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In the United States, 1,800 people died Thursday after becoming infected with the coronavirus. Uber’s driving service wants to deliver tens of millions of respiratory masks to its drivers worldwide due to the crown crisis.
The most important things at a glance
- Switzerland is bringing back some 200 travelers from India.
- Almost 1,800 people die in one day in the United States.
- According to a study from the University of Bern, Switzerland has passed the climax of the coronavirus pandemic. Only in the number of deaths is a significant increase expected.
- Zurich Director of Education Silvia Steiner (CVP) assumes that schools will remain closed after spring break.
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel tested negative for the crown virus.
- President Trump would like to reopen the United States with a “big bang.” The number of Sars CoV-2 cases detected worldwide has exceeded the 1.5 million mark.
08:26: Swiss travelers from Mumbai and Delhi landed in Zurich
The largest return campaign for Swiss travelers abroad, according to the EDA Department, continues: Early Friday morning, a plane with passengers from India landed in Zurich.
07:36: Yemen reports first case of coronavirus infection
The first case of infection with the new coronavirus was registered in the civil war country of Yemen. The contagion occurred in the government-controlled Hadramut province in the south of the country, as announced on Friday by the government’s Emergency Committee on Twitter.
6:54 am: Uber provides its drivers with respiratory masks
Uber plans to deliver tens of millions of respirators to its drivers worldwide in the Corona crisis. A first delivery of masks has already been shipped to drivers in the particularly severe pandemic in the East Coast metropolis of the United States of New York.
6:02 a.m.: Number of new infections in South Korea continues to decline
The number of new daily coronavirus infections in South Korea has dropped to less than 30 for the first time since February. On Thursday, 27 people tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, health authorities said Friday. The total number increased to 10,450. 208 deaths have been linked to the virus.
2:42 am: University: nearly 1,800 crown kills in one day in the United States
In the United States, 1,783 people died after a coronavirus infection on Thursday. The number of deaths since the epidemic began rose to around 16,500, as data from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore showed Thursday night (local time). Based on this, around 460,000 infections have already been detected with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2.
1:32 am: Trump sees the United States in the crown pandemic at its peak
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, sees the United States at the height of the coronavirus crisis. I’m pretty sure we’re at the top of the hill. And now we are going down. In some cases, we have already started this process, ”Trump said Thursday night (local time) at a press conference at the White House. Vice President Mike Pence then specified that the areas most affected by the epidemic, such as New York, Louisiana and Detroit, were “close” to the climax. There are signs of progress. And hope becomes visible, “said Pence.
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01:26: the EU gathers a package of 500 billion against the economic crisis
In the fight against the economic crisis in the crown, the EU countries have put together a package of aid of more than 500 billion euros for workers, companies and shaky states. The finance ministers reached an agreement Thursday night after extremely long and difficult negotiations. Germany’s finance minister Olaf Scholz was satisfied. “Today is a great day of European solidarity and strength,” said the SPD politician in Berlin.
12:45 am: Trump: More than two million tests for corona virus in the US USA
According to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the United States has already examined more than two million people to detect the new corona virus. That was an important milestone, Trump said Thursday night (local time) at the White House. “We have the best evidence system in the world,” Trump praised his government’s policies. By Monday of last week, the United States had evaluated about a million people. However, some state governors complain that there is not yet enough evidence.
12:40: Guterres warns about biological weapons
UN chief António Guterres sees an increasing risk of future attacks by bio-terrorists with the aim of a pandemic like the current one.
Photos of the day
Ada Zanussi, 103, sits in her wheelchair at the nursing home in Lessona next to a medical worker after recovering from her Covid infection 19. When asked what she wanted to do first after isolation, she replied : Take a “nice walk” and see the grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Broken: Railroad workers are standing in front of two colliding locomotives in the Munich North maneuvering yard. The crash occurred lightly: the two train drivers were not seriously injured and there were no passengers on board.
With a safe distance: in line in front of a supermarket in Madrid, people maintain the required safety distance. Spain is the country with the most confirmed crown cases after the USA. USA
Blood Orange Monster Attack: An alleged supermoon towers above the Bavarian Pfaffenhofen.
Bent: a road bridge collapsed in Aulla, between Tuscany and Liguria. The drivers of the two vehicles on the bridge reportedly suffered minor injuries.
Green island: a group of trees in a field covered with a film.
Strict measures to contain the coronavirus have a positive effect on the environment in Colombia: in the popular port city of Cartagena, in the Caribbean Sea, the water is clean again. As you can see from the photos, it quickly returned to its turquoise blue color.
A heart and a soul: Emma Jaide holds her dwarf rabbit Elsa in her arms. In her short career as a rabbit breeder, the seven-year primary school won ten trophies in Hünfelden, Germany. She has been a district teacher several times and even featured the “best rabbit” at a show last year, which has now been sold.
It will be expensive: the President of the United States, Donald Trump, during a conference call with representatives of the banking industry.
March of the water! A firefighter uses a water hose to extinguish the embers of a fire in Mexico City. There, a fire broke out on land that is used to recycle wood and tires.
Captain of the port: In Moroccan Rabat, seagulls use the almost deserted port to celebrate an impressive air show. The cries of the voracious birds of prey are deafening.
Celestial phenomenon: the moon rises as a supposed supermoon over the Mariä Visitation Minor Basilica in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The moon reaches its perigee as the full moon on the night of April 7 to 8, that is, the closest point of its orbit to Earth and is therefore particularly large for humans.
A man stole millions of respiratory masks and other medical protection material with a total value of five million euros from this warehouse in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. So that the hot products, which he sold to Portugal, could not be traced, he removed them from the outer packaging on site.
Different countries, different safety regulations: in Hong Kong, a worker on the facade of a house is doing repair work on an air conditioning system.
Ready to be arrested: An Israeli police officer in protective clothing is waiting in Bnei Brak for ultra-Orthodox Jews to pray in a synagogue contrary to government regulations. Synagogues were considered one of the main points of contagion in the country and, therefore, were closed.
Contactless Delivery: An employee of the Beijing Institute of Technology, China receives deliveries from an unmanned 5G delivery robot. The vehicle was put into operation in the course of the coronary virus pandemic. You can also measure the fever of employees on campus and identify their faces.
Disorder: In Mosnang SG, manure flowed into the Dorfbach stream bed, presumably because a manure hose exploded in a farming operation.
Usually something happens on the streets of Naples at night, but during the curfew, no one is seen outside. Almost all residential buildings are well lit for this.
Good opportunity to cross: A family of wild geese crosses the Marginal Way in Seattle.
Trapped: A police officer warns a woman on Primrose Hill in London that in the UK you can only lose something in the parks when you exercise or pet your pet.
Fat delivery: Workers unload some of the urgently needed medical supplies in Spain due to the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 82 tons from China have arrived in Madrid.
Lonely battle: Swiss fencer Lucas Malcotti is doing a training session at home in Savièse.
A couple are on the border between Konstanz, Germany, and Kreuzlingen in Switzerland: After people met at the first fence installed on the state border and did not stay within the prescribed distance of the coronavirus, a second fence was built. border.
The way is ours: In Romania, the dogs take command after the authorities established a blockade as part of the curfew of the coronavirus.
“Social distancing” in the service. At the Ethiopian Orthodox Cathedral Medhane Alem in Addis Ababa, the faithful are kept at a suitable distance.
Residents of the Länggass district of Bern do gymnastics on their balconies with impromptu physical training.
An Indonesian policeman in a public awareness campaign about the dangers of the corona virus.
Applicants during a recruitment test in Ansan, South Korea. As a precaution against the coronavirus, the test is performed in a stadium.
The “Zaandam” was finally able to dock at the Florida port. Several passengers on the cruise ship had tested positive for the corona virus: four died. The ship was unable to enter the ports for a long time during its wandering.
Here nature spreads: a fox enjoys the peace that has been on the streets of London since the curfew.
Find in an unusual place: the research ship “FS Polarstern” in West Antarctica. Researchers have found traces of a forest close to 90 million years old, up to 30 meters below the sea floor. This makes it clear: Antarctica was free of ice during the time of the dinosaurs; the South Pole was warmer than in Switzerland.
New product: Markus Söder (left), Prime Minister of Bavaria, is in a production room of a car supplier. In view of the Corona crisis, the company switched its operation to the production of protective masks.
Patriotic: Paddles with respirators are unloaded from a New England Patriots aircraft. The NFL team’s machine has brought more than a million respirators from China to the United States.
In Mattersey, England, firefighters had to lend a hand to free this horse from its plight. The animal had been submerged in a septic tank and was lying on its back here. The horse was recovered unharmed by means of a tow truck and belts.
For the latter to get it: At Frankfurt am Main airport, you obviously don’t think a simply stretched barrier tape is enough to keep people away from the catering area in Terminal 2.
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