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A corona test station at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam for passengers from risk countries.
(sda) The Swiss airline requires rapid tests for the corona virus at the airport for passengers returning to Switzerland. Those that test negative should not be quarantined, said trade chief Tamur Goudarzi Pour in an interview with “Blick” newspaper.
Swiss is responsible for testing upon entry, as this is one of the measures to reduce the risk of spreading the virus and at the same time allow for an orderly journey. Who will pay for these tests is currently being discussed.
From the Swiss point of view, it is clear that the tests must be carried out jointly with airports and third-party medical providers.
Goudarzi Pour also commented on flight operations. Swiss is taking off from 3% of the original flight schedule and is now flying to 40% of capacity and 85% of all destinations. This goal should be reached by the end of October.
Today, Switzerland has about 30% of the capacity of what was originally planned. However, if the situation worsens, Switzerland will need more time.
Goudarzi Pour assured that any customer requesting a refund due to the crown crisis will get their money back. By the end of September, Swiss will have processed all the refund requests that were submitted at the end of July.
So far, since the beginning of the year, more than 400 million Swiss francs have been paid for more than 700,000 tickets. The large number of refund requests prevented Swiss from being able to pay faster. Meanwhile, the processing capabilities have been greatly increased.
A tourist in front of an observation window at the Eismeer intermediate station of the Jungfrau Railways.
(awp / sda) Jungfraubahn AG suffered greatly from the corona pandemic in the first half of the year. The heyday of the fall was great, especially since new records had been regularly set in recent years. The Jungfraujoch registered just over 100,000 visitors in the first six months, and the railway had never been closed for so long since the First World War.
Traffic revenue more than halved to 35.0 million Swiss francs, as the group announced on Wednesday. EBITDA collapsed to 5.9 million from 47.4 million a year earlier. The final result was a net loss of 11.5 million after a gain of 23.9 million in the same period of the previous year.
The number of visitors was greatly reduced. With 100,600 visitors, the Jungfraujoch had almost 79% fewer guests than the previous year. Tour traffic to the Jungfrau-Joch was stopped due to the lockdown from mid-March until the restart on June 6. Last year more than a million tourists traveled to the “top of Europe”, around 70% of whom came from Asia.
Reduced work had been requested for a large portion of the workforce and operating costs had been significantly reduced. Since reopening in early June, the sharp fluctuation in visitor numbers remains a challenge. In July and August, however, 153,000 people visited the Jungfraujoch again; Most of the guests came from Switzerland and neighboring European countries.
However, this is not enough to compensate for the lack of international clients. But there is a lively exchange with the main markets in Asia.
Bayers Roundup is for sale on shelves in Encinitas, California on June 26, 2017.
(awp / Reuters) The pharmaceutical and agrochemical company Bayer has appealed to the California Supreme Court against a ruling in the legal dispute over the supposedly carcinogenic agent glyphosate in the herbicide Roundup. The court should decide whether a manufacturer of an approved herbicide can be held liable if it has not posted a cancer warning, since federal law does not allow such a warning, Bayer said Tuesday.
A jury trial in San Francisco awarded plaintiff Dewayne Johnson $ 289.2 million after the glyphosate in the Roundup herbicide was found to have caused Johnson’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In the first instance, the amount was reduced to $ 78.5 million and the appeals court eventually awarded Johnson $ 20.5 million for “loss of joy in living.”
“In this case, the appeals court upheld a ruling that severely punishes the manufacturer for complying with federal law,” says Bayer AG’s petition. US regulators had long classified glyphosate as safe for human use. Johnson also requested a review of the appeals court’s ruling regarding the reduction in the amount. It requires that your shortened life expectancy be taken into account when assessing compensation.
In late June, Bayer settled with a large number of other plaintiffs on a settlement worth nearly $ 11 billion. The wave of lawsuits provoked Bayer with the acquisition of glyphosate developer Monsanto, which cost around $ 63 billion. If Johnson’s sentence is upheld, Bayer could make more deals more difficult.
(dpa) Given the rampant corona pandemic and associated restrictions on social life, Brazil’s economy has suffered a record decline.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of the largest economy in Latin America fell in the second quarter of this year by 9.8 percent compared to the first quarter, as announced on Tuesday by the statistics agency IGBE, based in Rio de Janeiro. Compared to the same period of the previous year, the decrease was 11.4 percent. This is the largest decrease since comparable data began to be recorded in 1996.
The Brazilian economy fell back to 2009 levels. The corona pandemic especially affected the industrial and service sectors, while agriculture grew. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rejected the restrictions for economic reasons. The supreme court transferred the powers to fight the coronavirus to the governors. But to cushion the social consequences of the pandemic, the government paid emergency aid in the form of a crown of 600 reais (around 100 francs). Bolsonaro announced on Tuesday that support aimed mainly at the self-employed and day laborers with 300 reais (around 50 francs) should continue for four months.
(awp / sda / reuts) Continental, the ailing car supplier, is expanding its restructuring program, which now affects some 30,000 jobs worldwide. That’s 10,000 more jobs than the German group announced a year ago.
On Tuesday, Hannover’s Dax group named persistently low global vehicle production and the worsening economic crisis due to the corona pandemic as reasons for the tighter austerity course.
Continental calculated the expected annual savings starting in 2023 at more than € 1 billion, double what was previously planned. The plans will now be further negotiated with the unions. In the end, the supervisory board decides.
Before the Corona crisis last September, Continental announced that it would strengthen this business due to the switch to electromobility and reduce the production of components for combustion engines.
Affected jobs could be relocated or eliminated. In addition, several plants will be closed and Continental wants to divest unprofitable parts of the business.
Production of an electric car in Zwickau: Combustion engine suppliers are suffering as electric mobility is on the rise.
(dpa) In August, consumer prices in the euro zone fell for the first time since 2016. The inflation rate fell into negative territory and was minus 0.2%, Eurostat’s statistics office announced on Tuesday after an initial estimate. In July, the inflation rate was still over 0.4%.
Therefore, the price drop in the common currency area was much stronger than expected. Analysts had expected weaker price developments due to the fallout from the Corona crisis. However, they still expected consumer prices to rise 0.2% in August.
The decisive factors for the weak evolution of prices were lower energy costs. On the other hand, there was a comparatively strong price increase for food.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is targeting an inflation rate of almost two percent with its monetary policy. An objective that the ECB still does not achieve despite its extremely flexible monetary policy.
