In an air raid on the warship "Lützow" in 1942, a 5400-kilo aerial bomb "Tallboy" remained lying on the bottom of the Baltic Sea as a dud. After a year of planning, a team of experts is now working on the highly complicated mitigation.
The Bavarian state government has decided to introduce a corona traffic light regulation for the Free State. Prime Minister Söder announces, among other things, the expansion of the general mask requirement.
According to Söder, the following will apply in Bavaria in the future:
👉 Green = 7-day incidence value <35
The general hygiene rules apply.
👉Yellow = value of the 7-day incidence 35 to <50
There is a curfew from 11 p.m. and there is a ban on selling alcohol at petrol stations. Private or public, up to ten people can celebrate together
In the coming weeks, market participants should be prepared for significantly underestimated initial claims for US unemployment benefits.
The reason: In the USA the big wave of layoffs is only just beginning, as one market participant says. Many service providers have so far relied on short-time work and leave of absence.
With another wave of coronavirus and, above all, no prospect of urgently needed US aid packages, hard facts must now be expected.
The Federal Environment Agency has presented recommendations for the ventilation of schools in the corona pandemic. "To protect yourself from infectious particles, the air should be changed three times per hour.
This means that the room air is completely exchanged for fresh air from outside three times an hour," writes the office. In the cold season of the year, the room should be ventilated every 20 minutes with the windows wide open for 3 to 5 minutes during lessons -
so-called burst ventilation. In addition, there should be ventilation during the entire breaks. The office advises against only opening the door for ventilation, because small aerosols could then spread from one room through the hallway to other classrooms.
At least 37 people tested positive for the coronavirus following a major teenage birthday party in New York State. "Dozens of people from the Sweet 16 party fell ill," said Governor Andrew Cuomo.
"That shows how an event can generate so many cases". More than 80 people took part in the celebration, which was organized by a party organizer on the Long Island peninsula off New York at the end of September.
The number of participants at such events in the region is currently limited to 50 due to corona requirements. More than 270 people had to be quarantined in connection with the party, including numerous young people from nearby schools.
110 new infections with the coronavirus have been registered in South Korea. Half of the cases are related to a hospital in Busan city, the South Korean Disease Control and Prevention Authority said on Thursday.
In the country with a good 51 million inhabitants, the official number of cases is almost 25,000. At least 54 of the new infections are related to the elderly hospital.
More than 40 have been recorded in the densely populated metropolitan area of Seoul, with connections to hospitals, churches, schools and offices. The steady rise in new infections is cause for concern in the East Asian country, which recently eased distance-keeping measures,
A look at the infection map reveals the widespread spread of the virus in Germany - the number of red spots has once again risen to a new high: According to the latest data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) (October 15, 12 a.m.)
60 regions out of 412 in total, exceed the upper limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants agreed between the federal and state governments within seven days. That means an increase of 13 districts and independent cities compared to the previous day.
A week ago, eleven regions had torn the upper limit. Among the affected regions are seven Berlin districts, with Neukölln having the nationwide highest seven-day incidence of 153.2 confirmed infections per 100,000 inhabitants.