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To strengthen confidence in the population, US President-designate Joe Biden wants to be publicly vaccinated. He wanted to demonstrate the safety of the vaccine, Biden told CNN television station. If there is a vaccine available, it will. The three former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama had previously announced that they would be publicly vaccinated to increase confidence in the safety of the drug.
+++ 05:39 RKI reports more than 23,400 new infections +++
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has reported 23,449 new cases of infection in Germany in the last 24 hours. That’s about 640 more than on Friday a week ago, when health authorities reported 22,806 new infections to the RKI. The number of deaths per crown increased from 432 to 18,034. An estimated 820,600 people have recovered.
+++ 04:48 California Issues “Stay Home” Orders +++
California is implementing stricter measures to combat the pandemic. In regions threatened with overcrowding in intensive care units, exit restrictions and other requirements will be tightened, Governor Gavin Newsom announced. With a view to increasing hospital admissions, the state is imposing a stay-at-home order in much of California. Contact with other households should be avoided. Many non-essential businesses have to close, including hair salons and bars. Restaurants can only offer take away food. In the affected regions, the order will initially apply for three weeks.
+++ 03:57 Infections in daycare centers are decreasing +++
According to Federal Minister for Family Franziska Giffey, the number of corona infections in daycare centers is decreasing. In the age group from zero to five years, the number of new infections is “in the national average of 59 per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days,” said the SPD politician in the newspapers of the Funke media group. The trend is downward. Operations are ongoing in more than 90 percent of the nurseries. According to the latest figures, only 5.8 percent of daycare centers were fully or partially closed due to infections. “It’s okay that we insist on keeping daycare centers open,” says Giffey. “Nurseries do not cause infections.”
+++ 03:15 The EU Commission is examining models for Corona aid without Poland and Hungary +++
In the EU’s budget dispute with Poland and Hungary, the EU Commission is examining specific models for starting the multibillion-dollar Corona development fund without the two countries. The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” reports that the preferred model is based on the new short-term work aid SURE. Therefore, the Corona fund could be secured by voluntary guarantees from EU countries instead of the EU budget. Under this model, money could flow as fast as intended, FAZ wrote. However, the committee said that a decision on a particular path had not yet been made. Poland and Hungary are blocking the budget package with the help of the crown because they reject a new clause to cut EU funds in case of certain legal violations.
+++ 02:40 South Korea reports most new infections over nine months +++
With 629 new infections, South Korea reports the highest number in nine months. Health authorities said 295 new infections were detected in the capital Seoul in 24 hours.
+++ 01:48 Nursing officer: Complete isolation is too strict +++
The federal government nursing officer cautions against overly strict crown requirements in nursing homes and retirement homes. “There are very good concepts. In some cases, however, there are also rules that are too strict according to the current state of knowledge,” Andreas Westerfellhaus told the Funke media group newspapers. “Even if there is a limited outbreak, a facility should not reflexively close back to visitors.” After several severe crown outbreaks, nursing homes in Germany were severely sealed off during the first closure in spring. In hindsight, this also drew criticism because many residents suffered from isolation.
+++ 00:54 Biden wants to make Fauci the main medical advisor +++
American crown expert Anthony Fauci is said to be Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser. The president-elect of the United States announced this to CNN. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is still currently on President-elect Donald Trump’s crown crisis team. Fauci, 79, won widespread public recognition with his unadorned assessments of the corona pandemic. Trump, on the other hand, was often less good at talking to immunologists.
+++ 00:10 Rosenmontagszug in Düsseldorf finally canceled +++
The traditional Rose Monday procession in Düsseldorf will not take place next year due to the pandemic. The Comitee Düsseldorfer Carneval (CC) has finally canceled the train scheduled for February 15. Due to the crisis, there is no other option, explains the carnival society. “Every carnivalista’s heart bleeds when he has to cancel the climax of a session without replacement,” explains CC President Michael Lrecken. But people’s health has absolute priority.
+++ 23:36 Facebook removes incorrect information about corona vaccination +++
Facebook doesn’t want to give vaccine opponents a platform – incorrect information about corona vaccines should be removed in the future. Among other things, claims about the safety and efficiency of vaccines that have been disproved by experts, the company said. Conspiracy theories will also be affected, for example that the drugs would be tested on certain population groups without their consent or that they contained microchips. The hardest pace is the continuation of the online network’s line of removing posts that could harm people in the real world, he said.
+++ 22:47 Fauci corrects statements about the approval of the British vaccine +++
American expert Anthony Fauci has reviewed his comments on the relatively rapid approval of the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine in the UK. He wanted to say that a hasty approval in the United States would be bad because there are many skeptics of vaccines, he explains to the BBC. In no way does he accuse UK regulatory authorities of sloppy work.
+++ 22:26 Pfizer is likely to halve the volume of its vaccine administration +++
Pfizer has cut its delivery targets for its vaccine due to problems in the supply chain, according to one newspaper. Now half the original amount is expected, the Wall Street Journal reports. The background is insufficient quality of raw materials. Initially, a statement from the US pharmaceutical company was not available. Pfizer is developing the vaccine together with Germany’s Biontech.
+++ 22:04 Italy closes the ski areas until January 6 +++
With a new decree and more restrictions on the people, the Italian government wants to avoid another corona wave. All ski areas were closed until January 6, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced. Between December 21 and January 6, Italians, but also tourists entering Italy from abroad, must be quarantined. However, the leader of the center-left government did not provide information on the duration of the quarantine. According to Conte, the nationwide curfew is maintained at 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. An exception is New Year’s Eve: then the lock will run from 10 p.m. on December 31 to 7 a.m. New Year. Read more about it here.
+++ 21:46 In summary: migrants “imported” corona cases through home visits +++
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has repeated his much-criticized statement that the corona virus was “brought in” by people with a migratory background during the summer through trips abroad. The Alpine republic “imported” a third of the number of infections in the summer through people returning from the Balkans, Kurz told “Bild”. “That is simply a fact, it is not the allocation of blame, but simply the reality,” Kurz said. The Austrian government announced on Wednesday a ten-day quarantine obligation for all travelers from risk areas around Christmas and New Years. This applies to virtually all neighboring countries and especially the Balkans, he said. Kurz’s choice of words was heavily criticized.
+++ 21:34 Eight federal states report four-digit increases in new infections +++
In their daily reports, eight federal states recorded four-digit increases: North Rhine-Westphalia leads the field with 4,960 new infections recorded. Bavaria (4680), Baden-Württemberg (3063), Saxony (2685), Hesse (1520), Lower Saxony (1312), Berlin (1244) and Rhineland-Palatinate (1047) remain on the list of federal states with daily values Taller. Measured by the number of inhabitants, Saxony is the state with the highest daily increase in new infections this Thursday: The Free State has 65.9 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
+++ 21:13 Current data status in Germany: 23,268 new infections reported +++
The number of reported coronavirus infections in Germany has risen to 1,119,609. As can be seen from information from state authorities evaluated by ntv.de, 23,268 new infections were added in 24 hours. The current daily increase is well above Thursday’s value seven days ago (November 26: 22,222 new infections) and slightly above the level of 14 days ago (November 19: 23,151).
The severity of the situation three weeks before Christmas Eve also shows a glimpse of the deaths. Just Wednesday the federal states reported the largest daily increase to date, with a total of 512 deaths. The number of deaths from corona reported daily in Germany has now reached the second highest value since the start of the pandemic: this Thursday a total of 453 cases were registered, for which a total of 17,865 people died in relation to an infection by coronavirus in this country. Thursday’s current value exceeds the level of a week ago (November 26: 431 kills per crown) and is even more significantly higher than the value of 14 days ago (November 19: 268). Around 304,300 people are currently infected.
The infection rate (R value) is given by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) as 0.83 (previous day: 0.84). This means that an average of 100 infected people infect another 83 people with Sars-CoV-2. The 7-day R-value is currently 0.94 (previous day: 0.89). According to the Divi-Register, 3,980 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated in intensive care in Germany, 2,381 of whom are ventilated. Around 5,227 intensive care beds are still available in German clinics.
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