A visit by a Nicholas actor to a Belgian retirement home may be the origin of a corona outbreak. The city of Mol in the province of Antwerp speaks of a "superspreader".
The man - a relative - had tested positive for the virus, she said. Corona tests were positive as of Sunday for 61 residents and 14 employees. One of the residents died - but was already in a palliative stage before the infection.
Another is being treated with serious symptoms. Some had a low temperature. Most of the residents are fine and have no symptoms. However, that could still change. Whether the outbreak actually goes back to the visit of the Sinterklaas, as St. Nicholas is called there,
must be examined more thoroughly, it said. Nevertheless, the city clearly criticized the operators of the private facility. According to media reports, the Sinterklaas visit took place last week.
The visit happened without the permission or coordination with the city.
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Due to the ongoing trade dispute between Australia and China and the Sars-CoV 19 pandemic, a group of Indian sailors who have been stranded in Chinese territorial waters
have called for a "intervention" from the Indian government. Indian sailors make up a sizeable proportion of the world's merchant navy crews, as documented by Maritime Union of India (MUI). "We have been stuck here for a year now. We can't get medical treatment, we can't go out.
Our supplies are already running out," Gaurav Singh, a second officer aboard MV Anastasia, says in a video put up by Change.Org on Wednesday.
In contrast to countries like Great Britain, Germany does not exclude the Chinese with 5G across the board. But now the cabinet has agreed on stricter rules for foreign network equipment suppliers.
The federal government has been arguing for two years, now there is a draft law, the cabinet is supposed to get it underway on Wednesday. In contrast to countries like Great Britain and Sweden, Germany does not exclude Chinese companies across the board.
But Berlin, too, subjects the use of companies to strict rules. This is a problem for the German network operators: they have made themselves heavily dependent on #Huawei over the past few years. In the radio network of Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and TelefΓ³nica,
Corona tests for travelers returning from risk areas with high numbers of infections abroad are no longer free as of today. The entitlement introduced in the summer has expired.
So far, vacationers have been able to get tested for free in order to shorten the mandatory quarantine when they return to Germany. Now the regulations are being tightened further.
Anyone who makes an "avoidable trip" to risk areas will no longer receive compensation for loss of earnings for the time of the quarantine. Exceptions are "exceptional circumstances" such as the birth of one's own children or the death of close relatives.
According to a media report, a medical director in Germany has confirmed for the first time that doctors in his clinic are faced with deciding which corona patients to help and which not. For t-online he confirmed it,
Dr. Mathias Mengel, Medical Director of the Klinikum Oberlausitzer Bergland gGmbH, said that the hospital in Zittau in Saxony had to be triaged several times. There weren't enough ventilation beds available, Mengel told the portal.
"In the past few days we have been in the situation several times that we had to decide who gets oxygen and who doesn't." Attempts are being made to transfer the patient for whom there is no care to another clinic.
The number of reported coronavirus infections in Germany has risen to 1,370,045. As can be seen from the information from the state authorities that I have evaluated, 21,948 new cases were added. That is 3990 more than last Tuesday.
The number of infection-related deaths rose 777 to 23,106. The previous high since the beginning of the pandemic was recorded on December 8th with 568 deaths. Around 341,400 people are currently infected.
In their daily reports, six federal states recorded four-digit increases, with four states even having more than 3000 new cases: Nordrhein-Westfalen (4083 new cases) ahead of Bayern (3763), Baden-WΓΌrttemberg (3295) and Sachsen (3167) Hessen (1418)