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Epidemiologist Salathé: «Keep the curve flat»
The curve with the total number of new infections has flattened for several days, with fewer than 100 new infections per day. The curve should now be kept so flat that the number of new infections per day should be kept low, according to Marcel Salathé, an EPFL epidemiologist. “This is not only epidemiologically good, but also good for you to do a ‘contact trace’, so you can investigate these cases. Because there will still be new cases, but that number can be contained as quickly as possible.”
Positive balance on opening day.
Stores and malls opened their doors today. Customers took the opportunity to successfully buy back. The managing director of the Association of Swiss Companies, Severin Pflüger, comments positively on the first day.
Twitter wants to mark tweets with incorrect information from Corona
Twitter wants to crack down on spreading false information about the corona virus. Tweets that could harm people have been removed, less dangerous information with a reference to reliable sources, as announced by Twitter. You will also have information that could lead to more infections. Twitter does not want to take action against unconfirmed information that could be incorrect or correct.
Also loosening in France and Spain
France has ended many of its crown restrictions after two months. After 55 days, people were allowed to return to the street for the first time without a pass. Gone are the days when they were only allowed to leave the house with good reason. Or they were only allowed to walk within a one kilometer radius. At the same time, stores reopened and school operations began for a few years. Security personnel verified the mask requirement, which now applies to all public transportation in the country. Most people wore a protective mask.
The curfew was also eased in Spain, but strict measures remain in the particularly affected cities of Madrid and Barcelona.
Starting today, all buses, trains, and trains must wear a mask in France.
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Training with conditions
The gyms are open again. But strict rules of hygiene and distance must be implemented. A visit to a gym in the city of Bern.
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Back to school: the best teacher takes stock
Across Switzerland, compulsory schools have reopened their doors this morning. Not all cantons started the same. Dagmar Rösler, President of the Swiss Teachers Association, takes stock of the first day of school.
Expedition placed on hold
The research ship “Polarstern”, docked on an ice floe, has been adrift in the Arctic for about seven months. Around 100 scientists from around the world are on board, including the Swiss. But now the corona virus is slowing down the project.
“As if the war were to continue”: tank barriers against assigned gardeners
Many assigned gardeners from Constance have an allotment garden in Tägerwilen (TG) on Swiss territory, but are not currently allowed to go there due to the closure of the border on Lake Constance. They are rejected at the border with barricades and armored barriers. The Schweiz aktuell report.
Erdogan announces a four-day ban on going to the cities
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced another four-day curfew for various cities due to the crown crisis. It starts on Saturday and ends on Tuesday, a holiday in Turkey, Erdogan said after an online cabinet meeting. 15 cities, including the metropolis of Istanbul and the capital Ankara, remain largely isolated.
Travel restrictions for nine other cities and provinces would also be lifted. People 65 and older, who have been banned from going out every day since March 21, can go out for several hours on Sunday.
Erdogan did not initially say which cities are affected by the curfew. As a general rule, the measure applies in places like Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
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African national parks in crisis
National parks in Africa are largely financed by tourist entry fees. But now they are missing. Borders are closed, travel is impossible. In Africa too. And that has an impact on the parks, and on the protected animal species that live in them.
Inauguration of the school in Ticino: more than 200 children stayed at home
In Ticino, compulsory attendance classes are only available in primary school, in divided classes. Middle school lessons take place almost exclusively as distance learning, and the kindergarten is completely voluntary: “The Ticino director of education repeatedly emphasizes that this concept is the safest in Switzerland,” says SRF correspondent Karoline Thürkauf.
Fear of a second wave is greater than in German-speaking Switzerland. “That is why many say they are still waiting to eat.” In Ticino, schools have closed due to street pressure. But the situation has calmed down: “Despite concerns, consensus has prevailed: direct contact at the site is important to children.”
Many would see the current opening as a test for fall, Thürkauf says. However, it is clear that the number of absences will be large. A survey of parents before school started showed that 11 percent of Lugano’s parents would not let their elementary school children go to school. Today more than 200 primary school children stayed at home in Lugano.
Athens calls for uniform EU rules for tourism
The Greek government expects the EU Commission to announce uniform rules for traveling in Europe this week. “Free movement is one of the bases of the EU and can no longer be ignored,” said a government spokesman. Parallel to the call for EU regulation, Athens has started bilateral talks with low-crown countries.
Tourism is the most important industry in the country. In 2019, 33 million tourists visited Greece.
Iran opens all the mosques
All mosques in Iran will reopen on Tuesday. This was reported by the official IRIB news agency, citing cleric Mohammad Qomi. The decision was made in consultation with the Ministry of Health. Last week, Friday prayers were again allowed in 180 cities less affected by the coronavirus.
Iranian schools will reopen next Monday. The travel ban and the closure of shopping malls had been lifted before.
Mosque in Tehran (file photo from March 2020)
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Half classes in St. Gallen, normal classes in Aargau
The resumption of school operations after an eight-week break is organized differently in the cantons. The canton of Aargau, for example, started with full classes this morning, while classes throughout St. Gallen alternate between classes. For this, new schedules were needed, says a director at the “Echo of Time”. However, the distance rules can be observed.
At Aargau, not everything is the same as before: the effort to make classroom-specific Corona-compatible instruction is high, especially when large classes are held in small classrooms. Some teachers have a dizzy feeling when standing in front of full classes, while the neighboring canton of Zurich, for example, also uses half classes.
Protective masks at Euroairport are mandatory
Air traffic is also expected to resume slow operation, and airports are preparing to resume passenger flights. Anyone traveling through the Basel-Mulhouse airport will have to wear a protective mask in the future. The airport introduced a mandatory mask, the airport said.
The airport is also taking a number of other measures to ensure the safety of passengers and employees. This included strict compliance with the minimum distance and applicable hygiene standards, it is said.
The Basel-Mulhouse bilateral airport is in a special situation: it must meet the requirements of the regional health authorities in France, as well as the Federal Office of Public Health in Switzerland (BAG).
Longer term for the conclusion of apprenticeship contracts.
Finding an apprenticeship is particularly difficult this year. Unable to smell, interviews are limited, possibly online. And the question arises whether companies shaken by the crisis still offer apprenticeships.
Theo Ninck, a member of a federal task force and head of the cantonal vocational training office in Bern, advises young people not to give up. Because: The deadline for concluding apprenticeship contracts is being extended. Ninck says: “It is only the beginning of May. Apprenticeship contracts are concluded until August or September. »
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Corona Demo: Zurich City Police Practice Self-Criticism
Two days after the demonstration at the Zurich Sechseläutenplatz, the commander of the Zurich city police, Daniel Blumer, criticized his chief of operations. The latter miscalculated the situation on Saturday and reacted too late.
Participants in the banned event should have been immediately invited to end the event and leave the plaza, Blumer says. The police should have verified, targeted, and targeted people who did not follow instructions. More than 100 people participated in the demonstration against the Crown measures of the Federal Council.
After infections: South Korea wants to find 5517 nightclub visitors
After the alarming accumulation of crowned infections among visitors to bars and nightclubs in the Seoul metropolis, South Korean authorities are trying to prevent another wave of infections in the country. 35 new infections were registered on Sunday. That was the largest daily increase in four weeks.
Many of these new infections have been linked to a club outbreak in the popular Itaewon nightlife district. The city of Seoul now wants to find 5,517 people who visited different clubs between April 27 and May 8.
So far, more than 3,000 people have been tested at Sars-CoV-2, who visited or had contact with the clubs. A total of 86 cases of infection are associated with the clubs. To find the other people on the list, authorities check credit card transactions, smartphone data, and evaluate video from surveillance cameras.
The city had temporarily closed all clubs and discos in Seoul over the weekend.
Bars and clubs in Seoul closed again over the weekend.
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