It does not name individual countries. So far, 76 countries want to participate in the global Covax corona vaccine initiative, led by WHO. Covax aims to ensure fair access to Covid-19 vaccines. Wealthy states like the US, Japan, Britain and also EU countries have already secured millions of units and spent billions on them from pharmaceutical companies that are at the forefront of the race for a vaccine.
+++ 02:11 Iraq is fighting a high rate of infection +++
The number of new corona infections has risen to a record in Iraq. For the first time, the Baghdad Ministry of Health reports more than 5,000 new cases in one day. Another 84 people died in connection with the virus. The number of new infections each day has risen to the highest level in the region in Iraq in recent weeks. In total, authorities have so far recorded more than 252,100 corona cases and more than 7,300 deaths in relation to Covid-19. Iraq imposed exit restrictions and suspended international flights in March, slowing the spread of the virus. However, after the government relaxed the measures, the number of daily cases registered increased again. Last week, hundreds of thousands of Muslims celebrated the Shiite Ashura festival in the city of Karbala. Iraq is suffering a serious economic crisis and the consequences of the fight against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia. The corona pandemic has exacerbated the situation.
+++ 01:07 Scholz: Economic measures worked better than expected +++
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is confident that the economic recession due to the Corona crisis will end in the foreseeable future. “At the moment there is a lot of evidence that we have the worst behind us and that the economy is gradually improving,” said the SPD candidate for chancellor of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. Measures to stabilize and stimulate the economy apparently worked better than expected. Of course, Germany is not out of the woods yet, the virus has not yet been defeated, he said. But he hopes “that by the end of next year, in early 2022, we will return to the level we had before the crisis.”
+++ 00:27 Curevac receives millions from the state +++
The Tübingen biotechnology company Curevac has received millions of funding from the Federal Research Ministry. As the company announced, the authority is expected to provide up to € 252 million for further development of the Covid-19 vaccine and expansion of production capacities. In July, Curevac applied for the grant, which comes from a special program to accelerate research and development of urgently needed SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
+++ 23:34 State ministers want to ask passengers without a mask to pay +++
The transport ministers of the federal states will discuss an increase in the transport fare for those who reject the masks in regional and long-distance transport next Wednesday. Gremius chairwoman Saarland department head Anke Rehlinger made it clear that she is skeptical: “Anyone who behaves in an unpleasant way and does not wear a mask should expect a fine. I think it is wrong to impose the implementation on the company. transport “, so the SPD politician. Drivers are not deputy sheriffs, they can issue warnings, but police and law enforcement authorities are responsible for fines. “We shouldn’t expect that from employees on the bus and train. The state is responsible for the fines,” Rehlinger continued.
+++ 22:59 Biden accuses Trump of chaotic crisis management +++
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has accused incumbent Donald Trump of “chaotic mismanagement” in the crown crisis. Trump does not yet understand that the economy cannot fully recover until the pandemic is under control, Biden said. As long as there are tens of thousands of new infections and about 1,000 deaths every day, there could be no “full economic recovery,” Biden warned at a news conference in Wilmington, Delaware. “If the president had done his job, it shouldn’t have been so bad,” Biden said.
+++ 22:15 Shortly after the start: 22 schools in France have already closed +++
A few days after classes started again, 22 schools in France and a department abroad were already closed due to the corona epidemic. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told Europe 1 radio station that schools resumed classes on Tuesday after the summer break. There are around 60,000 schools in France. Starting at the age of eleven, students must wear a mask and abide by the distance rules.
+++ 21:55 Nearly 45,000 new infections in US +++
In the US, there were 44,671 new infections in 24 hours. A total of 6.132 million people have been shown to have been infected with the corona virus, according to the CDC. The death toll increased from 1,081 to 186,173. The numbers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) do not necessarily reflect the data reported by individual states. By the “New York Times” tally, 6.16 million infected people have already been reported in the US.
+++ 21:25 Four federal states with few cases +++
Four federal states have single-digit growth rates: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (plus 4 cases), Thuringia (plus 6), Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen (plus 8). Most of the new infections occurred in Bavaria (over 342), Baden-Württemberg (over 333), and North Rhine-Westphalia (over 284); Lower Saxony (plus 101) and Berlin (plus 94) follow at a greater distance.
Furthermore, the contagion dynamics in Germany is decreasing after the 7-day average and drops to 1,145.3 cases. The day before it was 1182.4. The Robert Koch Institute writes in its evening management report: “The increase in the number of reported cases since mid-July has leveled off in the last week and the 7-day incidence has again fallen across the country.”
+++ 21:00 Germany reports the lowest value on Friday for four weeks +++
In their daily report, the federal states reported 1,411 new infections and 3 deaths for Germany since the previous day. That’s the lowest value on Friday in four weeks. More recently, the number of infections was lower on August 7. According to calculations by ntv.de based on country information, the number of infections in Germany increases to a total of 248,304 cases. 9,323 people have died, 221,897 have now recovered.
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