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Clashes again during protests against Corona’s measures in Italy
7.43 am: In Italy, protests against the Corona measures again led to clashes with the police. In the capital Rome, several hundred people gathered at the central Campo de ‘Fiori in the city center on Saturday night. Because some protesters threw bottles and fireworks, the police broke up the demonstration with batons. A second protest in Rome also ended in clashes between protesters and the police.
On Friday night, there had already been violence during the protests in Florence. The police tried to prevent some 200 people from gathering for an unauthorized demonstration in the Piazza della Signoria in the center of the Renaissance city. Some protesters threw Molotov cocktails, bottles and rocks, toppled garbage cans and destroyed security cameras. 20 people were arrested. Mayor Dario Nardella spoke of a “surreal, terrible and painful night.”
Several hundred people, including soccer hooligans, took to the streets on Friday night in Bologna, some 50 miles away. According to a report by the daily “La Repubblica”, some showed the fascist salute.
In recent days there had already been partially violent protests against the Crown restrictions in other Italian cities, including Milan, Naples and Turin.
Health authorities report 14,177 new corona infections in Germany
6:24 am: According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), German health authorities reported 14,177 new corona infections in one day. However, the number of registered cases is usually lower on Sundays, also because fewer tests are carried out on weekends. A total of 532,930 people in Germany have been infected with the virus since the start of the pandemic. Exactly a week ago, 11,176 new infections were reported in one day.
The number of deaths in Germany related to the virus increased by 29 to a total of 10,481. About 355,900 people were able to recover from their infection. According to RKI’s situation report on Saturday, the number of views, or R-value for short, was 1.11 in Germany (previous day: 1.06). This means that ten infected people infect eleven other people. The R value represents the infection rate approximately one and a half weeks earlier.
Health insurance study: Corona measures curb respiratory diseases
06.00 am.: According to an analysis by the health insurance company Barmer, there are significantly fewer casualties from respiratory illnesses in late summer and fall than in 2019. The health insurance company attributes this to fewer infections because many German citizens paid attention to the rules of distance, hygiene and masks in the pandemic, says in the analysis. The significant deviations compared to the previous year could not be explained solely by the different climatic conditions. “The AHA rules are demonstrably effective. That is an important message shortly before the start of the second lockdown,” said Christoph Straub, chief executive of the fund. “Everyone can and should do something to control the worsening of the pandemic.”
Specifically, the number of Barmer insured on sick leave due to respiratory infections increased by 33,439 in the period between mid-August and early October of the previous year to a total of 57,613. That corresponds to a 138 percent increase, according to the analysis. This year, however, the increase was just 101 percent, with an increase from 18,975 to a total of 37,777 policyholders who took sick leave due to respiratory problems. Barmer has about nine million policyholders nationwide.
Maas: German borders with neighboring countries remain open despite crown crisis
02.43 am: Federal Chancellor Heiko Maas (SPD) has ensured that German borders with neighboring states will remain open even if the coronavirus pandemic worsens: “Yes, the borders will remain open,” he told Tagesspiegel on Sunday before the second closure began. “In the spring we had enough experience on how we organize the checks if they are necessary,” Maas emphasized. “I am sure that we will not see traffic jams at the border that are tens of kilometers long.”
The situation in Germany was tense during the crisis, but it was better than in other countries. “What I saw in the form of reactions from outside was more of a mixture of admiration and a desire to do something similar,” said the chancellor. He added: “Anyone who compares our situation with that of other countries comes to the conclusion: Germany is not doing so badly.”
Currently, at least 165 schools are completely closed
12:37 am: According to a newspaper report in Germany, at least 165 schools are currently completely closed to protect against infection. This was the result of a survey conducted by “Welt am Sonntag” among the 16 ministries of culture of the federal states. The highest number is 135 in Bavaria. In Hesse, there are currently no face-to-face classes in six schools due to the corona pandemic, four in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and two in Schleswig-Holstein.
In several countries, several schools are currently only partially operational. This includes information for Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Thuringia, Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. As in other countries, there are many students and groups of classes in quarantine, the newspaper reported.
France foresees a deficit of 248,000 million euros per Crown
00:10 am: The French government expects massive new loans due to the high costs of the second crown blockade. The state deficit will amount to 248 billion euros this year, said Secretary of State for the Economy, Olivier Dussopt, in an interview published on Sunday with the daily “Le Journal du Dimanche”. The sum corresponds to 11.3 percent of economic production. In fact, EU rules set an upper limit for new loans of three percent. A month-long lockdown began in France on Friday after the number of new infections spiked significantly recently.
The latest containment measures are likely to slow the second-largest economy in the monetary union after Germany by the end of the year. In 2020 as a whole, gross domestic product will likely collapse by eleven percent, said Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
Dussopt said that the crown crisis has cost France 186 billion euros so far, for example in the form of lost revenue and due to measures taken to combat the epidemic and its economic consequences.
