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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.In the fight against the crown, the Italian government severely restricts freedom of movement during Christmas and New Years. The decision was made by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s cabinet on Thursday night. With strict travel bans until January 6, Rome wants to prevent the number of infections from rising again. The 60 million Italians will be prevented from going on Christmas holidays in great numbers or visiting distant relatives.
Corona hits the poorest hardest: Due to the pandemic, the world’s least developed countries will experience their weakest economic performance in 30 years, according to a UN report. As a result, incomes would fall, jobs would be lost and financial deficits would rise, according to a report released by the UN World Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Thursday. Consequently, there could be around 32 million more extremely poor people in these countries in 2020 earning less than $ 1.90 a day. “The crisis will reverse years of arduous progress by least developed countries in areas such as poverty reduction, nutrition and education,” he said.
A St. Gallen company is selling a new corona test that could increase the willingness of the population to test. The test does not require a smear, the test subjects can take their saliva themselves and then analyze it in the laboratory.
Thorough testing should ensure efficient contact tracing. However, Switzerland performs significantly fewer corona tests than neighboring countries. A self-collection kit with painless sampling could increase the willingness of the population to perform the test.
Read more about it here.
48 of 546 NBA professionals, or almost nine percent, received a positive corona test before the start of preparation for the new season. The tests were carried out from November 24 to 30. The NBA did not mention any names. Players must now be quarantined and are not allowed to enter the hallways of their clubs.
The quota of players testing positive is significantly higher than in the summer before the season continued in the protected bubble in Orlando; at that time it was 5.3 percent. Unlike the end of the previous season, the NBA has now decided not to isolate the teams.
According to the United Nations, the long-term consequences of the corona pandemic could bring the number of people living in extreme poverty to more than one billion by 2030. However, this development could still be avoided, according to a study published on Thursday for the UN Development Program UNDP. The document describes three possible future scenarios: in the worst case, more than 200 million people would also suffer extreme poverty by 2030, and thus more than a billion worldwide. In the “basic scenario” there would be 44 million people.
But there is also a positive scenario according to which 146 million more people could be helped to get out of extreme poverty beyond the current plans for 2030. To do this, among other things, investments must be made in social programs, digitization and fighting climate change, says the report. The pandemic is a “tipping point,” said UNDP chief Achim Steiner. “The decisions that decision makers are making now could lead the world in very different directions.”
Australian airline Qantas has raised its prospects for the domestic flight business after opening national borders. Domestic flight capacity, which is currently around 40 percent of pre-coronavirus pandemic capacity, will reach 68 percent of normal this month.
In the quarter to the end of March, it will also rise to nearly 80 percent, the airline announced Thursday. The group had previously expected 60 percent capacity utilization by Christmas.
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With the traditional illumination of more than 50,000 colored lights on what is probably the most famous Christmas tree in the world, the metropolis of New York has officially started the festival season. Due to Corona restrictions, this time the show at Rockefeller Center was held without an on-site spectator and only as a television broadcast. Music stars such as Dolly Parton, Gwen Stefani and Kelly Clarkson appeared on the show Wednesday night. Typically, tens of thousands of people watch the event on the streets around Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
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US President-elect Joe Biden warned Americans about the dramatic increase in the number of deaths in the crown pandemic and urged them to take protective measures. “I don’t want to scare anyone, but get the facts: We will probably lose another 250,000 people between now and January,” Biden said Wednesday, December 2, at an online event with employees and small business owners. ‘You understand me? Because people are not careful. “The spread of the virus must be contained.
Biden did not provide any information on what he based on his estimate of another 250,000 deaths. According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the coronavirus has killed more than 270,000 people in the United States since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Following a ruling from the highest administrative court, the French government timely issued new crown rules for religious events. There should be two empty seats between believers or families, one of the two rows of chairs should not be occupied. The Interior Ministry announced Wednesday night in Paris. The Conference of Catholic Bishops described the new rules as applicable.
The Council of State overturned the crown-related maximum number of 30 believers at a religious ceremony over the weekend. The court gave the government three days to review the requirement. On December 15, a new stage is expected in the general relaxation of the crown rules in France.
Angela Merkel and the ministers of the German federal states have decided to extend the partial blockade. The above measurement rules must apply until January 10. After five hours of consultations with the 16 prime ministers, Merkel said she wanted to meet with the prime ministers again on January 4. If necessary, also before.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has highlighted the performance of the experts in the development of the Biontech corona vaccine. Johnson said at a news conference Wednesday night that he contracted the virus from “organic Jiu Jitsu.” As with the mild Asian martial art, they would have directed the force of the virus against themselves. The vaccine contains the blueprint of part of the pathogen.
The British Pharmaceuticals Regulatory Authority (MHRA) had previously granted Mainz-based pharmaceutical company Biontech and its US partner Pfizer emergency approval for its corona vaccine. The UK is the first country to approve the vaccine.
Today I am proudly wearing purple to celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is tomorrow.
And I know that all my colleagues will appreciate the fantastic news that the MHRA has formally licensed the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19. #PMQs pic.twitter.com/WbT3YrgbCv
– Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 2, 2020
Vaccination should start next week. Initially, the vaccine should be reserved for people in nursing homes and for people over the age of 80. Other risk groups should be vaccinated later. It is “the largest mass vaccination program in the history of Britain”.
Johnson cautioned against being overly optimistic. It is difficult to store the vaccine at minus 70 degrees Celsius. Two vaccines are needed before protection takes effect. More measures are still needed to contain the pandemic. “It’s not over yet,” Johnson said.
In view of the continued increase in the number of corona, the US health authority, CDC, has also urgently discouraged travel and family visits on all holidays in December after Thanksgiving. “The best way to protect yourself and others is to postpone the trip and stay home,” the CDC’s Henry Walke said Wednesday in a telephone news conference. “We have to stop this exponential growth, and so we ask the American people to prevent infections and postpone travel.”
The CDC had already advised against family visits and travel for Thanksgiving last week. However, many people had not adhered to it. In the US, large families or large groups of friends traditionally gather for Thanksgiving, but there are also often large gatherings at Christmas and other December holidays. “We know it is a difficult decision and that people need time and talk with their family and friends,” said Cindy Friedman of the CDC.
The world’s largest travel company needs even more support: After two aid packages, Tui must stabilize with additional public money. Read more here.
American companies refrained from hiring new staff in November due to the rise in corona infections. The conclusion was that 307,000 jobs were created in the private sector, as the survey by personnel service provider ADP published on Wednesday shows. In contrast, experts polled by Reuters expected 410,000 new jobs. In October the increase was 404,000, in September even 754,000.
As “Blick” knows, Federal Councilor Alain Berset (SP) plans to make the Interior Ministry mandatory until January 20, 2021. He wanted to introduce one at the end of October, but his bourgeois colleagues rejected it.
Now Berset will probably make a second try. Because the development of the crown numbers is not yet satisfactory. “Blick” is a draft of the Corona regulations that employers would be required to do. You should take “the right technical and organizational measures” for the home office.
Older reports and information on the corona pandemic in the world and in Switzerland can be found here.
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