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1/12 Due to the corona pandemic, this year Holi festival will be banned in Delhi and Mumbai. (Image: Keystone)
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12/2 Outbreak of mutations in the army: 59 members of the army in a recruiting school in Spiez tested positive for the British virus variant. (Image: Keystone)
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3/12 In the corona pandemic, apprentice drivers in Switzerland performed better than the previous year. (Image: Keystone)
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04/12 Ackermann: “It will take a while until we are on the mountain” Although vaccines are beginning to work in people at risk, the chairman of the Task Force, Martin Ackermann, warned on Wednesday from an epidemiological point of view against new measures opening. (Image: Keystone)
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12/5 Virginie Masserey, Head of the Infection Control Section at FOPH, resigns from the board of the Meineimfung.ch foundation following the data leak. (Image: Keystone)
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6/12 People vaccinated in Switzerland must receive an international vaccination certificate before summer. (Image: Keystone)
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12/7 Anne Levy, Director of BAG, announced that self-tests in Switzerland should be available in a few weeks. (Image: Keystone)
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12/8 According to Virginie Masserey, Head of the Infection Control Section at FOPH, 5.4 percent of the Swiss are fully vaccinated. (Image: Keystone)
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12/9 In parts of Austria, crown measures could be tightened during Easter. (Image: Keystone)
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12/10 Despite the uncertain situation in the pandemic, the German automotive industry sticks to the International Motor Show scheduled for September in Munich. (Image: Keystone)
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12/11 Astrazeneca stores 29 million doses of corona vaccine in Italy for export to the UK. (Image: Keystone)
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12/12 After massive criticism, Angela Merkel decided to stop the federal state’s decision on the so-called Easter break against the crown pandemic. (Image: Keystone)
Swiss
The corona virus is turning Switzerland and the world upside down. Here in the ticker, you stay up-to-date on current events.
This article is renewed every 30 seconds.Rammstein’s tour will be postponed again due to the ongoing corona pandemic. The band announced this on Facebook. The new dates are set for the year 2022.
The German government is checking whether trips to popular overseas vacation areas can be temporarily avoided due to the corona pandemic. “This is now being verified by the responsible departments,” deputy government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said in Berlin on Wednesday.
The background to this is the temporary booking boom for Mallorca after the Germans’ favorite island was removed from the corona risk areas list on March 14. This also removed the travel warning from the Federal Foreign Office. Because the number of new infections had fallen below 50 per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days.
This means that holidays in Mallorca are possible again without mandatory quarantine and tests when returning to Germany. However, at the federal-state meeting on Monday, it was decided that in the future a test requirement should be introduced for all air passengers entering Germany.
In view of the significant increase in the number of wreaths in India, public celebrations of the important Hindu color festival Holi have been banned in the big cities of Delhi and Mumbai. At the festival that Monday, people often throw colored powders at each other.
In addition, there will be random corona tests at airports, train stations and bus stops in the two megacities, authorities announced Wednesday.
Due to the corona pandemic, this year the Holi festival will be banned in Delhi and Mumbai. (Image: Keystone)
According to various experts, the world’s largest democracy with its more than 1.3 billion inhabitants is heading for a second wave. A few weeks ago, fewer than 10,000 corona cases were recorded in just a few days. Meanwhile, there have been more than 40,000 new infections every day for several days.
The number of asylum applications in the EU was last year the lowest since 2013. In 2020, 416,600 initial applications for international protection were submitted in the 27 EU countries, as announced by the EU statistical agency Eurostat in Luxembourg on Wednesday.
The German authorities received one in four applications (102,500). One of the reasons for the significant decline is the crown crisis.
A 35-year-old contractor from Lucerne has to go to jail for mistakenly obtaining a Covid 19 loan of 110,000 Swiss francs. The criminal court sentenced him on Wednesday for fraud and thus issued a judgment with signal effect.
A Covid credit fraudster from the canton of Lucerne has to go to jail. (Image: Keystone)
The man had submitted a Covid emergency aid form to his dry-build company’s commercial bank in March 2020. According to his information, he feared a construction freeze as a result of the pandemic at this time. The loan application was a precautionary measure. Everything on the subject is available here.
Following reports of large quantities of Astrazeneca vaccine stored in Italy, the government of Rome has confirmed an inspection at a company. However, according to the information, the controlled lots of vaccines were destined for Belgium, as revealed by the inspection.
The government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi distributed a corresponding statement in Rome on Wednesday. He claimed that the European Commission asked Rome on Saturday (March 20) to examine several batches of vaccines at a production plant in Anagni, Lazio. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, ordered the inspection. The Carabinieri (NAS) responsible for health protection had verified on Sunday. “The inspection showed that the lots were destined for Belgium,” he said. All outgoing lots would now be controlled by the authorities.
At the recruiting school in Spiez BE, 59 members of the military tested positive for the corona virus and another 87 people were quarantined. The army has interrupted the training of the affected group.
Mutation outbreak in the army: 59 members of the army at a recruiting school in Spiez tested positive for the British virus variant. (Image: Keystone)
The corona cases were found at NBC Defense School 77, as the military announced Wednesday. The recruits were routinely screened for the corona virus. The protection concept foresees this before a general vacation in order to prevent a possible postponement of civil life. According to the notification, there are no difficult courses. All those affected are infected with the British mutation. All the details can be found here.
Last year’s student drivers performed better on the theory test than those of the previous year. Traffic authorities suspect that those tested had more time to study thanks to Corona. In addition, more tests were conducted.
In the corona pandemic, apprentice drivers in Switzerland performed better than the previous year. (Image: Keystone)
The average success rate was 3.4 percentage points higher than the previous year, the Association of Highway Traffic Authorities writes in a statement Wednesday. This despite the fact that no major adjustments have been made to the theory test questions and the level of difficulty has remained unchanged. Before the corona pandemic, the success rate had been very stable for several years. You can find all the basic information on the subject here.
German commercial credit insurers will soon no longer need the state to insure supply chains in retail. The € 30 billion state protection umbrella established a year ago should not be extended beyond the end of June, as the General Association of the German Insurance Industry (GDV) announced on Wednesday.
“None of the commercial credit insurers involved is seeking a renewed extension,” said GDV CEO Jörg Asmussen. The goal of not knocking down supply chains in the corona pandemic has been achieved. Nowadays, a collapse is no longer to be feared, also due to state measures to support the economy. Credit insurance protects providers from customers being unable or unwilling to pay the bill.
In dozens of cities in Europe there was a minute of silence and other commemorative events for the dead of the crown on Wednesday at 12 noon. Many of the around 200 cities in nearly 40 countries participated in the joint commemoration with their own campaigns.
This was announced by the Eurocities association as organizer. A spokesperson said there was no exact number of participants.
In Berlin, according to the BVG transport company, many buses and trains stopped for a while at midday at stops or at the train station. The spokesperson for Eurocities reported that there was a similar action in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
Although vaccines are beginning to have an effect on people at risk, Task Force Chairman Martin Ackermann warned on Wednesday from an epidemiological point of view against new swift opening measures. “It will take a while until we are on the mountain.”
There are still many people in target group 1 who are not vaccinated, Ackermann told the Bundeshaus media. This number must first be increased significantly. “Until then, we still have to take care of our healthcare system.” The current decline in hospitalizations and deaths among vaccinated people will not prevent future hospital overload. Everything on the subject is available here.
Previous short messages from Switzerland and the world about Corona can be found here.
