Live coronavirus ticker: +++ 02:35 Argentina expects vaccination to begin at the end of the year +++



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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 stages of vaccine development. Pfizer should deliver 750,000 doses of its vaccine starting in December, and the AstraZeneca vaccine could be ready by March. Argentina is one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, with more than 1.2 million cases and almost 33,000 deaths.

+++ 02:07 Four constitutional complaints against partial confinement +++
Due to the partial closure, the Federal Constitutional Court has so far received four constitutional complaints and two requests for a provisional order. The Karlsruhe court has so far counted 518 constitutional complaints on the Corona issue, reports the Funke media group. 331 were no longer persecuted.

+++ 01:37 The doctors union promotes hotel quarantine +++
The Marburger Bund Doctors Union advocates that those who have tested positive for the coronavirus can also spend their quarantine in a hotel room. The offer must be voluntary and only applies to people who have no symptoms or only weak symptoms, said the president of the Marburger Bund, Susanne Johna, the newspapers of the Funke media group. Such regulation could prevent family members from being infected and would also benefit hotels and pensions that barely have income during the crisis. The state must bear the costs of accommodation.

+++ 00:42 Söder: “Lockdown Light will work” +++
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder has been confident that current crown-related restrictions are taking effect. “The blocking light will work. The medicine is bitter, but necessary. I hope the dose is sufficient,” said the head of the CSU of the “Rheinische Post”. He appealed to the patience of the citizens. “We need at least two weeks to evaluate the success of the measures. It would be wrong to interrupt therapy earlier.” The Prime Minister also stressed that Germany had the “lightest blockade that currently exists in Europe.”

+++ 23:50 Brazil has 18,862 new infections +++
In Brazil, the number of known infections increased by 18,862 to a total of more than 5.6 million. The Health Ministry also announced another 279 deaths. A total of 162,015 people in the country died of or with Covid-19.

+++ 23:03 The president of Portugal declares a state of emergency at the national level +++
In light of the growing number of corona infections, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has declared a health emergency for the second time since spring. The state of emergency should take effect from next week. It is a “very limited measure and to a great extent preventive,” the president stressed. The state of emergency allows the government to impose new measures to contain the corona pandemic. As an example, De Sousa cited traffic restrictions. The Social Democratic government wants to discuss concrete measures on Saturday night at an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers. The talks include a nationwide night curfew and measurements of public fever in certain locations. More recently, the number of new corona virus infections in Portugal rose again sharply: Last week, the country surpassed the 4,000 new infections in one day mark for the first time.

+++ 22:32 Nearly 118,000 new infections in US +++
The U.S. Disease Protection Agency (CDC) recorded 117,988 new infections in 24 hours. On Thursday it was 106,537. In total, about 9.58 million US citizens have been shown to have contracted the virus. The number of deaths increases from 1,135 to 234,264. CDC numbers may differ from the cases reported by individual states. The ntv.de charts refer to the “New York Times” data, which is slightly higher. Based on this count, there are now 9,698,098 reported infections and 235,331 Covid-19 related deaths.

+++ 21:53 Hungary wants to test the Russian vaccine +++
The Hungarian government also wants to rely on Russian vaccines. Hungary will start importing “small quantities of vaccines” from Russia in December and will test them in clinical studies, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Deliveries of “large quantities” of vaccines must be made from the second week of January. Right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban also commented on the issue of vaccines on Friday: “We are seeing the end of the tunnel, we are getting more and more good news about vaccines,” he said in a radio interview. He added: “People want Hungary to continue to function and the economy must be protected as well as life.”

+++ 21:01 More than 23,000 new infections in Germany +++
The number of coronavirus infections reported in Germany has increased 631,348 uploaded. As is clear from the information of the state authorities evaluated by ntv.de, it arrived in 24 hours 23,069 new cases added. The number of deaths related to the infection increased by 169 in 11,167. Around 223,000 are currently infected People.

The infection rate (R value) is provided by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) 0.9 specified (previous day: 0.79). That means that on average 100 Infected 90 infect other people with Sars-CoV-2. R-value of 7 days is currently included 0.99 (The previous day: 0.93). According to Divi-Register currently in Germany 2753 Covid-19 patients treated in intensive care, 1445 of which are ventilated. Round 7024 Intensive care beds are still available in German clinics.

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