Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Coronavirus-Liveticker
+++ 02:35 Texas asks hospitals to postpone operations +++
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In view of the latest corona wave, the US state of Texas is calling on all hospitals to postpone medical interventions that are not absolutely necessary. This is to ensure that all Covid patients can be adequately cared for, said Governor Greg Abbott in a letter to the hospital association. The Ministry of Health will also endeavor to recruit medical staff from other states to care for corona patients. In the state with 29 million inhabitants, an average of around 12,000 new infections were recently reported per day.
+++ 02:21 CDU Economic Council urges a move away from incidence +++
Before the Prime Minister’s Conference, the CDU Economic Council urges that incidence be abandoned as the primary benchmark for corona measures. There is the “clear expectation of the economy that politics will move away from the incidence as an indicator for future Corona measures,” said the Secretary General of the Council, Wolfgang Steiger, of the “Rheinische Post”. There had to be a mix of different indicators for assessing the situation “so that the country does not stumble headlessly into the next lockdown”. A further closure of shops and schools is “simply unacceptable”, also with a view to the high vaccination rate, according to Steiger.
+++ 01:25 Corona situation “extremely worrying”: Vacationers have to leave Martinique +++
The authorities in the French overseas territory Martinique have asked vacationers to leave the Caribbean island. The reason is the “extremely worrying” Corona situation. Martinique has one of the highest incidences in France. On Tuesday, 240 additional doctors and medical staff are due to be flown in from mainland France to provide support. In a tightening of the lockdown, all beaches will now be closed and leisure and cultural facilities as well as shops with the exception of pharmacies and grocery stores will be closed. Hotels and vacation rentals will be closed to vacationers and will only be open to business travelers and locals.
+++ 00:44 US epidemic agency is thinking about booster vaccination +++
An advisory body to the US Disease Agency CDC is examining the need for booster vaccinations. The committee said it would meet on Friday to evaluate the latest data. The reason is the increase in new corona infections in the USA due to the more contagious Delta variant. Israel is already offering a third vaccination to people over the age of 60 with the aid of Biontech / Pfizer.
+++ 00:09 canteen only with “Green Pass”: Italy’s trade unions outraged +++
Trade unions in Italy fear unfair restrictions for employees because the “Green Pass” is now also compulsory for canteens. Anyone who visits restaurants with indoor rooms must have been vaccinated or tested negative since Friday. However, the canteens in the companies have plexiglass and are regularly disinfected, said the head of the Cgil trade union confederation, Maurizio Landini. “These are not restaurants, but a service for those who work.”
+++ 23:20 US epidemic agency advises against traveling to France +++
The US disease agency CDC advises against traveling to France, Israel, Thailand and Iceland. All countries have been set to the highest corona warning level. The authority cites the increase in new corona infections as the reason.
+++ 22:27 Free rapid tests should end in October +++
The free corona tests for citizens are expected to end in October, as the editorial network Germany (RND) reports, citing a draft resolution for the Prime Minister’s Conference tomorrow, Tuesday. It reads: “The free citizen tests have made an important contribution to interrupting the third wave of the Sars-CoV2 pandemic in Germany the cost of all tests by the federal government and thus the taxpayer does not appear. ” Therefore, the federal government will end the offer of free citizen tests for everyone. An exact date is not in the proposed resolution. It is only spoken “with effect from October 10, 2021”. The exact date will be determined.
+++ 21:42 Nine dead after an oxygen breakdown in a Russian clinic +++
Nine people died in a hospital in Russia because of an interruption in the oxygen supply. This is reported by several agencies, citing the government of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in the Caucasus. An underground pipe had broken, said the incumbent head of government of the republic, Sergei Menjajlo. As a result, several seriously ill corona patients in the clinic in the capital of Vladikavkaz could temporarily no longer be supplied with their ventilators. The hospital staff have now started to ventilate the survivors using oxygen bottles.
+++ 21:10 US military introduces mandatory vaccination for soldiers +++
For soldiers of the US armed forces, a vaccination against the corona virus should apply by September 15 at the latest. That comes from a letter from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. If the vaccinations were to get regular approval from the responsible US agency FDA beforehand, the mandatory vaccination could be introduced earlier, explains Austin. More than 1.3 million servicemen and women serve in the US armed forces, of which around 1.05 million are already fully vaccinated, according to data from the Pentagon. President Joe Biden has yet to approve the order – but this is purely a formality.
+++ 20:24 Current data situation in Germany: 1476 new cases reported +++
The number of reported coronavirus infections in Germany has risen to 3,792,815. As can be seen from the information from the state authorities evaluated by ntv.de, 1476 new cases were added. The current daily increase is 477 cases above the level of Monday last week, the growth rate is around 48 percent.
The number of deaths related to infection rose 3 to 91,780. Around 34,500 people are currently infected.
The infection rate (7-day R value) is given by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) as 1.10 (previous day: 1.19). According to the DIVI register, 455 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated in intensive care in Germany, 211 of whom are ventilated. Around 4780 intensive care beds are currently still available in the German clinics.
You can read more information about the most important corona data here.
You can read the developments of the past day here.
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