Liveblog
Status: 04.04.2021 6:09 a.m.
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According to plans by Health Minister Spahn, those who are fully vaccinated against the corona virus should soon get freedoms back. Bavaria’s Prime Minister Söder spoke out in favor of a short, hard lockdown. All developments in the live blog.
- RKI: 12,196 new infections and 68 deaths
- Spahn announces more freedom for vaccinated people
- Seehofer is promoting uniform corona rules by federal law
- Söder for a short, hard lockdown
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6:09 am
Experts fear more child and youth homelessness due to Corona
According to the “Off Road Kids” foundation, children and young people are increasingly threatened with homelessness due to the corona pandemic. “Where there is seething in families, a lockdown can lead to a total rift. That ends with being thrown out,” says Markus Seidel, spokesman for the foundation’s board of directors. Chopped off from home or flown out: Young people and adolescents over 17 years of age are particularly affected.
Last year broke all sad records at the nationwide aid organization: “We received 2,474 calls for help from desperate street children and young people who are acutely threatened by homelessness in Germany. That was twice as many as in the previous year,” said Seidel in an interview with the news agency dpa. Because there are no street workers on the move in Corona times, the foundation tries to reach children at risk through the nationwide online help service “sofahopper.de”.
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05:19 am
RKI registered 12,196 new infections
The health authorities in Germany reported 12,196 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day. In addition, 68 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours. Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 17,176 new infections and 90 new deaths within one day. The RKI points out that fewer tests are usually made and reported around the Easter holidays. In addition, it could be that not all health authorities and responsible state authorities transmit to the RKI every day. This can mean that the number of cases reported by the RKI are of limited informative value.
The number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was 127.0 nationwide on Sunday morning, according to the RKI. The day before, the RKI had given this seven-day incidence as 131.4, three weeks ago as 79.1.
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03:47 am
Brazil: Presence services despite high corona numbers
Despite the highest values in the corona numbers, a judge at the Supreme Court in Brazil cleared the way for face-to-face services at Easter. He issued an injunction that states and municipalities cannot completely prohibit attending religious ceremonies because of the pandemic. There are now requirements such as a mask requirement and limited numbers of participants. The judge declared bans that had already been imposed to be invalid, as reported by the Brazilian media.
An association of evangelical lawyers had sued because the bans issued in parts of the South American country violated the fundamental right to religious freedom and the principle of state secularism. No other country is currently recording more deaths from Covid 19 disease than in Brazil every day.
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02:24 am
Söder advocates a short, hard lockdown
Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has spoken out in favor of a short, hard lockdown. “We should consider whether another short but consequent lockdown would not be the better way than a half-hearted and endless corona concept that has not really reduced the number of new infections,” he told “Bild am Sonntag”. “Better to be short and consistent than long back and forth,” says Söder.
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02:13 am
Spahn announces more freedom for those who are fully vaccinated
According to plans by Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU), those who have been vaccinated against the corona virus should soon get freedoms back. “Anyone who has been fully vaccinated can in future be treated like someone who has tested negative,” said Spahn of “Bild am Sonntag”. “Those who are vaccinated can go to the shop or the hairdresser without further testing. In addition, according to the RKI, those who are fully vaccinated no longer need to be in quarantine,” the CDU politician told the newspaper.
According to the report, the basis is an evaluation of the latest scientific findings by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). According to “BamS”, the paper was sent to the federal states on Saturday. The Prime Minister’s Conference asked the RKI for the analysis.
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02:01 am
Seehofer wants uniform rules through federal law
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) has promoted nationwide uniform corona rules by federal law. “There is a great longing in the population for uniform rules. My suggestion is therefore to set the uniform rules through a federal law,” said the CSU politician of “Welt am Sonntag”. “This law should dictate exactly what steps should be taken with the respective incidence values - from tightening to easing.”
Such a law could, according to Seehofers, be passed in a very short time. “Since, like all federal laws, it would be passed by the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, the greatest possible legitimation would be established, which the opposition has repeatedly called for,” said the interior minister. The fact remains that the federal and state governments have to pull together.
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01:59 am
Kinderschutzbund: Pay more attention to children’s rights
The chairman of the German Child Protection Association, Heinz Hilgers, has called for more attention to children’s rights in the corona pandemic. “Whenever I hear politics talking about basic rights during the pandemic, they only talk about typical adult rights: freedom of travel, freedom of occupation, freedom of exit,” Hilgers told the editorial network Germany. Nobody speaks of the restrictions on children’s rights. Your right to health and education is not sufficiently taken into account in the corona policy. Hilgers warned: “The restrictions that have persisted for a year will disrupt the development of our children, both physically and motorically and in language development.”
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1:44 am
Saturday’s live blog to read
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