The federal government is concerned about the development of corona infections in Germany.
The Federal Chancellery in Berlin is therefore in close contact with the federal states in order to advance a common line in the fight against the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
In a conversation between Chancellor Helge Braun and the state secretaries, the confidante of the Chancellor apparently warned that the increase in the number of corona cases could also be due to the different approaches within the republic.
An evaluation by the German health authorities clarifies other circumstances that may be partly responsible for the renewed increase in the corona numbers.
A study by the @SZ, @WDR and @ndr shows that there are noticeable differences between the federal states with regard to the identified contact persons of infected people.
There is therefore no official body that bundles and evaluates data collected by the health authorities. There is also no clarity as to how well they ultimately succeed in locating chains of infection.
SZ and the two public TV companies asked all of the 380 health authorities in Germany. However, information about the month of August 2020 was only provided by 152 offices and thus not even half. Corona infected people had, on average, "close" contact with 4.9 people.
What does that mean? According to the criteria of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), close contact persons are people who are closer than 1.5 meters, for at least 15 minutes during the days of infection .
The problem is ultimately again due to large regional differences: As reported by @tagesschau, among others, there are enormous deviations that appear unrealistic: such as Saxony (9.8 contact persons) and Bavaria (1.7). The differences at the district level are even greater.
According to the report, the health authorities also do not know where this partly clear discrepancy comes from. Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg) identified only 1.7 contact persons, Leipzig 25 per corona infected person.
One reason for the large deviations could therefore be that no central body analyzes and compares the figures from the health authorities. Wouldn't this measure be something for the Robert Koch Institute?
The RKI announced that it had no knowledge of this and that no data was available. Another problem - and this has been known for a long time - is the common behavior of giving false names on guest lists in bars and restaurants.
Restaurateurs depend on the forms being filled out correctly. But the rate of forgery is considerable, with false names or telephone numbers being entered. This behavior also torpedoes the careful follow-up of contact persons in the event of a corona infection.
A Tornado has been reported in parts of Brebes Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. Reports indicate that at least 125 people have been affected, at least 6 people have been displaced and at least 23 houses have been damaged, at least 2 destroyed.
Impacted areas include: Kec. Paguyangan : Ds. Kedung Oleng.
Floods have been reported in parts of Balangan Regency, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Reports indicate that at least 5,545 people have been affected and at least 1,723 houses have been damaged. Impacted areas include: Kec. Tebing Tinggi, Kec. Halong and Kec. Awayan.
Mount Anak Krakatau erupted on Monday, April 18 2022, at 07:14 WIB with the height of the ash column observed ± 700 m above the peak (± 857 m above sea level). The ash column is observed to be black with thick intensity towards the southwest.
This eruption was recorded on a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 60 mm and a duration of 97 seconds.
Mount Anak Krakatau erupted on Monday, April 18 2022, at 11:04 WIB with the height of the ash column observed ± 700 m above the peak (± 857 m above sea level). The ash column is observed to be gray in color with thick intensity towards the southwest.
A man who has not yet been clearly identified but surrived was run over several times by suburban trains in a serious accident at Hamburg-Bergedorf station. According to a spokesperson for the federal police, the man, who was presumably intoxicated,
ran towards the end of the platform at 0.15 a.m. on Saturday night, fell into the tracks and was then hit by a train. However, the man with life-threatening injuries was not noticed until three hours later at around 3.15 am. By then,
he had already been run over by four other suburban trains, according to the information. The man was taken to hospital where doctors were fighting for his life. According to a report in the "Hamburger Abendblatt", the man was still responsive when he was rescued from the tracks.
Muqtada al-Sadr, the head of the Sadrist movement, demanded on Saturday that the Iraqi government summon the Swedish ambassador Lars Ronnås to Baghdad to protest the "desecration of the Muslim holy book, the Quran".
He wrote in a statment earlyer today "in the month of the Quran, the Quran is torched in a European country where Muslims are many." "If you do not believe in God and his laws, you do not have the right to burn any book."
Rasmus Paludan, the 🇩🇰 #Danish leader of the far-right Stram Kurs party burned a copy of the Quran in a bigger Muslim area of Sweden, backed by the police, he went to an open public space in southern Linkoping and burnt the Quran, ignoring the protests of bystanders.
Hundreds of cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin have been reported in children in the 🇬🇧 #UnitedKingdom, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Laboratory testing have ruled out hepatitis viruses A, B, C, E, and D,
according to the WHO in Geneva on Friday. The young patients had been shown to have a corona infection, adenoviruses, or both in numerous situations. However, it is unclear whether this is the root of the problem.
The WHO has urged all countries to be on the lookout for suspected cases. Three further cases, including one involving a 13-year-old child, have been recorded in 🇪🇸 #Spain. In 🇮🇪 #Ireland, a few suspected cases had been recorded, but not all of them had been confirmed.
A radio station in the U.S. metropolis of Seattle has found a way to permanently prevent listeners from changing the station.
Since the end of January, the "HD Radios" in an unknown number of Mazda brand vehicles have refused to play any station other than the news station KUOW-FM.
Apart from that, the infotainment can't do anything at all, among others the navigation system, the display of the time and the rear view camera don't work anymore.