6:47 pm | Moritzburg Festival again in the open air
The Moritzburg Festival for Chamber Music announces a second season in the open air. The 29th edition from August 7th to 22nd offers concerts on the palace terrace as well as a symphony concert in the Kulturpalast in Dresden, as the organizers announced on Wednesday. Due to the Corona crisis, the events at Moritzburg Castle were relocated to the outside world for the first time in 2020 and were well received by the public.
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6:05 pm | Digital corona vaccination certificate available in six vaccination centers
Fully vaccinated people will now receive certificates for digital proof of vaccination in six vaccination centers in Saxony. As the Ministry of Health announced, the evidence is available in Belgern, Zwickau, Riesa, Borna, Kamenz and Pirna. The other of the total of 13 vaccination centers are to follow this week. Additional staff will be deployed in the facilities for this purpose. The offer is only aimed at those with a daily vaccination. Digital additions are not possible, it said.
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Since this Monday, people who have been vaccinated can have a digital vaccination certificate issued in pharmacies across Germany. According to the ministry, this should soon also be possible for doctors. Pharmacies or vaccination centers transmit the necessary data to the Robert Koch Institute for proof. The vaccination status can then be scanned with a barcode. The so-called QR code can also be shown on paper. The yellow vaccination card is also still valid.
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5:41 pm | The long-distance bus goes back to Berlin and Liberec
After the corona-related break, the long-distance bus provider Flixbus will be traveling from Bautzen to Berlin and Liberec again from Thursday. As the company announced, the line 239 runs via the stations Zittau, Spremberg, Cottbus to Berlin airport BER and the central bus station in Berlin. The company’s buses will run regularly on the line Thursday through Monday. Every morning we go to Berlin. In the direction of Liberec, the bus leaves in the early evening.
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4:59 pm | Theater Plauen-Zwickau wants to return to regular operations from September
After the longer Corona break, the Plauen-Zwickau Theater is planning to return to regular operations from the next season. Under the motto “See you again”, the opening of the newly renovated Zwickau Gewandhaus will be the first highlight from mid-September, said General Director Roland May at a presentation of the program on Wednesday. The premiere of the opera “Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is planned there.
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4:32 pm | School swimming instead of public swimming in Annaberg
Despite the low corona incidence, the Atlantis swimming pool in Annaberg remains closed to the public. The Annaberg-Buchholz public utilities announced this as the operator. In the weeks up to the summer closing time at the end of July, all-day swimming lessons are offered instead. It is now a matter of catching up on the past eight months. In addition, there will be more courses for non-swimmers. At the same time you open for the training of the water watch. A trip to the outdoor pool is recommended for all other bathers.
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3:56 pm | Ministry: No intensive care bed fraud in Saxony
The Saxon Ministry of Social Affairs has not yet received any evidence of false information about intensive care beds. This was announced by the Ministry of MDR AKTUELL. The background to this is the accusation that clinics provided false information about the utilization of their intensive care beds in order to receive higher compensation payments. The Saxon ministry said that before a clinic received the lump sum of 50,000 euros, it had been checked whether it met the personnel, medical-technical and spatial requirements. In addition, spot checks were made on site.
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3:35 pm | Test center on Leipziger Leuschner-Platz extends opening times
Due to the changed demand, the Corona test center on Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz in Leipzig is expanding its opening hours. In the future it will be possible to be tested for the coronavirus there on Fridays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday is still open between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. The municipal test center behind the central tram stop offers three parallel test routes. If desired, the test results can be transferred to the Corona warning app and the Luca app.
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2:43 pm | Corona aid for free music schools
As of today, independent music schools and freelance providers of extra-curricular music and dance lessons in Saxony can also apply for Corona aid. As the State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism announced, it is making around two million euros available for this through the corresponding funding guidelines. Applications for this funding can be submitted until July 31st to the Saxon construction bank be asked.
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With the funding guidelines, we want to bridge financial bottlenecks and secure the existence of these important providers of musical and cultural education and thus contribute to the continued existence of Saxony’s diverse cultural landscape.
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2:14 pm | Study proves pronounced Corona criticism in Saxony
Vaccination skepticism, conspiracy and criticism of the government are widespread in Saxony. This is the result of the first representative, regionalized study on the attitude of the population to the corona restrictions. But there are differences between regions, social groups, political orientation, said the director of the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy (MIDEM) at TU Dresden, Hans Vorländer, when presenting the results on Wednesday in Dresden. East and South-West Saxony had higher values in almost all categories than North Saxony and the metropolitan regions, with East Saxony being the most critical, it said.
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