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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.As the last team in the National League, the corona virus caught the ice skating club in Bern. The SCB has to be quarantined for ten days due to a positive Corona case; The scheduled matches against the ZSC Lions (November 27), Lugano (November 28) and Ajoie (Swiss Cup / November 30) have been postponed.
This meant that all twelve National League teams had to be quarantined at least once during the first seven and a half weeks of the ice hockey championship; the EV Zug was the only one even twice.
Chancellor Angela Merkel supports the idea of a global treaty to combat future pandemics. EU Council President Charles Michel made a corresponding proposal, which she supported, the former CDU leader said Sunday after the G20 summit of major economic nations hosted by video conference. The contract could be a lesson in what one is currently experiencing. The fight against the current corona pandemic and its economic consequences was the main theme of the G20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia.
Michel’s proposal provides for a firm international cooperation agreement in the event of pandemics in order to react more quickly and in a more coordinated manner. According to the Belgian, it should be negotiated with the participation of all United Nations organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO) should play a key role.
According to a government official, the corona vaccine developed by Biontech and Pfizer could be available in the US as of December 11 in case of emergency approval. The vaccine could be delivered to states within 24 hours of approval by the US FDA, the representative responsible for the US government’s vaccination program, Moncef Slaoui, told CNN on Sunday. He was hoping that people could be vaccinated from December 11 or 12, he told the television station.
Slaoui has no control over the FDA’s decision or the agency’s schedule. However, the FDA has called an expert council meeting on vaccine approval for Dec. 10, which is why approval at an earlier time seems unlikely.
The Kadetten Schaffhausen handball players will be in quarantine for the next ten days. After returning from North Macedonia, where Schaffhausen’s team played in the European Cup last week (25:25 against Bitola), a member of the delegation tested positive for the corona virus.
The cantonal doctor decreed that the cadets can return to training as of December 1.
The Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) has developed a new strategy to combat the coronavirus pandemic. If a positive case is found in a given group, the whole group should undergo rapid tests in the future.
The new strategy “will be implemented in the coming weeks,” BAG spokesman Daniel Dauwalder told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Sunday, confirming information from “NZZ am Sonntag.” He mentioned schools and homes as examples, but said nothing about other possible target groups.
According to Dauwalder, this will improve the search for sources of infection. The strategy can only be implemented now, as rapid tests had to be introduced beforehand.
During protests against the blockade in several British cities, police arrested dozens of people over the weekend. The hardest hit were Liverpool in the North West of England, Basildon in the East of England and Bournemouth on the South Coast. In England, a partial lockdown with severe contact restrictions ends on December 2. Schools and universities are open.
The protesters were arrested, among other things, because they had violated the protection measures of the crown or had become violent with the emergency services. The city of Liverpool and its surroundings are particularly affected by the pandemic. A police spokesperson called the protesters’ behavior there “selfish”, putting themselves and other human lives in danger.
The protest march against Crown policy on Sunday in Berlin began with a few hundred participants. Around 5,000 protesters were registered. A police spokeswoman said there were far fewer participants. According to her, protesters who started in Prenzlauer Berg largely adhered to the mask requirement. Criminal charges have occasionally been written. The police spokeswoman said the certificates presented, which were allegedly exempt from the mask requirement, were suspected of not being genuine.
The demonstration by opponents of the Corona measures is known as the “silent march.” On the route there were always noisy people with pans who wanted to interrupt the elevator. From time to time there were shouts of “out of the Nazis.” Signs can be seen on balconies with the inscription: “Think clearly instead of thinking outside the box. There is no place for crown deniers and Nazis. “
Around 600 policemen accompany the meeting against the crown policy and the counter-demonstrations this Sunday.
According to the findings of psychiatrists, the effects on the mental health of children and adolescents are less than feared. NTV reported on Sunday. “There is currently no evidence that anything can change in the psychological development of young people in the long term,” the dpa quotes the president of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Michael Kölch.
Mental development continues to take place normally, despite the pandemic, which is often perceived as stressful and upsetting. In addition, Kölch cautioned against speculation about possible long-term consequences: “This is scientifically untenable. You have to do studies now ”, says the scientist.
The United States reported a new record for new infections on Sunday. According to data from the New York Times, 198,585 people were last infected with corona.
This increases the number of total infections to more than twelve million. More than 255,000 people died in relation to Covid-19.
In the coronavirus pandemic with its restrictions, people are likely to suffer more than usual from depression and winter blues. Doctors in China had already identified fear, depression and sleep disorders more frequently in the early phase of the pandemic, and an Austrian study even found a five-fold increase in depressive disorders.
This is what Detlef Dietrich, medical director and chief physician in the department of psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Burghof Clinic in Rinteln, said on Sunday. “People who are depressed suffer much more,” he stressed.
Fears, a general feeling of stress and depression “increased significantly” during the crisis, especially the youngest between 20 and 50 years old were affected. The reason is presumably that they suffered the multiple burdens of having to care for their children and parents: “It can be assumed that such burdens in general lead to an increase in the number of people suffering from depression.”
The German Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported 15,741 new infections with the corona virus on Sunday morning.
That’s 1206 fewer infections than last Sunday, when 16,947 new infections were reported. The previous high was reached on Friday with 23,648 cases.
BAG Director Anne Lévy sees improvements in the coronavirus situation in Switzerland. “It seems like a turnaround,” he says in an interview. Read more here.
Older reports and information about the corona pandemic in the world and in Switzerland can be found here.
